Sea Urchin to meet MBH

President Sea Urchin is to meet Dino Emperor MBH next week to discuss the spy crisis. NS accepts the Dino SS-CINT did not recruit Caratore officially but was the action of a rogue agent. However NS is still demanding answers as to how it could happen.

A Dino source says SS-CINT was compromised by a third party and has offered to share data on the investigation with NSIS.

UNP grill Sea Urchin over plot

The UNP Defence Committee has grilled President Sea Urchin in an often heated session at the UNP Parliament on Proxima 7. UNP politicians wanted to know just how the Vice-President of Operations Caratore (and the defacto deputy leader of NS) could become an agent of a foreign power. They also wanted to know what damage to the NS and UNP had been caused.

Sea Urchin said that the plot was unprecedented, NSIS had done it's job in uncovering the plot and was now reviewing all of Caratore's actions and decisions. He said that NSIS needed time to discover exactly what damage had been caused and if there were other agents.

K40N retired

The Clone Naval Air Service (CNAS) has retired it's final twenty K40N Ford fighters, the carrier capable version of the K40. The K40N had been developed for the original HCS Navy's carrier though when the carrier project was cancelled along with most of the HCS Navy at the end of the Clone Wars the K40Ns already built were transferred to the air force. When the new Clone Navy was formed and new carriers ordered the K40Ns were returned to naval hands.

By then the K40Ns were near the end of the their lives and only a handful were considered still safe to use on carrier operations. However they did help the Clone Navy in it's early days of carrier operations before the arrival of the K45K. The survivors have been used mostly for "aggressor" training from shore bases over the last couple of years but now they have been finally retired.

NS accept Dinos were not behind plot

Vice-President of Intelligence Windscorpion is said to be satisfied the agent Caratore was acting under a rogue element in the Dino espionage agency SS-CINT and this was outside of Dino government control. However Windscorpion said the Dinos had to ensure they complied completely with NS and not to keep any information to themselves.

It is now thought Caratore and the rogue SS-CINT elements were part of a wider network run by an unknown third party. Windy said that other powers such as the Clones were also likely to have been infiltrated. 

NS recall all personnel and fleet

New Sparta has recalled all personnel to active service and all available ships in the fleet have been ordered to become fully operational (maintenance being postponed unless it is essential). President Sea Urchin has named Windscorpion Acting Vice President of Operations and has ordered preparations for "possible war" against the Dino Republic.

However that is unlikely to happen. A Dino source has said that a rogue element of SS-CINT was behind the recruiting of Caratore as an agent. The ringleader of the plot was killed by Dino SS as was his replacement/deputy. Emperor MBH has called for calm and says he will meet with Sea Urchin as soon as possible.

Sea Urchin is said to be under considerable pressure from the UNP over this.

NS demand answers from Dinos after Caratore arrested as SS-CINT agent

Vice-President Caratore, the head of operations and Sea Urchin's deputy, has been arrested by NSIS as a spy! He is accused as being an agent of the Dino secret service SS-CINT and has been taken to a secret location. President Sea Urchin has ordered NS be bought to his highest alert status RED.

He also demanded the Dinos explain exactly what is going on. He said that this was a highly serious situation and could be considered an act of war. He said NS was not declaring war on the Dino Republic at the moment but the entire NS war machine was being prepared for "extensive operations".

The Dinos have made no official reply though Ronald is rumoured to have contacted Windscorpion privately.