I have enough sodium chloride in my diet, I do not need yours. You have no idea at this point how many people you are amusing, so please, just save yourself the humiliation and stop posting.
I couldn't care less what happened to your dinky little freighter. You were given a demand, you refused, you were shot.
As far as AFC goes, they were given a comm introduction because I frankly never had the chance to interact with them on my LR character so far, but their reply was less than friendly.
So now we are going to shoot their faces in, until that attitude changes.
As far as the expansion topic goes, it was brought up, because I honestly wanted to know if this was still a thing or not. If you look at the current activity chart and filter out all the trading/mining factions, their routes are way out of our ZOI and that is a big downer, since activity breeds activity and most active traders at this point are flying those ships.
I want my faction members to have nice things and that is why I am currently pushing on a series of changes to make the faction and the ID itself more appealing for both vets and new members. I was speaking to the admin team about it and the thread you linked to was brought up. I did not know whether or not this would require us to use a Faction Perk (Which I would rather use to fix our tech cell, because we do not get neither civs or BW at 100%, which is kinda derp), but I decided to make the discussion public to see if it would actually be interesting for both sides.
As far as NFZ goes, the NFZ is an RP term, not a server rule. Something a lot of people forget about. The ship that shot you, by the way, was hostile to the Zoners at the time of the engagement, by the way. Feel free to report this to the Zoners, as it would make sense in RP. That would be your choice and our RP consequences.
So yes, this is how it goes. If you have more questions, I will answer them.