Indepedent, Border, and Edge Worlds

[Klaw117]

After looking at the maps of unmodded and Discovery Freelancer, I noticed a few things that raised the question "What makes a system an Independent, Border, or Edge World?" In unmodded Freelancer, this distinction was fairly easy to make. Independent Worlds had Jump Hole/Gate connections to two Houses, lied between Liberty and another House, and were named after famous explorers or scientists; Border Worlds had only one Jump Hole/Gate connection to a House and were given Greek names; Edge Worlds had no Jump Hole/Gate connections to the Houses and were given Greek names as well.

In Discovery Freelancer, everything seems to have changed. On the map (http://discoveryfl.com/wiki/images/b/bb/...erymap.jpg), several systems listed as Independent Worlds and Border Worlds no longer have any Jump Hole/Gate connections to any of the Houses and the naming convention seems to have disappeared. For example, Humboldt, which fits the naming and Jump Hole/Gate connections characteristics of an Independent World is labeled as a Border World. The whole distinction seems to have blurred.

How do the Discovery developers decide on what Independent, Border, and Edge Worlds are?

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Carlos Rivera: Corsair Brotherhood Pirate - Retired, shifted to Tripoli Shipyard's Research and Development engineering teams
Anthony Cameron: Guild Core Bounty Hunter - Killed in Action, committed suicide after being trapped in Omicron Minor following its destruction
Juan Ruiz: Outcast Ghost of Razgriz Pirate - Killed in Action, killed by the Sirius Coalition Revolutionary Army during Bretonian piracy raid
Michael Winchester: Liberty Security Force Agent - Missing in Action, likely killed during Rheinland espionage mission or trapped in Rheinland Space
Eric McCormick: Order Pilot - Retired, shifted to planetside training of new recruits

Liberty and Nomad Backstory, Very interesting - read it!