Sea Urchin (below), the deputy commander of the Hard Thrust task force heading to the DMZ to punish the Utrek for breaking the treaty, has taken a small detachment ahead of the main fleet which is currently waiting for the ground attack detachment to rendezvous with it.
It is thought Sea Urchin's force, consisting of a Panther (which has to be the Panther) and 2 Terran Sea frigates, is conducting deep scans of the DMZ using a new strategic sensor array being fielded by the DDS for the first time. The array has been fitted to D101 Panther and is a full-aspect sensor suite with a very long range.