User blog comment:WolfgangBSC/Wolfgang's Random Chat Room/@comment-32153758-20141116163557/@comment-11135771-20141116175545

Have to agree with Prometheus being demoted to an 8; they've kind of stalled out now since it's almost impossible for them to support more ships at this point, and thus other people are starting to catch up. Even with the massive amount of infrastructure Prometheus has, they have a fleet of something like 15-20,000 ships now (although mostly very small ones), which means that just the maintenance costs of building more would just be impossible to support even with their nanotech.

And on that note, if Prometheus wants to stay in the lead, they will have to make use of that massive fleet to start stalling their opponents' progress... time to go kill someone soon.