Sea Urchin and Oojok meet

President Sea Urchin and Emperor Oojok have met after all. Their meeting took place on a Clone warship at the border of Clone Star Empire and UNP space yesterday. The meeting was said to be cordial though as yet nothing has been said to reduce tensions due to the deployment of CSM on the edge of CSE space near the Free Eritran States.

However one Clone Defence Forces insider says that the mobile CSM regiments may be relocated to Austini 55, the capital of CSE-East. This would put the CSM out of range of the majority of Eritran planets. Redeploying them back to Miliaris would be a simple operation of course but this compromise might be enough.

NS developing CSM counter

VP Technology Knobhead has said that NS has been working on a counter to the Clone Space Missile for a number of years. Knobhead said that work on NS' own LRM had helped with developing counters. He didn't say exactly what these counters were but some sources are suggesting a layered approach with sensor spoofing, target decoys and neutrino grids to detect incoming warheads.

The Clones have rubbished talk of countering CSM. "NS are pulling the wool over their eye." Admiral Anderson said, "Plus we have many CSMs, only one needs to get through."

Oojok says a new cold war has begun

Relations between New Sparta and the Clone Star Empire have further deteriorated following a skirmish between NS and CDF warships near Paragon. Two CDF ships detected three NS warships and exchanged fire. No damage was reported.

Oojok has withdrawn his agreement to meet with Sea Urchin on Yeng. Instead he says a new cold war has begun between the two galactic superpowers. There are now reports that three more Astral Attack (Mobile) Regiments are now to be formed and CSM production has been stepped up.

NS developing mobile LRM launcher, may deploy to Molab

Last year NS' long awaited interstellar attack missile, LRM-20, finally entered service. After the Clones deployed a mobile launched version of their CSM to Miliaris causing Molab to threaten to attack NS have announced they are also developing a mobile launched version of LRM-20.

LRM-20M could enter service next year VP Technology Knobhead said in a media briefing. He said that NS was looking at a number of potential homes for NS' mobile launchers and Molab could be a prime candidate. With a twenty light year range LRM-20M would be able to reach most points in the Clone Star Empire - East.

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