19.2.08

DDS call on both sides to cease on Oscar

The DDS have called upon the Clone and Human faction on Oscar to stop fighting and for the Clones to return to their designated border. They have despatched reinforcements to the "Oscar Patrol" (which is just a Rome corvette at the moment) in the form of a Pulsar and a Terran Sea frigate. However the HCS, who also maintain a minimal patrol at Oscar, have warned the DDS not to "militarise Oscar space" and they will respond with their own reinforcements.

There is no sign of the Clone faction heeding the DDS call however and now there are rumours that the Clones are being supplied with new weapons from Cloneworld. Officially there is an arms embargo but a reporter for UNP-News has said he has seen Clone faction troops with AR-105 rifles and RPG-16Y rocket launchers. Both are new HCS weapons that have only been introduced into service in the last couple of years, long after the embargo was started.

The HCS have denied they are supplying the Clone faction with weapons, saying that maybe the weapons are stolen.