You have doomed your thread Arked. Cull it before the infection of glory hounds, ragers, whiners and all other manner of annoying community cancers starts to talk.
Before I start, I neither care nor support either "side" in this "argument" and I honestly don't mind whether or not anyone even reads this.
Cicero, you always run for the "I killed you in game therefore you must be mad about it" approach, honestly, do you think anybody actually minds that they got an increase on their deaths..? It helps no argument you've ever been in other than to portray yourself to be "a little too tied up in a game".
The whole ex-strategus thing, I cannot fathom as to why people are still on about it, surely with the developments in the last ones there are far more interesting things to be doing, or am I the only one who doesn't think that having a diversion from the straight "conquer the world" approach is rather a pointless addition..? (On that point I think that there should be an end-game eventually coded in, other than owning the entire map. (which, I would have to say would be pretty impossible for one lone faction to do.))
Advance! Advance! Save the Byzantium's thread from the countless dead threads of pointless aggression among people who clearly have a common interest, who would more than likely happily co-exist without the clash of heads that is cRPG & strategus!?
There are more interesting things to do goddamnit!!! Run free in a meadow of happy thoughts or something... Sell some Kittens to the butchers on the current strategus, float upside down using the power of your mind!
I will leave you with this though, if there was really a winner... Why is the history so vague and open to discussion? Surely the victor is the one that rights writes history, in this case, there is no "solid" reasoning one way or another, therefore, no one is right.
P.S. Yes, I do get a kick out of being high and mighty, I make sure my high horse is fed and watered twice a day and my monacle polished with a hankerchief embroided with "You who reads this, is not worthy of the Great Tenne."
TL;DR
Don't worry, be happy!
Let everyone have their fun! D: