At a joint ceremony the first Pentekonter patrol vessel 3501 Thucydides made it's long-awaited entry into service. The Pentekonter immediately began a 2 month spell on the Proxima-Solaris patrol run. Director Of Operations Action Painting said that the Pentekonter was designed for such second-tier shorter patrol circuits and using one instead of an Isometric or Terran Sea frigate on such a patrol circuit gave a running cost saving of over 46%!
The first Block 2 Terran Sea frigate 3209 Yellow Sea also was accepted into service. The Block 2 has a number of improvements over the first 8 Terran Sea ships. At the ceremony Action Painting also confirmed that 8 Isometric frigates will be rebuilt as long-range patrol ships next year. This will be instead of the now cancelled LRF class.
