The Void - Tick 660 Cycle 30

 Diplomacy and the next attack wave.

TdT (CRISPR) has been discussing a negotiated surrender with Major Tom and it seems probable that he might accept a deal whereby he gets to keep three stars (not the wormhole) but surrenders the rest to us. Negotiations haven't been finalized yet but I'm taking the opportunity to attack whilst he might be indecisive and is less likely to launch counter attacks. 

I'm taking the opportunity to throw a new 4.8K attack at TheBorg and attempt to dislodge him from that star. He will need 3773 ships to defend and there's currently around 2k there. I will warp gate Kasha next tick which will mean to rally an adequate defense they'll need to switch out the orbital cannon for a warp scrambler and race in some fleets. 

If successful, it will pave the way for me to bring in an additional 1.8k ships from off the north west of that screenshot and to start fighting my way through their west flank. I'm retaining threat of attacking south into the Tube-Pipe/Borg pair of stars down there but my intent is actually to go down to the wormhole (via diplomacy ideally) and then down that west flank.