President Torus has ordered all available ships back to the core space of the UNP to defend against the five LRMs seized by the MBO. Each LRM contained five nuclear warheads and is lying in deep space cloaked, however during their final attack mode they need to decloak so there is a small window of opportunity to intercept them.
Everything not in the battle fleet being assembled to fight the approaching MBO fleet has been reassigned. Light patrol ships, training ships, even shuttles and transports will be used to form defensive screens over strategic and important positions in the UNP. However, even if NS can form screens over 100 locations (as they claim), there are 200 or more other possible targets they cannot cover. Intercepting LRM warheads in their attack mode has not been trained for, and indeed they are designed to evade interception, so even defended positions could be hit.
The nightmare scenario for NS is for the Mutre Bee to use the LRMs to attack the Clones or Dinos. The Clone Star Empire has already put it's own much larger CSM force on full alert and have promised a "overwhelming barrage of nuclear warheads" if the CSE is attacked.
The two other operational LRM batteries have been de-activated as a precaution.
