The Aetherplex was peaced so that people could travel into the Starhopper in safety without being murdered for their toys (back when there were toys that could be turned in for a bounty in dingbats).
This event is long since past (finished years ago in fact). The reasoning for a peaced aetherplex no longer exists. Why is the place still peaced now? It is protected by Avenger, so you cannot just murder people there in bulk for no reason. Attempting to do so will get the Avenger all worked up about your actions.
At the same time, there are a couple of people who hang out there to 'abuse' the peace (for example, Liwase, who just makes figurines of everyone passing through and whom many people would like to do something to in response).
I basically just see no real reason for it to remain peaced at this point. Please remove it!
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One word: Avenger.
One kill also isn't harassment, part of the entire definition of harassment is its repeated nature. If you are irking many people off to the point that each one wants to kill you once, that's kind of on you, and maybe you should consider changing your habits.
Plus, avenger, a single kill isn't harassment. If you've genuinely pissed enough people off to the point that they are cycling people to kill you many times, you shouldn't be able to sit in a peaced room thumbing your nose at them. If people are hunting you, bring friends, get back at them, or just avoid the plex until things calm down.
Note that it was not because it is a central traveling location.
And the aetherplex peace stuff is not just the province of one individual- you also have Munsia and a number of the other 'troll-alts' who like to stand there and emote things that they know nobody can do anything about (due to the peaced nature).
If anything, it's more disturbing that you can't handle those individuals now and send them on their way when you are going through the "central gathering location". Talking there, fine. Harassing other people moving through there, not-fine. If people feel harassed, they should have some means of IC redress.
There's a (very small) playerbase anti-Tully-Cult that has formed (mostly in Mag) that gets really excited when they see players kill you, based on minor annoyances that have built up over the years, though. So they do it for the kudos and adulation from their peers.
I prefer a mix of RP and fighting, where the fighting is a logical end result of the RP; if someone is making a nuisance of themselves, and your character is one who doesn't tolerate such things well, your character may have a violent reaction.
See: Xavier Snapfuse's nephew.
Your objections from the start was that it would lead to pointless jumping... which it probably won't.