The SCOPE video released yesterday has some possible hints of what is going on: it mentions the trigs are harvesting the stars and the rest of the system to build ships and equipment, and concludes with:
“We must contemplate the consequences of losing this war to a dreadful enemy. Is it possible that they will harvest each system they conquer until it is completely exhausted of resources before moving on like a swarm of insects? What will happen to the inhabitants and infrastructure in heavily populated systems if they are lost? Will travelling through captures systems become safe again once Triglavian rule has been established?”
So:
- trigs in taken systems will go on as long as there is something to harvest
- then the system will return to safe travel
- but the poor baseliner people who lived there would be screwed
That would in practice put the sec status effect under a timer of currently unknown length of “until the star’s been harvested completely”.
It would also mean folks fighting for the trigs would not gain a permanent gameplay benefit for throwing the make-believe people under the bus.
Of course, these are posed as questions in a newspiece so CCP might just be pulling our leg and go “nyah unreliable narrator” later, but as this is the only clear hints we have about mechanics that sounds to me unlikely (or a jerk thing to do if so).