Anyway, this is a very welcome change. The independent worlds were always intended to be just that, independent.
The houses in their deluded grasp for power had completely eliminated the whole concept of "outside of house space", and it's sad that it took a rule change to bring them in line.
While it may require fine tuning, I wholeheartedly welcome this change. I'll leave it at that because I'm not having the same discussion here as I did in official faction leaders chat.