De-Legro,
I don't mean to sound condescending, but you actually don't need to know or care about what someone says their motivations are to discern their likely response function. In effect, Arcaea is currently pinned in their response function such that there is no likely effect to taking, say, Ecsetuah or Mnalor.
If they were willing to go to war over them, then they were already planning a second stage expansion which would result in war anyway. It's compeltely to OW's advantage to snatch those territories and there is little to nothing Arcaea could do about it save for war, but that's probably not an option unless they trust Arcachon to hold to a treaty, which no-one would.
You need to stop the hissy fits because your plans get derailed. It happens, it's BM.
