> > "Keep me informed. I want copies on all
> reports that come from your
> >people. Send them as soon as they are
> written. This is now something that I
> >have to bring to SF Command as a whole, and to
> the President. "
> >
> > She could tell from the facial expression
> and from his voice that he was
> >treating this as seriously as he possibly
> could.
>
> "Thank you, sirrr. I'm glad you underrrstand
> what this kind of issue can
> do to the people of Cait. The Kzinti werrre
> one thing, but these things...
> The fight like demons and I'm saying that as a
> Mikan. If they werrre to
> invade a planet, humans and humanoids would
> have no chance. It's taken
> weeks to trrrain SpecOps trrroops up to a level
> wherrre they stand a
> chance. Civilians..." She just shook her
> head.
>
> > "What do you think of Captain Black? How
> much do you trust him? How
> >quickly is he picking up on the nuances of
> Felinid war tactics? How well is
> >he getting along with his Klingon
> Counterpart?" Lasiter asked.
>
> "Oh, they'rrre getting along splendidly afterrr
> some forrrced quality time
> togetherrr," she said with a sly smile. "As to
> trrrust, I trrrust both of
> them completely. They arrre both honorrrable
> officerrrs. Polath has
> picked up on the felinid tactics fasterrr, but
> he is a field officerrr with
> yearrrs of special operrrations experrrience.
> He's also a Klingon, to whom
> fighting comes naturrrally. Black has been a
> little slowerrr, just due to
> fighting inexperrrience, but he's coming along.
> Forrr his job, he doesn't
> need combat tactics knowledge so much as a
> strrrategic plan, and he did
> well enough. The convoy was attacked exactly
> as he'd anticipated, and
> although we didn't expect the second wave,
> we'rrre all learrrning about
> this new enemy. That's one thing we have to
> find out was how the
> prrrisonerrs managed to get a message out.
> It's possible that they sent a
> subspace message that no one picked up, but
> that seems unlikely. The
> otherrr two things we have to investiagate
> arrre whetherrr they have a
> communications system we don't underrrstand,
> orrr that they arrre
> telepathic in some way. Howeverrr, I think
> that's unlikely. Caitians
> arrre almost completely psi-null. I don't know
> if therrre is any kind of
> genetic manipulation that could incrrrease
> Caitian psychic abilities to the
> point of telepathy beyond the touch-rrrequirred
> kind. Telekinesis is
> verrry possible, and I know of verrry strrrong
> telekinetics. But telepathy
> has neverrr been known in ourrr people."
>
"What do you think of Blacks ability to handle things, including
Snellings and the civies, after you head back here?"
{response}
> "Do you have anything you need me to do sirrr?
> I'm not surrre when I'll be back, given the rrrecent developments herrre."
>
"Remember when we first talked about you talking this job? I asked you to
be able to be able to damn near triple your forces, but not for a few months.
Well, now is the time. Put what ever plan you have in place. It is time to
increase the number of Special Operations units the Federation has." he
sounded like he had something on his mind, but was not exactly letting her in
on it.
{response}
"Keep up what you are doing out there. It si great work. I hope to be
here when you get back. It has been an honor, Vice Admiral Kitanya." he was
neutral in tone, yet a bit fatigued.
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