"Make it publicly known that killing nexus is perfectly fine and this never gets raised again."

Once people think it is perfectly acceptable for fort to kill nexus, how long do you honestly think it will take before people playing fort are just going to treat them as if they were empire and always kill them on sight- which is contrary to the general belief that really fort should ignore them or only go after them as pretty much the last available target when all else is said and done.

If you give people that broad a view, they'll take it to extremes it is not meant to. It's better that fort hunting nexus is more an exception than a rule, which I believe is the current system that is in place.

My guess is that (and I could be way off) Baer takes a stance on a case by case basis for most characters that actually bother to RP with her about it- after all Baer has her own RP, she's not just some admin overseer in terms of the CF realm, and if I were her and I had a maran who I suspected if I gave leave to hunt nexus would generally just do it all the time, I'd forbid him to as well, since it would be the only way from keeping him from crossing that line into being turned neutral.

I'll never understand why people role up fort chars, and then bitch about a policy they know is in place before they role the char. If you don't like the dynamics or restrictions of the cabal, just do not join it. That's why I took a long time to play a nexus char and why I'll never play another trib.

Think of it as being an evil in Battle. Here comes random elf warrior maran that has never attacked you before. Not a cabal enemy, no history of attacking you. You know he might attack you, but if you just run up and bash him, chances are you're going to end up in trouble. You don't always get the option to strike first, even when you know you're likely going to be attacked. Course, evil rager may not make any efforts to avoid being attacked, where as fort may just word or teleport to avoid fighting you. (Eachainn was a perfect example of someone who went out of his way to generally avoid fighting anyone not evil no matter what- even though he probably could have killed lots of them)

But really, you want to PK nexus while in fort. When light tips, just go sit at the Island and they will probably come at you.