[quote=@Nemeses]
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Mostly. Like I said, that or important to the IA, which they seek to dismantle. Can't start their own empire with competition that has such a massive head start on them, after all.
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Then why would you be trying to stop that? If you want to wipe them out, it sounds like just the kind of thing you'd promote.