Pardus - Alliance Merger

So I'm currently sitting in a chatroom for Pardus, with the leaders and senior members of Open Space Alliance (the alliance I'm in), and Federal Force (our neighboring alliance, and ally). Lots of technical, detailed stuff are being discussed at the moment. Things like, the territorial rights after merger, economic changes and taxes, internal structures and who will uphold each position within the alliance, etc.

As you can see in this image, Open Space already has a lot of space that we own, and with the addition to Federal Force's territory, we will own nearly half of the entire Federation Human Core. Also with the combined number of members, we will be allowed 7 congress members as opposed to the 5 OSA has, giving us more democratic power within congress.

Some changes I'd like to make within Cesoho where I manage, would be to adopt FF's commodity pricing to encourage traders to upkeep buildings more-so than the building owners taking much of the profit. That way, I won't have to be the only person that supplies all the upkeep for all the buildings in Cesoho by having traders that would be willing to do the work for me for the bigger profit they'd be making by trading. A good 60% to 80% of my Action Points are spent upkeeping buildings, the planet Ook, and my Star Base, Cesoho Urban Nook Terminal. Of course, it's easier said than done, because I need the cooperation of all the people who have buildings built in Cesoho to make the necessary price changes, after I've already recently changed to tweak the prices of stim chips lower.

As of now though, the only thing keeping us from merging right away is how the merge should be done. Federal Force seems to want to keep their name as it has more of a meaning than our Open Space Alliance does, and making a compromise with the name doesn't seem to be an option as doing so will require us to create a whole new alliance just to change the name, apparently. So it's either OSA joins FF, or FF joins OSA, and at the moment, it looks like OSA would join FF and ... pretty much take over FF due to our greater number. >_>; I'm okay with the idea, and so are others, except for a few that feel attached to the OSA name. Being that OSA has been around a lot longer than FF, and how we are more established than FF is, some feel that it would make sense for the FF to join OSA. I'll leave it to the forum to help convince them that the merger would be beneficial for both alliances.

On a side note, The New Pardusian Alliance and The Guild are still discussing... or rather, quarreling about the possibility of having a drug nook within the Federation Human Core. I'm hoping we don't end up with a civil war between them over this, especially when winter is coming. D= Every winter when I've been playing, the Federation always ended up in a war with either the Empire or Union, and it might look like we'll have another war with the Union again this year. I'm sick and tired of wars honestly, because of how demanding the game gets to defend ourselves against the enemy. I mean, war got declared on Christmas day last year. @_@ Who wants to spend their Christmas fighting a war? Seriously...