Jane Turner
Volunteer Moderator
It's not in the beta yet, so nobody knows.
For reference, in current live you can still affect influence like normal if thargs are in the system/ stations are damaged.
Edit: this is why I'm not too fussed. Besides my usual opinions about this sort of thing, in anticipating this to be a good thing, much like outbreak/famine given the effects on a damaged station. I even requested a cg put one of my factions into a damaged state (And the cg was to ship goods *into* the station rather than out, which is more fun than your usual A-B trade cg.) For completeness there was a parallel cg to pirate metals/minerals tied to the attack.
With the proviso that it needs to be tested, it might be a defensively useful as UA bombing, though I'd epect happiness to be reduced by being on fire