The e/wall global messaging system is pretty great. I was thinking of a way to extend it that (potentially) wouldn't be too much extra work. You could create four more 'wall' channels, one for each empire. Then, just hardwire it so that each person becomes a member of their own empire channel (maybe e/emp or e/empire) and their ally (again, e/ally or something), which would allow for scheming and plotting and so forth. Anyways, depending on how the backend of 'wall' is implemented, it might not be too hard to do this, since you'd just sort based on the empire tag.
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