23.6.11

DDS test Rapid Reaction Force

Set up following the war the Rapid Reaction Force or RRF will eventually be an all-worm drive equipped set of ships on the highest alert status (able to depart port within 2 hours) which will be able to be dispatched immediately to developing situations and hot spots. Because the number of ships with worm drive is still very low only the flagship of the RRF is worm drive equipped at the moment and that currently is SS Isometric.

To test out the RRF on Monday the DDS held an exercise though the RRF crews did not know it was an exercise at the time. Under the test a radiological bomb is said to have gone off in the capital of Liberation, SS Isometric was sent with an NBC Assessment Team, it was able to depart port within 109 minutes of the initial alert. Within 27 hours it was in orbit around Liberation and, if it had been a real emergency, would have sent down the NBC team and later reported back what emergency equipment the DDS needed to send. The DDS hailed the test as a success though say that want to try and get the departure time below 100 minutes in future.