The Orchid has raised the DDS alert status to red which means the DDS is now in a state of war, though that has yet to be declared. She has ordered a meeting of the DDS council which will be held within a couple of hours. Any decisions may be held off until Starbotian ships reach the site of SS Galaxy and see if they can work out what has happened to it.
If the ship has been destroyed by the ABBOs this will be very serious for the DDS which has maintained a policy of only concentrating on the Bolitic threat, gambling on the ABBOs not attacking. How risky the gamble remains to be seen.
