The joy of this game is in RP. If you were to remove the various factors that make it fun, like pirating, and place something that would remove it, like an incredibly rich trader that just teleports across the sector to trade, and still make profit off of it, would ruin the rp completely. Plus, removing them and turning them on to avoid people using it when its not there required you downloading the mod everytime. unless Ioncross works that out.
RP is fine, if you can't run to one end of the sector to the other without being blowed up, then thats your problem.
And a place for the invasion force would be too darn tempting.
Say, for some inexplicable reason, reighland wants to invade liberty. So liberty turns their gate off.
Reighland rushes bretonia with everything he's got and quickly pushes the entire army through their jump gate before the bretonian army arrives.
All of a sudden, liberty has just lost. with style.