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Unrest

Unrest is the low-Trust state of a single Settlement.

Starts when Trust falls to 30% or lower.
Ends when Trust is back at 55%. Supplying a neighbour does not help; the Settlement itself needs Food.
Costs growth at that Settlement and brings more and heavier enemies into its region.
Timers for Trust, spread and escalation only run while at least one player is flying.

Stages

Stage	Trigger	Effect
Warning	Trust below 40%	Warning only
Unrest	Trust at 30% or lower	Levels and new Projects pause; more enemies in the region
Spreading	About 90 minutes in unrest with less than 75% stock	Drags down the other Settlements in the region; even more enemies
Region-wide	Two or more spreading Settlements in one region	Also drags down the neighbouring regions and sends more enemies there

Source	Affects	Trust loss
Spreading Settlement	Other Settlements in its region	1% per minute
Region-wide unrest	Settlements in neighbouring regions	0.5% per minute

Spread pulls a Settlement down to 30% Trust, which puts it into unrest as well.
Settlements already in unrest are not dragged down any further.
Spread ends for good when the source is back at 55% Trust.
Civil Defense Office: incoming spread halved (level 1) or quartered (level 2).
Sameba Cathedral: spread halved server-wide.

At 95% Food stock or more:

Settlement	Effect
Any Settlement	Loses no Trust to spread
Spreading source	Stops spreading at once; counts as plain Unrest while its Trust recovers

If the source's stock falls below 95% before its Trust reaches 55%, it spreads again.
A full stock does not end unrest by itself; that still takes 55% Trust.

Pauses	Settlement levels, new Projects, Survey Station, Forward Airfield, Regional Depot
Keeps working	Checkpoints, production, Dispatch Office, Civic Administration, Civil Defense Office, Institutions

For enemies, unrest counts as missing Security. The Security value on the Live Map does not change.

Region state	Ground groups read Security as	Ambushes read Security as	Enemy ground groups	Ambushes
Unrest	35 points lower	20 points lower	+1 group per Settlement in unrest, at most +3	Chance x1.5, half the pause between ambushes, one extra ambush at a time
Spreading	45 points lower	28 points lower	As Unrest	Chance x1.75, otherwise as Unrest
Region-wide	55 points lower	36 points lower	As Unrest	Chance x2, otherwise as Unrest
Next to a region-wide unrest	15 points lower	15 points lower	+1 group	Chance x1.25

A source that stopped spreading because of a full stock counts as Unrest.
Unrest weighs lighter on ambushes than on the ground groups that hold a region, so defending a region still pays off against ambushes.
The lowered Security also decides how heavy enemies are:
- 25% or less: ground groups from AAA, MANPADS and checkpoints.
- Below 20%: ambushes at heavy strength.
The ambush chance multiplier applies on top of the lowered Security.
A region in unrest that also borders a region-wide unrest uses the stronger effect; the two do not add up.
Once no Settlement in the region is in unrest, no extra groups are sent. Groups already on the ground stay until they are cleared.