The Mutre Bee Organisation has issued a demand for unconditional surrender by New Sparta. The commander of the MBO fleet, former NS general Caratore, said that NS should surrender now to avoid any more bloodshed. "NS should know by now that their position is hopeless, if they continue this pointless fight then all that will be achieved is more losses and more deaths. Torus should accept it is the end of NS as an independent entity. It is time for NS to embrace it's future as part, an important part, of the Mutre Bee Organisation."
President Torus said that NS would never surrender. "Surrender is not in the DNA of New Sparta." Though some commentators have quipped that the NS DNA has probably been compromised by the MBO by now.
