Pulsar final months revealed

The Pulsar 12A cruiser fleet will be withdrawn by July according to the DDS. Only 4 ships remain from what was once the principle fighting ship in the DDS fleet (and maybe the known galaxy). However in latter years the Pulsar has become a rather unreliable and expensive to operate ship. Still powerful but its ageing technology means it is almost twice as expensive to run than a Quasar 15A ILU cruiser.

One Pulsar will be withdrawn immediately, the ship chosen will be the one with the worst condition following an inspection to be undertaken this week. This ship will then be used for spares for the other 3 which will form the 1st Attack Squadron of the DDS. It is expected these ships will have their final deployment on the Atomic Fist exercise planned for the late Spring. The ships will be finally withdrawn in the Summer and this will bring to an end the era of the 2nd generation of DDS warships in the front line (though the Starsystems remain as training ships of course).

• The DDS have said that all 7 nuclear power and reprocessing stations on Malau had been rigged with explosives by the ABBOs. If the DDS had landed troops on the planet it is thought the ABBOs would have detonated the explosives. The radiological release could well have destroyed the Malau biosphere. Bomb disposal teams are now removing the explosives.
• The DDS have been analysing the hundreds of captured ABBO warships. There was a hope from some quarters that some ships could be reused (even if as unmanned assets) but a DDS Engineering team has reported that the computer systems of the ships has fused totally. That plus the totally alien technology would make trying to reuse the ABBO ships more trouble than it would be worth. The DDS will instead recycle them for reuseable materials.
• The research ship SS Isometric will tomorrow depart on a reconnaissance of ABBO territory. The ship is fitted with worm drive already and has extensive scanning systems because of recent trials of new equipment.