Despite the pirate force seemingly being largely destroyed and its leader Akorian presumed dead NS Commander Knobhead has resisted calls to drop NS' alert status from RED, war status. NS Engineering say that with a RED status with its attendant restrictions they are falling behind in regular maintenance and ship rotations.
Knobhead wants the RED status to continue for a week at least while investigations into Akorian's fate continue and remaining pirate ships are found and destroyed. However he has allowed NS Engineering to take 3 ships out of service to begin their scheduled C Exams.
