Oojok met with the Utrek leader Aragenda today on his flagship in deep space in between Clone and Utrek space. As a result of the meeting the former good relations between the Clones and the Utrek in the 2090s appear to have been restored with the Utrek saying they will invest 100 billion zarks into the Clone economy (to be supplied in 3 yearly installments).
However the Utrek will get a lot in return, they will get 45% stakes in a number of large Clone engineering companies including the massive Clone Aircraft Corporation (CAC) but more importantly from an astral-political perspective they have gained 100 year basing right leases on 3 planets in the Clone Star Empire!
Paragon is the only planet to be named so far, this will be the home to an orbital Utrek refueling and maintenance station as well as a facility on the ground for "military liaison and intelligence gathering", two other planets will be chosen later (one will be in the CSE-E though this is probably news to Benito!) The HCS said that the Utrek would be restricted to the number of troops and ships that could be present at these facilities. The strategic implications are enormous however for the DDS who have already protested the moves. DDS Commander Firefly has called an urgent meeting of the DDS Politburo and raised the alert status to AMBER.
