Stopping Expansions?
- Thread starter Starsong
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No. Once an expansion has gone pending it can't [1] be stopped other than by not having a valid destination.
[1] In principle you might be able to stop an expansion by retreating the faction from the source system before the expansion completes. In practice you'd never have time to get their influence that low quickly enough without them locking into a conflict.
[1] In principle you might be able to stop an expansion by retreating the faction from the source system before the expansion completes. In practice you'd never have time to get their influence that low quickly enough without them locking into a conflict.
Expansion doesn't block asset conflicts so probably doesn't block invasion conflicts either - but here the catch would be that you can't invade versus a controlling faction, so either you'd require a non-controlling expander (which wasn't triggering the lower coup threshold for control instead), or to quickly run two conflicts - one to drop them out of control, then another for the invasion.
Assuming you were doing it as a stunt to show off precise influence control rather than for actual need to have the faction not expand - since you'd need to set up the invasion expansion to go pending at least six and probably seven days before the expansion it was going to block! - it's probably still slightly easier than getting an influence-based retreat.
Just retreat them out of wherever they land. If they're actually expanding and not just pending, it's too late to initiate a retreat as the expansion will be over before the retreat completes.
