(OOC: If you want to know more of the Auxium, look on the 'Stories' section of the forum, The Auxium background thier)
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*******FROM: Zoner-Colony~Auxium******
*******TO: Zoner Council*******
COMM ID: Captain Norichka
Greetings brothers and sisters,
Yesturday, we have launched the Colony Ship, Auxium out from Livarda Shipyard. It was fully repaired and fully amoured. We have met the Zoner Trading Consortium, which they were polite of seeing the "Auxium". We have travel as far as to Liberty System, Rhienland System, and Kusari for materials, diplomatic talks and etc. However, yesturday we were escorted by the LSF pilots on New York Sytem and made landing on Plane Manhattan. They were respectful pilots and as we were respectful to them as well. In leaving the New York system and entered the Colorado System, have met a GMG Pilot who has escort us aswell to the Kusari system. Our citizens of the Auxium were very greatful of these pilots that help us guide the Auxium to other Sirius Systems. Furthermore, in entering New Tokyo system, we haved had "RED ALERT" on scanners. Terrorist was roaming the systems as we had to immediately leave the system by the help of a GMG pilot; many thanks from the Auxium crew and citizens to the GMG's. He lead us to Sigma 19 system and told us about the "Planet Hiran" beauty. Since we have been told about its beauty, we have moved the Axium near "Planet Hiran" Orbit.
Best Regards; Capt: F. Norichka.
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Comm ID: Malaclypse
Captain Trogdor, I have reviewed your black box data thoroughly.
Now, this corsair stated quite bluntly that he had been "dispatched to quench Zoner insolence". (I corrected his poor spelling...). This is quite troubling. Was this person actually working under the orders and authority of the Corsair Council?!?.
Chairman Archer, I suggest you open an immediate diplomatic channel with the Corsair Council and/or the OPG leadership, and demand clarification on this rude person's statements. I personally think he was acting without orders, and without much good sense; but the point needs to be clarified, and the sooner the better.
Now, on a similar matter, I have received a number of reports from my Flock that incidents of "loitering" have increased dramatically around Zoner installations. By "loitering", I mean those pilots who sit outside our bases with no apparent reason or purpose.
Therefore, I move that this Council begin discussions on a new "Loitering Ordinance" to be implemented in cases where pilots are obviously up to no good, and are blatantly abusing our hospitality. These miscreants should be at least subject to fines for this ridiculous behavior, possibly leading to permanent banishment from our facilities for ignoring our requests to either dock their vessels or leave the area.
We do not have time to "babysit", and should have the regulations and tools in place to deal with those who use our bases and our hospitality for their own nefarious purposes.
Perhaps if this OPG cur were threatened with a 5 Million fine, or possible banishment, his tune would have changed.
I will sponsor any member of the Corsair Council who wishes to respond to the potentially damning evidence submitted by Captain Trogdor.
*incoming transmission*
Honourable council, I'm sending this message to inform you that I will be stepping down from this position, and hope the best for all of you.
Mike Agathon.
Comm ID: Captain Trogdor
In response to Mal's comments I have a few points..
One, he did in fact say he was acting on the Corsair council's wishes. And I doubt that the captain of a Legate would make this kind of claim if it weren't true.
Two, levying fines against pirates, particularly Corsairs, at this point is foolhardy given they have already sent a battleship to one of our stations for the purpose of making demands and looking for a fight.
One thing that I regret was not captured on the black box data was that the ship fired a heavy mortar past our ship while it was trying to goad us into 'dueling' with it.
The first thing we need to do is reach some sort of agreement with the Corsairs that involves them keeping their toys in their own sandbox. We are capable of policing the normal fighters, bombers, and occasional gunboat that pass by. But a confrontation with anything larger than that brings a high risk of losing not only this ship, but serious station damage as well.
Additionally, seeing a Legate right outside Freeport 1 is no good for business!
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Comm ID: J.Archer,
Chairman of the Zoner Council.
the loitering ordinance,
I hereby open an voting session for the Loitering ordinance,
please comment why it should be implented in our laws or why it should not be implented in our laws
voting date ends: Sunday 12th of april 817 AS. all votes after 1600 GMT are not registrated as vote, but as opinion.
thank you for your attention,
J.Archer
Comm ID: Malaclypse
For the purposes of Zoner relations, my dear Captain Trogdor, I will ignore your calling my ideas "foolhardy". You are entitled to your opinion regarding a seasoned Zoner veteran's suggestion.
But, on the gripping hand, don't come wringing your hands to me or my Flock for help when half a dozen vagrants decide to camp on your doorstep. Apparently, the vessel known as "Joker" has been given your blessings to loiter at Freeport 1 all he wants. Doesn't set a very good example, in my opinion.
If the Council votes to enact a "Loitering Ordinance" for Zoner facilities, I will be happy to draft a proposal. In other words, I am voting "Yea" to my own "foolhardy" suggestion.
Comm ID: J.Archer,
Chairman of the Zoner Council.
My vote will be also be "yea" on the "loitering ordinance"
signed,
J.Archer.
Source: Freeport 11, Omicron Delta
Sender: Ivan Ilyich, armoured transport Delta 7
Destination: Council of Zoners
Encryption: Level 1
I agree in principle with the no-loitering ordinance. However the means of enforcing it would be another matter. I assume it would start with a loss of priviliges and go up from there, but as this discussion is not about the means but the concept, I vote yes on the ordinance. That is to say, I would like to see a proposal drafted, though I cannot promise a yes vote once it is drawn up.
-Ivan Ilyich
From: Zoners Trading Consortium
To: Council of Zoners
Topic: Loitering Ordinance
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Dear Council Members,
On behalf of the Zoners Trading Consortium I would like to express our vote in favour of the Loitering Ordinance project.
I believe we all have spent way too much time on playing the local kindergarten teachers at Freeports, and we definitelly need a legal tool to maintain the order at our bases. Let us prevent Freeports from becoming little copies of the Planet Manhattan.
However we expect some challenges at the legislative stage (e.g. precise definition of loitering), we declare our full support to this initiative, and -- if required -- volounteer to help at the legal part of works on the abovementioned Law.
Best regards,
Werner Mazursky
Zoners Trading Consortium
[color=#FFFFFF][font=Palatino Linotype][color=#FFFFFF]EDIT: Of course our vote is in favour of starting the legislative works on the Loitering Ordinance, not in favour of approving a Law that hasn't been written yet. Just for a full clarification.
Comm ID: Captain Trogdor
My apologies Mal, I meant no offense. Perhaps 'ineffective' would have been a better word. I was implying that trying to levy a 5 million credit fine against a battleship that was already looking for a fight would have been disasterous. Diplomatically as well, if the captain of that ship truly was echoing the wishes of the Corsair council of elders.
On the matter of the loitering ordinance, my initial vote is nay, for the following reasons:
1: The ordinance has not yet been clearly defined. What's loitering? Sitting around outside the station? Inside the station? Five minutes? Ten minutes?
2: The introduction of 'fines' is likely to bring about behavior where visitors attempt to bribe Guards in order to allow them to stay; Or, guards extort money from the visitors for the privilege; Or, the visitor makes up some goofy reason as to why they should be allowed to stay, i.e. "I'm waiting for someone!"
3: Indeed, I don't mind ships sitting around outside, so long as they respect the neutral zone. Less ships clogging up the docking bays. And if they don't respect the NFZ, I'll go and police it. And if no one's around to police it, well, the ordinance may as well not exist, just like the no-fire zone.
I move that we instead figure out how we can get all of our visitors to respect our laws, even when we're not there watching them.
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