The Historian casts his eyes back over the rich history of the DDS Universe.With a large fleet of warships, many among the most powerful and advanced in the known galaxy it is easy to forget that the DDS space fleet had quite humble origins. Indeed for the first few years of its existence the DDS had no ships at all.
The DDS was created to combat the Clones on Cloneworld who were attempting to take over the planet from human colonists. The Clones did not have a fleet thus the DDS did not feel the need. However in 2090 the Clones bought 6 Kalahati Tuuls from the Utrek along with a number of transports and began building their own too. In 2091 they invaded and conquered Daggaddon in short order forcing the DDS to scramble to build its own space presence.
The DDS bought a number of Ranger scout ships from a commercial builder and a couple of singleton ships to decide on the right types for series production. Total Triumph, when the Clone succeeded in conquering Cloneworld (and nearly destroying the DDS) threw these plans up in the air but by 2095 the DDS had a number of warships including Universe SM, Solaris (which later became the Solaris series class) and a few other minor types.
The DDS were greatly outnumbered however by the Clones who were building their own KTs and also had bought some Cosmos from the Raegris (and of course soon would produce their own of these too). The DDS could not compete numbers wise thus decided to build a warship which would literally blow everything else out of the stars : the Pulsar.
The Pulsar was the last of the one-off prototype classes and helped herald the 2nd Generation of DDS warships, which would be produced in series - the Pulsar, Starsystem and Solaris classes. These formed the backbone of the DDS fleet into the early 2100s and helped stem the relentless spread of the Clones across UNP space. However without the 1st generation everything else would not have been possible. These early ships, often quite primitive and unreliable helped the DDS establish the infrastructure, systems and tradition which makes them such a galaxy beater today.
