At a ceremony at GHQ earlier today The Orchid was officially installed as DDS Commander by Firefly (Sea Urchin is on Liberation). The Orchid acknowledged to her supporters that winning the election was the easy part. "No doubt everyone will be now pouring through my campaign speeches and compiling lists of my campaign promises. Now we have to deliver on those promises. I pledge to you that my promises were not empty and we will build a new DDS to produce a secure future through strength and resolve."
The Orchid has already ordered a review of the fleet and preparations for deployments. She is also advancing her plans for layered defence with a contract being prepared to develop and build a series of listening stations which will be placed along part of the Rim Worlds border in a pilot scheme. The Orchid plans to concentrate forces behind the lines instead of spreading the forces out thinly along a perimetre relying on listening stations to detect enemy incursions which can then be intercepted in strength.
