Zoner RP Solutions

[Derkylos]

Well, for starters think about a Zoner army. There is no coordination because you're not a military, meaning you have no ranks (ranks being something the Zoners would probably find abhorrent - personal freedom of anarchists and all that). You get coordination from ranks and chain of command. Without ranks command falls to a ship's captain and what he or she thought was the best choice - not beneficial for tactical cohesion.

Added to the fact that as Zoners, you have no military training due to your self-imposed neutrality (no enemies, no training) you're given a result that looks more than a little alike green combat crews that are going to be decimated by any tactically sound and militarily organised and trained force.

Plus you've got a sprawl of stations spanning most of Sirius. Yes Zoner fleets are big, but they're not big enough to cover all their ground. You'd have to cluster fleets around Gran Canaria and other vital stations, which leaves the opportunistic vultures that are the rest of Sirius to swoop on the undefended ports.

Sure, fleets could be redeployed as needed, but for any real chance of a timely and effective redeployment, you need tactical cohesion (see first paragraph), which just isn't happening. When a fleet redeploys that also opens a chink in the armour elsewhere - giving more vultures room to swoop.

Aggressive Zoners are infeasible. You're too spread out and untrained.
Same thing.

You can't have the best of both worlds. You're either a superpower, or you're not. You can't be a superpower only when it benefits you.

:lol:

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