You should only worry (because you're about to get farmed) if you show up as inactive on the galaxy map.

Nice edit. After all, you don't want to invite attackers by giving them your coords.

I'm already finished with the Quick Start guide, working on research and farming inactives now. There are plenty of alliances in standard, but most of them appear to be asleep at the wheel and not very quick to respond.

I'll pick some more obscure ones because I'm like that: Suravov: Russian leader who defeated the Ottoman Turks and then led a smallish Russian expeditionary force and defeated the French in Switzerland. Remarkable--and he was a reasonably astute writer on warfare also. Epominondas - Theban general w...

Greetings, I'm nathanalbright, and I'm new here, looking for an alliance and to introduce myself to the others here. I hope to collect and recycle your wreckage if you attempt to raid or invade my planet.