[Mzyxptlk]

Why do you exclude Apprime from your fattest alliances rankings? Apprime obviously can't hit themselves, but that doesn't go for the other 3 alliances you mentioned.

Regardless, though, we didn't and don't use Imperia's fatness index as motivation, at least not primary motivation.

First of all, it's not fatness but mutual animosity that sparked the war between CT and ND on the one side and Imperia on the other.

Secondly, it should be pretty well known by now that Ascendancy wants to target Apprime. Two reasons: they're first and they're putting pressure on us. The only reason we're now changing our minds is that Imperia is displaying an astounding lack of political prowess (see also: war against CT), screwing us over in the process. Again, fatness doesn't come into it.

Lastly, Apprime know that Imperia is no threat to them either now or in the foreseeable future. Imperia's insistence on having a war with the #4 and #5 alliance effectively takes them out of the competition for #1, regardless of their score or size. It's basically a repeat of last round: NFI didn't need to hit ND until the last week, because they knew ND would crumble. Replace NFI with Apprime and ND with Imperia and you've got this round's general picture.