I don't blame you.. your growth is extremely slow compared to us anyways. You won't ever be a threat least to say
That's because most of you SSS members were given free modules and stuff in the early game to skip the boring SOS farming period. I'm different.
And seriously, stop trying to get me out of Earth orbit - it won't work. Actually no. Quite a few of my ships are out of Earth orbit doing SOS missions. Even if I bring out my ships to challenge you, once my ships get destroyed, will you be saying, "Wow, Palpatine is such a brave person, he's not a coward after all!" NO. I'm 100% sure you guys will be yapping in the forums "Another SSS victory!" and so on. So either way, it doesn't benefit me.
This is a weird community though. Complaining about shortage of players at one point then pressuring a guy who just helped spice up the game a bit to quit. Oh well.