I would love to know what is going to happen with the Gallia core systems and I just hope to God that they are not as crap as the Gallia systems that have already been opened. They are the most depressing systems in the game, honestly! Everywhere you look it is like living under Nazi occupation, I expect to get stopped and dragged off to Auschwitz if I can't proove my loyalty to the crown. The only thing worth playing in Gallia is a resistance fighter and then you do nothing except fight against almost overwhelming odds.
God! I've never been so depressed by any game I ever played. I had started to develope characters in Gallia ready for the upcoming 4.86, but the experience there has made me dread it now. The scenery is good, but the music is awfull, the society is depressing, the preponderance of military vessels to civillian ones seems like 10:1 or more and the fact that bases not loyal to the crown even exist just feels totally unrealistic after playing there for any length of time. I have tried playing there as GRN, GRP, Gallic Brigand, Union Corse, Freelancer and Independent Trader and all of them have made me realise that above all else, I hate Gallia, playing there, playing Gallic characters and flying Gallic ships! After reading through the posts in this thread, it seems that when 4.86 does arrive I will probably spend most of my time in the right hand side of the Sirius map.
To the devs, I say that you do a very good job, but I personally think that unless things turn out to be totally different to what I expect, you may have screwed up royally this time!