Changes to Dino Senate agreed

Terence has been promoted to Acting Senator and will look after the Science Ministry while Cruggson recovers from his shooting. Cruggson is not expected to be well enough to return to work much before the end of the year but Terence, the Deputy Minister in any case, should be able to handle the role.

Stinkyson has also been confirmed as the SS Commander.

• Oceania 63A amphibious transport ship L153 South East Asia has been diverted from the Ground Shock deployment to help with disaster relief on Charlotte which has suffered a number of wild fires which have devastated large areas of the planet's main continent. Another Oceania is being prepared to take SE Asia's place in the deployment that is due to begin in a few days, though the amphibious part of the exercise is not scheduled until mid-March.