Admiral Anderson has ordered the Clone Defence Forces to it's highest alert status below actual combat operations. This includes the strategic nuclear forces. Two ballistic missile submarines loaded with SeaCSMs are to be at sea by the end of the year, land mobile CSM launchers have also been loaded and dispersed to secret locations.
Anderson said that the external enemies of the Clone Star Empire were poised to pounce, though he did not state which enemies these are.
Viceroy Caratore has called for calm though has also ordered the NS strategic missile systems to readiness.
