An undercover reporter has exposed the existance of banned weapons in the DDS armoury. The weapons, halnium-bomb warheaded missiles, are illegal in the UNP. Halnium bombs are extremely high explosive and have been banned since 2038. The DDS say they are not breaking the ban as the ban only covers the construction and storage of the weapons on UNP worlds. Their warheads were constructed on New Arit and are stored on board a small number of cruisers in the fleet and thus have not been placed on a UNP world.
The weapons are thought to be used as formation breakers. The missiles would be fired into enemy formations, the vast explosion splitting up the formation and thus making them more vulnerable.
