The star in Helios is large and old, so lets blow it up in a rapid expansion of its solar medium!

Essentially, every sector in helios is altered to have a dense reddish fog (not jump-inturrupting), the star is removed from the map till the supernova be formed into a new star or collapses into something else, and all asteroids have a default heat of 100k or higher. Stations are protected by their design and pre-warning from scientists who had been studying the star, but a temporary dip in products should allow you to sell things there to replace things that had been lost in the storm.

Missions that use helios shouldnt be altered, since stations and roids still exists.

-1 Might make a nice rp story though.

How dare you say this about Boatania! BOAT declares war on Luxen.

Also -1

Did I hear Black Holes?

If it were a different system would you be okay with it? also, no, just exploded star gas.

Outside of pointless humor, i think a different idea along similiar lines would be very good.

I think at some point in the past the idea of long term events such as wormhole changes and the like has been fronted before. It would be good if say every three months or so some major event caused large scale havoc in the game at a semi random location

also, idea: people who completed a special combat mission in Helios during the event get a special (insert design here (I vote tiger stripes!)) liverie for Behemoths. mission should be simple so that new pilots joining the game have as much chance to get the liverie as us older pilots. At the end of <insert date here> revert helios back to normal (say a special science tool made the supernova recondense or something, I dunno!)

Whee, we have a special event! then it wouldnt be pointless humor, right?

Since we're fantasizing...
A list of things VO could use as regular-semi-random-events:

Hive incursions
(Various stations would come under attack, Hive squadrons would patrol wormhole sectors and the event would only stop once all station "invasions" had been halted and all large skirmishes had been won. Small squadrons of bots would target convoys thus damaging trade. If combined with Baal's dynamic economy, this would be dangerously fun)

Corporate conflict
(Rare skirmishes that would happen between corporations in gray, Ie Aeolus would begin targeting Xiang Xi convoys, resulting in small skirmishes, assassination missions and increased escort mission rewards. These would stop after a certain period of time as "tensions" died down.)

Prisoner of War rescue mission
(After small a cosmetic incursion into Pyronis or Jallika, a mission would appear allowing Serco and Itani nationalist to attack or defend a TPG Constellation, a TPG Constellation carrying several Atlas transports carrying "Prisoners of war", upon bringing the ship down to 20% armor the ship would "release" the transports, the mission would reward all those who took the mission based on damage done to the Constellation. The Constellation should be escorted by various smaller ships.

+1 to all of those - wish I could change the thread name to "suggestions for events" now.

No point matey, nothing I've suggested here will ever happen.
I might as have written "free Tridents for everyone!!!"lol

Some of that could possibly be done as a pcc mission. Definitely great ideas there.