The Art Team returns from the former Erinaum. As part of their final mission they retrieved several higher level documents, classical masterpieces, and prevented the capture of a hidden cache of railgun shells by a local militia. But after that, things seemed cooled down enough that the Art Team would pose more of a diplomatic issue than a cultural boon, and so it returns home. Members of the Art Team are awarded the Iron Crescent for Valor in the Field and given their choice of next assignment. The AC nears completion of the organizing, brown townyzing, categorizing, copying, and storing of former Erinamese assets, and most are scheduled to be returned to their cities of origin within the next five years, although the AC intends to retain several items including copies of many rescued documents, blueprints of buildings of note, military gear, weapons schematics, computer algorithms, and certain other items recovered from the former Erinaum.
The AC begins an initiative to modernize and upgrade its navy.
AC citizens in New Zealand are unsettled by Australian conflict and the local defense posture goes a notch in the paranoia direction. Militias declare emergency drills and the detection grid is monitored more thoroughly, but as a whole it is obvious that the people are merely worried over local safety and have no aggression in mind.
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