Melson's response (apart from the usual expletive strewn rhetoric on Bolitic TV) is unknown. Unlike similar incidents in the Bolitic Confederacy's violent past such a challenge has not yet led to civil war but that may be mostly due to the weak state of the Bolitic military at the moment. However now Melson and Erinthorn are to meet on Smolask next month "with hands open" which is a Bolitic term for talk not war.
- New Arit have postponed the sale of their surviving Pentekonter-E for now. Sirikwan is interested in buying the ship to add to their own fleet (Molab has also shown an interest) but the Aritans have now decided to keep the ship until 2114 when it will be replaced by the first of the new Shark SKH-EA frigates on order from the Clones. The reason is mostly because the Pentekonter-E is the Aritan flagship and the other ships currently in the Aritan fleet (Kalahati Tuuls and Dinomark XTs) are not considered suitable to serve in that role.
