Knobhead worried about concentrating too many resources at GHQ

Director of Operations Knobhead has issued a warning after Firefly unveiled plans for a large and powerful battle station in orbit over the new GHQ on Proxima 5. "We need to be careful we don't over concentrate power and resources in one area of space and neglect everywhere else." he said at a meeting of DDS Centre ship captains at DDS City. "We need to keep our borders and hinterland strong so we can present any future foe with a layered defence."

However Knobhead said he did agree with building the battle station but that it needed to be part of a wider system. "The problem with static defence is that... its static. An enemy could just choose to isolate it and fight elsewhere. For example the Tarbotians could leave Proxima 5 alone and lay waste to Solaris and other key DDS worlds instead. GHQ would be safe but the war would still be lost."

Firefly countered at his daily media briefing that defences elsewhere will not be neglected. "I agree with him [Knobhead] that static defence can be isolated but thats why it is just part of a planned system of automated monitoring stations, defence posts, fluid ship formations and static defence. The battle station will make GHQ a fortress but we plan to make the DDS itself one huge intergalactic fortress!"

DDS to built new orbital battle station over GHQ

With the new DDS GHQ taking shape on Proxima 5 DDS Commander Firefly is now turning to the next stage in his project to make the core of the DDS much more resilient. A new battle station will be built in a geo-synchronous orbit over GHQ acting as a spaceport for DDS ships (currently DDS ships at Proxima 5 use civilian facilities or go to the DDS Orbital HQ over Proxima 7).

The battle station will be a formidable static defence post. It will be equipped with the latest weapons including Z7 cannons and TPM launchers. One report says the station will carry over 5000 TPM-2s and have sufficient launchers to fire these missiles at the rate of up to 10 a second (and have sufficient sensor and tactical systems to engage over 120 simultaneous targets).

Planning and design work are now ongoing, work is expected to begin on the new station by the start of 2114 with a completion date of 2116 mooted.

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Meat In The Sandwich
The DDS are called in to tackle some pirates (Pieces Of Hate P1)

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Violence Is Purity
The Malanas reveal the dark secret of the Dino past (Hero P5)

Other Fleet News (01/09/13)

• The Dinos have built 2 Dinomark XTs, one for themselves and one for New Arit. New Arit have also received a Dino built Provider-EDA transport.
• The Bolitic are reported to have built a new Snarl and rebuilt a withdrawn Helwin.
• The Raegris have received a Pentekonter-E PC-1.
• Porquat 640 have received an Extender-E.

Intergalactic commercial communications restricted by Clones

While desperate work to shore up the crumbling Clone Star Empire communication network takes place (a new link from Daggaddon to Cloneworld went live yesterday) it is expected to take several years to solve the main problems (and cost billions of zarks!)

The Clone Defence Forces have been forced to take over 50% of commercial communication links much to the dismay of Clone broadcasters. This has meant Clone civilians are now heavily restricted as to when they can use the communication network. Oojok has promised that these measures are only temporary though DDS analysts think "temporary" in this case may mean 2-3 years!