With their losses nearing 800 but with an estimated 450 ships in DDS space (the Malau invasion force and the estimated survivors from the TPM raids) the DDS are wondering just how big the ABBO fleet is! Dino experience has indicated a fleet over 1000 ships but the DDS are considering that the fleet must be well over that to be able to sustain such losses and commitments and still, of course, maintain a large empire.
The DDS have come to the conclusion that the ABBOs cannot be defeated conventionally, their resources and ship building capacity are simply too large to defeat them in a war of attrition. Instead the DDS need to think of another way to defeat them. The problem is no one has much idea of how yet.
