Actually HF were too busy to attack Gamma. They were protecting Magellan and Vespucci from SA, LSF, Phantoms, BSG, SCRA, and the random Corsair raid or two. We got involved against SCRA, and it was a few days afterwards that TBH got involved. I'm not trying to be the hero here, I'm just saying that you shouldn't place the blame of this war starting on me. Nor am I saying TBH didn't have a right to start a war with us. SCRA and TBH are allied or very close to being so, and we were fighting SCRA (though I don't think we had fought in Gamma yet, it was all Theta and O-41). The only wars AW got involved to for the reason of helping our allies was with SA and that last one with SF, when they attacked Magellan.
Our ally's situations have certainly affected alot of reputations though, such as making SCRA and TBH unfriendly, but that wasn't made into hostile until SCRA shot one of them in Theta. The only reason I'm caring about who started it is because I'm always being BLAMED for it starting, AND for continuing, even though I've made numerous offers to end it, both in RP and out of it. If I wasn't being blamed all the time, I wouldn't care who started it. But people are saying false 'facts' to use in political agendas. You TWIST words in political battles, not create entire lies for it.
BTW, I'm not saying that Luciaden, and now Val'ren were not bloodthirsty and enjoyed the slaughter every once in awhile, but regardless of their RP actions, their mentality isn't how I run AW. I don't create massacres, except in RP stories. The closest we got to it was AW bombing the Benitez Villa, which was done because Benitez had just declared war, then tried to 'take control of Corfu.'