Status Updates From Rising Sun, Falling Skies: ...

20.02.42 - With Bali & its Denpesar airfield lost, Japanese air superiority over Java was ironclad, the Allied fleet among the Dutch Indies as vulnerable as any reinforcements which Britain might conjure up in the Indian ocean, if such a possibility was even worth contemplating after the fall of their Singapore.

Japan advance into the Southern Resources Area has on morecthan one occasion been likened to an octopus, grabbing so many targets at once. But octopi are rarely so vicious, so malevolent, so vicious [the fish in the bottle would disagree] Japan it seemed could be everywhere at once while the Allies were seemingly nowhere.