In an address to New Sparta, President Elect Torus, has warned NS that the fairly quiet period it is currently enjoying could end at any moment. "The galaxy is a dangerous place, new threats can emerge all the time and so quickly. Look at the Voth, for example, a year ago did they ever consider their fleet could be decimated by the Terrasaurs?"
Torus also said that warfare continued to evolve and so did the threats. "The bio-warfare launched by the Mutre Bee was just an example of a new threat that can hit us hard until we develop a counter. This could happen time and time again, NS must be ready and it must be as nimble, nimbler, than our enemies."
Torus said that NS Research would be given funding to look into asymmetric and irregular warfare, both from a defensive and offensive point of view.
