During transit, Helen took the time to wiggle herself into an AMES suit, before she again took her position standing with volumetric displays around her, as she began to analyze the situation. Things seemed reasonable, the Yamataian fleet had a sound defensive position, the firepower of Hoshi no lori was on their side, as well as any surface weapons which were deployed... unless the parasites got to them, but that was still beside the point. There was no way that the NMX fleet was going to survive the encounter without being severely weakened, to the point where support could easily arrive from the Elysian or Nepleslian fleets, so the Yamataian fleet could remain evenly distributed to prevent an attack on their other assets. Everything seemed perfectly fine, relatively speaking.
Everything seemed fine, until Helen observed the ships led by Acting-Taisho Kotori, that was when she face palmed and shook her head. It was a massive miss-allocation of military resources. Seven-thousand ships, dedicated to the defense of a single system. It was absurd, it was nonsense, it was an act of sentimental foolishness, and it made Helen clench her teeth before she released a near silent utterance of a vulgarity. There were too many ways in which such a strategy could turn around and bite the Empire in the ass, and it left Helen reeling. Though, she was far too low on the totem-pole of the command chain to do anything about it, she was in a position of being voiceless, she was merely a Shosa, on a ship with a Shosho, watching the actions of an acting Taisho, no doubt operating on orders from a full Taisho, which would undoubtedly be part of the family of the Empress, resulting in Helen's words not amounting to even rival the value of a bag of rice. Though, to remain silent, was to ignore her duty.
As she watched the arriving ships, and observed the NMX making their move on Yamatai, Helen mulled over every way things could go bad. Mainly, she thought on just how many systems were vulnerable with the Empire's focus settled on its doorstep. Mevar, Yicuqibu, Anisa, those were the systems most likely to be scooped up as a repercussion of the fleet movement. More so, with the fleet watching inward, that left the Bard Cluster isolated, especially since their south-eastern flank had been rendered exposed since the fall of the United Outer Colonies. Though, the notion of systems being scooped up was actually the least of her worries, there was one problem, even greater than that, and it was something she could possibly help to prevent, if anyone listened.
"Shosho." Helen spoke, as she hoped that her words would amount to something. "With the arrival of Acting Taisho Kotori's fleet, our primary concern should be the prevention of any desperation tactics which the NMX may use to tilt the conflict in their favor. They still retain the capacity to severely damage Yamatai itself. Orbital bombardment of the planet would only take a single volley of their primary weapons to render the planet uninhabitable. More so, they may also target the star and trigger a repeat of Taiie."