Strategic
- My expansion in my corner is going fairly well, I've just found two asteroid fields tucked away behind my systems. I'll capture one this cycle and the other late next cycle. Neither is in a good defensive location but they have good NR.
Diplomatic
- Gilgamesz has built an elaborate story about how we're at a border war and I am going to steal a star off him. I've lightly suggested nobody is going to believe this when we start trading tech, but he likes the plan and if it makes him happy then a happy ally is a loyal ally. As part of this ruse he also wants to send me ships to make it look like he's lost ships in a fight with me. I've tried to tell him this is unnecessary but again... he likes the plan and I like ships.
- Denizen is asking about my relations with Gilgamesz, I've shared my side of Gilgamesz's ruse with him. I don't believe for a second that he will believe it.
- Dust has still not been online, so I'm still none the wiser whether he's allied with Ktoc and trying to take me down or not. I assess it as 75% likely.
- No word from Darrow. I really hope he's not in a three-way alliance with Ktoc and Dust. I don't think he's chatty enough to be, but I'll be happier when he tells me he's at war with Ktoc.
Tactical
- There's a decision to be made about the star Kreete. Do I split my forces defending it and do I invest in it? My thought is to lightly invest and give at least the pretense that I intend to defend it. There are two big benefits to this (beyond having an extra star.) Firstly if an enemy ever holds it, it's a 3-hour jump to Visya which means I'll never sleep again. Secondly, my enemies will almost certainly attack it before Visya giving me a good early warning and a commitment of hostile intent. Ultimately, I don't intend to stick two Generals up there and I probably won't actually defend it but it's nice to have the option to so I will stick 40-50 ships on it.
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