The DDS task force sent to investigate Rectoid temporal activity has had an unexpected run in with a Tarbotian fleet that is suspected to have been on a surprise raid on DDS facilities on the Dino-DDS border. The Tarbotians were discovered thanks to a faulty cloaking device in a Samara III frigate. When this was investigated the rest of the Tarbot fleet was uncovered.
The two fleets battled for a short time before the Tarbotians retreated, two of their ships were badly damaged and one is thought to have been destroyed. On the DDS side the Pentekonter patrol ship SS Thucydides and the Pulsar cruiser North America both received damage but nothing serious.
