Later, Evan entered Merick's office. "Ah hello General Hechtman." Evan nodded and began to speak: "High Command had decided, after reviewing your latest actions, to promote you to General. Congratulations, General. Anyways we have no time to celebrate. The Empire is doubtlessly moving to attack us and we need to establish a base. We need a base from which we can protect Mon Calamari and attack the Imperials. I have talked to High Command and they have approved this much. We need to keep most of the fleet here at Mon Calamari to defend and attack Imperial convoys, so we can only have the Chronicle and a few other noncombat ships. Are you prepared to start?