It just looks like a Lisk clone to me.
Thats just ignoring all the context. We can say all the coins are bitcoin clones, so why theres a lot of coins with big communities and high market cap? What makes a coin unique is the team and the community behind, committed to the coin and to his success. You can use the code of an existing coin and make some new with just a few change, but with the compromise of taken another way and focusing in another targets.
I agree with all you say but I just want to make it clear, to prevent misunderstandings, that Ascendancy will
not copy any code from Lisk.
Ascendancy is, and will continue being, written from scratch by our developers.