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[Unseelie]

So, not being privy to the future of the lore, but having been privy to what was supposed to happen, and being involved in some debates, I've been thinking about gallia.

To start, I hate gallia as a deus ex machina plot device that needs more to be cleaned up..but as I live with it, here's what I'd love to see.

I'd like to see, fairly quickly, the military collapse of Bretonia as it has been for the last duration.

In the first stage of this, I'd like to see Bretonia roll out military defensive emplacements of mines, turrets, and death, a la trench warfare in space, throughout the Leeds system, centering around making a fortress of Planet Leeds.

Close on the heels of this, I'd like to see Gallia shove its ugly tentacle through Tau 31 into Leeds (and take Harris while they're at it), and ram it down the paths, taking the gate, then stokes and 31 in succession.

I'd like all of this to be done through iterations of server updates, over, say, week periods, to give us the feel of progressing events. (my wishful thinking here, so I'll keep being wishful...and changes to -one- system don't take all that long.) Each of these points could be seen as its own update, each a week later than the last

Not long after, I'd like to see battles open up in Newcastle, from the Tau side, forcing the current three battlegroups in Newcastle (why are they all there?) back into Leeds. This should put five Great Fleet's in Leeds. (or maybe my count is wrong. still, rather a lot). An effective tactical surrender of the system.
This gives the ronnin rather a lot to do, and a fairly reasonable way for them to get out of the focus of hate from Bretonia.

Leeds, then, is very wartorn, with a rather high density of forces and fortress around the planet. Gallia settles in for a long siege

While settling into the siege of Planet Leeds, Gallia starts pushing into Dublin and London systems, each of which become their own battleground.

Bretonia abandons Dublin to Gallia, pulling the Essex Great fleet back to the defense of London, mining the gate.

London hauls Southampton piecemeal to the Defended Zone of London, the London-Cambridge JG lane, and the Gate , scatters mines, and settles in to defend that key military corridor.

Gallia moves into Manchester, and meets the full force of the Liberty Navy there.

By the beginning of the 'long siege', Bretonia only holds Cambridge as a full system, with a planet, station, gate and Lane in New London, and only the Planet in Leeds (connected to the house via the Cambridge JH).
Leeds System is deeply embedded in a trench warefare style minefield operation, and refugees flee toward GC via blockade running and smuggling.
Dublin is the meatgrinder for Gallia that it was for Bretonia, Courtesy of the Mollies' deathgrip on the system.
Planet Sprague becomes refugee destination #1, and, finally, no new systems are added.

Whatever Deus Ex Machina is planned to roll back the Gallics can proceed however it wants to..but please, enact some real, significant, longterm changes to the systems.

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