Would TFC declare war and take 40k acres back?
So let me se here, you ask for mercy, go rob, hit and send drake.
Then when we re all fired up, you drag hostile out for two weeks.... loose 40 k acres, in order to take it back ?

Yeh you got 40 acres back, but what do you have ? Less of everything, with 40 k acres ?
I'm confident that most others would actually find it much wiser to grab, explore or get the 40k acres from elswhere.