VP (Ops) Torus has spun off the DNA Screening Agency off NSIS as a separate department of New Sparta. This is due to the sheer size of the DSA which now has a thousand staff and six offices across the UNP. Indeed the size of the DSA means it is expected to cost nearly one hundred million zarks a year which is the price of a couple of Protector patrol ships! The cost is likely to mean weapon procurement may be affected.
The cost is due to the staff required, protocols and facilities being built up and a dedicated lab at NS Research for DNA scanning technology. NS fear that the Mutre Bee may improve his cloning technology and thus defeat existing DSA scanning technology, however an improved scanner is already in development.
Scanning all NS personnel is a huge process requiring a complicated bureaucracy. Torus said that the scanning of key UNP personnel also needs to be added to the DSA remit (at the moment only UNP parliament members are scanned monthly).
