Ensuring Passage finally ended last night and the 3 ships remaining in the deployment are now returning to base. The deployment was raised during the short Dino-ABBO war to protect UNP and DDS shipping from ABBO attack in the vicinity of the Northern Rim Worlds but that threat has now ceased.
However recent signs that the ABBOs may be operating again in the area did make the DDS consider retaining the deployment but they have instead decided to increase the frequency of scheduled patrols in the area.
