You 2 should join Earth 2.0! We'd love to have you ;-;
Once cannons and airplanes exist my whole Maginot Line strategy that I so favor here becomes obsolete and I loose a big advantage defensively. The Maginot Line did eventually fall, but Avalonia's all enclosing wall has stood the test of time and the threat of invasion repeatedly. If I join 2.0, I not only lose my existing advantage, but attempting to replicate it would be disastrous; and I'd be starting from scratch trying to catch up to everyone else. Even if me and Swat both joined and immediately went ham on building, worked together, and all that, we'd still be far behind everyone else.
Avalonian troops take over Aemilius as a tributary nation. If/when morn comes back he can have it back.
Blowing up another nation won't do any good as far as revival. Swat, you're the only person who might actually notice, everyone else is pretty much inactive here, and you're my closest ally, exempting you from all of that. Frontrox is the only potential target, but I don't know if even he would care (also he'd give us a REAL run for our money ;) ). Want to just divvy up the world? Because I'm shot for ideas of how to keep this alive :(