Wise words, at least coming from a clown they are, Hypatios smiles to show he is joking, I fail to understand how people are seeing this as personal glory. If they are truly loyal to the Empire before themselves then they will not care who the settlement falls to, so long as they are from this Empire. That is my thinking on the matter and if we are to be successful then we all need to think this way, lest our own bickering be what is keeping us from becoming strong rather than bickering with other nations!