Reply #20: Maybe, given their Viking history, they understand that looting and

[RaleighNCDUer]

pillaging is not the best long-term plan. War is only profitable for those who control wartime production. If your plan for the future is to steal what other people own, there will come a time when there will be nothing left to sustain your own society.

times move faster now - it took the Vikings 400 years of being feared and hated before they tore themselves apart. We're doing it with barely 150 years.