So …
I wasn’t going to write anything about Arshat until Niarja was decided, one way or the other.
Well, it’s decided. And, I don’t feel all that much like writing about Arshat. I will a little anyway.
A system clawed back out of liminality: that’s not nothing. It’s pretty good actually, a first. Yaaay.
Niarja, though.
In addition to the usual (HORRIBLE) effects of final liminality, the path to Jita’s a lot longer today than it was yesterday. At least from Amarr. What this means, practically, remains to be seen. My guess is it’ll weaken the market at Jita and strengthen Amarr. The trade route between the two is probably about to become as profitable as it is long. (It wasn’t awful, profit-wise, to begin with.) Maybe other ports of call will grow stronger along the way.
Other effects … I guess we’ll see.
Arrendis says Goonswarm backed liminality in Niarja for the sake of severing hostile supply lines. I believe that’s probably true. She probably knows better than I do how much of an effect that had, or didn’t. She also probably knows at least as well as I do what the consequences are going to be, short and long-term-- what was traded for that advantage.
I guess we all have some new realities to adjust to.