afraid that its as much against the game lore as an outcast faction promoting the friendship between corsairs and outcasts.
sometimes - there are variables that players might not like, but should not be allowed to budge ( too much ).
some of the main characteristics or outcasts for example are:
- be mortal enemies to the corsairs
- be addicted to cardamine
some of the main characteristics of zoners are:
- be politically neutral to everyone
- be a faction running "freeports" throughout the habitated space of sirius
a logical thought would be: "why cannot the corsairs and outcasts, being of a similar origin, bend together and TAKE the inner sphere systems - it could and probably would benefit both of them not only to a small margin but greatly"
at the same time one might ask "how can zoners still be neutral to everyone when they run such a vast military"
an answer is:
- zoners can be neutral, cause people do not know too much about the military - and/or the military is not as vast at all. after all, no one would assume that the liberty navy only consists of the ships we see. - we roleplay that what the players represent is but the tip of the iceberg. - at the same time.... why can zoners not roleplay that what we see is actually all there is? - that would mean that the zoner military is actually very small and rare.
- people do not know about zoner warships at all! - how so you ask.... they fly around everywhere!!! - but think again......
the jumphole to gamma is secret only known to a handful of zoners at fp9, the BHG - and corsairs.... yet the whole server knows about its location. - should we still consider it a secret?
zone 21 is secret! - no one knows about it, nor about alaska. those that know about it are ghosts or become ghosts soon. - yet the whole server knows about it.
we roleplay such things even if playerknowledge tells us differently. zoner warships are hidden in RP - is it harder to RP them to be hidden than to RP zone 21 to be hidden? - yes, they do pvp, yes they do appear and travel around.... but one should RP them to be non-existant ( which can be hard / impossible at times )
there imagination clashes with reality.... but zoners are not the only faction that suffers from this.
the problem i have with the suggestion is that its basis is experience gathered not in RP - but from players about players. if we hold up the lore about a faction, almost no one knows about a juggernaut at all, and less people have seen one. - the fearless is classified a heavy edgeworld supply ship ( rather a transport officially ) - the corvo is a long range explorer / researcher - classified civilian, the conference is classified an armoured transport mk2 - and we wouldn t mark the armoured transport mk1 "military" as it is a medium transport for longer ranges. - zoners produce only below military standard fighters - and produce only below average standard weapons. - that is the lore.