The Void - Tick 612 Cycle 27

Now that the weekend is over I'm planning to re-apply myself to the game and start making pushes. I haven't really gained any stars over the last few days and I'm conscious that others, including my allies are. If I want to win this game I need to start seizing stars fast. In the next 48 hours I want to turn that around with some important star captures.

My allies have resumed attacks on the enemies west flank, which has been necessary because they took full advantage of a shift in priorities to the west to reconsolidate and throw up some firm defense. The good news this morning is Dieste is preparing to launch some new attacks further south and TdT has hit them with a surprise deep smuggler attack (1k ships). HelloThere has also been chipping away over the weekend. Now I need to throw my ships into the fight to break through.

Here's how the front lines are looking. I launched a big siege breaker attack to try and dislodge the enemy from Kraela. I don't expect the fight to happen on Kraela - they will retreat or counter attack but I'll pressure them into doing this and test their coordination a bit. Seizing Kraela is really important to me to allow me to keep warp gates up more confidently in the area and streamline my logistics. At the moment I'm doing a lot of gate flickering (on/off) and it is expensive. 

If I can capture Kraela, plus the two Major Tom stars north of the wormhole that will give me a really nice defensible front line and allow me to build back up ships for the push south. The intel I've seen from TdT and Dieste suggests reinforcements will be thin from the south so sustained attacks will hopefully break resistance.