The great Guard system cull

[JunkerTown]

Primarily, it's that many, if not all, Guard systems were not designed in a manner that adhered well to the overall lore continuity (Tau-65 and Londonderry are examples of pretty bad offenders). Secondarily, they dilute activity in non-Guard systems simply by virtue of their being more systems in the mod. Lastly, the poorly-regulated designs cause unnecessary mod bloat, by virtue of having more bases than needed in many cases.

Anyway, the key point here is that Humboldt is a pretty bland system, and ought to be merged with one of its neighbours. PR basically has a whole lot of empty space in the western half of the system, which could be ripe for repurposing once the unrealistically-placed neutron star is removed. (Alternatively, the neutron star stays and the system gets a whole lot more dangerous...). Merging Humboldt into Kansas remains an option, and would probably serve to generate a fair bit more activity for the system - which is not a bad thing at all - but PR still has no reason to remain a Guard system, when it could be opened up and made far more interesting, while retaining a secure corner of the system in which to hide the shipyard.

No doubt merging Kansas and Humboldt would be good.
Neither system generate enough activity to warrant being separate.
As for Puerto Rico.. that system is constantly active and we use it DAILY.
We purchased it long ago with the intent of maintaining, securing and setting up events along with future RP with it.
We have done just that many times over and the neutron star has played into it as well.
I didn't setup the neutron star but after reading its info card decided to develop our own RP about it and for our POB there known as San Juan.
It's been the basis for the station being a secret research facility and the place we develop things like jump drives and cloaking devices.

Loads of time and energy have gone into us developing PR and also keeping it secured.
Would be a real shame to see all our game time and effort get 'repurposed' or removed.
Since activity is very high there it could be prove to be counter productive to do so.

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