Interesting, there's another game thread, I think it's Troubling Times, here on this forum, where the same thing happened, and a couple of players took it pretty lightly. Of course they'd already declared war, and were waiting for the NAP to expire, but still.....yeah, I also think it is a break! Shows how impressionable I am from what I read.
EDIT: The game I was referring to was actually A Song of Ice and Fire
EDIT 2nd: Also, has our sub checked in yet?