14.11.08

Clones make about turn on Pangaea

The Pangaea amphibious warfare ship was a casualty of the freezing in relations between the DDS and HCS. The ships' hulls, based on the HCS Intruder design, were to have been built by the Clones and then transferred to the DDS for completion. However with only 2 hulls delivered the HCS cancelled the order and the DDS decided instead to reverse engineer the design and build it themselves in totality.

With the relations between the 2 powers thawing slightly and the HCS seeing that the DDS are going to built them anyway only the Clones will miss out on a lot of cash they have approached the DDS about restoring the order. The DDS are wary about this understandably though it is understood the reverse engineering process is taking longer than anticipated and will be 30% more expensive per ship. Pragmatically the DDS may agree to a resumption of the order even if it is annoying being messed about and the HCS could cut supply again.

The HCS say they have 2 hulls ready to transfer immediately should the DDS agree and also will give the DDS some Kalahati Tuul spares for free as a good will gesture (the HCS have withdrawn their fleet so have plenty of junk they could do with getting rid of).