Benito wants permanent HCS deployments and military industry

At the moment HCS units rotate to deployments in the eastern half of the Clone Star Empire just like any other posting. Only a small number of units are permanently posted on Austini 55 including the 2nd Legion which is Benito's personal guard and now drawn from Clones who have migrated to his part of the empire. However Benito wants this to be the norm by the end of 2110 (i.e. the end of next year).

As Benito currently has under his command 6 Legions, 3 Air Armies and 57 space craft that may be a bit of a tall order however. Benito says that soldiers who do not wish to re-locate should transfer to units in Captain Clone's part of the empire. Captain Clone is reported to have said that it would stagnate the forces in that part of the empire if they do not rotate anymore though it is likely he would prefer any soldiers who prefer living under Benito's rule out of his units in any case.

Benito also wants to set up a military industry on Austini 55 and Woloron 12 to equip and maintain his forces. At the moment there are few indigenous weapons plants Benito can count on (an AR-100 rifle factory and T-55Z factory on Austini 55 and a missile plant on Woloron 12) which means that he relies on supplies from the western half of the empire to equip his forces. A situation he wants to change by 2112 (again another tall order!)

Benito begins to re-organise his part of the CSE

Benito has begun a 3 year project to re-organise his half of the Clone Star Empire which up until now has been largely based on Austini 55 and Woloron 12 with other planets like Rendralal 4 hardly getting a look in. A key part of this re-organisation will be to decentralise some government departments and stimulate the economy on neglected worlds. Military forces will also be beefed up on these planets like the aforementioned Rendralal, Miliaris and Wizard World.



Benito has also begun diplomatic moves to improve relations with the Free Eritran States like Molab who are a DDS ally and customer for DDS warships. Benito wants improved relations for security and economic reasons, though this may be a hard sell as the Free Eritran States is the remainder of the Eritran Trade Federation which the HCS invaded years ago to create Benito's empire. Planets like Molab do not have a good opinion of the Clones and fear they too will be annexed one day.