The Iron Empire and all its partner states issued a formal protest against the closed Sho-tech research into new anti-matter or sho FTL drives.

“Technological progress based on our joint ancestral heritage should be available to all of humanity and not to a select few rich states and influential organisations under Shantic employ” was the statement Imperial Spokesman Veinaar Steglitz made yesterday at the Draktan Assembly [IM-feed link].

The Spokesman of course refers to the recent years’ progress and tests of Earth based FTL technology that was made possible after Hegemony Void Mariners found the TSS Burundi derelict in the deep reaches of the void.
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