I have heard of you, Signore Helfari, enough to know your intention truly honourable, your heart true heavy with concern.
In this, you are not alone; but you are among few friends.
The history of Zoner alliances, both grand and small alike, is rife with hatred, bias, strife, and internal conflict.
Too few of our bretheren truly seek to balance themselves on that subtle, silent knife's edge we all must so carefully walk, and instead try and wield it's blade as if twere but a hammer by which to smite our enemies, both real and perceived.
The carcasses they have left behind when mixed en masse with such ideas of unity and power still rot in the fetid sunlight of Theta and Gamma, still drift in slow, dead, dwindling silence among the trade lanes of Omega 3 and the Taus, and the rotting husks of their passions and endeavors still blot the history books with the shadow of their hubris, their arrogance, their deadly pride.
The Omicroners. The ZDF. The original Zoner Alliance. The Council of Zoners. Half a dozen more besides that I do not care to name, nor remember.
Do not mistake my intent here, however; I say such things not to discourage, but warn.
The unique place we Zoners occupy in the grand scheme of this godless Cosmos could not have but been designed to multiply and engender peace throughout the Colonies and their Houses, both greater and lesser; it is disheartening that so few of us, on such rare occasion, have risen to such a calling, and it gladdens my soul and warms the heart to see such as you do so.
But you seek to build a powerful tool; like most tools it will care nothing for it's intent nor purpose, guided only by the hand in which it is held, and we are but men. How long before insults and imagined slights, old and new alike, boil the blood of those you recruit? How long before the indignities we often suffer rankle, and fester, and ooze as dark, formless, thoughtless bile into the minds of the weak and vengeful among you?
How long before they endeavour to find a solution in which blood is spilled?
It has happened before, many a time.
I would urge you to caution, when trying to ignite, to flame such a unity and goal within us.
The hubris that nearly destroyed a Freeport has not yet left our ranks, not by half.
Sincerely,
Adrianna the Exile, Contessa De Silsila

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