New Sparta has revealed how last week one of it's ships, thought to be a Depender 161A - though this has not been confirmed by NS, was attacked at the UNP-CSE border by the new CDF experimental Uncloned Space Fighter (USF). The USF is a fully autonomous superluminal warship, it is reported the USF went out of control on a demonstration test. The USF is reported (by a non-CSE source) to have destroyed a number of target drones and badly damaged the mothership before heading to the border.
Why the Depender was at the border is not known, though as the ships are suspected to be Sigint intelligence gathering ships it can surmised they were monitoring CSE activities. The USF was destroyed by a pursuing group of CDF warships. The Clones assisted the Depender before returning to their space.
NS said that there were three fatalities on the Depender which has been towed to Solaris for repair. VP (Ops) Torus has demanded an explanation from the Clones.
