Intergalactic Civil War !!??

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I don't think the idea will add any fun to the game. It seems like the planet-stealing intel stuff is already bad enough, I can't imagine ever continuing a game after half--or any significant fraction--of my ships and planets just get up and leave. To be perfectly honest, I'd much rather have a random event that instantly wipes out ALL of my planets and ships, and eliminates me from the game completely.

And who would something like this affect? Most likely it's going to hurt the person who is already on the losing end of a war, which makes it that much harder once you fall behind to try to catch up. IMO it will just make losing that much more torturous.