The Void - Tick 240 Cycle 10

 I've been busy in real life over the weekend hence the time skip.

A lot has happened

1. TdT and I swapped aliases. He was CRISPR as I expected. I joined a Discord server with him and HelloThere who was not Zachsmack as expected, but Maul. Holy Roman Empire is SteveFree but is not in the Discord and I think is playing his own game as he's also allied to Ragnar Lothbrock (who apparently is 2x his size) to the north. No ID on Lothbrock.
2. Attacks on Ikit Claw and General Kenobi began as planned, and have been successful so far. I'm +8 stars including one binary and one black hole.
3. After CRISPR, Maul and I shared maps, I identified Royluc by remembering he had used the alias Uy Scuti before. CRISPR reached out to him and discovered he was working alone so far, and he became a very high-value joiner to the alliance. 
4. I have a 98% ID on Rakec as Dieste (a mixture of some conversational clues, a hunch, and a bit of guesswork) and CRISPR is confident Tube-Pipe is LeDazz. I trust that call.
5. My star count is now 69, my economy 124, my industry 67, and my science 27.

So I'm now in a strange 4-man alliance but also allied to Holy Roman Empire who is in a different alliance that I'm not supposed to know about (he hasn't told me, General Kenobi did). I'm still a bit worried about HRE. He opted not to join his cousin Maul in Discord and is very clearly playing his own game. I'm considering the other three solid allies but this more a relationship of convenience now and I have taken a few steps to contingency that border a bit. The carriers on my northern supply line now take a slightly longer route, giving me a more constant military presence across the border.

TdT (CRISPR) is playing a very diplomacy-heavy game and is speaking with everyone. He is very invested in winning this game. In our Discord alliance, there is not much between Me, Royluc, and CRISPR in strength or star count right now. If our alliance did win any of us could turn out a winner. HelloThere (Maul) is a little bit behind but again not far.

War with General Kenobi

Kenobi has opted to keep his fleets alive, and rally reinforcements. After very good initial gains (I didn't expect to be able to push to the binary in the south) the fighting is about to get fierce. I'm racing reinforcements in across all fronts (100 arriving via Smuggler at the top of the image, 180 via Infiltrator in the middle, and another 100 or so via the southern axis), and with 5 tokens in my pocket after the next turn might get the opportunity to defend then counter if GeneralKenobi launches an offensive of his own. If he doesn't and allows me to reinforce the frontline stars I'll dictate the battle.

War with Ikit Claw

I've got three new stars and I'm attacking a fourth with 140 ships. Otherwise, I'm planning to hold a bit. I have more ships flowing to the front line to defend but I don't have the firepower to take the binary.

Meta

The meta situation is that whilst I'm positionally safe, Uy Scuti (Royluc) HelloThere (Maul) and TdT (CRISPR) are at some risk in the short term, particularly Maul and CRISPR because there are coordinated groups out west that outnumber them for now. If we can defeat Ikit Claw and GeneralKenobi before they are attacked we have good winning chances.

With a likely positive ID on LeDazz as Tube-Pipe and with him being on the other side of Ikit Claw I'm also strongly in favor of immediate attacks as soon as we border him. 

We can assess that better though over the next 24 hours.