Sea Urchin elected NS President

To everyone's surprise the Central Committee, chaired by Witchdoctor, made its first act the election of Sea Urchin to be the first NS President. The vote was supposed to have been held tomorrow but Witchdoctor said as it was such a formality he saw no need in waiting. The decision did catch Sea Urchin on the hop though as he didn't even know he had been already elected until reporters called him at his home on Proxima 5!

President-elect Sea Urchin will officially take over from NS Commander Knobhead at the start of 2118 but wasted no time in making his first appointments in a new look NS heirarchy including Knobhead to replace him as head of Technology - a decision already known about. Under Sea Urchin will be four vice-presidents. One noticable aspect being that three of the four are ex-DDS/NS Commanders.

• Vice-President (Operations) Caratore (and overall deputy)
• Vice-President (Intelligence) Windscorpion
• Vice-President (Technology) Knobhead
• Vice-President (Infrastructure) The Shiner

The Shiner will head the new Infrastructure Department which will include NS Building Services, NS Estate Services, NS Financial Services and NS Development as well as the new exports agency.

More appointments will be made in the coming days.