Type 15A Quasar cruiser C129 Charm Quark has also completed it's update, to ILU. C131 Pion has left service to begin it's update. The DDS hope to complete the Quasar ILU by the end of the year.
Type 21A Missileer carrier R104 Musketeer has joined the fleet. This ship has a number of changes from the first 3 Missileers in terms of handling Ferret-E USVs and also the main sensor array has been updated with a new model. This was to have been put in the Missileers from the start but the array development was slower than expected. The first 3 ships will be retrofitted with the array when they receive a refit over the next 12 months.
Work has begun on the first Type 43D Sea Of Tranquility frigate, the 5th and possibly final version of the venerable Isometric family. At a ceremony held at Solaris a celebration dinner was held on the prototype X111 Isometric (below) with guests given a tour of F101 Cambrian, the first Isometric proper.
Finally Type 93X research ship X101 Neptune has been put on reserve. Following it's use against the Bolitic recently the ship used up much of it's remaining fatigue life and now serious cracks have been found on the main structure. The ship will be retained until 2110 but it is likely to then be withdrawn unless funding is found to give the Neptune a major overhaul though as it's a singleton class it is unlikely.
