Gallia

[Thyrzul]

The lack of activity is mostly due to it being added in outside of the normal system area. You have no reason to go there unless your destination is Gallia, so most people ignore it.

Initially that was the only reason, but later when people cried that it is too big, instead of cutting content devs at that time made systems simply smaller. This did not really make it smaller the way it should have, but more dense. While other houses have several 240k x 240k systems, in Gallia only IDF is that big, resulting in shorter lanes elsewhere and thus very few bottlenecks. That doesn't really help when it comes to piracy, therefor lawfuls and then revolutionaries have basically nothing to do, the whole house ending up as a powertrader paradise.

The "out of the way" issue could be solved with the introduction of an extra few-system inter-house ring similar to the independent systems (Magellan, Cortez, Kepler...) connecting Gallia to all the other houses except Liberty, in 3d it would mean a trigonal bipyramid where houses are at the points of the bipyramid. Alternatively Gallia could just connected to the existing Sigma, Tau and Omega regions, also turning the house into some kind of a geometric counter-pole of Liberty. Sure these would be huge changes, but still a way to integrate it into the circle of other houses.

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