Do you undestand what it means to annex a territory? The Alliance has made an enemy of us when there was no need to.
We will see Savi independent again. It is they who have brought conflict to us. Players still go on about how the Alliance is freedom. Well, where was our freedom when they just declaired our system for their expansion!? Every other power respected our neutrality EXCEPT for the Alliance!
I'll be honest with you, I had no idea there was a player group in the area.
As for every other power, the only ones who are remotely close to Savi, and thus the only ones who'd be interested in the Savi area, are Hudson and Mahon - it'd be a loss maker for everyone else. It's easy enough to "respect your neutrality", when there's nothing to be gained from entering your area.
As for Mahon - it's not like this happened out of the blue. We put almost 40,000 merits into Savi during the last cycle and another 10,000 before you said anything on the forums. These aren't actions we can do invisibly and out of the blue - they've been a relatively steady stream of merits, and it is far easier for the player group being "invaded" to notice that, than it is for the power doing the "invading" that a player group has either adopted an existing faction or has created a faction with a name that looks exactly like any other random democratic faction in the game.
Look at it from our perspective - these are the factions in Savi:
* Savi for Equality
* Savi Systems
* New Savi Justice Party
* Future of Gautas
* Bureau of Savi Constitution Party
* Savi Organization
Which of these faction names are obviously player groups? There are likely a thousand factions called SystemName for Equality around the galaxy.
And just to add to that, Mahon generally gives a decent sized berth to player groups, and there are 65 populated systems within 30 light years of Savi. Which of the more than 300 factions with perfectly ordinary names in that bubble are player groups? We have no way of knowing. We've asked Frontier for a complete list of player factions and their location, but that has two issues:
1) Not all player groups are officially recognized as having adopted an existing faction (not saying anything about Savi for Equality)
2) Not all player groups want to be identified, and as such Frontier doesn't want to give out such a list
Anyway ...
There was and is no need to use language as if we set out to intentionally crush your player group into submission. It's not something we did on purpose, and given our history of interactions with player groups in the past, both ones that have been friendly towards Mahon, uninvolved in PowerPlay and even PowerPlay enemies to a certain extent, there is absolutely no need to assume that this was out intent. PowerPlay simply demands constant expansions, and Savi just happened to be the last even remotely profitable one left that makes sense for Mahon. The others are either in other player groups' territory or systems with no large pads.
What we can do in Mahon is try to keep our people from pushing Savi any more this cycle, but that isn't a guarantee that it'll stop expanding. Mahon has a fair amount of pledges, and they don't always check in on the subreddit for further information.
If we hadn't been in turmoil this cycle, we could do something more (aim for a shallow turmoil), but given that we already have Pongo in turmoil (and that is an extremely tasty system for almost everyone), turmoil is not an acceptable option for us.
I've been in contact with the other powers and asked them for help opposing Savi, and I'll be asking the other powers to help oppose Savi along with friendly player groups.
If we do end up winning Savi, we can try to turmoil it away later, but this is not an easy thing to do, and would require some coordination between your group and ours, but with a little bit of luck this cycle it shouldn't be necessary.
