>federation member wants to declare a war
>fuck it why not, I've got 8 fleets that I wanna use
>chooses the decrepit husk of an empire that got fisted by the Great Khan
>spend the next 30 fucking years in a war because that shitheel empire was in a federation with the two largest in the galaxy
>ended up bombing half the worlds I found with Armageddon
It wasn't even difficult because none of them had built more than 10 battleships combined by the 2300s but I had to slog through half the fucking galaxy alone because neither of my fed allies did JACK SHIT. I ended up console'ing to see what fleets if any they had - one had 30 space amoeba babies, the other had a single mercenary enclave fleet and the other had an actual fleet but was blocked in because of the bordergore from the Khan.

I'm melting this entire galaxy into grey goo, fuck this.