The Zoner-Order hostility to come to an end?

[Colony News Service]

In an unprecedented move, following months of debates around Omicron Supply Industries' exceptional request to the Sirius Identification Commission, the SIC has released a statement which paves the way for a solution to the Order-Zoner hostility debacle, which originated from a Freeport 11 incident involving The Order and the Temporary Autonomous Zoners.

In a few hours, a global transponder update will be released by the SIC and vessels belonging to the Temporary Autonomous Zoners will cease to appear as Zoner vessels. Instead, these vessels will now bear a TAZ identification.

An excerpt from John McSilver's statement, President of the SIC:

The Zoners have always been a tricky issue for the SIC. You have a group of people with various goals and interests, some that are the opposite of one another, and you are all supposed to fit under the same category. Most of the time, Zoner issues boil down to a few specific individuals and the Freeports usually solve these issues themselves pretty quickly.

This situation has escalated beyond any before. As the TAZ has for a very long time voiced their distance from the rest of the Zoner community, hence the Autonomous, our board has approved the unprecedented measure of splitting TAZ transponders from the rest of the Zoner community. No group whatsoever should ever be able to put billions of people in danger. This is what led us to take action, which is probably never going to happen again.

Many civilians on the freeports have expressed their relief, praising the SIC's decision, whom rarely involves itself in matters of this magnitude.
A statement from The Order and the TAZ is certainly to be expected.

[Omicron]

Comm ID: The Order Overwatch

Admiral Golanski of The Order speaking on behalf of entire Order Admiralty board and thus our organization as a whole. Every level of our chain of command wishes to express the gratitude for applying best solution that we ourselves have suggested and supported since beginning of the crisis. We welcome OSI’s exquisite initiative with the Sirius Identification Commission, officially bringing an end to this dire diplomatic impasse that unjustly affected entirety of Zoner community to date - state of affairs that not even us could anticipate.

It never was our intention to put Zoners at risk, yet we have all been trapped in complicated and delicate network of connections between each Zoner freeport, all bearing the same exact IFF transponders despite dozens of light years of separation between one another. With this movement, I guarantee Zoners, civilians and freelancers of all edge worlds that we will assist in rebuilding what was lost and restore stability that has been destroyed in Baffin those months ago. I personally hope that we can finally put those dark days behind us.

Grand Admiral Michal Golanski
Commanding Officer of The Order.

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[SpaceTime]

Comm ID: James Brooks
Recipient ID: CNS thread
Subject: Comment

Hello there.

It is funny hearing the Order's Admiral thanking the Omicron Supply Industries, one of the leading corporations in illegal Nomad Research. It is not even a day's old their announcement that they have become the first entity which can mass-produce cloak disruptors.

Which shows that the Order's agenda on picking friends and foes is clearly different from what they publicly claim. In these times the Core remains as the only civilized entity in the barbaric Omicrons.

Signed,
James D. Brooks

Guildsmember, Independent Miners' Guild
Traffic Inspector, Aland Shipyard

[Lythrilux]

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ID: Erik Nodtviet
Location: Durban Station, Omicron Rho
Subject: Comment
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The Core praises you for your comment, Mr. Brooks. It's true: The Order are an organization that cannot be trusted. Let this be a message to all of Sirius - do not trust The Order. How they act on the surface is not representative of their true barbarity.

The Core will not act upon Zoners opening up their bases to this brutal terrorist group once again. We can only imagine that the Zoner community was beaten into submission and forced to give access to these tyrants. Fear not, The Core will avenge the Zoners for every cruel act The Order had inflicted against them.


-E. Nodtviet
Guildmaster, The Core
CEO, AP Manufacturing

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