This is all a bit confusing to me. You won't be able to control Theta anymore because you own 74... So if RM buys Braunschweig then we can no longer patrol/control New Berlin? What trader or pirate, in his right mind, will enter Braunschweig, ever? RM already has a problem with people not complying with scans and such. This would cause more problems then...
If the SF buy the BAF guard system, they can't do anything in Cambridge anymore?
Why can't AW control Theta as they always have? Why can't the home/guard systems be the place where most of their research and development is done?
I'm asking these questions because I KNOW there are people out there who will try to argue with AW/RM/SF that they have no power in Theta/New Berlin/Cambridge anymore...only the systems that they 'own'. The, 'uh, you can't tell me what to do' thing...hell we (RM) get that as it is right now. (Not trying to make this an RM thing, just that's the only experience i've had with it)
My interperetation: Your zone of influence should be directly related to the NPC's of your faction...wherever they are, shouldn't you be able to be there too?
Zones of Influence, Ownership of certain systems, control, power.....(voice trails off)