Roller coaster. Everythings a roller coaster. We will win for a few years, they will win for a few years, then back to us. You'll have long stretches where we w

Roller coaster. Everythings a roller coaster. We will win for a few years, they will win for a few years, then back to us. You'll have long stretches where we win (golden age) and back to them winning for a long period (dark age), but it will always bounce back one way or the other. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age is a good article (obviously) covering this philosophy... All you can really do is try to increase the worth of what you leave behind to your future progeny so that in times of dark ages they are high in the council but remain moral, and in the golden ages they use science to create awesome things and ignore hysteria and FUD. Unfortunately too much shift one way or the other in a genealogy tree makes the family lazy or a war mongrel so it's hard to pull off.