[[B5]Londo]

Im not sure why eks responded to me in that way given I was clearly supporting his sentiment. It must be the presumption that I never say anything except to defend booji!

And yes booji, clearly if the agreement specified no landing before 900 that would allow launches from 891. But then the ordinary folk in the street would probably say thats a NAP to 891, not 900!
But if it wasnt said what was meant, then we automatically think of the red on our gal status as 'hostile' regardless of it landing.
If you specified no landing, but allowed launching, you could cause all sorts of trouble by escorting other alliances without breaking a deal yourselves!
I dont see that anyone would think such conduct was acceptable.

Yes clearly the timing of the ending played to ults advantage; but we could have not raided that night and not exposed ourselves to their FCs. Or could have daylight raided them - I dont see that it makes any difference what time of day we started, Ults defence efficiency doesnt drop off noticeably at night, all attacks on them are about going over their fleet capacity, so who cares if we launch at 8 am rather than 3 am.

[edit] Ultimately it surely comes back to our negotiating position at the end of the last round of hostilities - we wanted 800 but were not going to get it, if we wanted it badly enough we should have kept fighting. In practice we felt we were in the weaker position and had to accept what was offered.