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Link to Cycle 46
Known Merits
Last week both ALD and Hudson had no expansions, so the total known merits are more balanced across all 10 powers.
The total merits are broken into 2 clear groups of 5 Powers.
On the effective chart you can see Mahon did the most amount of effective merits again, with a fairly even spread in all 3 areas.
Winters was close behind in 2nd, followed by Hudson and ALD in 3rd and 4th.
Aisling dropped down to 5th most effective merits, in part because she was in turmoil, so could not do any preparations.
Winters, Mahon and Delaine all had a large amount of effective merits in their expansions.
Opposition
On the Total Opposition chart Mahon had a massive 1.4 million in merits.
Opposition to Winters was High with nearly 1 million merits, and Hudson faced a high to medium amount.
Delaine has a medium to low amount of total opposition, and all the other Powers faces a low to very low amount of total opposition.
On the effective chart Hudson had a large amount in just undermining.
Mahon and Winters also faced a high amount of effective opposition
Aisling had a medium amount of undermining, which was all from piracy, with the other Powers having a low to nonexistent amount of effective opposition.
This week in Slavery with Archon Delaine
Delaine won his expansion into San Guan, but its an Anarchy system, so no change to slavery there.
Winters expanded to LTT 5964, which is an Anarchy system where Imperial Slavery has now been banned for its 120000 citizens.
Aisling lost control of 4 systems, which have around 14 Billion Imperial Citizens who are now all again under threat of being made into Imperial Slaves.
Antal expanded to the Imperial system of HIP 10584, and around 10 million Imperial Citizen from that bubble are now free from the threat of Imperial Slavery.
A large increase in Galactic Slavery for the week.
Commentary and Speculation
Edmund Mahon 83
The Prime minister retained his position in the number 1 spot.
He faced a very large amount of opposition to his expansions, but he was able to win his weaponised expansion into the heart of the Federation, Gendalla, which is slightly more than 15 LY from Sol.
Both of the bad expansions he had also won, and this has worsened Mahons starting cc balance to 743, which is nearly half of what he was on a few weeks ago.
This week he has 9 expansions, and enough CC to afford 8 good expansions, so many cr will be spent again by his pledged players.
Mahons players will probably continue to fortify enough to make turmoil impossible, but even if he is put into turmoil, he will again be in the number 1 position.
Felicia Winters 79
Winters moved up one position to 2nd and was able to secure another expansion.
This brings here total number of systems up to 71.
Mahon again has weaponized expansions in federation space, so Winters players will be busy opposing them.
Hudson will probably move back infront of Winters at the end of the week, but Winters shouldn't move further down than 3rd.
Zachary Hudson 69
The federation president moved down one position to 3rd, mainly because he had no expansions to win.
This week he has 2 expansions, which should easily win.
He can also only afford to prep one system, so keeping a good system on the list should be easy as well.
Hudson should move back up to 2nd at the end of the week, but probably can't move up to 1st, no matter what happens.
Arissa Lavigny-Duval 65
The Emperor maintained her 4th position rank at the end of last cycle.
She has no expansions last week, but has 2 this week, and it will take a large amount of coordinated opposition to make one of them fail.
With the recent Federation - Alliance war reducing the undermining ALD has been receiving, a low amount of fortifying is probably all their players will have to do again.
If ALD wins both expansions, and Winters wins none, she might move back into the 3rd position, but 4th again is more likely.
Zemina Torval 55
Torval was able to maintain her position in the top 5 again.
She has 59 control systems, one more than Sirius, and both of them have 2 expansions, so its still neck and neck for the 5th position.
If Torval hits turmoil she may fall down to 8th, but 5th or 6th is more likely, depending on what Sirus does.
Li Yong-Rui 53
Sirius had no expansion last week, but has 2 this week, including the Sirius favorite Chang O.
With Aisling losing systems last cycle, Sirius is now the 6th largest power, and only 1 system off being the equal 5th largest.
