Late last year the Clones and Rectoids signed a mutual defence pact, the Rectoids bought a huge amount of Clone military hardware including Kelsan bombers and CSM, and the Clones were to receive Rectoid technology. The latter is now arriving with Rectoid facilitators working with Clone scientists and engineers at a number of sights to integrate Clone and Rectoid technology (which will also help with the exports).
The Clones and Rectoids have agreed a common middleware software layer to allow their respective military data protocols to interact. Similar layers are also being developed for the physical hardware, for example Rectoid weapons require different voltages and plasma frequencies than Clone equipment so if the Clones fit the weapons to their ships then they need a middleware layer too.
A Clone source says it is unlikely Rectoid technology will be integrated into service ships before 2115 at the earliest. In the longer term a new generation of co-developed weapons and technologies will be at the heart of both sides military.
