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== Enemy high-sec and the faction navies ==

Once you enlist in Factional Warfare, you will be [[Factional Warfare#Permanent war|at war with ~~two~~ of the four NPC empires]], and if you try to enter a [[high-sec]] system of an enemy empire, you will be attacked by their NPC faction navy ships. As you get some warning before being attacked, and as the NPCs will not use warp scramblers or warp disruptors on you, you can escape them easily. Once they engage you they do a moderate amount of damage (depending on the security rating of the system); whilst a frigate will not last long once attacked, larger ships can tank the damage they do for a while. However, even if you destroy the initial wave of NPC ships, more will warp in, and they will continue to chase you as long as you're in any of their high-sec systems, so at best you can speed through their systems with a ship that either aligns and enters warp quickly (before the faction navy attacks), or one with enough tank to survive until it can enter warp.

Once you enlist in Factional Warfare, you will be [[Factional Warfare#Permanent war|at war with one of the four NPC empires]], and if you try to enter a [[high-sec]] system of an enemy empire, you will be attacked by their NPC faction navy ships. As you get some warning before being attacked, and as the NPCs will not use warp scramblers or warp disruptors on you, you can escape them easily. Once they engage you they do a moderate amount of damage (depending on the security rating of the system); whilst a frigate will not last long once attacked, larger ships can tank the damage they do for a while. However, even if you destroy the initial wave of NPC ships, more will warp in, and they will continue to chase you as long as you're in any of their high-sec systems, so at best you can speed through their systems with a ship that either aligns and enters warp quickly (before the faction navy attacks), or one with enough tank to survive until it can enter warp.

Therefore, it's certainly possible to fly through enemy high-sec systems (as long as you don't use the autopilot!), but staying there in space for longer (to e.g. run missions or mine) is not feasible. Note that being at war with an NPC faction doesn't prevent you from docking at stations in their high-sec systems, and that the faction navies will not attack pods.

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 == Enemy high-sec and the faction navies ==
-Once you enlist in Factional Warfare, you will be [[Factional Warfare#Permanent war|at war with two of the four NPC empires]], and if you try to enter a [[high-sec]] system of an enemy empire, you will be attacked by their NPC faction navy ships. As you get some warning before being attacked, and as the NPCs will not use warp scramblers or warp disruptors on you, you can escape them easily. Once they engage you they do a moderate amount of damage (depending on the security rating of the system); whilst a frigate will not last long once attacked, larger ships can tank the damage they do for a while. However, even if you destroy the initial wave of NPC ships, more will warp in, and they will continue to chase you as long as you're in any of their high-sec systems, so at best you can speed through their systems with a ship that either aligns and enters warp quickly (before the faction navy attacks), or one with enough tank to survive until it can enter warp.
+Once you enlist in Factional Warfare, you will be [[Factional Warfare#Permanent war|at war with one of the four NPC empires]], and if you try to enter a [[high-sec]] system of an enemy empire, you will be attacked by their NPC faction navy ships. As you get some warning before being attacked, and as the NPCs will not use warp scramblers or warp disruptors on you, you can escape them easily. Once they engage you they do a moderate amount of damage (depending on the security rating of the system); whilst a frigate will not last long once attacked, larger ships can tank the damage they do for a while. However, even if you destroy the initial wave of NPC ships, more will warp in, and they will continue to chase you as long as you're in any of their high-sec systems, so at best you can speed through their systems with a ship that either aligns and enters warp quickly (before the faction navy attacks), or one with enough tank to survive until it can enter warp.
 Therefore, it's certainly possible to fly through enemy high-sec systems (as long as you don't use the autopilot!), but staying there in space for longer (to e.g. run missions or mine) is not feasible. Note that being at war with an NPC faction doesn't prevent you from docking at stations in their high-sec systems, and that the faction navies will not attack pods.