Two Clone warships have skirmished with Utrek ships near to Wizard World on the border between Benito's Eastern Clone Star Empire and the Utrek Federation. Cosmos class cruisers CSS Malertin and CSS West Clone Republic were "buzzed" by 3 Utrek Molentic Tuuls when conducting a survey of the space at the border.
The Clones are reported to have told the Utrek to leave Clone space but the Utrek ignored them and instead continued to harass the HCS ships. Finally one of the HCS ships fired a warning shot. The Utrek did the same and then cloaked, they are then thought to have returned to their space.
The incident is thought to be just the latest of a series of little known "meetings" between the two sides this year in this region of space. It is thought with the DDS now a "no go area" for the Utrek they have turned to the Clones for the purpose of "nationalism".