High Frontier: Module 3 Conflict Expansion

As Factions expand into the solar system and trade among themselves, they become less dependent on Earth and less tolerant of Earth-centered trade monopolies and regulations. Secessionists start to clamor for Independence and self-governance. But if the War of Independence (War) is declared, the game state changes drastically until it is resolved, with hostilities between the Loyalists and the Independents. At stake: will space ventures and pioneers be subject to regulatory governance by terrestrial superpowers and multinational organizations like the UN, or will they become a free trade coalition of self-governing city-states?