Just my 2 cents:
And they did this with standings 
About “choose your side”/standing:
I am proud I fought for EDENCOM trying to save Niarja but I wasn’t hyped about Trig stuff in general or participation. Seems I did right choice. Mainly I was trying to save my industry assets all the time from Trigs.
Remember that New Player Experience has “the same” problem. They can’t access this standing based content. Maybe it will die as Resource Wars did. It’d be hilarious. As hilarious as EDENCOM ships which are not used by anyone. It’s just new 27 WH systems. Shame so many people (developers and players) put so many (wasted?) time into this for a few.
I bet half of the people who helped Trigs make Pochven possible are not interested in new content. Maybe curious but not interested enough to live there.
@Elsebeth_Rhiannon I salute you and I can understand how you feel after these 4 months. You did very good job.
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