See, I'm fairly new to the xeno thing, my xeno pilot is only a couple days old now. From previous experience on my junker and other characters, along with some of the events i've seen done by the xenos/zoners, it seemed to me that the zoners were financially backing the xenos because zoners had been ostracized from liberty.
err, "donation" is often used while taxing. Ask anyone for a donation and you will see the response.
the "transport" was actually a storage ship, the only reason he undocked was because you guys were cool with me, but then you got greedy.
did you really expect a storage ship to just hang out and talk with cargo worth millions while you mention the word donation? funny man, of course he docked.
I agree with dusty to an extent Zoners and Xenos are more ignore each other in space than friends. Zoner merchants will try to get you to give them your last credit thats true but also give good service for that credit be it in goods or services.
<strike>Still unless the Zoner merchant was being shot at the fighter should not have engaged and definately should have given a warning before attacking. The merchant should have rped the incident as well and not have ordered the fighter to engage unless the fighter was operating as an escort and they should have announced the fact in system chat if they had just joined up. From how the incident sounded there was no rp reason for the attack from the fighter and the merchant fleeing is also ooc as the xenos ships had not stated an ultimatum and Zoners are not easily scared (unless it's from a known threat ie. harvester-zoner conflict)
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-edit sorry kindred you posted while i was writing this adjusted post
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my zk character is a bit different as he'll offer to help a person/side if the fight looks uneven provided the balance is uneven to the player/faction that has home status ex. corsairs in btitonia system brit losing help the brits.
Oh and if he catches a zoner doing wrong he'll correct the problem by force if necessary.