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It also serves as a proxy to prevent you from engaging in conflict directly and expands the scope of your control. In addition, many beings are seeking to expand to adjacent territories in order to meet the requirements to control the System. That offers strategic advantages to you to protect your dimension.
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But I already have to engage in conflict directly to protect the territories you give me, and I have to engage in conflict directly to take other territories for you.