Acting Commander AP has managed to score an extra 14 billion zarks in emergency funding to help keep the war going and fund replacement warships. The expenditure of the war had put a squeeze on DDS coffers with the DDS facing the prospect of raiding its emergency reserves if the war continued beyond February (as looks likely). The extra funding from the UNP will mean the DDS can continue operations and expenditure at current levels for much of next year.
It is rumoured that powerful figures in the UNP are backing AP and have provided this funding in return for DDS (and especially Hood) involvement in undisclosed "future security measures".
