Well, Omicron Theta is a crossroads, right between Corsair and Outcast homes. Conflict over it is inevitable.
Only zoner bases are in there, but loads of corsair NPCs are flying around.
For strategic reasons, I understand, that Omicron-74 is AW's home and Theta is the only way into it. A buffer zone. If anything shows up in there, then there's a risk, that it'll go to '74.
What I don't get however, is why would Theta as a whole be treated as a "freesystem". I do read rumors and one of them said, that outcasts on Corfu were making bets on how long a wounded BH would live (after a fight in space). No fighting between enemies on the station, but as soon as their ships undock, fierce fight breaks out.
Somehow, NPC BH and corsairs do fight in the direct vicinity of the FP9. (:nono:naughty naughty, breaking the no-fighting rule:nono:)
Personally, I'm in favour of such an option: Instill your laws in the places you own. And according to rules, the systems availibe for wning are either empty, clan-owned or guard. Theta is a vanilla system. If BSG wanted to "control" systems on the same basis as AW, then the Kusari-Bretonia war would end quick, Battlestars from Holman outpost would vaporize every Kusari or Bretonian battleship in sight. Cali base would most likely cease to exist, Newcastle wouldn't see any Mollys or Bretonians ever again, same for Dublin, Omega 7 with its Hessians and Corsairs...