What do Zoners want?

[Dane Summers]

Every Zoner has a story, and an individual, personal reason, for choosing this life.

As Daedric said, it boils down to wanting pure freedom, but even that really doesnt apply to every Zoner out there. We are those who choose to make our homes on space's ragged edge, the true pioneers, the last great explorers, the pilgrims of what is yet to be known.

At the core of that, is the personal story and drive of the individual.

Dane, for example, was a kid who couldnt sleep - he was a freespirit, and left to space once he found it was more a home to him than any place he had known. He ran cargo, smuggled cargo, then embraced a kinda zen ideal, shed all the things that held him back, and just embraced the idea of pure freedom - nothing holding him back.
Truth was, he had managed to forget a deep trauma from destroying a perfect love - he coudnt sleep because of deep fear of revisiting those memories in nightmares - he left to space to run away from the painful memories - so much so that he had been able to convince himself that his sleep problem existed since childhood, and that his memories of the event were completely buried - as long as he kept moving, kept running, he could continue to forget. But, standing still, overwhelmed with stress, anger, depression, he finally remembered, and is still trying to make peace with his past.

Every Zoner is unique.

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