"You have all that I do, Admiral. Good luck with Admiral Lasiter,
he may be hard to convince to let you go, but if it will help you can say
that I requested your presense here for training and
operational planning to say the least," Black said smiling slightly.This human would make admiral in the next few years, she was sure of it. He definately knew how to play the game. "I shall mention it, Captain," she said, returning his smile. "Thank you forrr yourrr time. I'll speak with you again this afterrrnoon. Good day." (resp?) She turned off the com and turned to Aurelius. "I wonderrr who was in the rrroom with him?" she mused. She hadn't bothered to ask - she doubted he would have said. (resp?) "So, what was yourrr imprrression?" she asked, getting up and getting some water from the replicator. "Do you want anything?" she asked. (resp?) She got him his drink and sat down to listen to her unofficial XO's thoughts. (Resp?) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
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"Again, my feelings are not necessarily supported by solid
> evidence... But these beings are intelligent, very intelligent, and with
> this level of intelligence normally comes patience. The real question is
> how much patience do they have and how ready are they now? I would
> hazard to say that we have months at the least. Say 6 to 8 months.
> Perhaps a year, but not much more than that. That is why I proposed this
> mission. We have to know more about them. How ready are they? What are
> their exact goals? What is the state of the opposition on their side, if
> there is any? Plus many more questions. If possible I would like to
> engage them to test their technology, but I fear that if they know or
> suspect that we know the little bit that we do it may cause them to
> strike sooner before we can properly prepare." he said seriously.
>
>
>
> "! Then we'll just have to make surrre they don't find out," she said with
> deadly seriousness. But she was worried. She had to go with the
> shortest time, and 6 months was no time at all. "Well, the addition of
> the Klingon teams should help, and I'm going to trrry and get myself
> assigned therrre as the liason between the two grrroups durrring theirrr
> trrraining so they don't trrry and butcherrr each otherrr."
>
>
"Any assistance that you could provide would be of greatly appreciated." Black replied noting the seriousness in which she replied.
>
>
> "Anything else you didn't put in the rrreporrts? Hunches, suspicions,
> anything else that can help me when I speak to Admirrral Lasiterrr?"
>
"You have all that I do, Admiral. Good luck with Admiral Lasiter, he may be hard to convince to let you go, but if it will help you can say that I requested your presense here for training and operational planning to say the least."Black said smiling slightly.
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