Why do factions cancel their defense stations plot?

[Raptor34]

I'm doing some map maintenance atm, so I was funneling resources into the new HOP defense station.
And guess what, they cancelled it while my Okinawa was docked to their build storage and killed it.
Well, I guess that's one way to kill ships, but why?

[Scoob]

I'd like to second this. I had some Freighters on their way to help construct such a station. I notice they had a failed order, as the plot no longer needed the wares they'd already bought, and we already had a sales contract for. Had to offload stuff piecemeal elsewhere. Unless destroyed due to hostile action, Build Site should honour an already accepted trade deal at least.

[Raptor34]

I don't think they should be honored. But I do think there seems to be something odd if they are cancelling it. Like why even put it up in the first place then? Considering the sector didn't change owner, i.e. it was always neutral at that time.

[flywlyx]

In my game Xenon removed all their stations in Wretched Skies V and IV. I have no clue what they are doing.

[LameFox]

I saw Xenon deconstruct all their stuff in Tharka's Fall once, but that made sense to me, the economy in that system spawns dead and never recovers. Why they'd start one and then give up before it's even finished, I'm not sure. That sounds pretty weird.

[Raptor34]

While I wasn't keeping a very close eye on it, I'm fairly certain they put down the plot and cancelled it within 30 minutes. At least it's fast enough that the construction vessel didn't even arrive.
For the record this was when I was sniping the local FRF admins so the RHA can expand into it. At all points the sector was neutral. The only point of conflict was RHA vs. ARG in Midnight something, the Northern ARG sector. XEN in their borders are all dead.
Same actually happened with me sniping PAR and HOP. That one was in Pontifex Claim which was originally HOP. They of course were fighting XEN and ANT as at game start.

[LameFox]

Only thing that comes to mind is that maybe there are some criteria they must meet to be willing to expand to a new sector, and that is sort of hovering around the threshold and makes them try and give up in rapid succession. But that's just a guess. If you can catch it in action it might be worth making a bug report though because it seems like an undesirable behaviour.