3) if so ... what should be done to better things?
( 4) how would a perfect inRP reaction would have looked like in last years events ( which is why we still argue about it ) )
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1) No, it's almost 20 years after the Freelancer campaign. Things evolve in this time (compare computers now and to 1991, or the "western" world from 1918 to 1938)
2) See 1)
3) Less mysterious Juggernauts;)
Zoner factions haven't "screwed up". You can still play the vanilla Freelancer Zoner pilot, flying around in his or her freighter or fighter.
As it was said, factions like OSI and TAZ let you explore the evolved Zoners. Probably everyone will know that they don't represent the whole of the Zoners, and that there are Zoners who have nothing to do with the factions.
After all, Freelancer is not the finished game. Who can say how their infrastructure should've been and how they do things 20 years later?