Wasnt online the last two days because of real life but the situation has settled down in Lugh for all factions at the moment as non of them is beeing in an current state. Theoretically we should trigger the next civil war with LFE now but it could be that only one civil war can be happen at one time system wide. And that would mean that LDF and SN LTD are now in their civil war cooldown. In this case it could mean that we have to wait now 26 days before next civil war can be triggered. Also take attention lockdown and boom with a blue pointer up is pending again for CSG.
I'm outside Lugh at the moment, working on getting references from the other Federal factions so LFE will trust me with some of their missions again. I don't dare take CSG's missions, because we want to avoid yet another Boom. Not being able to bounty hunt on behalf of CSG has pretty much left sabotaging LFE as the only viable method to aid CSG until a Civil War breaks out.
Also, I just took a look at today's traffic report: 91 ships had flown through Lugh in the last 24 hours. Fairly deserted here at the moment, which explains LFE's gains, since they benefit the most from normal traffic, especially interplanetary traffic.
I
really hope we don't have to wait for the brawl between two crippled old men (AKA the SN Ltd vs LDF civil war) to cool down before the main event can begin.
Yeah, we might have picked a tough target with it being a Federation system.
It isn't so much it being a Federation system that makes it a tough nut to crack. It's the fact that this system has
nine stations in it, and Lugh for Equality controls Hartsfield Market, this system's breadbasket. That station is the crown jewel of Lugh. Whoever controls Hartsfield Market benefits the most from interplanetary trade. It is also quite likely to be the system's controlling station as well.
It seems a little excessive, silly even, to me that so many factions have been battered all the way down to 0.1% and that we have achieved such a high percentage for CSG. Lower and higher percentages should be exponentially hard to move down or up, which would open up the possibility for mission-based events (Community Goals?) to crush a small faction completely or flip a station or system to an ascendant faction.
There are three challenges to flipping a system:
The first is winning popular support. CSG has done that thanks to our efforts on their behalf. They are seen as the people to go to when there's a problem, while the Federation's LFE are seen as bunglers. This is simply the easiest step, as it is quite easy to gain the support of people bound to their planet below.
The second is gaining control of the controlling station. This is tough step, since it will mean controlling the states of both CSG and LFE, to ensure that they don't have unwanted states when the requirements for a civil war are met. This is especially tough in the Lugh system, since LFE controls four stations, including two large inner stations. It is very likely that we'll have to flip the two outposts LFE controls before we can get a crack at Cavendish Ring or Hartsfield Market. That is going to be a long time at the current cooldown duration.
The third challenge is getting the Federation to acknowledge that the system isn't theirs. Sesuang is in this boat right now, and it will be interesting to see how long this final step takes.
Did turn in 120k of exploration data before heading out, though. 
