DNMR2K5: "Betray your allies or be betrayed. Only one can ascend." If this is true, that your allies will betray you, and if it requires you to betray others, then that's a hard pass from my chaotic good arse..
In spite of that, I hope this game is a success, as a lot of work is going into it as a schight-tonne of gamers love playing evil characters.
I'm unfortunately, not one of them, which is too bad as otherwise, this game is right up my alley!
Well, in every 4x you can break alliances (and you can also directly attack allies, then the game automatically breaks the alliance and the default state for a faction is "enemy"). It's just a style of play, don't think it's required. Good Old MoO2 always had my allies' agents caught stealing my tech, for example.