I believe Kepler is the reason Behind the Northern Lane Hackers, for precisely the reason you pointed out; it didnt need to be. Apparently Agiera made up some story about how Gallileo was going to be hit by Dark matter or something, to get Liberty to pay them to build another route through kepler. Then when it came out, they fired some guys as scapegoats, who resented it and became the Northern Lane Hackers.
Something like that, I was never clear, but thats aprox what I gleaned from various rumours and infocards around there, i've wondered about the full details myself, maybe Echo can tell you more.
Not sure, but this might have something to do with it; from the Wiki:
Leiden Base was built in 782 A.S. by a group of former Ageira Technologies employees after the Galileo bypass scandal resulted in several executives and an elite development team being forced out of Ageira. They quickly got in contact with the Lane Hackers at Mactan,
Ames Research Station was originally constructed in 677 A.S. by Deep Space Engineering, to investigate the strange dark matter clouds that were in the eastern areas of the system, and also to study the dark matter storm that was scheduled to pass through the system in 684 A.S. As it happened, the storm entered Kepler 104 years later than it was expected to, destroying the old trade lane that passed through the western area of the system and rendering it extremely dangerous to travel through. Deep Space Engineering incurred heavy financial losses during the construction of the new lane to the Shikoku Jump Gate, and as a result their operations on Ames were scaled back almost completely to the point of abandoning the station.
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