User blog comment:Luperza/Server Downtime Game Update 09 05.22.2013/@comment-67.5.19.169-20130522142136/@comment-6034641-20130523164729

Even though it requires adjacency, you can still get there and soften the target up before hand. Just make sure you are there before the large force is ready to come, and get going before the other faction notices.

The major reason I saw for doing it, wasn't for gameplay reasons like that. People were using it to stat-pad by going to a far off base with 1 person from say TR and the other from Vanu and repeatedly overloading and then stabilizing the SCU for a lot of free points.