What Can Zoners Do?

[Lance_Uppercut]

The crew is crazy. And no. This could be logical.

Wait... what??

I don't get it... FFS... why does a terrorist (or terror group) need a f-ing capship in any situation??

1) The point of terrorism is that the terrorists leverage quick, untraceable acts to get their message across. The minute a terrorist (even think about it in RL for example) shows up a destroyer, or even a just large group of people it's a war, and the terrorist is toasted by their adversaries. In FL, we can't rely on the Navies or Polices to stop everything when it comes up... so insane things like indie pirate gunboats exist and pseudo-nations (like OC/Corsair) can show up in sovereign territories of legit houses with full-on military fleets.

2) On a player-to-player level... do you plan on beating everyone in PVP? Do you want to just be "better" than the rest? What's the gain? Are you going to fly around collecting pirated funds? Honestly, and this is just me, but giving a capship pilot an indie terrorist license without pages of backstory and maybe even contractual obligations not to abuse the powers should be criminal.

3) Oddly funny this comes up in a discussion about Zoners... the ultimate roleplayers by many accounts. I see a Zoner juggernaut, and despite its huge stature and intimidation value I know that player isn't about to blow the hell out of me. If you ask the pilot, he/she'll have some good stories to tell, and probably make your day better just off the bat.

So should Zoners be understood to only be RPers? Of course not... there's plenty of niche roles and hands-on activities that only an independent, neutral, lawful borderworld population can do. Just never forget that Zoners are a group dedicated to staying out of the normal day-to-day and out of the spotlight of Sirius. As a Zoner, you're never going to be seeing much fabulous action or huge money, but that's not the point (and arguably, never the point in Discovery). Like everything else, you get out what you put into it.

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::The Pennsylvania Liberation Force