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The Omicroners
Name: The Omicroners
NPC Faction: Zoner IFF, Zoner Guard IFF
Faction tag: (]o[)
Formerly known as: Zoners Consortium, Consortium, ZTC
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Course of Development
The Omicroners started as the Zoners Trading Consortium, founded by Johann Boll, William Topper and Werner Mazursky. Shortly after their first noticable presence in the Omicrons and Omegas several Zoners joined this group. Among them were Charles M. Burns, Louisa Salome and Yevan Pushkin. Due to Salome's goals to further a global Zoner civilization in Sirius the ZTC was deeply involved into the establishment of the follow-up organization of the Council of Zoners, which was previously endorsed by the Temporary Autonomous Zoners and had grown to a size the Zoners had to face serious organizational issues when conducting their daily business. After Salome's death Burns took over the official business of the Consortium which was mostly related to technological topics and base access rights due to an increasing amount of foreign usage requests - the main occupation of the Consortium, to investigate the Nomad Species, had bound most of the group's resources anyway, so the Zoner Alliance did not last long ...
Soon after James Ferguson had stepped onto the Sirian Stage the Corsair Empire, formerly a reliable and peaceful neighbour of the Consortium, lost control over his citizens, which led to internal strife and the forming of anarchists. The extents of this weakness are still unclear, but the impact it had on the Zoners in Omicron 74 and Omicron Theta is dramatic: After a series of attacks the Consortium had to destroy the Biodomes of Freeport 9 and evacute half of the Zoner inhabitants in both systems, mostly peaceful civilian families. The remainders of the Zoners who are more or less capable of withstanding the Corsair aggressions decided to stay, and form the group known as the Omicroners.
Some of the Consortium Members decided to stay and lead the Omicroners, in order to provide a safe haven in Omicron 74 to all Zoners. They have retreated from the public stage of Sirian politics, heavily disappointed by the TAZ and the OSI who were buckling to the Corsair threat, and to move their actions to the underground. Further Zoners, prominent like Elizabeth Tate aboard the Persephone, the protector of Freeport 11, joined the Omicroners, in order to guarantee the inviolacy of the safe haven of Omicron 74.
Omicroner Structure and Hierarchy
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A collection of Omicroner members who come together to vote on important issues within the faction. Every quorum member has the right to propose faction goals and participate in votes and elections. |
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There are three Board Members total at any time. They are elected in the Quorum once every three months among all Omicroner members with voting rights. |
Departments
Our Shipmaster participate in any of the departments at all times according to pleasure.
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Department of Trade |
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Our traders are meant to improve your personal income and the faction funds. Joining this department you are keeping track of good trading opportunities, while you are always providing complete information of your trade runs to the department leader, such as flying times, profit amounts and pirate encounters. Your goal is to find as many profitable routes as possible. |
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Our security ships are designed to protect our faction goals. This include vindicating our trades, securing our facilities and providing help to our allies. This department is combat oriented and requires the participation in our fighter training. |
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Our diplomcay staff is responsible for our relations towards all groups and individuals outside of the Consortium. Basic faction strategies regarding the faction reputation are discussed here. The head of this department decides whether you are experienced enough to participate in the Council of Zoners, or not, or if you are allowed to pursue diplomatic negotiations with other factions on your own accord. The whole exterior perception of our faction is planned here. |
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Our Department of Research is perhaps the most exotic in our department canon, but it is the edge at the same time. Zoners are supposed to be excellent researchers, and most of our security, trade and diplomatic advantages emanate from this department. This is the reason why most of our members are trying to improve the projects and results of this department. An example we are all proud of is the planned development of a stringent Zoner vessel line, but also the assemply of our Research Facility Leonardo. All of our research projects are embedded in a larger scope of role play which defining the factions distinguished profile. |
Recruitment
Join the Omicroners >>here<<, or contact any consortium pilot.
Omicroner Pilot Roster
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Zone Of Interest
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Omicron Theta, Omicron Delta, Omega 49 ... and every Zoner designated base |
Omicron 74
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Diplomacy
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Special agreements
Zoner History
Since the beginning of human settlement in Sirius, Zoners were perceived as people who decided to resign from the guaranteed safety of the Houses. They set out to live their lives in the more dangerous, but also auspicious environments of the Edge Worlds, which were collectively known as The Zone. The migration of former House citizens into these territories was akin to the old Earth’s “Exploration of the Great Frontier.” Men and women from a variety of backgrounds brought what little they could fairy into unknown voids of space. These Zoners ranged from mere adventurers to the socially disadvantaged; from prisoners to corporate tycoons. But no matter what reasons drove people out of the relative safety of the Houses, every one of these civilians wanted to start a new life.
