You just keep thinking that. While it is true that Sniggwaffe originated as a feeder corporation for Sniggerdly, it has recently been more common for people to move from PL into WAFFLES, including Grath himself. The child has certainly surpssed the parent in every way other than the size of its supercapital fleet.
But yes. TEST has joined a conflict which as far as I can tell started because NC. and PL want to regain their former glory.
I mentioned Tribute in particular because it is in the nature of empires that if they do not keep their warriors satisfied, those warriors will leave. What remains without the warriors inevitably becomes a fat and decadent entity ripe for conquest, even if it may have a respectable amount of soldiers. Without those warriors, a once-strong empire will ultimately become easy pickings for the next group of nomads to emerge on its fringes.
This is the purpose which I have found for myself. I seek to preserve and restore the strength of the Amarr Empire by tempering it with war, so that it may regain its dominion over the cluster and bring the other empires into obedience under God. I do not look upon my adversaries in the Providence Marches as enemies, nor do I seek to destroy them. I wish to harden and strengthen them through the experience so that they may better protect their part of the Empire. I have seen some of the threats which are coming. I have seen Sansha’s horrors waiting to return to New Eden, far beyond their usual incursions, during my time spent in Anoikis. I have seen the Drifters. I have become familiar with the technology at the backbone of the Triglavian menace and it scares me more than any of these other threats. They are committed to ending New Eden itself, not just ending lives in New Eden, and they destroy stars in order to fuel their strange technology. In the future, we may see worse horrors and we must make sure that the Empire is prepared to stand against them.
Returning back to the original topic at hand, the unfortunate acts which occurred planetside are simply the result of flaws inherent to humanity. We as capsuleers do not have any moral high ground to condemn them when we, set free from the limitations that a human body places on those flaws, commit similar acts in space vastly more often than they occur planetside. If anything, what occurred planetside was more honest because the people involved had to come close enough to look each other in the face and see that both parties are human. In space, we can lie to ourselves, pretend that it’s just a ship, just a structure, no people involved, just as we lie to ourselves and call ourselves immortal and beyond human. That being said, efforts to aid the faithful on the surface in order to bring them through the trials and hardships into a glorious future are still worthy of commendation.