[Poll] Revert Kepler and reactivate gates

[Reeves]

We could line the two systems up?

Could be an interesting change. Gives room for liberty and Kusari to probe but not dominate, and for unlawfuls to grow and sneak into the borders. Could be an interesting change, if more content is considered to fill the surrounding space.

I think the connections should either mirror the Omega border worlds, like what Skorak suggests, or be merged (same for Cortez/Magellan, and Hudson/Bering). Liberty's weird double border systems side by side is kinda whack. I think it would just be more beneficial if traffic went in a straight line.

If you have to do anything then line them up, but do not merge them. You'd make a mess of their respective histories in lore by trying to mash everything together. I don't consider the double border systems to themselves be a huge issue, because all it means is that people will pick the next hotspot over. So for instance: California, Texas and Colorado in respect to each of Liberty's borders with the other Houses. There's some leeway for traders to not get artificially funneled into pirates, and some incentive for pirates to be creative in where and how they blockade things.

Not to mention the fact that the systems being the way they are in terms of arrangement, and also being separate from one another has a lot to do with the history of turf wars in and around them. Breaking that would be significantly tedious to work around, because it would invalidate a lot of faction rumors and lore from the base game. I don't believe I need to explain why that's not exactly wise, let alone feasible.

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