The ship of Sir Airengor, a former knight of the now defunct House of Nevi, has been hunted down by a joint UNDF-Bolitic force. Airengor was responsible for a number of attacks on UNDF and civilian transports. After a brief fight, the Helwin of Airengor was destroyed.
Bolitic Emperor Melson said that Airengor was a throwback to an earlier age and did not represent the current and future Bolitic.
The latest development build of the next generation n-Core engine family has successfully passed it's "torture test" and will now be prepared to begin field testing in an actual ship later this year. The test is the final part of the standard bench testing of a new engine and includes pushing the engine to it's limit during an extended simulated test.
UNDF Engineering said that the n-Core engine had largely passed the test with just a few issues with cooling, power management and resource utilisation. Feedback from the test will now be fed into the next build of the n-Core which will also run on a bench test until a further development will be installed aboard a Rome to begin field testing.
The Clone Navy, including the Clone Naval Air Force, and Clone Air Force are to take over the protection of the central military district on Cloneworld. This is the centre of power in the empire including Clone Defence Force GHQ, the dacha of Admiral Anderson and other core political and military power in the empire.
Clone Marines will take over the guarding of the various sites from the Clone Army who are to be removed from the district. CNAS and CAF aircraft will increase patrols over the area.
Admiral Anderson is also thought to be considering setting up a new branch of the military dedicated to defending the regime.
The next generation fighter for the Air Department of UNDF, the F-20, could have both manned and unmanned variants and these will work together. This could be a real threat to the Clone K45C which is considered the best fighter ever made though an unmanned F-20 could even surpass the agility of an inertia dampened K45C.
The F-20 will replace the oldest F-10S in the next decade and is a key type for the future of UNDF air power.
Suspected Bolitic renegades who attacked (and virtually destroyed) a UNDF transport have struck again in Remedian space. A civilian transport was attacked and badly damaged. A Remedian Corkscrew medium combat ship was nearby and intervened but suffered damage after a successful info-weapon attack. The Bolitic were able to get away, the Remedian ship knocked out of action. Two crew suffered injuries. All crew on the civilian transport are reported killed.
Meanwhile, the remains of 75-107 Circle has been towed to the nearest UNDF base. The ship has been declared a right-off and will be removed from the register, as much as possible will be stripped for spares.
UNDF have named the ship attacked by an apparent Bolitic ship in Remedian space. The Friendship 75A utility transport 75-107 Circle had been on governance duties to mining colonies when it was attacked. DF say the ship was badly damaged with all crew being killed in the attack or shortly afterwards. One crew member was found alive when a DF ship reached the scene though died a few hours later. It is reported that he had been brutally tortured.
Bolitic DNA traces were found on the ship, the holds of which had been ransacked. The Bolitic are denying it was them, however they said it could be renegades. A joint Bolitic-DF mission is investigating.