Think about some things that come back again and again from big fams against smalll.
1. pnaps !
2. The lie that it was your own fault
3. Can we have a non opwar plz ?
4. You are so small that I dont care about deals cos you cant damage us anyway.
PNAPS:
They dont want you to be able to revenge by first growing on small fams infrawhiore a bit and hit one more infrawhore and hit one more infrawhore and hit you again by means of taking spread of 3 minor fams winning over you as they all lined up at a time when the bigger fams normaly aint online for several hours.
YOUR OWN FAULT !
Its inuff that you do a failed attack or miss that a blown planet had had changed overship when you where in retake mode.
These things are inuff for major fams to start war and take half ur planets for a singel lost planets or even a fail attack.
Obviously they want a reason to farm you and no matter how weak their argument is they will use it as that is all they got.
COWARDS that exploit reasons that are non excisting.
Try this damn cowards:
Find a fam of equal eco streanght and equaly good lineup.
Set a date and a tic for the war.
FIGHT !
But I think these cowards that are used to play in major fams will never EVER do this !:S
Cos this is how the bully in your shool behave or the bully and coward in ic.
They need to be at least 4 to be bold or in ic instance have 20 times another fams income and 5 active attackers to the other fams 1.
NOW they are bold and laufing at the poor sods while they clean em off planets.
Non opwar !
Well you know a small fam against a big lets say 20 times the small ones income.
What happens if u kill top6 income ?
The fams are moving close to eachother eco wise.
And as the big fam will be now have a huge amount of undeffended planets the smaller can jump fleets and start working from hs outwards clearing hs core and then move stright for their core by taking spread planets all the way between the cores and grab a good portion of the big fams core.
Now they threatedn to kill all the big fams income with a second opwar unless they pay for peace with lets say 10% of their remaining planets.
NEVER go nonopwar against a bigger fam !
Its you very best tool to turn the fight around and the big fellows knows this and tries to avoid opwars at all costs.
To small to make me honour deals !
ASk gen if he have payed a price for doing moraly questional decitions and using naps to enter other fams cores.
Most likly also making deals with smaller fams to get them spread in bigger fams cores that dont have core deal so they can drop and clear foes from their own cores.
They tried this with us and i understood that at once and exploited their nap brake to do a preentive strike 5 tics ahead of their attack wich totaly left them in disarray.
Be careful how you make naps or it might come back and bite you in ur behind ! 
Count on the willingness to honour deals will be reduced when the power ratio increase between you and another fam and take this into account when dealing with other fams.