If hostilities do arise and escalate to such measures, don't forget to change IDs, although we're just not allowed battleships with our current ones... that's why the battleships have Freelancer/Neutral IDs.
On the other hand, the UTC is no threat financially, let them grow. And then... there are mercs, assassins, pirates... we have money... catch my drift?
hedonismage starts:
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God? - from 'Nightfall' by I. Asimov The Outcasts consider Siniestre Nube a sacred place for several reasons. Early explorers discovered a jumphole within the depths of the cloud that leads to a strange world of ringed stars and strange craft. All ships in the burrial ground are placed facing that hole to honor the Alien Spirits. - An Outcast rumor