Admin Notice : Faction Warned

[Blodo]

1. QCP attack occured as a result of a bounty placed on Zoners. QCP leader Andrew stated that he neither agrees nor disagrees with the bounty, and that he is neutral on the matter. He was attacked by a TAZ ship for breaking Freeport Neutrality (pirating a ship). Since then, the conflict between Zoners and QCP has emerged with the claimed cause being that Zoners supply Corsairs with shelter and allowing mass-murderers of Planet Cork to base off of Gran Canaria. This is a contradicting statement because the real conflict emerged from Andrew being attacked for breaking FNZ.

How does a character that claims to be neutral one day turn around and wage a war on Zoners for protecting Corsairs since they bombed Planet Cork?

I think I can answer this. Both are in all actuality reasons for the QCP attacks, though the TAZ attack is a very superficial one in comparance to the other, and is more of a result of the second one. What Stuart was doing ingame by claiming he was completely neutral to the bounty: he was mocking Zoner apathy towards allowing murderers and pirates landing rights. Something that has been confirmed by Zoners as "part of their way". That is the main reason for the attacks. The bounty was a catalyst, the other reasons were mockery.

As to why attack O-49 now: it is an attack on both Corsairs and Zoners, as the Zoners also frequently run the blockade through Bretonia to what QCP suspects to be Kusari. So in the viewpoint of the QCP the Zoners are helping two of Bretonia's enemies, and that more than justifies a direct assault.

Now, I'll punch the ball into the Order's court: it just makes me laugh out loud that the Zoners would pull forces from elsewhere to deal with what is effectively a small band of brigands, but that's ok they have no unified command structure so its down to each individual captain making a decision I guess. But the Order mobilising its forces away from the Nomads to deal with pirates that are outnumbered by the Zoner defense force already (both in RP and out of RP) is just completely laughable. Not that I am complaining about how one gets three whole fleets undocking when making an attack on Canaria due to the sheer amount of caps docked there, but the Order being there is just borderline lolwut... Just a small rant on the subject.