Quote Originally Posted by Braden
We have to come up with some arguments against the Republic being insular, which will be difficult as the Republic was traditionally insular.
Given the dumb RTW strategic AI, and the fact we've got about 1000 turns to go, I'm sure they'll attack us sooner or later anyway, therefore removing the need to blacklist them.

So I say make merry with the alliances. We don't need to bother engineering wars of conquest, the AI will give them to us.