I made a reddit account the other day and have been posting there too, seems most of them don't visit these forums.
No idea why, reddit is horrible to use, I like my embedded pictures and videos
A group of AD players made a truce with some ALD. We saw what happened when we compete.
I think we are just too large a faction now. The Federation is the threat. Its nearly impossible to undermine an Imperial faction anyway. You get 1 merit for pirating them, 15 merits to kill feds.
We gt no penalty to move through Imperial Powers, and we don't need to worry about fortifying their territory, I think having 4 Imperial powers is an asset, if we can not work against each other all the time.
Patreus is in a really bad position. With our expansion at Vaka they are having to put resources into defending that (which it looks like the will lose, even with nominal support from ALD supporters to take it)
Having the other Imperials fail is not in our interest, and we are the larger faction.
They may want to chip away at us, we don't need to squeeze them further.
My goal is no secret.
I want to retake my "home" system.