"All it takes is for one of you—or people from your power—to offend them, and the next thing the galaxy realizes is that no power like yours ever existed from that day forward."
"What guarantees do you have?"
"Did the Ignis Empire not give the Federation what it asked for? And yet it was still put down."
"Then what are the chances that all of you do the same thing, only for the Federation to come looking for you anyway?"
"What could you do then?"
"And more importantly... what would you do then?"
"Y-Yeah... what about them?"
While tier-three powers like Valoria and the others weren't affected that much even now, things were different for everyone else. They could see the Federation's wrongdoings, but its strength was still something that was hard to ignore. More importantly, they could still withstand the Federation while tactically dealing with it.
