On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Julie Yakes wrote:
> > "Anything I can do for you, sir, please just call." she said as she rose
> >to leave. She had given something very rate for a tellerite, a moment of
> >courtesy and compassion.
>
>
> She was surprised, but accepted it for what it was, a gift. "I will, thank
> you."
>
> >It did not take all that long for the questions to start up agian. Just
> >how did this pig get that information? Just who were her contacts? How
> >does an Ensign get contacts? Just what was wrong with this picture?
>
> It was information she wanted, and that was what she got, even though she
> didn't trust the messenger as far as she could throw her. She still felt
> like she was being watched every moment she was on Spacedock, and she was
> pretty sure the Tellarite had something to do with that. It all seemed very
> convenient, a science experiment gone wrong, and it had a bit of the
> fantastic thrown in to make it sound just credible enough. She would
> investigate it, but she doubted its authenticity. It sounded too
> convenient, and especially given that it came from an ensign that had
> nothing special on her record, at least the last time Kit checked. Maybe
> the Tellarite was being used as a tool, maybe she was in on it... It didn't
> matter really, she would just have to think carefully about how to use the
> situation to her advantage.
>
> For the afternoon, she started compiling a list of available personnel she
> coudl reassign to commands that were understaffed. She found as many
> experienced field people as she could that were flying desks and put them on
> a list to send out when she found out who needed them. She also started
> doing a survey of outposts herself, running a computer query to find out
> which posts had experienced the same kind of dropoff in productivity as
> Pumace and where they were located.
>
She noted that of the once 10 outposts ran by Spec Ops on the
Romulan Neutral Zone, there were only 5 left (two had transfered to Intell,
and three closed). Several on the klingon border were in sad shape, and
they were few and far between. The shocking news was that there was a
serious lack of Spec Ops presense anywhere near the frontier borders of
the Federation. Namely DS9- border to the Dominion. Had the department
gone that far down hill?
>
> She also sent a message to Aurelius asking him to delegate a study to
> someone he trusted to do it right, a study to look at the quality of the
> reports coming from all outposts, and the incidence of repeated missions to
> the same places, and the casualty rates. It would take some time to
> complete, but it needed to be done.
>
He sent back the following message,
Admiral Kitanya, if we are going to be performing much more work that will
require "trusted people" I am affraid that you may have to go to Admiral
Lasiter and ask him for permission to start your reorg sooner than the
three month hold. With the 'test' missions and the other analysis that
you have ordered, plus a few things that I am running to help weed out the
bad apples... We are starting to seriously tax our trustworthy resources.
Please keep in mind that this department has suffered years of neglect,
and we are not what we should be.
Capt. Aurellius.
>
> While she worked, she waited for the angry messages that were sure to come
> in from the fleets over what she had done that morning.
>
She recieved several notes of complaint, mostly about the lack of
notice and consultation. Those were the ones that were "reasonable" if
you granted that fact that the Spec Ops units shold have been assigned to
those commands anyway. A simple note back recognizing the short notice,
and offering a mild appology would cover those, if she saw fit. Then
there was this one....
To: Vice Admiral Kitanya, Director of Special Operations
From: Vice Admiral Brell Trakorn, Fleet Commander, Federation 6th
Starfleet
cc: Admiral Samuel Lasiter, CinC Starfleet,
Bajoran Ambassador, Earth,
Major Teris Nelo, Military Liason to 6th Starfleet
RE: Abrupt Change of Status of Special Operations Contingent
Admiral, it comes as a stark shock to me that the Special Operation
contingent was abruptly removed from my direct command, and returned to an
attached status. In this complex, both politically and strategically,
area that I am responsible for it is of vital importance that a unified
command structure be maintained. This will be very difficult to do
without a strict command structure, and this action precludes that from
happening.
I would also like to make it known that the Bajorans will not pleased at
this change in command structure either. In order to provide them with
the necessary feeling of security they have been given large influence
over the nature of how we run our operations in this part of space, and in
some cases we have given control of specific operations over to them. It
is for this reason that I insist that the Special Operations contingent
not be granted the freedom of operability as the attached status grants
them, but rather they remain in the assigned status.
signed.......
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