Apology to the Zoner Players

[dr lameos]

I'll say this as a zoner, there was an overreaction.
So some of our ships got pew-pewed? So what? I have to say there seems to have become a lack of understanding that this is ultimately, at its core, a PvP game (with spaceships) which we are RPing in. PvP will happen, like it or not.

On the flipside, its unrealistic that the privateers could get into the system, blow some zoner ships up and get out alive. You were extremely close to a home planet, in a system full of corsairs which already want your blood, nevermind the zoner 'fleet'. Furthermore, the only reasonable RP end to this would have been to fight you off, and what with the privateers, notably Blunt, appearing to have always had a grudge against zoners I expect there's nothing they would've wanted more than a 'war'.

The initial bounty was a farce, and Zeltak's was derived from that. In my view, yes there was an obscene amount of whining, but what was the possible solution, other than the zoners becoming compromised?

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