DDS Commander Firefly and Starbotian Military Commander K-1 have signed an official separation document at a meeting on Malau. Starbot has now officially left the DDS though all links were already severed in the last few weeks. K-1 said that Starbot and the DDS would remain friendly but that Starbot needed to find its own path.
A revised contract for Corkscrew 51A ships, now modified for an export spec, was also signed at the meeting. The DDS have also bought development systems, fabrication machines and intellectual property for the AI component of the Ferret UCV which was developed by Starbot. The cost of these items will be offset against the money being paid for the Corkscrews. Starbot has also signed an agreement not to sell TPMs, which they have the ability to build, to non-DDS allies.
