I know and respect a couple of players in REBORN (although they will not know me in this name :icon_wink
and you are one of them.
The reasons we went to war were based mainly on what Karan was trying to do behind the scenes. He has made your tribe a target and disliked by many surrounding you by his actions and bad diplomacy. He probably made the decisions alone but as your duke, has dragged you guys into this by association.
We know of four tribes he has contacted over the past couple of months. Each time he spoke to them, it was meant to trouble our diplomacy or to spark a mini war. He also used a sat account to spread rumours about us before it was rimmed out.
We know of TARDIS plans to try and take our K46 cluster in the past, they have always disliked the fact we were in their K (we would probably feel the same if the tables were turned) but through Karan's bad diplomacy, invitation skills :lol: and inactivity of late, we now have a different focus.
That focus is your tribe and your K :axemen:.
We only had a NAP with your tribe and it had no terms attached to it. As you can see from the map, we have almost complete dominance in K35 and need to spread out before we suffocate ourselves. This fact alone was the main factor in us declaring war ....... Karan just made it an easier decision to head in your direction.