About the Newcastle system

[Solo Wing Sagume]

I have been thinking about some of the mod implemented systems ingame lately and can see that this is definitely not an easy feat to make a memorable non vanilla system creating an incentive for people to go there.

Not trying to disrespect nor offend any of the system developers that try their best, however I can not help myself but see Newcastle in a bit of a pinch. The system comes off really as disharmonious and crowded, for it trying to have a bit too much at once, but offering not really a memorable vibe to be there.

With the addition of Knossos and the Omicrons existing occupying an entire designated third of a system for a Nomad City does not really work in my mind, especially since no one ever does anything there, because Bretonia seems too far remote... or the System too crowded for any subversive ambiguous alien role play to boot.

I'd like to approach a system rework to make Newcastle feel more spacious and sparsely inhabited like Pennsylvania as I find that Pennsylvania would be a good framework to apply.
There would be a civilized side, with the trade lane connections making the regular JG connections to Leeds and Manchester, but have an entire outback like Pennsylvania has.

This outback would feature various nameless landmarks and houses former lore sensible assets, like battles, debris, unlawful installations. The key landmark being either a lore rewritten or added smaller Planet, which would be an exotic savannah world housing dangerous exotic wildlife. This wildlife could become a HRC commodity used for smuggling routes or be usable for PoB as either to craft Scientific Ressources, other ressources for optimization or be used as food... See, we're getting a bit morally ambiguous here.

In lore the planet could be deemed as too expensive to be feasibly colonized by Bretonia at the moment but they endorse refugees and economically undesirable assets to rehouse and establish settlements poaching the wildlife and making way for colonization. It would be an entire wild west, where the Gaians are motivated to fight off morally bankrupt or desperate people trying to build up a new life with a last resort. It would be an entire morale dilemma and put up questions about the morals of expansion and what desperation can let people do things.

Additionally or alternatively as the system enjoys history as a mining and smelter system the introduction of a mineable zone could help, given the pretext. But an entire cleansing campaign for reckless industrial expansion would fit the bill for a desperate and greedy Bretonia and her speditions trying to make up for the loss of Leeds. Furthermore Orbital Spa and Cruise could place their Luxury Liner nearby, being a potential buyer for these natural peculiarities, because we know that people with a lot of money will love morally ambiguous businesses and might wanna get involved with.

This could lead to a potentially promising hotspot for various factions to interact and role play about. I am aware that this is not me reinventing the wheel and all those themes have occured before in Bretonia in some way or shape, but this constant moral question of expansionism and ecology and class fights are kinda what also shapes the faction dynamics in this house.

Anyway leave your thoughts down below. At the end it is just an idea and can always just be disregarded and forgotten about. I don't take it too deep no worries.

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