I've read over and over that there are too many alliances on Planet Bob. No particular rationale comes to mind though. I imagine that it's because the treaty web becomes more complicated, and people have to do extra work to liaise with so many alliances. I don't think there's anything wrong with a multitude of alliances, so long as they add something to the CN community. The NPO, for instance, is the only alliance I know of that invented their own full fledged political philosophy. That's s