[quote=@Arawak]
(We probably need more conquering empires.  To my knowledge there's only one so far.)
[/quote]

Why? Are you concerned that there won't be enough action?

Because it would be easy for me and [@Sigma] to get a Xim vs. Federation war going on again- a war in which everyone would start taking sides and leading to an intergalactic World War.

OR perhaps MONARCH has some kind of systems failure, leading to a drone accidentally firing on someone of another nation, raising tensions between the two groups and all their allies.

OR perhaps a group of rouge not-Kazzlehorfs stir up distrust between Kazzlehorf and other nations.

Few of our nations are conquerors, but many of them are paranoid, unfriendly and distrusting of eachother. It wouldn't be hard to turn that into tension, economic warfare, cold war, or just plain war. None of the nations in WW1 were evil, X'Cor-style villains, and yet it still happened.