[@NecroKnight] Thats lore reason, mostly because of Era of Succession. Because these two RPs are technically the same setting, I felt like linking the stories would be a cool addition. My leave was explained by my race pulling out for some time and gathering power. Actually in EOS, my race was very underpowered as I realized later, and I tried to make up for it with my Hirules. It turned out really boring, especially since my neighbour didn't really reply to me se I made a final post where I made a huge joke out of the whole thing and then left pretty much. So now I decided that I will use only one fourth (technically one fifth) of the gashathi force, and no real direct connection to the home galaxy. The First Singularity came to the Milky way alone, with no connection to the back country apart from comms and database. (Note that tho the galaxies are "under their control" this just really means they have the upper hand and own large territories, but you are smart enough to understand that a galaxy houses incredible amounts of stars and planets.) I balanced my race with no expectional weapons or abilities, and rely on mostly my ingeniunity on making funky space weapons that could be cool and funny to play and destructive, rather than using OP weaponary. So with that in mind, I do not think you should look at my race like a space empire, but rather as any other ascended empire that others play as. And that ends the debate. I dont wanna keep talking about how it is balanced, because the IC will tell anyways. I also understand why your fleet would have such OP wepaons, because it is your home too. As long as you don't spam doomsday missiles, and I don't spwe out ships without an end, there won't be anything too OP in this game. (So far.)