Question: Why are destroyed Commonwealth Stations populated?

[RPC]

I was just fixing up Dynamic Systems for the succession when I noticed that the Worldship encounter, stXenophobeWorldship, has a station that is counted as svCommonwealth and is populated.

Questions:
Can I get the controllingSovereign information of a station through TLISP?
Why haven't the civilians left the station yet? This is the first instance of a destroyed station having inhabitants.
If the station is destroyed, why does it still count as svCommonwealth? Shouldn't it be counted as neutral, destroyed or independent?

[shanejfilomena]

independent

it should be basically debris: but things have changed so much .....

what could useful is Hit-points being recognized because if that is the case with a normal station a set up station like the Rogue kidnapping could get affected.....hard to storm into a friendly station and declare everyone at the Bar free to leave.....

[george moromisato]

I was just fixing up Dynamic Systems for the succession when I noticed that the Worldship encounter, stXenophobeWorldship, has a station that is counted as svCommonwealth and is populated.

Questions:
Can I get the controllingSovereign information of a station through TLISP?
Why haven't the civilians left the station yet? This is the first instance of a destroyed station having inhabitants.
If the station is destroyed, why does it still count as svCommonwealth? Shouldn't it be counted as neutral, destroyed or independent?

That particular case is supposed to simulate a destroyed Commonwealth station (as if a Xenophobe fleet had destroyed a station in the system).

The "populated" attribute means that the station is designed to be populated.

To test if a station actually has people on it, use either:

1. (objGetProperty theStationObj 'abandoned)
2. (objIsAbandoned theStationObj) [This is deprecated, but still works.]

In sysFindObject you can use the 'A' flag to search for ACTIVE objects (i.e., NOT abandoned). For example, to figure out which stations a freighter should visit, I use:

(sysFindObject Nil "TAF +populated; -occupation; -uncharted;")

[RPC]

Ok, thanks for the response George!