What is Planetarion?

[Kal]

Now that I have returned to PATeam I have taken it upon myself to ask the difficult questions and generally be annoying. So here it is perhaps the most difficult question there is - What is Planetarion? Is it a game about alliance wars, is it a game about individual planets? What is it that makes Planetarion special or unique compared to other games out there?

I don't want long answers, I don't want answers from various groups - what I want is answers from individuals on what Planetarion is as a game to them.

I don't want the answers to be about the current game specifically, or an old version or even a future version - simply to be about "Planetarion".

So... discuss...

EDIT: Posts that are not constructive or on topic will be deleted