Yes, it would be a direct provocation. And they would be able to fly their entire fleet to Titan to fight what we have of our defense fleet plus our PDCs, while leaving their home open for our interdiction units to probe, or they could split their forces to protect their home and attack us which would let us most likely destroy the attacking forces and recover plenty of salvage.
At first I was going to complain about an asteroid belt eventually having the inner system between us and it due to our orbit, but it seems Saturn has an orbital period of thirty years.. So it would eventually become a problem, but it wouldn't be an immediate one by any means.
If my warmongering is getting annoying, well remember, the majority rules so you guys can just ignore me. But I don't want to see this turn into a really long game of 'build up a lot and never fight' considering the backstory we were given. They invaded our forefathers! They stole Allah's gift and subverted it for their corrupt purposes!
They nearly wiped out humanity. No, I do not think we should be chummy with them, or even contemplate peace. The Mercurians are a blight upon the universe and they must be cleansed.. Once we have a way to actually cleanse them, that is. We might want to build more ground troops, if we spend all our time on engineers they might have twice as many assaults as we do and that would be Bad considering how this seems set up.
But if I'm actually annoying you guys I'm sorry. I really did sign up for this thread so I'm not quite sure what level of etiquette and decorum is called for. That's what not lurking enough gets me.
That said, Go space Muslims.