Wormholes

What you want is a corp. The corp is the essential building block for a community in wormhole space.

You can accomplish all the goals you set out above within the corp structure.

Relying on a loose confederation of non corp ''home guard'' wont work. They will have no loyalty and most will bail/evac their own stuff if the system gets attacked. Non corp industrial complexes and multiple one person corps living there will never create the community spirit you need to survive in wormhole space. Stuff like having a TS server and a mapping tool (with a non public chain map) will help build the community too.

If their needs to be a fee for all residents in the wormhole it can be in the form of corp tax or a monthly send to corp wallet system.

Even If a individual member needs the security/flexibility of his own industrial complex then the member pays for it but the corp anchors it and gives docking rights only to that member and the CEO (or other trusted member). For the industrialist that's essentially the same as having a one member corp. If you cant trust the CEO then the entire wormhole will never work.

Who the corp accepts as members is entirely of its choosing. If the corp wants some/all of your members can entirely be PI or gas barons.

But everyone even if they never pvp under normal circumstances should give a commitment to defend the hole if its invaded and have a couple of defense doctrine ships ready for that eventually.

As has been proven time and time again, without a defense fleet citadels (and im sure the new complexes) are floating targets. If your taxing people then building a FAX and a couple HA dreads exclusively for defense is a good idea. Rely on the citadel to scram/web/TP/void bomb the attackers. Dont rely on the citadel to dps to death any subcaps. because its paper dps will not apply to their smaller ship signature.

C3 or lower, then i'd recommend capitals, capitals, and more capitals. Nothing says more about a dedication to protecting your wormhole than massive ships built within that can never leave. Secondly, you need pilots. Dedicated and active PvP pilots basing from your system, but also acting as your own personal concord to pwn any law breakers and counter any invasions.

Unfortunately, as good as the idea of a freeport goes, it's a super tricky project. Half the protection afforded by wormhole dwellers is the remoteness of the location, which is completely lost when you're trying to advertise and encourage people to find their way into your hole, regardless of their corp or alliance. If any of them is a spy then you better seem like a hard target, or otherwise you're on route to another Oasis.

I really liked the idea tho, and thought it was a shame to see Oasis burn. Let's hope people learn important lessons from the event, and build an even better one the next time around!

No, you do not need 100% hole control at all times, frankly almost no wormhole corps have that, even the big pvp corps, except usually right when deploying the structure.

As other players have suggested, you might consider bunking up with a low class pvp alliance. When I say low class, I mean the wormhole, not some of the corps you see around. Who wouldn't want you around? More local industry meaning access to ships or modules more easily. A target, drawing in fights to that system more often, meaning more content. Increased revenue, if you pay them some sort of tax. Increased help scanning chains sometimes. Plenty of benefits that you can offer.

Just, whatever you do, don't freeport it, and ignore the comments about Oasis. That project was doomed from the start, and anyone with a fragment of a brain would understand that you could pull it off if you actually had the knowledge to run a wormhole group, and put in the effort to make it happen. The reason oasis failed is because it was led by a guy with no clue, who wanted to delegate everything out, and had no effective defense strategy.