If Sirius wins more expansions than Torval, he should move back into the top 5, otherwise he should be 6th at the end of the week.
Denton Patreus 38
Patreus was able to maintain his position out of the bottom 3, although he is equal with Antal and it is unclear if he and Antal are both out of the bottom 3, or both still in it.
Last week he had no expansions, but has one to work on this week.
With Aisling coming out of Turmoil, Patreus will be ranked under her at the end of the week, and with Antal having many more expansions, its likely he will drop down to 9th.
Pranav Antal 38
Antal moved one position up, but hes actually equal with Patreus, so could be considered to have moved up 2 positions.
He won one of his expansions last week, and has many expansions to work on this week, including the distant world of Maia.
Dhanchu, Medzitha and 7 Zeta are again on his prep list (same as 2 weeks ago), and another prep war with Delaine is likely for these systems, and Mahon may also get involved in two of them.
Aisling should move ahead of Antal at the end of the week, but Antal may also move past Patreus, so he could maintain his current position in 8th.
Aisling Duval 37
Aisling dropped all the way down to 9th, and only 4% off 10th.
She lost 4 systems to turmoil, and now has an improved starting cc balance of -597, which is still terrible, but much better than the -800 she was on not too long ago.
This means around 8 less systems need to be fortified each week, just to balance out the CC, and avoid turmoil.
It also means she has less systems than both Torval and Sirius now though, so getting back into the top 5 will be very difficult.
This week she has no expansion, but unless she is pushed into Turmoil, she should move ahead of both Antal and Patreus, and be in 7th position.
Archon Delaine 33
The pirate lord managed to win one of his expansions last week, but 3 of them lost.
These same 3 are already on Antals preparation list, and Dhanchu is already on Mahons, so more prep wars will be likely.
This week he has 2 expansions, if both win and Patreus loses his expansion, he may move ahead of Patreus into 9th position, of not, he will be in 10th.
Link to Cycle 46
Known Merits
Last week both ALD and Hudson had no expansions, so the total known merits are more balanced across all 10 powers.
The total merits are broken into 2 clear groups of 5 Powers.
On the effective chart you can see Mahon did the most amount of effective merits again, with a fairly even spread in all 3 areas.
Winters was close behind in 2nd, followed by Hudson and ALD in 3rd and 4th.
Aisling dropped down to 5th most effective merits, in part because she was in turmoil, so could not do any preparations.
Winters, Mahon and Delaine all had a large amount of effective merits in their expansions.
Opposition
On the Total Opposition chart Mahon had a massive 1.4 million in merits.
Opposition to Winters was High with nearly 1 million merits, and Hudson faced a high to medium amount.
Delaine has a medium to low amount of total opposition, and all the other Powers faces a low to very low amount of total opposition.
On the effective chart Hudson had a large amount in just undermining.
Mahon and Winters also faced a high amount of effective opposition
Aisling had a medium amount of undermining, which was all from piracy, with the other Powers having a low to nonexistent amount of effective opposition.
This week in Slavery with Archon Delaine
Delaine won his expansion into San Guan, but its an Anarchy system, so no change to slavery there.
Winters expanded to LTT 5964, which is an Anarchy system where Imperial Slavery has now been banned for its 120000 citizens.
Aisling lost control of 4 systems, which have around 14 Billion Imperial Citizens who are now all again under threat of being made into Imperial Slaves.
Antal expanded to the Imperial system of HIP 10584, and around 10 million Imperial Citizen from that bubble are now free from the threat of Imperial Slavery.
A large increase in Galactic Slavery for the week.
Commentary and Speculation
Edmund Mahon 83
The Prime minister retained his position in the number 1 spot.
He faced a very large amount of opposition to his expansions, but he was able to win his weaponised expansion into the heart of the Federation, Gendalla, which is slightly more than 15 LY from Sol.
