As someone who has previously led, and is still involved (to an extent) with, an official zoner faction i personally applaud @Champ (and any other GMs involved) for making this sensible, reasonable and understandable move that displays that actions have consequences.
I would also like to point out to other commenters that zoner FR5s are not as easy as other faction FR5s. They are, have been and will probably continue to be frankensteinian (with multiple personalities) endeavors just to get them together to request. first, as has been pointed out by Champ, the official zoner factions (as well as the prominent unofficial ones) are all different from each other (part of the inbuilt diversity of zonerdom). Thus some faction rights, FR5 mainly, are a more complex problem than most factions have to deal with.
this situation is simple and RP'ly explainable:
- RHA shoots zoner affiliated base right near FP1
- Zoners get angry and slam the proverbial door in their face for a period of time.
- base point provided as a chance for RHA to do some RP with zoners to work the situation out.
All GMs did is exercise their ability to enact temporary mechanics changes (ie rephacks) to convey the RP consequences of the RP and actions RHA took.