The joint DDS-Aritan deployment in and around Voth space, Operation Western Pheonix, began earlier in the month in space near to the Bolitic Confederacy border. A few times sensor "ripples" were detected, indictating cloaked ships nearby (the ripples occur when minute EM leakage occurs on a cloaked ship). This was expected however.
Indeed when a Bolitic Snarl class cruiser decloaked yesterday near to the Aritan destroyer Tulan Lanu the only surprise was what had taken the Bolitic so long. The Bolitic ship did not respond to DDS radio messages and instead attempted to probe into the Intrepid class destroyer's communications system with a transmitted software agent. The Bolitic may have considered the Aritan ship was the weak link however it's network security systems were upgraded by the DDS before the mission and the Bolitic SA was unable to penetrate. The Bolitic ship recloaked.
