This past cycle new powerplay tactics have emerged that are used to prevent commanders from undermining. This involves blocking ship spawns at the nav beacon by dropping at said nav beacon and hiding in the 100km bubble. The only way to counter this is to find whoever is blocking the instance and destroy them which can be impossible given the area required to search. This tactic is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. If we as an empire are going to oppose any hostile actions it will be done in ways that allows enemies to fight back and at least continue to play the game.
Last cycle near tick I personally directed undermining wings to move in private group in response to this. The wings returned to open afterwards, attempted to oppose the expansion and again had an enemy commander block spawns at the nav beacon by hiding instead of directly opposing the players in system. For reference there were no REZ sites in the system that would have been a viable alternative.
Continued use of these methods will eventually lead to a downward spiral of who can outspite each other the most. This is a tactic that we in the empire knew of long before and decided to note use for this reason. Do not let powerplay become this.
