How a player faction excludes a characteristic of the NPC faction

[DAnvilFan]

So what did you do?
You tore it up.
It looks to me like some people need to go back and take a long hard look at what is really on the table and start getting wise instead of all this kneejerk reaction.

There are two factors that played a role in making this happen. Stress and miscommunication.

1) Zoners wanted assured safety into Gamma if they were to deliver goods. However, they had a few ways of phrasing the request. Zoners got a little cocky, and phrased their message so that it sounded like extortion instead of a plea for help.
2) Corsairs, who do not like have their power challanged, went for immediate aggressive tactics instead of opening proper communications with Zoners. They allied with [A] and started systematically attacking Zoner vessels.

So the situation you have is that Black Sails are killing Zoners for not bringing goods while allying with Anarchists, who are the cause for Zoners being afraid to travel about through Gamma in the first place.

Then you have some Zoners that continue to ship food (like my characters), but because Corsairs were pissed off at all Zoners, if you were ever spotted without having food or artifacts in your hold while in Omicrons, you went kapoof. Now you have all sorts of Zoners, half of whom are rarely visiting Discovery forums, going "wtf are you doing this, I've done nothing to deserve it."

What you end up with is a very large Zoner population that is being targeted while not being a part of the original conflict, which occurred between OSI/ZTC and Corsairs. When a giant combined force of Black Sails and Anarchists descended on Freeport 9, most everybody that heard of this incident saw it as a straight up invasion.

And still no one was talking. On either side.

So what we are left with is a series of violent attacks that Zoners see as unprovoked because no proper communication ever took place. Add to this the constant attacks by the BHG Core, and you've got a group of people that are seriously pissed off. Now here is the question that members of Freeport 9 asked:

Why must a group of pirates that have repeatedly targeted their people be allowed to dock? Consider that at this point goods had already been going to Crete, the Good Neighbor Policy was adopted and the response from Corsairs was "half of Omicron Theta belongs to us." Now what kind of a message does that send to a bunch of paranoid, harassed Zoners?

So Zoners on Freeport 9 did what they considered fair. They listed all of the parties that shot at them and blocked docking rights. Mind you, they did not say that they won't bring goods TO Corsairs. As a matter of fact, a deal was being offered behind closed doors to do just that. The fact that Corsairs replied to the restriction of docking rights by sending an Armada to bombard FP9 that is bigger than any armada they've sent against Outcasts in ages, only convinced Zoners in the Omicrons that Corsairs are crazy psychotic.

And for vanilla Zoners that might have been frightning enough for them to cave in. But for Discovery Zoners, who have Aquilons, Juggernauts, Destroyers, and a planet with 400 million people, it did not seem as intimidating. The Zoners on Freeport 9 still suspect that [A] was a rouse invented by the Corsair Empire to begin hostilities.

Recall the fact that to this day, the Corsair Council has not made a single public statement regarding the Anarchists, who they are, what they did, and what the Empire's stance is regarding this group. What they HAVE seen is Corsairs teaming up with [A] to harass Zoner ships and bomb FP9. Miscommunication on both sides is what killed the cat.

EDIT: I will add this final bit. It is the right of every faction to turn hostile after repeated attacks. I am talking about in roleplay terms. Fire at Zoner NPCs and see what happens. Now kill a good deal of Zoner NPCs. What has just happened to your reputation sheet? Get what I'm saying? This bit is directed at those OORP comments that deem FP9's decision to block docking rights as absurd and otherwise OORP "angst" driven.