Some people have been questioning the motives behind various players in this latest conflict. Some think it was a preemptive strike on the part of TOP and co. Others see it as a grave miscalculation on how the NpO vs\m/ war would play out.
I was reading a post in the TOP DOW thread when it hit me.
This is the largest and most coordinated rogue attack in CN history.
Think about it. Many members of TOP have been boasting about their warchests and how they can keep this up for months. References have been made to TOPggedon and other such ideas. We've heard about how they plan to go down swinging, etc.
Instead of a war with political goals behind it, we're seeing MOTU's recent going rogue on a much larger scale.