Big necro but this is still an ongoing thing so I've made a recent new post that shows that we're still consolidating fleets and it's picking now that the war is over and OOC those fleets have player character Taishos that are probably not going to be used/usable again. Basically, the fact that the Star Army had so many fleets was a reflection of having a lot of people who wanted to RP fleet commanders. Now that the community is smaller with less people playing in the SAOY it's no longer necessary to have all these Taisho slots open. As planned way back 3 years ago, the higher number fleets are getting merged into the lower ones.