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Excuse the image placement, I'm lazy tonight. Pennsylvania being an independent world doesn't make much sense. Kansas does because it's always been contested by Insurgency and rarely does LN go there. Pennsylvania has good reason to remain Liberty space as it's supposed to be THE place for noobs to get their crap straight, and it's always been Liberty controlled.

I wouldn't focus too heavily on classifications outside of House Space at this point as they will likely get their own rework, but we'll note thoughts folks have on the matter.

I know Meg has already brought this up, and you say not to focus too much on it. But in that case, what kind of rework are you thinking of? It's gonna make people harder to give an opinion without that knowledge. Regardless, still makes no sense for Chugoku to be a Sigma. Should be Independent instead, as Chugoku is the home of the Blood Dragons, they have total control over the system at present. Tottori is currently contested between KNF and BD, and lacks system-wide laning infrastructure. A new system classification could be made to label Tottori as Contested Space, or make it a border world Tau as you have already proposed. Tohoku makes more sense being a Sigma than the other two, as it's directly connected, and no factions have a lot of power in the system. Though, since it currently has a whole lot of nothing in it, I have no idea how it would be utilized without an overhaul. It's a very boring vanilla system that's mostly just for passing through. Alternatively, could make a new system classification called Contested Space. In lore, Heaven's Gate isn't really an important base anymore. It used to be a place guarding the supposed "secrets", and was kept operational by the emperor to preserve its status as a cultural landmark of sorts. This implies it to still be important to the Emperor(s), but who's to say anybody else cares in lore?

Yes, this does away with "House Controlled" and "House Outer Region" (Yellow and Red) from a rules perspective though some systems have been moved to "House Space" from those categories and others moved out. ZOI in general isn't changing drastically as part of this - if you're a KNF character, you can still go to Tau-31 or Sigma-17 or any system bordering "Kusari" as defined here (no more hard borders) to shoot all hostiles to Kusari (wat) you see.

It makes obvious sense to limit full law enforcement to sovereign house space. You don't see United States police or military crossing the Mexican border to catch some drug traffickers, they set up checkpoints. However, in systems such as Poole and Tottori which are being colonized, I feel like houses should be allowed to enforce space in their specific part of the system that they effectively control. I don't really get why the contested/outer region system has to be removed, I think it makes for interesting scenarios. If it does get removed, I'd like to see the flavor text in the top left of the screen still, haha. Regardless, Poole and Tottori should go independent or border as no faction has total control over the system. Chugoku should be independent for sure, as I explained above. Tohoku should be border or sigma as even though there's a KNF presence in the area, it's only one base. Same for BD and Wild, nobody really has control over the system.

Forgive me if this is a bit wacky, but what if... Tohoku was an edge world? Also, didn't count that tiny bit of KOI in Tottori, forgot. Doesn't change much though. Hope I didn't screw up my opinions at all, it's late so I've got a bit of smooth brain. Everything else I'm okay with I guess.