Oojok and the Rectoid leader, President-Facilitator Yoko982, have met on Petric a planet in the mid-point between the two halves of the Clone Star Empire. The meeting took place yesterday but had only been reported now due to the high level of security.
As expected Oojok and Yoko982 signed a mutual defence pact, a diplomatic agreement and a huge arms deal. The pact will see both the CSE and Rectoids grant full refuelling and repair rights to the other's ships at any of their facilities. Both sides will also able to establish two ground based stations somewhere in the other's territory. One Rectoid station is expected to be on Randalf 74, its purpose is unknown but it is likely to be an intelligence gathering station.
The arms deal is huge. The Rectoids have bought 35 Kelsan KS bombers, 250 CSM-S missiles, 60 CSM ground based missiles and full specifications to establish their own CSM and CSM-S manufacturing capabilities. The value of this order is said to be about 18 billion zarks though about 2.3 billion of this will be offset by Rectoid technology transfer to the Clones including particle weapons and phasic shielding. The Rectoids will also be getting some other Clone weapons including Nybble NL drones but no breakdowns of these are available.
Oojok has hailed the deal and the pact as being vital to the future security of the CSE, and it is hard to argue with that.
