User blog comment:Angren Túrë/EMERGENCY FLEET BULLETIN 09/11/2014/@comment-24891101-20140912005501

While the combined sortie of Arkos and Sloth to rescue the distressed Frozen Arc ultimately proved a failure, the crew managed to abandon ship, and an air search conducted by the remains of Arkos' complement allowed Europa to arrive on station to retrieve the crew. Meanwhile, as her complement was airborne, Arkos' DC teams managed a field-expedient repair of the elevator and arresting engines; while the fantail is still in bad shape, looking rather ugly, it nonetheless gets the job done, as far as ability to recover aircraft goes. It was admittedly a gamble to launch a search while recovery capability was in doubt, but her capable damage control teams lived up to their promise to achieve minimal recovery capability before the SAR mission returned. She is expected to return to port for repairs and certain upgrades to the arrestor system, as well as new munitions stores, less vulnerable to catastrophic mishandling.

Evolution of current doctrine means that one of the fleet's older vessels, the Rune, will be decommissioned, though she will not be scrapped. She will instead become a museum ship, but retain the ability to be reactivated in an emergency. In truth, this was long overdue; for much of the past year, she has remained in port, being awkwardly positioned in terms of doctrine, as she came off the slips shortly before construction began on Arkos, and her design was obsolete shortly after Arkos's first deployment.