I sent the sub a full host of details concerning the game, the politics and his assets and he hasn't responded with a definitive "yes" or "no". If he's not interested, I'm probably going to divvy up my assets and go AI. This game has been great and challenging but my involvement in it is already past the time I have to dedicate to it. Unless a sub shows up real soon, my vote is for Pythium to get dumb and overrun (of course, you could argue this has been going on for a while, what with my steady losing streak to Ulm
).