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Unrest

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

Starts when Trust falls through the warning band.
Ends when Trust has recovered a clear margin above that. 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	Reached when	Effect
Warning	Trust has dropped far enough to be flagged	Warning only; the Settlement works normally
Unrest	Trust keeps falling past the warning	Levels and new Projects pause; more enemies in the region
Spreading	The Settlement sits in unrest while its store stays low	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

Spread

A spreading Settlement pulls the other Settlements of its region towards unrest. A region-wide unrest reaches into the neighbouring regions as well, more slowly than inside its own.

Spread drags a Settlement down into unrest too, but never pushes one that is already in unrest any further.
Spread ends for good once the source has recovered.
Civil Defense Office: reduces incoming spread, level 2 more than level 1.
Sameba Cathedral: reduces spread server-wide.

Full Stock Stops Spread

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 has recovered, it spreads again.
A full stock does not end unrest by itself; that still takes recovered Trust.

During Unrest

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

Enemy Pressure

For enemies, unrest counts as missing Security: the region is treated as considerably less secure than the number shown on the Live Map, which does not change. The further the escalation has run - unrest, spreading, region-wide - the wider that gap grows, and a region that merely borders a region-wide unrest carries a smaller share of it.

More enemy ground groups are sent into the region, and the lower the effective Security, the heavier they are.
Ambushes become more likely, follow each other faster, and more than one can be running at a time.
Unrest weighs lighter on ambushes than on the ground groups that hold a region, so defending a region still pays off against ambushes.
A region in unrest that also borders a region-wide unrest uses the stronger effect; the two do not add up.
A source that stopped spreading because of a full stock counts as plain Unrest.
Once no Settlement in the region is in unrest, no extra groups are sent. Groups already on the ground stay until they are cleared.

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