Thread:Treebeard1010102/@comment-5080468-20160504120641/@comment-28305200-20160505152727

This idea sounds good to me.

The Talven Empire expands by first establishing small settlements (for farming, mining military bases, etc.), before developing them into colonies. If the The Medwedian Democratic Federation expands in a similar way, we could both unknowingly establish colonies on the same planet, before making contact. This could mean that our nations may have had any form of initial relationship before realizing this. If the Federation expands in any other way, the war might be a result of it deciding that the settlement is not technically part of the Empire.

The Talven Empire does not usually make use of WMDs. However, it may start using its Minotaur-class cruisers (see Fiction:Talven_Empire) to ram cities rather than ships, in retaliation to the Medwedian Democratic Federation using WMDs (or any other particularly violent tactics).