[quote=@Voltus_Ventus]
[@Willy Vereb] That's great! I can't wait to see someone put their nation adjacent to your colonies and get all aggressive.
[/quote]Yup, my colonies are all potential kegs of gunpowder.
I kinda added them with that intention. Plus because we're pretty much in that age.
Actually, I don't even mind if somebody picks the territory of my colonies as their own. So long they don't mind playing the role of my province. (and then most likely rebel against me to earn their freedom).

another issue my elves have is that gradually they're becoming a minority in their own empire. Humans and some other races reproduce faster and generally the empire stretched way past of their original borders. Regardles, elves look down on everybody else as lesser races but at least their treatment became nicer. Few hundreds of years ago the elves never viewed humans any more than their slaves.
Things changed as the elves lost some of their power. Albeit your usual elf is so arrogant he'd never admit it.