Valiantshade
In this day and age, battles are not played out in cosmoteer, they are played out in the forums. Just because you have mass vaporizers in the game, doesn't mean they're all powerful in the roleplay world.
Also, the said massive factions are powerful, but the mak have consumed entire galaxies. The New Hegemony, the Unity and the Fleryg Union are the most powerful factions in this galaxy aside from the Dominion Solar and the Imperium of Krolon, however do you want to know how they got here in the first place? Their empires in their old galaxy which were ten thousand times more powerful than today (at least ten million five hundred km long ships) got booted out of their HOME TURF by the mak.