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The war ended and, despite the hopes of certain people, peace broke out.
Most Fen combat personnel were citizen-soldiers and went back to their old lives. A few outliers, troubleshooters and 'professional soldiers' remained to keep Great Justice's coordination system operational.
The ship-mounted weapons either went into storage or were rendered down into raw materials for less violent purposes.
Combat-oriented ships were mothballed or demilitarized (to wit, see the Soviet demilled VFP Look! I'm A Ploughshare!, formerly ROU Frank Exchange of Views) with a few kept active for patrol duties (Boskone may have been broken and scattered, but Boskonians still haunt the less well-travelled paths), national/factional dick-measuring contests and just to keep the pilots sharp.
Weapons design would continue, though it'd be largely theoretical and kept to computer simulations with autofac blueprints drawn up Just In Case.
New ship designs followed the Federation multi-role paradigm; designed largely around peacetime operations but capable of self-defense, Just In Case. Strictly combat-oriented craft like the Blackbirds or Normandies are considered gauche, but they're not openly sneered at either.
By the end of 2015 the new normal has stabilized. Fenspace is a bit more militaristic, maybe a bit less innocent than it was before SOS-Con, but that lost innocence has been replaced by wisdom: despite the panic of the war and the unsteadiness of relations with the homeworld, no arms races have begin. The big navies of the end of the war have returned to coast guard duties. Boskone's gone back to a law-enforcement problem, not a military one. Nobody's listening to the meatheads demanding Fenspace start a cold war with the space powers. The peace is holding.
Until the next crisis, of course.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
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