To those involved in the Freeport 1 Witch Hunt

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Meh, this whole back and forth really disappoints me.

For the most part, it's not the nature of the inRP responses that we have to worry about, it's the degree. I don't blame Bretonia for having issues because Rheinland poked their noses in. I don't blame Rheinland for querying in the Blood Diamond order, given that they're called blood diamonds because they're going to be funding the Hessian revolution effort. Those guys getting sticky about the situation seems justifiable given certain circumstances.

I know with OSI stuff we talked it over and over and over, given the rocky history with Dakun back during the ORI days. Eventually we kinda decided to keep our noses out of it until a time when his actions could expand from him being in **** to getting all of Zoners in the doghouse. Fortunately, both Rheinland and Bretonia kept their wits and laid the blame on the guilty party, which was our plucky FP1 Administrator.

Yeah, Dakun's got a history, but we gave him a chance to run his show. I'm still dubious as to the methods by which ownership was obtained, but we let it slide. Really, if anything, the only witch hunt that could have taken place was if the Zoner official factions had raised more of a stink about Freeport ownership, and that discussion had been ongoing since the incident between Liberty and FP2 a few weeks back.

Nah, Dakun did not handle the situation as it should have been given his claim to being a Zoner. I'm all about being liberal with roleplay and doing your own thing, especially with Zoners, but I don't think Dakun was staying within the range of what could be considered acceptable Zoner roleplay by any of the factions, but that's should've been our ground to go extreme with the responses, not you guys'.

We've got a man who wasn't paying attention to the consequences of what he was ordering, and to his credit did rescind that part of the order, but his public response to Rheinland was hostility and barring the inquisitor from station docking. Strike One. Bretonia, I will say was overzealous in their querying into the Freeport prior to the point at which the near-station in-game RP took place. Dakun did try to instigate a fight in Bretonia space surrounding the Freeport, though, regardless of the context. That's Strike Two. Past that, reading the back and forth in the Comms, a blatant ignorance of any potential diplomatic mistake was ignored in favor of revoking more docking permissions. Strike Three. Dane did take over PR, and that was a good move, and things are beginning to calm down there now, which is also swell, but we can't absolve Dakun of mistakes he clearly did make. He wasn't set up, gents, he reacted to an open situation in a manner which provoked such RP responses, and then didn't handle the consequences well.

On Rheinland's end, while they probably could've been a little kinder about the inquiry into the order of a Zoner station nestles in a Bretonian protectorate, I don't see a whole lot of issue when them looking into a large purchase of Blood Diamonds. To be fair, I'm still more concerned about Rheinland's liberal use of screenshots taken from Freelance players and using them to incriminate shippers moving through Rheinland space, which I find distasteful. But since we're not overly concerned about that, I don't see why there's such a stink about the Krauts looking into an open transmission about Blood Diamonds. At least they're doing the legwork themselves.

Bretonia, Dab, I admire your dedication to protecting O-3 after we all had such a hassle to give you clear rights to it before, but up until Dakun actively attempted to instigate a brawl on the Freeport, your primary concern should've been Rheinland poking into your space. Technically, yeah, I suppose you could construe Blood Diamonds as contraband given that they're meant to support Hessian activities and the Hessians are an unlawful group, but you know, I think Rheinland had that covered. The two of you should've been communicating more instead of threatening Dakun from both sides and declaring a near-annexation of the space and forcing Bretonian control over administrator selection. Cite Beth all you want, we almost had a real problem there. Once Dakun showed clear intent to cause a disturbance in Bretonian space, I can be all for the crack-down, but before then it seemed unnecessarily totalitarian, especially since he did quickly remove the BDs from the order, even after which he was continually hounded by your folks.

Everyone else, Jesus Christ, keep your noses out of business that isn't yours. It's amazing how nobody's a Zoner until everyone's a Zoner.

So, say it with me, "We all screwed up, now let's work to make it better." There there, now doesn't that feel better? Yeah, our plucky FP1 admin screwed the pooch, and while the ideas behind the RP responses were somewhat justified, not all of it was fantastic, and I'm quite sure all sides are to bear blame here. Finger-point all you want, you're going to find something that was done wrong, because everyone did something wrong here. What matters is whether or not these people are able to stand up and admit their fallacy. We learn more from our failures than our successes, my father told me. I still believe that to be true, although I rarely see it in practice here.