Both of the bad expansions he had also won, and this has worsened Mahons starting cc balance to 743, which is nearly half of what he was on a few weeks ago.
This week he has 9 expansions, and enough CC to afford 8 good expansions, so many cr will be spent again by his pledged players.
Mahons players will probably continue to fortify enough to make turmoil impossible, but even if he is put into turmoil, he will again be in the number 1 position.
Felicia Winters 79
Winters moved up one position to 2nd and was able to secure another expansion.
This brings here total number of systems up to 71.
Mahon again has weaponized expansions in federation space, so Winters players will be busy opposing them.
Hudson will probably move back infront of Winters at the end of the week, but Winters shouldn't move further down than 3rd.
Zachary Hudson 69
The federation president moved down one position to 3rd, mainly because he had no expansions to win.
This week he has 2 expansions, which should easily win.
He can also only afford to prep one system, so keeping a good system on the list should be easy as well.
Hudson should move back up to 2nd at the end of the week, but probably can't move up to 1st, no matter what happens.
Arissa Lavigny-Duval 65
The Emperor maintained her 4th position rank at the end of last cycle.
She has no expansions last week, but has 2 this week, and it will take a large amount of coordinated opposition to make one of them fail.
With the recent Federation - Alliance war reducing the undermining ALD has been receiving, a low amount of fortifying is probably all their players will have to do again.
If ALD wins both expansions, and Winters wins none, she might move back into the 3rd position, but 4th again is more likely.
Zemina Torval 55
Torval was able to maintain her position in the top 5 again.
She has 59 control systems, one more than Sirius, and both of them have 2 expansions, so its still neck and neck for the 5th position.
If Torval hits turmoil she may fall down to 8th, but 5th or 6th is more likely, depending on what Sirus does.
Li Yong-Rui 53
Sirius had no expansion last week, but has 2 this week, including the Sirius favorite Chang O.
With Aisling losing systems last cycle, Sirius is now the 6th largest power, and only 1 system off being the equal 5th largest.
If Sirius wins more expansions than Torval, he should move back into the top 5, otherwise he should be 6th at the end of the week.
Denton Patreus 38
Patreus was able to maintain his position out of the bottom 3, although he is equal with Antal and it is unclear if he and Antal are both out of the bottom 3, or both still in it.
Last week he had no expansions, but has one to work on this week.
With Aisling coming out of Turmoil, Patreus will be ranked under her at the end of the week, and with Antal having many more expansions, its likely he will drop down to 9th.
Pranav Antal 38
Antal moved one position up, but hes actually equal with Patreus, so could be considered to have moved up 2 positions.
He won one of his expansions last week, and has many expansions to work on this week, including the distant world of Maia.
Dhanchu, Medzitha and 7 Zeta are again on his prep list (same as 2 weeks ago), and another prep war with Delaine is likely for these systems, and Mahon may also get involved in two of them.
Aisling should move ahead of Antal at the end of the week, but Antal may also move past Patreus, so he could maintain his current position in 8th.
Aisling Duval 37
Aisling dropped all the way down to 9th, and only 4% off 10th.
She lost 4 systems to turmoil, and now has an improved starting cc balance of -597, which is still terrible, but much better than the -800 she was on not too long ago.
This means around 8 less systems need to be fortified each week, just to balance out the CC, and avoid turmoil.
It also means she has less systems than both Torval and Sirius now though, so getting back into the top 5 will be very difficult.
This week she has no expansion, but unless she is pushed into Turmoil, she should move ahead of both Antal and Patreus, and be in 7th position.
Archon Delaine 33
The pirate lord managed to win one of his expansions last week, but 3 of them lost.
These same 3 are already on Antals preparation list, and Dhanchu is already on Mahons, so more prep wars will be likely.
This week he has 2 expansions, if both win and Patreus loses his expansion, he may move ahead of Patreus into 9th position, of not, he will be in 10th.
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