President Windscorpion has announced the second of (up to) four extra short-notice exercises. These are designed to test New Sparta's ability to rapidly assemble forces and juggle strained resources. Extra 2120B will be a mine warfare exercise, a large mine field has been "discovered" near Solaris affecting shipping lanes and must be cleared as soon as possible.
Two Raegris minelayers (operating under secret orders from Windy) have laid around 100 training mines. An NS minesweeping force will begin clearing them tomorrow. The Raegris will remain in the area to cause nuisance during the operation.
The NS ships are:
36-109 Maple (flag)
46-103 Hadrian (MCM director)
44-101 Thucydides
44-107 Orpheus
44-117 Herodotus
73-114 Skymaster
