Developments of the Bretonian Region

[Blodo]

Have I missed something really important? The Mollys don't give any hoots about the IMG, and should probably like them because they, you know, indirectly supply them off the Hood, as they did in vanilla, unless I missed something...

Furthermore, the fact that it is the site of major Corsair attacks makes the construction of a base there, well, laughable, at best. The Corsairs might not control the entirety of Cambridge, but name one other pirate faction in that field in 4.84. That's right, you can't. The Corsairs are the only pirate faction in Cambridge, and, if we're reading the news articles, they're on the offensive against the Outcast allies, aside from the Hessians, who are being hit by Wilde. It makes almost no sense for the Mollys to be able to build a base there. In fact, if you'd like to argue that they can, look at your arguments from Iverness and the Rogues.

1. The Mollys have their NPCs in Cambridge by the Leeds jump hole and in the asteroid field adjacent to it (so yes they do actually have a presence there). The Hessians have their NPCs by the Cambridge jump hole in O-3. I'd say that area of Cambridge is relatively safe...
2. The Corsairs are also being hit hard by the Wilde apparently (according to news item anyways), though it's not being reflected in game in any way for either the Corsairs or Hessians so...
3. The Hessians are going to expand to Cambridge soon themselves, so say rumours on a fair few bases. That would provide an even bigger basis for coordinated Hessian-Molly attacks against Corsairs there.

Alternating spawns does not mean surrounded. Furthermore, why exactly do the Mollys, who only want to liberate Dublin, want to have contact with the Hessians, who have goals nothing short of piracy and revenge against Daumann and Kruger? I think something like the Outcast-Hessian and Outcast-Molly alliance argument is being played in here. The Mollys and Hessians shouldn't care much about each other, they don't have much of a mutual interest.

According to what Kuraine posted in the other thread, the Hessians and Mollys will be in contact soon enough. As to why Mollys would want any contact with the Hessians: maybe the fact that the Mollys have to fend off a massive Corsair invasion of Dublin and the Hessians are capable of helping them on that front by coordinating their attacks on the Corsair path to Dublin? I'd put increased Hessian presence in Omega-47 as pretty important to the Mollys, and say that Hessians would rather have the Corsairs gone from Omega-49 as well...

Think about this: an ice field is being mined in Edinburgh. What does that mean? Free water there. Piracy on supply convoys to Perth and Shetland is free food. Boom, there is their Cambridge goals, only, they can get them easily because it's so easy to build a base in the shadow of Ayr. Remember how people don't go on the other side of that planet? Who is saying the Mollys didn't build there before the Trade Lanes were built. Who says the Mollys really need a base in Edinburgh at all, for that matter? Why not just let them inhabit the Mining Station Glorious instead, then they could still raid Edinburgh, and have a backup base to Arranmore should the Corsairs gain a foothold in Dublin. But, then again, it's right next door to Arranmore. Why would someone build stations so close to each other? It's not like BMM has Thames one jump away from Birmingham. Why not just mine things in Manchester and store it on Thames? It's only one jump away...

Well... Mollys already have a base in an ice field. Taypord Base in Dundee. Gaia isn't really exploited for food, and nothing the Mollys would do against it would bother the Bretonian government much. It would rather enrage the Gaians against the Mollys instead.
Ayr is being terraformed by Planetform, and there is a Planetform base in its orbit. Hardly a place for a Molly station.

I'd say just leave Edinburgh to the Gaians... There's a better basis for a non-aggression pact that way, without their forces having to bump shoulders in a place that already is fairly crowded.