Topic: Question on the Equal Pacification Directive

[Julin Eurthyr]

Question:

According to the EPD, I know that I am accountable for tracking the capture of "Empire" bases and planets.  (Empire = Alliance & Coalition).  IE, if I hold 1 Alliance base from Original Alliance space, I need 1 Coalition base from Original Coalition space to balance it.

Beyond that, I do not see anywhere in the EPD that mandates any other sort of tracking.  As I read it, I can capture 20 empty "Original" Coalition hexes, and not have to account for them with corresponding empty Alliance hexes.  Obviously, I am restricted to attacking "Empire" hexes no further than 2 hexes from my original border, but that's not part of the EPD...

Yet, I have been advised that "bases and planets" actually somehow means "any hex of greater than 20 DV".  I can find a number of hexes, on both sides, that are 2 hexes away from the Original ISC border that are DV 20+, and many of them are empty, and have been empty since the server's start.

Could you explain what part of the rule I've missed?  Or am I able to take any / all non-planet and non-base containing hexes within 2 of my original border?

[KBFLordKrueg]

Equal Pacification is a directive within the I.S.C. military that requires the them to pacify the various warring factions evenly. Thus if the I.S.C. are in control of an original Alliance planet or base hex, then they must take a Coalition planet or base hex before capturing another from the Alliance when possible. Exceptions to this will depend on whether or not the ISC have a clear LOS to a hex in question, how far that hex is from a resupply point and Organia.
I.S.C. forces may deploy and operate anywhere on the map and may be subject to the deepstrike rule. See ISC special disengagement rules.
The I.S.C. are limited to capturing hexes no further than 2 from their starting borders, unless otherwise stated.
Organia. This system is of absolutely no military or economic value whatsoever, yet the signifigance the ISC place on occupying it would suggest otherwise. For one reason or another, the ISC regard this system as a 'second capitol in the west'.

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I will say the way Dizzy explained it to me over confused the s*** out of me, too...
Maybe Dizzy could clarify?
Use small words for us RidgeHeads...

[Dizzy]

In a nutshell, the ISC can maurad throughout the neutral zone at will. However, the EPD applies when they capture an empire hex that has a DV greater than 20+. These hexes are dotted along all the empire's border edges within the ISC's 2 hex limit. Som are planets, most are base hexes. Even tho the base may be gone, it still counts as a VC.

The reason is that although this hex may have it's base destroyed, it still has important assets there vital to that area's economy. For instance, smaller planets, commerce installations, high population counts, resource materials, all of which may not be large enough to warrant putting a planet there for military resupply purposes. There can be many reasons why this area has been reinforced and is worth VP's. It is just so.

[SurveyCrew]

by the sfc storyline, we are allies with the organians

[Julin Eurthyr]

So therefore the ISC can take any 20 (exactly 20) DV hex within 2 hexes of the border and be safe.  It is just the 21+ hexes that are "important" areas, and need to be tracked for the EPD.

Am I correct in that belief?

[Dizzy]

yup

[F9thRyker]

Bump, just in case people get the wrong idea about the Equal Pacification Directive.

I certainly dont see anything about this rule being thrown out if Organia is taken.