[Recluse]

I would have to agree with many on here that cluster alliances would be a bad idea. For those who remember way back days when we had cluster travel times, the exact thing that Clouds and others describe, would happen. Even more def would happen. I forget what round exactly but I can remember myself gathering def from alliance and friends, cluster, then galaxy, in that order, in order to cover incs. Even then the uni was well over 10k planets. Try that now and you'd end up with 1/4 the uni deffing some planets every night.