(MC POV)
Elaria was looking at the holographic map displayed on the table with a critical eye while surrounded by her generals and admirals.
In case you were wondering, the Inktyr Republic fell really quickly and their entire sector was filled with nothing but the rubble of cracked planets. Their entire civilization had literally been wiped out from existence in a matter of hours after Elaria gave the order to speed things up just so that we could concentrate on the new enemy.
But because Elaria was the one who declared war on the United Toal Federation, she's regarded as the aggressor which led to quite a number of other galactic empires declaring war on us all in the name of 'subduing an unreasonable aggressor'.
No doubt they were thinking they could take this chance to claim some of Elaria's resources and territory for themselves without repercussions from their own people or other civilizations.
If you're surrounded, that just means you can shoot anywhere and you wouldn't miss, right?