# N-Space the Federation Hyperspace Network It it worth considering some of the issues with DAM Goodwin's reforms to the Hyperspace system. In nationalizing the pass system, the hardware, and the route creation, she has slowly but surely destroyed the foundation of what made hyperspace great. If a person wanted ot create a hyperspace node for theri system and profit off it by liscening it to a corp, they would now be a criminal. At hte same time, the void train network is still being built as a free market. Meanwhile the key metric for not-desolved merely more beautcratized hyperspace routing and liscneing corps is ship usage, not effiency or trade volitility. SO they optimize their own small networks leaving gaps between them while planners demand expansions in places wholly mismatched for them. Finally, those who would create nodes where htey are actually needed are banned from doing so. The result was exactly as economists said would happen. a black market has developed, and with it new innovations, some of which are dangerous but necessary. The Federation has never crushed piracy. Where hyperspace was supposed to reduce it through natioanlization preventing pirate from hsign hte routes while fleets patrolled them, the pirates have create their own shadow-hyperspcae, tranisiting through the nether as oppoesd to the aether, and using the Abyss instead of the Void as for navigation. The result is a shadow network the Federal government is totally blind to, which exists to slip into all the places the government doesn't konw its not able to see into, and through which illicit acivity is flowing, slowly revitalizing trade while developing rival soverings ot the Federal government in the process,