I agree that the early game was a good time. We had some fun on character messages. Our plan had been to set up a solid alliance from the get go and crush our closest neighbor... In the interests of galactic peace, of course.
Though to respond more concretely to the Mondoshawans, your stab, I think netted you an objectively worse result than if you'd stuck it out with me. I don't doubt that we would have crushed the Greys and the Cylons and taken out to a two way draw/race for the solo. The better time to stab would have been after the Greys were broken and we were at 13-13 or so.
Like we discussed at the beginning, our two-person Western triple gave you the stab potential of England in a WT, so that was unlikely to disappear. I don't know if you just got jumpy, or if the stab really was because you went AFK for a turn and thought I wouldn't trust you after that. Either way, the timing was very suboptimal.
While I'm obvious disappointed with my tragic elimination, I am pleased that you did worse than you would have by sticking by me. Not out of any ill-will but out of an objective desire to dissuade others from following suit!
All in all, it was a fun game. Thank you for running it JegPeg! It really cemented my love/hate relationship with giant intelligent spiders.