Sea Urchin, who was been given a role in facilitating this ambitious plan, said that the DDS would have to work hard over the next few years to regenerate its fleet badly damaged by the ABBO war. He also said that an extra effort was being made to build up the amphibious and transport fleets as building of combat ships had predominated over during the latter half of the current plan.
- Contact has been lost with SS Carboniferous which is on an unspecified long-range mission, rumoured to be in ABBO space. However the long range of the mission means that losing a hyperlaser link is not that unusual.
- The WCV-15 Hippo wheeled armoured vehicle has been finally withdrawn from service. The Hippo was a wheeled version of the HCSTapir intended for internal security but was not built in large numbers with the later WCV-10 White Tapir preferred instead.
