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Kalistani Auxiliary Navy Returns to Kalistan
August 22, 3969
Kaliburg, Ananto


A portion of the Kalistani Auxiliary Navy at Kaliburg Shipyards, being refitted and equipped with the most modern naval technology available

The Kalistani Auxiliary Navy has returned to Kalistan for the first time in 30 years.  While visiting Kalistani ports off and on in its three decade history, the Kalistani Auxiliary Navy has been in the service of one group or another for its entire time.  This is the first time since its foundation that the Kalistani Auxiliary Navy has been ordered to return to Kalistan by the Defense Minister, and will now call Kaliburg its home base for the time being while it is refitted and upgraded with newer technology.  The Navy has operated as a self funding entity, sailing primarily for non-Government organizations, famously the ML cartel in Cildania, as well as various other relief efforts across the surface of the planet.  Few of the original officers or crew remain in service with the Auxiliary navy, and in recent years, the KAN has spent time between jobs in running security on private contracts for Kalistan national industries.  So this return to Kalistan represents a major shift in the priorities of the KAN.

Captain Twilla Carrangus, of the Kalistani Republican Navy, has been assigned to oversee the refitting and updating of the naval assets, and a surplus air craft carrier group has been added to the fleet, to aggrandize its capacity at sea.  Once the navy has been refitted, sources close to the Defense ministry say that the Kalistani Auxiliary Navy will be dispatched to the waters off Aldegar, to monitor the rising crisis and to assist, at need in the containment of the crisis.  Minister of Defense Elias noted that the Kalistan Auxiliary Navy will not be sailing under a Kalistani flag, but under neutral colors, unless it accepts a contract from one or another of the sides in the conflict.  "We as a nation, will not directly intervene in any foreign conflict."  the New Minister declared.  "But we will not oppose the Kalistani Auxiliary Navy taking contracts from the players...  They are independent of Kalistani control, and are at liberty until Kalistan needs them to assist in the defense of the homeland.  The Socialist Party of Kalistan has not ruled out deploying units of its militia, if the situation requires it, and like the Kalistani Auxiliary Navy, are under their own command unless they are called for National Service."

With this move, Kalistan unofficially enters the mounting conflict in southern Selaya.  Combined with a planned state visit by Foreign Minister Hendricks, Kalistan signals to the world that it will return as a major player in world events.