The DTA have declined Starbot's application to join its organisation citing the massive astralgraphic distance between itself and the rest of the DTA and the short period since Starbot left the DDS. The DTA has however granted a new "Associate Membership" to Starbot and promises greater co-operation and technology and intelligence sharing.
One result of this, which benefits the DDS, is that the DTA do not want Starbot to share transphasic technologies with other powers. In return the DTA will station a detachment of Dinomarks on Starbot to assist with patrols and defence until Starbot's own fleet can be strengthened. K-2 has agreed to the deal and accepted the associate membership though says that full membership must come "soon".
