To: The Zoner Alliance

[jammi]

Ok, you have valid points all the way through. I'll try to address them one by one.

1) Refer to my reply to Jinx. You're more than welcome to try establishing a building there. The BPA aren't going to storm it with riot guns...

2) Port Jackson started with us exploiting a political fact. Canaria was a "secret" and had thus never been reported to an official body, meaning it was technically unclaimed. We didn't say we found it first, but rather we claimed it first. We named it Sydney because using "Gran Canaria" would show it was on our nav-maps, which it shouldn't have been. To call it "Gran Canaria" would actually have been meta-gaming, funnily enough. After you told us it was GC, we carried on just because we're stubborn Bretonians, heh. Anyway, that's ancient history now, and was resolved by the Treaty. No-one in Bowex has called it Sydney in months (or however long ago the treaty was), to my knowledge.

As for payments, they were negated by the Treaty of Bethlehem. Yes, that bloody awful monster of a treaty. Technically, we're leasing the space around the Freeport in Omega 3 to you for exactly the same price as you're leasing Port Jackson to us. The monthly price for one is negated by the other. Yes, that was done on purpose.

3) Bowex sponsored that business, but inRP didn't own it. The proprietor who you arrested owned it. And I'm sorry to hear about the Willde/Nomad/(and if I remember right) Joker attacks. That kind of stuff must suck. :/

4) Trust me, there has been no unilateral move to encroach on Gran Canaria. I didn't even know the BPA was there until Charles M. Burns told me on Skype. Either way, I'm petitioning to the Bret Gov't to have them explicity thrown out of the system and banned from entering it. They shouldn't be there. The Treaty bans them from being there.

5) Trust me, I don't have a superiority complex about Bowex. Just asking didn't occur to me. I forgot. I just didn't think that a single, tiny, insignificant bar would make a difference. Like I said, there is no unilateral Bret movement on GC. I've just come back from a break and decided Bowex should be doing more about Port Jackson - that is it. As a part of that, I designed that bar to encourage members to RP their time planetside. I never foresaw that such a fuss would be kicked up about it.

Now, seeing as I've accidentally done this to death, shall we get on Skype and devise some sort of bureaucracy I can post on the forum? I'd like to work with you guys instead of against you after all.

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