Pulsar class cruiser C102 Australasia has had to leave the Western Pheonix deployment following a mine strike which damaged the cruiser's main engine and injured 3 crew. The mine, thought to have been a Vosun-Voth example that drifted free of known fields hit the cruiser during war games in Voth space. A close in sensor failure meant that the Pulsar did not detect the mine until it was very close and the impact from the CIWS destroying the mine caused damage to the ship.
Australasia has returned to Voth for emergency repairs before continuing onto Solaris to have a new engine fitted. It is being accompanied by the oiler A149 Octane which was due to return to the DDS anyway as it was replaced by A154 Kerocene.
Velocity destroyer D154 Evolution is now the flagship of the deployment.
