The Aritans have placed a 35 million zark order for 50 Ferret-E UCVs. They have also placed a 12.7 million zark order with the DDS for control and maintenance equipment for operation of the drones which will be deployed with the Aritan's fleet of Intrepid class destroyers. The Aritans have also placed an order for 22 million zarks for various items to upgrade their 8 Intrepids including improved sensor analysis computers, improved battle damage control systems and updates to the radio system to bring them to the latest DDS encryption standard.
A 8 million zark update of the 5 Solaris II frigates has also been arranged with the radios also being bought up to standard and the computers receiving updates to their front end processors. 1.2 million zarks has also been earmarked for radio and localisation updates to the 5 Kalahati Tuuls which are expected before the end of the year. The ancient Yeoman class frigate has finally been withdrawn and has been sold to the Proximan Space Museum for 500,000 zarks. How to get this ship, which can no longer go faster than light, across the galaxy to Proxima has yet to be decided though a HCS Type U super transport would be able to transport it inside the hold. The museum are in talks with the HCS.
