A player could sign up for any of the minor independent factions in the game. So, Aeolus, Corvus, Ineubis, Tunguska, and Xang Xi would be a good start. I was thinking that this wormhole would go between Helios and Edras.

There would be more turrets than a player captured station and the guards would be like the Serco/Itani blockade, so it would take a good concerted effort to take them from another faction.

If people like this, I was thinking that another could go between Dau and Deneb for UIT factions, but let's keep it discussed around the independent factions for now.

I think you're a carebear that doesn't want to risk being shot going through Gray space. We need more interaction, not more ways to avoid it.

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I maintain the solution to this problem is to allow people to home in multiple locations. You can pick your home location and /explode there but obviously you wont have brought any cargo with you.

Yeah it sorta does smell like a carebear post doesn't it Ryan- not only does it make greyspace all safe from the traders, but it gives nationalists something to fight over so they get out of greyspace and stop interfering! LOL! n1

I got the idea while watching old episodes of Deep Space Nine.

Ryan Reign, do you realize where Helios and Edras are? They're the Serco and Itan border systems to gray. The fastest way to each is through UIT space. This has NOTHING to do with gray and everything to do with these two systems. It would be advantageous to Serco/Itani players, station attackers/defenders, and traders alike. A huge shortcut that wouldn't be guild or major nation motivated.

I was just thinking of a way to make Helios and Edras have more interesting features than a station or two and wormholes passing through. My thought was that this could allow another Deneb sort of interaction without going all the way to the edge of the known galaxy.

How about a conquerable wormhole from Odia to Deneb then? Would this help your bruised ego?

I'm not crazy about adding short cuts. I do like the idea of player controlled wormholes though.

Owners could require users to have a 'permit' to access the wormhole from the controlled side, failure would result in destruction from a turret system, while still having the same weakness to fast infi boost ships like the hog 2.

I only thought that shortcuts would be easier in terms of adding content and still provide some sort of motivation for players to participate.

I also thought about wormholes to special systems or hidden sectors where you could hunt swarms or mine untouched asteroids.