DDS reduce alert status

The DDS have reduced their alert status to GREEN, though as when they increased it to AMBER a few weeks ago there has been no explanation why. It has been rumoured on a blog that a DDS special forces unit has been doing something on Unatel Gamma and the DDS went to a higher alert just incase there was a HCS response. The DDS declined to comment.

• The UNP has agreed with a DDS Research proposal to create a new speed unit called Equivalent Speed of Light or ec to measure worm drive speeds (which have to factor in waiting time and distance traveled in the worm jump thus are an equivalent to a traditional hyperspace speed (c).