The DDS have announced the Ensuring Passage deployment which was set up to protect DDS and UNP ships from ABBO attack near the Rim Worlds will end at the end of this month. The deployment has already been cut back, and yesterday Caratore who had been leading the deployment transferred command as his ship left the deployment to return to Solaris for a refit.
The deployment is more a training exercise now with the new flagship R105 Grenadier conducting training with it's squadron of Ferret-E UCVs against the DDS and Aritan frigates also in the deployment. New commander Captain Peter Fhile said that the ABBOs were no longer active in the area though the DDS would continue to monitor the area and run regular patrols after Ensuring Passage had ended.
