Normal service shall resume

 Well, reasonably soon. Moving continents has played havoc with my internet access, but in the meantime I've been playing merrily away. The Coalition has conquered pretty much all of Kzinti space and repeatedly devastated three of the outer planets in their capital system, albeit at the cost of great harm, especially to the Klingons. For reasons unknown to anyone but themselves, they decided it was a good idea to attack the Federation and escalate the entire war. The Lyrans are quietly rebuilding their offensive forces with most of their crippled ships repaired and back on the front lines. It's shaping up to an epic confrontation here between the Red Claw and the majority of the Kzinti navy. The big cats did manage to get some reinforcements through to the Marquis, but even so it might not be enough to save the last Starbase outside their homeworlds.

The molasses strategy has been working, although one of the Klingon fleets got a nasty scare when the Federation 3rd Fleet turned up to eject them from the vicinity of a Fed border Battle Station. The Fed 4th Fleet helped save the Marquis' Starbase as the Klingons fell back from the Kzinti home systems to turn on the remains of Kzinti space near the Federation border. A counteroffensive saw the Kzinti regain the major planet near home, but the Klingons are currently attacking both the Marquis' Starbase and the main Federation Starbase opposing their invasion. If they can take out both of these they will be in a good position to take large swathes of both Kzinti and Federation space, so cutting the two Powers off from easy direct contact. This will mean that Federation financial aid will have to reach the Kzinti the long way around through the off-map colonies.

On the Hydran Front the little guys are inflicting great amounts of harm, but have now lost the outer shell of their provinces, together with three Starbases. The Coalition forces are just too many, and it is only a matter of time before their combined assault falls upon the Hydran capital. The Hydran strategy has been very successful, and they now have a new Starbase protecting the lines of communication with the Old Colonies. The Old Colonies Squadron is itself ensconced here very nicely, thank you very much, and has been bolstered by repaired ships from the main defensive fleets plus a newly-built Uhlan carrier group.

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