[lokken]

What people don't understand is that Apprime in terms of activity, outstrip everyone else by a very large margin. The systems they have in place (and which HanzI has bragged about on many occasions) are way beyond anything used by other alliances. With more value being gained as a consequence of heightened activity, these things snowball together to create growth that has to be massively curtailed to be overcome, as it's simply impossible to race them and win. So your only solution is war. With more value to outweigh that activity.

As for what Maddix says, it's not exactly earth shattering that Ascendancy plays politically astute rounds backed up by some solid play most of the time. From what I believe, that's how it's meant to work. Of course, we want to support our galaxies: but then again, if they're gone, then you are all dead if we're that strong.