A ship from the Sirikwanese Space Navy has joined the DDS' Western Pheonix deployment. The Relan class multi-purpose combat support ship contained a company of Sirikwanese Space Marines and these will take part in a number of training exercises with DDS Prowler troops over the next few weeks in the space around Voth.
In other deployment news the Aritan Intrepid II class destroyer AS05 Tulan Lanu has left the deployment and joined the DDS/Arit/Dino force protecting Voth. It's place has been taken by another Intrepid AS02 Youanki. The two ships will interchange the Aritan presence in the deployment every few weeks so both crews can take part in a variety of combat exercises.
Velocity class destroyer D154 Evolution has also gone to Voth for some repairs following a collision with a SROPS on a training exercise. The SROPS was destroyed when a piloting error caused it to crash when trying to dock in the Velocity's docking bay in a manual piloting exercise. Two crew aboard the SROPS managed to be teleported off but were both injured. At the moment it is thought the damage can be repaired by DDS personnel already at Voth though a Panther class destroyer at Solaris has been put on standby in case it has to go and replace Evolution.
The pilot of the SROPS will be questioned by the Windy Massive when he has recovered from his injuries.
