Details to follow..
Edit: I often wonder at the motives of why people do things in Utopia. One such individual I often wonder about is Bart. In short, he has made a deal (with reluctant Spartan agreement) between Sparta and CD. Given our age is essentially over, in exchange for a war, CD will recruit Bart to lead the war against Sparta, taking over one of their provinces, as well as a 50% land advantage over Sparta.
The terms are as follows.
1. Date: ~Jan YR12
2. Button: Spartans will give button, CD will hit 7x (else we run the risk of being OOR at declare). Button given within 30 minutes of the tick.
3. Acre caps: Spartan - 120K CD - 180K.
4. CD will press button within 10 minutes of given.
I've given Bart the benefit of the doubt, that his intention is to help improve Sparta to function well autonomously without him, to improve individual's province management, to improve teamwork. Even though Sparta has a massive science, honour and wpa advantage, my guess is that Sparta will be crushed by CD's raw military numbers (they already have big gold stacks, 6 days out of hostile). Bart will also have access to our Munk (and chat?) right up until hostile, which wasn't warmly received, to say it lightly ;)
Game on. SPARTAAAA!!