Alert status reduced

Head of ISSF Torus has said that the DDS alert status has been reduced to GREEN because of a reduced risk of reprisals by the old regime, very little of which is now extant. A few scattered Hood diehards have been detected and eliminated by SFX who has been tasked with this duty. Most of the remaining Hoods (thought to be around 400) have surrendered and applied to become normal DDS members. Intense psychological evaluations will have to be carried out on the former Hoods first to see if they are suitable.

Decontamination of SS Cicero has been completed and the ship will now be swept for any bugs or devices left behind by the old regime. Firefly hopes to use it for his first trip away from GHQ in mid-August. He will visit Liberation and Starbot and will also stop over at Porquat 640 on the way back.

• The Eritran Free States have placed an order for 60 F-10SEPE along with 500 TPM-A air-space missiles with the DDS. The value of the order and a delivery date has not been revealed. The fighters will be shared by the EFS members and provide a layer of defence against ships in low orbit.
• The DDS House System, where personnel were split into 4 houses which competed for merit points has been abolished. It was bought back by AP but never took off with the DDS.
• Repairs at GHQ to the communication sub-systems which were badly damaged in the coup will take longer than expected according to DDS Communications. Key command functions have already been moved to DDS Communications HQ on Proxima 5 and this will continue to be the temporary base of the DDS Politburo until GHQ's repairs are completed sometime in August. As this temporary base is not as well protected as some DDS facilities a squadron of TPM-A armed F-10S has been relocated from Proxima 7 for the time being.