The Missing Freeports?

Destroyed ? *Small edit* Probably like FP7, something blew them up, whatever, and as we noticed FP8 or 9 or whatever didn't became 7 ect. ect.

cancelled projects? retaken bases?

Eaten... by a giant space frog

Kermit, admit it you ate the Freeports! *Evil inspector/detective cop look*

I still think it's most probable they got destroyed at one point or another...

somebody should have told him thats its called Freeport and not Flyport

lol

There is one or two bases run by IMG which were run by the Zoners before (I think), anyway, better wait for CA for a better confirmation.

I supose that they may have been destroyed or abandoned in the mid time.

we shouldn't forget that the ultra polluted Texas and Galileu were ment to be much more populated systems then they are now.

yep, but there aren't Freeports in house systems. So, it's impossible to have a Freeport on any time in Texas.

Also, if it was in Galileo... well, we should found a station wreck there or something...

Yeah, also, some infocard should inform about the location of the missing freeports.

1st, Texas wasn't probably a House system some hundreds of years ago

2nd fly in to the Galileu Nebulas and you will even fins wrecked trade lanes

can't remember about Texas storyline, but the Zoners/IMG @ my guess couldn't reach the worthy (in that time) and growing Texas... Also, the system became part of Liberty somewhat early so the Zoners couldn't arrive (or not).

yea, about the trade lanes wrecks I remember, but I'm talking about station wrecks, like FP7 and Ithaca.

the destroyed Freeport 7 is back in CF1.8 (as destroyed station)
the other 2 are still missing... but maybe it would be worth it to include them somehow

maybe they float away lol

what i mean is how can you be certain that an object is still in space?
our system orbits a blackhole, Hint: not still:D

wormhole breakdown -> system not available anymore -> station lost

Or...

1. Maintanence costs over the decades grew too high and so the bases were decommissioned or scrapped. It's rough having stations in the backwaters of space. Maybe when push came to shove - if the Zoners were biting the bullet with their finite resources at some point in time - something had to get cut back on. Costs of repairing and maintaining two of their stations could make sense, especially in those Freeports were in areas where incurring damages was quite frequent.

2. Those bases were built on what were frontiers at the time but may have lost their value when alternative routes of trade were established, new jumps were discovered, and the Houses expanded (ie. Kusari enters a new system and brings rule of law with them, and so its time for the Zoners to find a new home... or the discovery of a jump hole may have rendered the position of a station unstrategic).

3. Being located especially distant from the rest of civilization, costs of trade may have been too high for the stations to be cost-effective for the Zoners. Mind you many of their rumors mention a feeble economy and a constant struggle to produce and supply vital resources. If these two bases were too expensive to get supplies too, the bases themselves weren't producing as expected to send things back to the rest of the Zoners, or if the area in which they were built was simply too dangerous it would make little sense to keep investing credits and materials onto certain stations.

I c we are creative enough to explain everything

Excellent material for more rumors @ Zoner bases for CF 1.8!

in my opinion FP 8 actually is like the area 51 in freelancer and thats why its not listed