Assaulting Zoners and OORPness

[Zelot]

wow a lot of post since I went to bed. So I think we've skipped over a big part of this conversation, we arnt seeing the forest for the trees. What I mean is, I've never ever seen an NPC zoner trader ship. Everyone is saying how attacking zoner traders is OORP, but how bout zoner traders themselves beeing OORP. I know, I know we seem to have agreed that zoners are a trading factions, but I think that is wrong, I would think they were more of a middleman organization.

You see it doesnt really make sense to me that the zoners would send transports all over the Sirius, purchasing goods to bring back to Freeports. It makes much more sense to me that the Zoners would use the house and corprate, and pirate trading networks that were already in place. Having other traders bring goods to the freeports would be the way a nuetraul organization would, "we dont control what we sell, we sell what traders bring to us." would be the thought. Really, I dont where the thought that because Zoners trade with everybody, that they are then "A Trading Orginzation." Every faction trades with somebody, does that mean every faction is a trading faction? Aside from that, didnt I read something about the zoners being an exploration orginazation? So my question is, are Zoner traders OORP in the first place?

edit: Jinx just pointed out to me there are tradeships near some of the freeports. While that is true, we dont see them trading throughout the universe, like other trading factions.

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