C121 Quasar, the only ship to Quasar ILU standard (though C127 Graviton is expected to be finished by the early Autumn) has returned to Solaris for modifications. The Quasar ILU programme has now been updated to allow the Quasars to take over the Pulsar bomber and command roles. The new ILU2 standard includes SAS-Q sensors and software, modifications to the missile bay and updated C3 equipment. The ILU2 standard will also be MRM ready, the new DDS missile being introduced later this decade. Like the Pulsar the Quasar will carry MRMs under it's wings. Finally the ships will have radiological reconnaissance and analysis systems for detecting the effectiveness of an attack.
The update to ILU2 is expected to take 3 weeks, all future ILU ships will be already to this standard. The Quasar ILU2 will be the definitive DDS strike bomber, the SAS-Q system being the next generation over the still somewhat hacked together Pulsar SAS. SAS-Q will have much more capacity for data input and processing from up to 32 simultaneous sources.
