User blog comment:Aghostintheboat/The Official Roleplay Room/@comment-27820070-20150123044038/@comment-11135771-20150123215445

OOC: AP, you still have to abide by the rules everyone else does, regardless of the explanation. TEO has to start out at approximately the same place every new faction does, in the interests of fairness. You can make up an excuse as to why they're not as powerful as they should be if necessary; say their colony ship didn't have space for fancy maintenance equipment and some of their more powerful tech stopped working eventually and they couldn't fix it, for example.