Sector Ownership

Initial Sector Ownership

See Systems, Sectors and Zones

Initially Un-Owned Sectors

• Heretic's End
• Leap of Faith
• Nopileos' Fortune II
• Nopileos' Fortune IV
• Silent Witness XI
• Silent Witness XII
• Sanctuary of Darkness
• Saturn 2 (though is claimed by the Terran Protectorate very quickly in almost all circumstances)
• Turquoise Sea IX
• Turquoise Sea X
• Watchful Gaze

Factions that Cannot Own Sectors

• Alliance of the Word
• Fallen Families
• Kha'ak
• Ministry of Finance
• Scale Plate Pact
• Yaki

How Sector Ownership Changes

Sector ownership changes to another faction when the following conditions have been met:

• All of the original sector owner's administration/build modules have been destroyed
• No claim modules (administration, shipyard and maintenance modules (excluding S/M ship modules) all count) were built by 2 or more factions before the original owners administration module have been destroyed. In the event that this occurs, the sector becomes ownerless until there is only one faction's admin modules remaining.
• All Xenon defense modules and drone bays have been destroyed
• The recipient faction has at least one Administration module/build module

The Plan Build Menu can be used to determine if a module will attempt to claim a sector. In the top right of claim modules is this icon . There is no relation penalty for building a claim module in a friendly faction's space so this should not dissuade players from building a shipyard in Argon Prime for instance, the Argon authorities won't care that the L shipyard module is attempting to lay claim to their sector.

As an example:

	GREEN controls the sector as they have the only defence platform in the space.
	YELLOW and PINK also build defence platforms in GREEN's sector while GREEN's defence platform is still standing. The sector is still owned by GREEN but it is contested. The relative quantity of GREEN, YELLOW and PINK's defence platforms does not matter.
	GREEN's platform has been destroyed leaving YELLOW and PINK's defence platforms. The sector is not owned by anyone but it is still contested by PINK and GREEN. The relative quantity of YELLOW and PINK's defence platforms does not matter.
	YELLOW's defence platform has been destroyed. PINK is now the only faction with a defence platform in the sector. PINK now becomes the owner of the sector.

Troubleshooting Sector Ownership Problems

• Always check the entire sector for administration/build modules, the following stations are built with administrative modules: Shipyards, Wharves, Defense Platforms, Trading Station, Equipment Docks, All Xenon stations. Check for this icon in the Plan build menu if there is any uncertainty.

Common Misconceptions about Sector Ownership

"Sector Ownership is determined by the faction with the most Administration modules" - this is completely wrong, see the example above for info