9.12.08

Concerns over crumbling state of DDS GHQ

There are concerns over the crumbling state of infrastructure at DDS GHQ as the DDS have been forced to postpone much needed refurbishment work yet again to afford new weapons. Last year Building Services requested 1.1 billion zarks for a full refurbishment of the key areas of GHQ including a new data backbone, improved CCTV coverage (87% of CCTV at GHQ are located in men's toilets), lighting, fire control and communications. However in the end only the data network improvements were carried out for 165 million.

These also were done at the lowest possible cost and so there are many cases of wires and cables being left dangerously exposed around GHQ. In one case a young man carrying his life's work, a scale model of a Pulsar cruiser created out of 190,000 cotton buds, tripped on a cable and his model was hurled into the path of a passing tank and totally destroyed.