As "leader" of the last real enemy of CE, that ice thing made Darka collapse. We had gold, we had nobles, we had best RC's on the game, we had guts to beat down CE. But then half of our land was taken away...
CE played real well their diplomacy when great war started, and south played real dumb and selfis. We had all the power needed to put CE & Tara on their knees. But even after south collapsed, Darka alone could have kept CE bouncing forever as long as Talerium would have stayed out from conflict.
Final decision to sink atamara i understand, but i think dev's didnt understand how it had just gotten lively again. Tara and CE were at war, Darka were decided to re-created the very same turn than announcement of sinking came. Darkan oldies still had 100k+ gold stockpiled. I was real excited how things were starting to roll again... then you sunk my world 
Devs perfectly understood that Atamara was getting lively again, but I highly doubt it would have lasted, and they know that as well. The Ruler of CE refused to let our armies fight Tara. He wanted to create the Federation again. It was both an instance of too little, too late, and the fact that stuff like this had happened before, but failed to unjam the blockage that was diplomacy, leading to more boringness.
