[Starhawk]

2412.5 A decisive plan
The Holotank in the Admiralty building’s war room was towering, the second largest such holotank throughout the entire Icaran Empire on it was a display of every system within the Icaran Empire plus those systems that had been scouted and deemed as a potential threat to the Icaran state.
The war room was dimly lit as Grand Admiral Hallice walked over to the gathered lords of the Admiralty, noting that in their midst was Admiral Babcock who seemed to be listening very intently to the SIC Admiral Bright.

Hallice cleared his throat to gather the other admiral’s attention “Ladies and Gentleman it’s three in the morning and though I know Admiral Lady Bright is from Brandenburg where it’s currently zero seven hundred I am rather tired so if we could get down to business.” Hallice had a smile on his face as he took the flexi pad Bright handed him.
“Quite right My Lord…..alright ladies Gentleman the Strategic Insights Committee has been observing the stalemate on the Phong front for the past seven months and after recent engagements we believe it is time to push our advantage before the Phong can recover.” Admiral Bright handed out the various flexi pads and turned her pointer towards the holotank, after pressing the selector stub on her pointer the massive holotank zoomed in on four star systems, two owned by the Phong and two by Icara, multiple red dots speckled each of the star systems with information regarding battles or skirmishes fought.

“Admirals the most recent message from our borders states that the 3rd fleet has suffered nearly 6,000 dead officers and Ratings and has even had to pull some of Wardo’s populace into their ships to keep fully crewed, however the sheer amount of damage they have inflicted upon Phong forces is astonishing, to this date the 3rd fleet has been responsible for nearly one hundred and twenty seven ship to ship kills and that includes the recent destruction of a Phong colonization convoy which they obliterated with minimal casualties sustained. “ Bright paused and allowed the other Admirals to let the information sink in.
“Now we believe if the Admiralty will dispatch the 1st fleet in combination with the 1st Icaran regiment we can bring that stalemate to a decisive and crushing end for the Phong. Lords I believe the third fleet should continue it’s attack Fornax, while the first fleet and escorts the first Icaran regiments ground forces in the capture of Maven Parsis.”
“Lady Bright if I may ask do you honestly think that the 1st Icaran can capture that system alone?” Admiral Fredricks voice was skeptical, the Admiralty had never considered off world invasions before and many doubted it could even succeed but Bright simply shrugged.
“Well Admiral I do believe we could do this, it will take the first fleet around a year to get on scene but once they do I believe this costly stalemate can end once and for all.” Bright smiled confidently as she saw Hallice nodding.
“Well we have a lot to discuss, Opinions?” Hallice sounded like he had already made up his mind yet for an hour the other members of the Admiralty grilled Bright about all that could go wrong and all that it could cost Icara if this mission failed yet to all of them but all of the information she provided was surprisingly convincing and within two hours Admiral Babcock was aboard his flagship readying the 1st fleet to move out.

2412.7 New Daggers in the Night
A new star nation called the Citizen Federation was encountered and currently almost no information is known about them accept the Political Bureau has filed a trade alliance pact with them.