Jora bowed her head to excuse her Chief of Staff. She knew where he was off to... meeting with other officers to plead the same case.
"You have a good officerrr therrre," commented Kitanya, looking after him. "Forrrtune favorrrs the leaderrr who surrounds herrrself with such people." (resp?) "Well, no, not to begin with. I inherrrited people, with the condition I make no changes immediately. Some werrre bad, and some werrre not bad, but ill-suited to the positions they werrre in. The chief of staff was a good officerrr, but not a good chief of staff, and an excellent officerrr was placed in a position wherrre he had no powerrr and no ability to be effective. Those things have rrrecently changed, forrrtunately, so once things calm down overrr the changes, I feel we'll be a much strrrongerr deparrrtment. I made it clearrr to everrryone that changes would come, and they knew that. Everrry new CO makes changes in staff. And I rrrefuse to allow SpecOps to be the laughingstock of the fleet anymorrre, so those who thought they could skate by werrre on notice." (resp?)
