I'm not talking about ships, I'm talking about the fruits of the BGS game. All those settlements and spaceports that Player Minor Factors have spent years to nurture.
it's a role playing asset they knew going in was under fdev's control. There's no guarantee on perpetual existence.
just role play an epic last stand and build it back up from the scraps that remain. Maybe it wont be an in game faction because almost no factions would exist anymore. But it would be far more important (and effective to gameplay), whatever they decide to start doing afterward, than what they're doing now.
players invested tons of effort and content into powerplay originally thinking that any such power was potentially temporary and liable to be removed any given cycle. And we were fine with that because that dynamic nature meant what you were doing mattered and there was real risk involved in losing. Until it became apparent that fdev abandoned the feature and wasn't developing it further at all.
Give meaning to all of the pointless toiling in the BGS by totally destroying it and creating something new from it's ashes. Dont let it continue to bang it's head up against the same wall for no reason forever. This narrative has the potential to revitalize the game by changing the game board. Or it has the chance to leave it the same and we continue down this gradual decline in interest.