Hey Andrew! I love the intention behind this one, but have some questions on each point:
1. So long as there is some reasonable RP in a system to justify sticking a flag on it, does that work for this? IE, I enter a system that's devoid of life, run some scans, check out the system's resource viability, etc, etc? I don't want to force players to repeat the same colony building story three times in a row for the sake of an over-strict rule. 'We fought the natives and placed our flag!' 'We fought pirates and placed our flag!' 'We met the locals and placed our flag!' all seem like fun ways to 'grab' a system etc etc.
2. Do we intend for every planet in a system to be fleshed out, or only the ones that were relevant to a plot? IE, can I say 'Jupiter is a massive gas giant with a bunch of moons.' or does it have to be something significantly more in depth for all worlds in a system? I'm all for 'points of interest' but against anything more than a reasonable length description for other worlds. If someone wants to go above and beyond that's awesome, but I don't want to over-tax the people developing our setting with things that aren't valuable to the RP.
3. This is my favorite item on the list. I'd like to see neutral zones between each of the site's major factions just to give us space to skirmish in, patrol, etc, that isn't under heavy lock-and-key. I think it's important for promoting pirates and mercenaries.
4. Is this retro-active or applying to new systems only? When you say, 'Only counts towards the MBL' do you mean that systems that don't meet these standards can still be held, but don't count towards the limit? I think I'm okay with the intention behind this one but want to understand it better.
--- And, can we widen it to a 'unique destination that can field RP' or something with better words? Like cities, etc
I want to add that we should be trying to adhere to the system limits that are established, so I don't want to miss anything that would let someone go over that cap. Some sort of 'territory decay' would help with this and make sure that factions continue to have opportunities to claim (or reclaim!) systems for players who like that sort of RP. That can be a different topic though!