Story Line Event

[Klaus Lange]

Well... there -is- another party in Sirius now that does lane tech. And is quite hostile to Liberty to boot... But what will happen? I have no idea, since I have no clue as to how the factions involved will act. From my standpoint as dev and story lead, I'm only looking to assign reasonable consequences to various actions.

If Ageira/DSE ceases lane maintenance the network will slowly start to decay. It'll take a while before stuff starts fritzing out, especially gates. Rheinland has some time there, although it will end up making travel inconvenient in the region within a few weeks. If they contract another party (I actually worked out a hypothetical on this scenario) it'll threaten the Liberty monopoly on lane tech, which is one of it's major exports. With one of it's economic backbones threatened, Liberty would have little choice other then to intervene militarily with all it's might - Rheinland is already struggling. But at the same time, Gallia is looming on the western horizon, so Liberty is in a timecrunch before finding itself on a war on two fronts. Rheinland isn't the dimmest bulb either, they'd know this and try to delay Liberty...

Something along these lines is a possible scenario for the 4.87 storyline development for the region.

Well, I thought about not one, but 3 factions who have more, or less, but technical know-how about lanes and gates. Gallia, Junkers (not sure Gallic or Sirian), and Hackers.