I don't really agree with that observation. The WDS-HASH war has been going on for forever now, and the big war in the southeast is still chugging along. The Barb-Illuminati merger was a different circumstance, with illuminati having an abnormally large amount of cap room for such a high ranking alliance, and Barbarians having a bunch of in-actives we could easily dump. But yeah, the power is definitely consolidating, into fewer and fewer major alliances.
But speaking of changes, it looks like something is going on with the Celtics. Can anyone in the know fill us in? I thought they had a pact with SR and Olympus? I also see a ton of their members left to go to various different alliances.