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1st Fleet returns to Anantonese Ocean, 2nd Fleet redeploys to Yoshimi
Pre-War deployment retaken up as western tensions retreat in rearview Mirror
Port Swedes, Duchy of Vrassa
April 20, 5621


KRS-165, an Ananto Class Destroyer prepares to sail into Port Swedes for refitting

The Combat missions of the 1st, 2nd and 4th Fleets have officially ended in the Mad Dog Ocean.  The last of the ships from the heroic 1st Fleet, which was responsible for the final destruction of the Kundrati Navy in the Artanian Sea Campaign has sailed into the newly rebuilt Port Swedes and is being inspected and refitted and repaired as necessary.  The Kalistani 1st Fleet will return to patrolling the Eastern Anantonese Ocean, and when HQ I Fleet returns to Bozo River this Summer.

Meanwhile, II Fleet has returned to Yoshimi Station and shall resume patrolling the Central Artanian, while the 4th Fleet, still largely under reconstruction, is expected to take up patrols from Port Swedes and patrol the Northern Limit to the Karzon Strait between Lodamun and Dolgava.  This will give Kalistan its long valued naval supremacy in the Northern Anantonese Ocean once more, and represents a return to peace footing.

The redeployments will end Kalistan's lease in Newport Lodamun as Kalistan pulls back from the Mad Dog.  Kalistan will still continue to support Lodamese patrols of the Mad Dog, and will still seek to maintain forward intel assets in Lodamun, but the Naval High Command argues that there is no further need for such a forward leaning defense posture in the Mad Dog Ocean, especially if it could bring Kalistan in contact with Dorvish Fleets in that region, who are currently beginning to work with Dolgava half way around the world from their home.  "The last thing we need is any more encounters with Artanian naval units," said Rear Admiral Nathan "Mac" McGuinness.  "As the 4th Fleet reforms, it will focus on anti-submarine operations in  the Karzon Strait, but for the most part, will just stay off of everyone's radar.  But part of that mission includes working with Lodamun on surveillance north and west of Lodamun."

The Navy also says it will contact Dolgava about reactivation of the sonar network it once maintained in the Karzon Strait.  "The goal is to find and track every single submarine that is going or coming through that strait, to keep out those who don't belong in the Anantonese Ocean, and to pinpoint the locations of those who do," said Admiral McGuinness.  "But that is for the future.  The 4th Fleet is still several years from being back up to 100 percent.  So that is obviously our focus for the moment."

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