One can imagine how painstakingly difficult it was for the first Zoners in the Edge Worlds. They had to abstain from the comforts provided by well established infrastructures of their former homes, so the only way to begin a new life away from the developed parts of Sirius was to sell rare goods found in the Outer Systems to House corporations and criminals alike. Trading became crucial for their survival. They traveled to every corner of Sirius in order to exchange goods, and in the process ignited the first wave of Zoner Immigrants. As traders from the Edge Worlds emerged, now flying under an Independent banner, they attracted a flood of civilians who were largely impressed by the Zoners’ freedom and prosperity. The news of Zoners spread through Sirius attracting more and more people - craftsmen, veterans, scientists, artists and criminals - many of whom changed their identity and tore down all connections to their respective communities. Their new life had to be tightly bound to a neutral attitude towards political plots and struggles, which gave them the necessary security to travel wherever they wished. Some historical evidence also suggests that the Zoners’ separatist approach toward all factional organizations indirectly resulted in the acclaimed neutrality they maintain to this very day.
The Zoners’ primary focus was civilizing the harsh environments they sought refuge in, but they were still too few to build solid infrastructures in order to colonize inhabitable planets, so they started to build space stations and small habitats. Losing lots of their ships exploring the Edge Worlds they learned to be cautious and they learned to value life more than anything else, at least their own. Living in systems with a vanishing density of population they also got used to relying on themselves, preferring independence, personal responsibility and freedom, but they also had to learn to cooperate with each other, just slowly at first, as their will to survive left no other choice to them. These loose cooperations lead to the founding of little communities moving from location to location in order to find new resources and ways to improve their lives. Today it seems to be cynical, but they lived like nomads.
Many years passed, and some of these scattered communities grew slowly but steadily, still attracting more and more people. They claimed abandoned stations, like Freeport 2 in 650 A.S., or built new marketplaces, like Freeport 1 in 738 A.S., at junctions of well-known trade routes to ensure the better provision of daily needs. The first communities settled on habitable planets (Erie in 761 A.S.), and other communities, led by dropouts with scientific backgrounds, launched prototypes of the now fabled Juggernauts into space which were supposed to serve as colonial holds, transports, exploring vessels and support facilities. These ships were also designed as ships of war , although they where never used in this role. They had the resources to build them, so they did.
But Zoners had neither enough time, nor a real need to concentrate on developing military power, although they have always been able to develop technology to be among the best Sirius has ever seen. Their love for freedom and individual occupations as well as the wide spread areas they were living in never allowed the foundation of a common military organization. They preferred to spend their income for further scientific advance, conforming with their curious nature, personal luxuries and new ways of colonizing and perhaps exploiting the Edge Worlds, and most people of Sirius appreciated the Freeports as bastions of freedom where commodities could be traded and information gathered freely and unmolested by House authorities. The first Zoner bases did not even have local security personnel, so most Zoners learned quickly to balance opinions, and to abstain from political interference in order to diffuse conflicts at the initial source of the problem. This neutral attitude and indifferent behavior towards almost everyone founded their reputation as good diplomats. The first noticeable common effort of Zoners to sustain their neutral position is their neutral role in the epic conflict between the Corsairs and the Outcasts.
Beside their neutral attitude towards everybody Zoners had to establish reliable trade contracts as well. The first of this kind was established with the Gas Miners Guild due to each side's satisfying experiences over the years, finally leading to an alliance that is flourishing until today. A second and very delicate alliance has also been forged, which is not completely undisputed among Zoners today: In the prelude of the Nomad War, Zoners were among the first who encountered specimen of these aliens. Never being involved into serious conflicts, thus unable to find quick solutions to this new threat, and feeling secretly responsible for the alien's spreading - it was a Zoner who was to be contaminated first - they appreciated the secret work of the legendary Liberty renegade Caspar Orillion. The Zoners had no choice but to support his work, called The Order, with logistics, financing and intelligence, and due to the fact that The Order was able to achieve a temporary victory against the Nomads, this alliance has lived on until today developing into a mutual exchange of technology routed through intermediaries in the enduring fight against these aliens.
Today the Zoners and their reputation are famous throughout Sirius. Some might even say infamous, depending on their point of view. Zoners are still struggling to reconcile their political neutrality with their desire for individual freedoms, but their answers to this struggle are embodied in groups like the Temporary Autonomous Zoners and new organizations, the Omicron Supply Industries, the Zoners Abolishing Slavery and the Zoners Trading Consortium, as well as the uncounted free-spirited individuals journeying under the Zoners flag, all together organized in the Council of Zoners.
Things are still changing in Sirius of course. The competition for resources is continuing, and the Houses are engaged in power plays with each other. The great war between Corsairs and Outcasts lasts, while the descendants of the long lost colonial ship Gallia have been found again. Almost forgotten is the alien threat, but even Nomads have learned from their defeat preparing their retaliation. It seems that Sirius is subjected to strong emotions that today's Zoners cannot ignore, but they are well prepared to face new challenges.
