The real reason that the northern realms attacked the new colony is because they can't march any further south. Morale losses due to distance from home are BIG. They marched all that way for weeks and then sat around for days waiting for Terran to figure out what was going on before hey finally figured out which way the sword points. By that time they had been in the field for a really long time and they couldn't march much further south. They had to attack something. Anything. So the new colony got clobbered.
This is not even true. You do realize that we were waiting for everyone to arrive, right? You do realize that not ever single Astroist realm shipped their troops off on the same day, to arrive on the same day? No, it was a constant trickle of arrivals all the way up until the day we marched. We knew exactly what our goal was from day 1, it's pretty straightforward. It had nothing to do with trying "to figure out what was going on."
Sheesh.
