Harbinger/42

Battle of Braxis
Another month had passed since the ignominious defeat of General Duke's Alpha Fleet by the Protoss. Mengsk had done what Daniel thought a crafty leader would have done: instead of dispersing navies across the worlds under his control so that they were more or less equally protected relative to how important and populated they were, he clustered all his forces together into the newly christened Imperial Fleet. After having amassed a powerful fleet, he had instructed his new Grand Admiral Edmund Duke to scare the remaining Confederates on Tyrador into surrendering peacefully, and Duke had of course delivered. The new Imperial Fleet was thus stationed at the place where Mengsk had finally defeated the Confederacy: Tyrador. Mengsk however seemed to have taken to heart the warning that the Protoss had given him; he did not make any more aggressive moves on the Umojan-Morian Combine.

Daniel's base had continued to expand, though of course not as quickly as an impatient Daniel would have liked. There were only twelve carriers so far, which could hold 1728 Wraiths in total. Daniel currently had twice as many Wraiths, which was a good ratio to have.