Dumb My side? Well, let me just...
It has already been like this before they even met the Cult or interacted with it. Despite that I had given warnings, until the Hive decided it would be time to attack by ourselves first. We might have attacked first, but they started their entire organization out with a provocation towards the Cult and other rather ominous statements which has then been answered with aggression by the Hive and the Shadow Agreement.
