Marcus warns against Eritran militarisation

The head of the CSE-E, Marcus Totallyuseless, has warned against the Eritrans continued military build-up destabilising the region. "They have the right to arm themselves for protection." he said at a meeting of CSE-E governors, "But that ability to defend could easily become the ability to threaten us and that is not something the Clones are prepared to take lying down."

Marcus said that he had recently held talks with Oojok and that the Clone Defence Forces would be strengthened in the CSE-E if needs be. He also said that the shelved CSM deployment to Austini 55 could be put back on the table if the Eritrans were seen as a threat.

• The Voth are reporting increased military activity in Bolitic space near their border. It is not thought the Bolitic are planning an attack but that there could be some internal strife taking place, possibly between Baron Erinthorn the leader of the League of the Crystal Sword, a league of Bolitic houses seeking greater independence from Castarian, and Emperor Melson.