This whole situation kinda reminds me of the time when [RM] and BAF| decided to briefly go to war with each other over Omega 3, while Rheinland was at war with Liberty and Bretonia was at war with Gallia.
RM lost Westfalen temporarily to LN, and something else happened to BAF in Leeds. And nobody from either [RM] or BAF| wanted that. They were warned if they continued with their hostilities, both would lose more territory to the major powers they were already at war with, so they stopped instantly.
Brinkmanship has got to have consequences beyond what players decide for themselves, otherwise you just get laughable situations like 20 battleships outside a freeport and the administrator shrugging his shoulders, when in reality he'd probably be crucified by the residents of the station for allowing such a situation to materialise in the first place. But players dont have to answer to an NPC electorate, so there needs to be some other way of levying consequences.
That said, I actually agree with sajuk111 who said the people who should be held responsible for this are the Zoners, not RHA. reference: https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...pid2176014 . Regardless of the status of the base, such a ridiculous breach of the NFZ should have political consequences for Zoner leaders. The people of the station decide that since the Zoners wont enforce their NFZ and keep them safe anyway, maybe they boot him out and the Freeport turns into a Freelancer IFF base, for example.
