Following the recent trouble in finding any ships to reinforce the UNP colony of Charlotte Windscorpion has warned DDS and UNP officials that the DDS is becoming too thinly spread. "Although the DDS has built many ships over the last few years the commitments and area the DDS has to protect and patrol has increased dramatically. The DDS now has to protect a huge area of space ranging from Voth to Starbot up to Remedia. An area of space larger than the Clone Star Empire and Dino Republic put together!"
Windy said he was going to try and secure more funding for an expansion of the fleet, however he acknowledged that that would be difficult with the current economic downturn in the UNP. "I think we need at least 5 more destroyers and 10 more frigates on top of the existing fleet plans. We have already ordered 2 extra Missileers though to be honest we probably need 15 not 12!"
Windy said as a short-term measure the 2 Starsystem frigates put into reserve would be re-activated as soon as possible and put on low-level threat patrols, thus releasing 2 Romes or Isometrics to the general fleet. Windy would also ask the Raegris to contribute ships to Force Voth and the Remedian Squadron thus allowing DDS ships to be released from these duties. The Starbotians had already agreed to allocate I-1A to a patrol circuit. The final exercise of the year would go ahead though Windy added saying that training was vital and the ships allocated had already been taken into account in resource planning.
