OOC:
You can take our name out of your sig, fyi.
IC:
Anyway that we treatied with NpO and NPO was hardly a throwback to a bygone age. When negotiating to allow us to start a new GOONS it only seemed logical to talk to people we knew from other worlds. We happened to know a lot of people from another world in NpO. It was only logical that in the process we would align ourselves to those who we knew.
Saying that, however, we got to know the new NpO very well through the process, and they helped us tremendously. In the process of clearing the protectorate with NPO, they asked to come too so we let them sign on. This is not the drinking buddies 2.0.