How should Zoners "behave"?

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Yes, we've always bee allied to HF, and there are many reasons.

We are friendly to 101st because of old RP things, and the identity of some previous member's RP characters. However, 101st and HF were the only Outcast or Outcast allies that we were friendly with for a LONG time. We didn't get friendly with the other Outcast/Outcast allies. Its changed now because of all the Corsair attacks. Even after they started we were neutral to the majority of the Outcasts. The Outcasts got on our friendly list by helping us when Corsairs attacked, or during our retaliation strikes. And yes, they are retaliation strikes. For the past 2-3 weeks we have done very few attacks on Gamma. We just started them up again because LDDLG and OPG have been attacking Gamma on a regular basis. Its been a daily basis recently.

And yes Blunt, we do offer our services to an extent. We no longer fight wars for money or commit assassinations. But we do still hunt bounties if and only if the bounty targets are already hostile to us (OPG/Benitez/TBH bounties a month or two back). We also do escort service if someone pays us to. If a pirate in a fighter sees two fighters or a GB/Cr escorting a trader, its likely going to stop any potential pirating attempts. And even if it doesn't, we are usually efficient enough to pre-occupy the pirate for the trader to get away. Its a very lawful action and not really out of our RP as it isn't giving us any enemies.

The Zoner ID actually allows those kind of actions. At least we aren't accepting payment to attack people from pirates. Some people HAVE been doing that.

@Raekur; We already have an RP thats MUCH more elaborate and explaining than that is. Plus, its not something I'm just going to toss away. Its been worked on for 2 years now, and is still on-going. It would work except for the fact that we are NOT Outcasts. The only reason we are hostile to Corsairs is because TBH came to help SCRA. After they started fighting, and we fought back, other Corsairs got involved as they were created (Benitez first, then OPG. Recently LDDLG attacked as well). BSG attacked us because of that.
I'm not mad and I know your trying to help, but turning AW into Outcasts wouldn't work at all. We aren't unlawful and are only hostile to Liberty, and thats not always happening. Outcasts are hostile to half of Sirius, while we are only hostile to those that provoke it or shoot first. This is because our RP. We aren't only operating in the charted areas of Sirius (started on this with Ghosts of the Past, but I haven't had the time, nor the inspiration for the 2nd part of that RP story) but uncharted areas. HF is sort of 'participating,' but mostly they are dealing with the stuff in Sirius. This means we try to stay neutral with everyone we can except for a few special cases.

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