1) The motivation behind the thread is purely IC: Lorize rests in Imperial Space, literally cut off from civilization by the Border Forces. It is a world formerly belonging to the Empire (presumably, Moff Saarn once ruled it), and it is a world that the Empire was seeking to have surrendered as part of the Pax Imperium.
I do hope there are no hard feelings, and to help satisfy those, I have an idea in mind you may like, which leads me to...
2) If you are willing, I would be glad to offer assistance in taking another world to "replace" Lorize, and therefor not suffer the OOC penalties of losing a planet. This is entirely at your discretion, but I figure a number of citizens will take the Empire's offer to leave Lorize and settle somewhere else, with the aide and blessing of the New Order (as stated IC).
3) It is not primarily a fleet thread. It was written as a storyline thread, chronicaling the liberation of Lorize by the New Order by way of forcing their people to side with us or die. I don't want a fleet engagement, but obviously since I am (for all intents and purposes) doing a hositle takeover of a faction's planet, you're free to make it one. I hope you won't, because I do think the thread has a decent storyline to it...
Although a small, preplanned skirmish might be fun... maybe the GC tries to break the blockade, or something.
Cheers!
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