Now lets not get stressed here eh? The RP side of this dictates Zephyr's take a long time to build. I mean the =CR= has built 3 since it entered Sirius. Four if you count the Warhammer that now serves as a station.
Now if we could churn out One every couple of weeks we would not only have four would we? I am sure all final and Fletcher are saying in thier at least more flamey way is that with the things taking so ruddy long to build it would be very rare that one would be launched from another group. Combined with the fact that no two zephyr ships are never the same.
The building process of such a vessel would be slow, the colonials do not even have a Zephyr on the building blocks at the current time. So from the aspect of RP that we seem to be striving for here even if the CR were to build a Zephyr for the IAF it would take a long time before such a ship to be launched.
Now to finish, threatening factions/people with sanctions is not the correct way to go about things. It is not going to win over any minds that way. It certainly hasn't won over mine and has already coloured my opinions. There was really no need to jump on the old sanction hammer at this early stage. All that was requested by Finaldragon and Andrew Fletcher is that you would open negotiations with the Colonial HQ, Now definitely from an RP sense it would be required anyway as you need use of our shipyard to build such a ship. There was nothing said about REFUSAL in this as far as i have read back. They only asked for you to use what is considered a normal channel to gain access to our system.