[b]Peace Talks[/b]
"The Federation is always happy to allow immigration, emigration, and tourism between us and other nations." Said Dmitri, who then turned to the Triarian. "Understood, we will alert you the moment she is located."

[b]Seeder Threat[/b]
The militia forces have arrived, and the AIF fleet has begun deeper scans of the enemy territory. They have found that they have far more ships than once thought, and everyone remembers what they did to the 1st fleet. As a result, the government has doubled the allocated ships and sent out a plea for civilian assistance, asking that any willing ship report to the front lines to be hastily refit for battle. Millions of passenger liners have voluntarily warped to the staging ground, after dropping off their passengers at the nearest transfer point. Incredibly, some of the passengers have stayed onboard to help in the fight.

[b]Military Expansion[/b]
The Abh have completed construction of the prototype point-defense cruiser, and testing has shown it is highly effective against small targets such as fighters and missiles, along with slightly larger craft such as frigates. The Dolphins have also begun construction of a new class of warship, which is essentially just a huge shield projector with weapons tacked on. Hundreds of these ships will be deployed in large fleets, providing extremely effective plasma-based and laser-based shielding for whole fleets. 

[b]Alien Contact[/b]
One of the new species has been accepted into the Federation, but a discovery on their origins has been made. When the diplomats were shown a map of Sol, they recognized it immediately as their home system, with one of them asking "Where's the third one?", obviously referring to Earth. When the incident occurred, the AIF requested their genetic codes. They share dozens of genetic markers with the Terran species, and theoretical historians have found records of early papers on similar creatures dying off before the wheel. They have been declared a Terran species, and the name "Boskop" has been given to them instead of the fifty syllable name they had themselves, the excuse is that "Boskop" was the name given to them by the man that first theorized their existence.