Zoners

[Anaximander]

Where's house repercussions in all of this?

Where is the Zoner unrest? I mean if they wanted to turn away from House politics and go live for themselves out in the Omicrons, wouldn't some among the Zoners oppose the creation of a mighty warfleet as that inadvertently will drag them into House politics, whether they like it or not? It seems like a paradox, and Zoners deliberately setting themselves up to lose their own quest.

Wouldn't Samura have a slight problem with GMG suddenly getting a Battleship boasting ally when they used to be the only ones on the block with ties to that kind of military might? Why would they hand over a trump card like that without issue? Why not at least get Zoners barred from Kusari when they had the emperor in their pocket?

If the Zoner capships are based off terrorist Order designs, wouldn't Houses have noticed and wouldn't that have had diplomatic ramifications for Zoners? Wouldn't LSF, BDM, Kempeitei and so on have a great interest in knowing exactly how Zoners could arise as a genuine powerblock in such a short time; and wouldn't they have a great interest in knowing the scope of the Zoner production apparatus; wouldn't their job be to secure Liberty, Rheinland, Kusari and so on from possible future threats? If Zoners are able to perform such a mammoth feat in mere 20 years, wouldn't alarm bells go off at House government intelligence agencies? I mean in another 20 years, Zoners could be ready to take on Gallia and Liberty combined if they continue at the same pace.

Where are the consequences?

In my view, it could be possible (but not plausible) that Zoners got all them toys in such a short timespan, but it would have had a heavy price in terms of severed ties and loss of neutrality; it cannot be any other way when you build a warfleet like that. It totally disrupts the power basis, and everyone would look at Zoners in a very different light. Again, I'm not opposed to that or even opposed to Zoners getting their grand power backed up by lore; it should just be more nuanced and realistic. None of that neutral warfleet bollocks, it can't be done realistically.

So in short you can say I dislike the discrepancies between Zoner lore/diplomacy and Zoner presence in-game for the very same reasons that ppl dislike cat-girl fighter pilots and 12-year old space admirals. Even in fiction there are internal guidelines, rules and limitations for the imagination; otherwise we stop being able to relate to it and believe in it.