Captain Clone and Benito Clone have begun their emergency summit on Petric. Pre-summit talks indicate that Benito is willing to end his opposition to the emergency fleet building plan of Captain Clone to replace ships lost in the Xenon disaster and build up front line fleet assets in return for concessions with respect to his own armed forces.
Benito is concerned that diverting funds from other military programmes will impact his own efforts to improve the defences of CSE-E. Captain Clone is willing to prioritise other equipment programmes for Benito's half of the empire thus it is likely CSE-E will get the first batches of F-45C for example and other weapon programmes. CSE-E will also get the second CSM battery after Cloneworld.
