Taking over Van at turn 45 when the game's fairly open and given that Van is at peace can prove a good opportunity to jump straight into mid-game w/o the ~3 months long hassle of initial phase. It's also one of the last MPs where they'll have hammers
We can't keep Van leaderless forever. I'm afraid if a sub isn't found that this lovely kingdom would be given to the artificial idiot. Now what biological life form of it's right mind would want that???