Melaris 12 have reacted to the recent attacks on themselves by dipping into their meagre reserves to boost their defences. They have placed an order for 2 Coril-E shuttles off the DDS which will be used for communications and for maintenance of an orbital ring of surveillance and defence satellites. Some of these are already in place but they will be augmented by 3 multi-spectral sensor satellites and 2 armed sentry "killersats". A Terran company will provide these with DDS help, the total package has been costed at 57 million zarks which is a lot of money for the small colony.
The DDS will donate a quantity of ex-HCS ground weapons from their stocks (and following recent deals with the Clones the DDS have a large amount of equipment) for free. The equipment will be given to the Melaris Police and will be largely light armour and anti-aircraft weapons. One source says 150 TRV-5 Tapir IFVs and 50 TAA-4 Stoat AA tanks will be supplied along with small arms and other equipment.
Keen to foster relations with Melaris, who are not in the UNP, the DDS say they will regularly visit the planet and could open a DDS liaison office next year.
