"Good. I am sure that you will keep Admiral Renaud
updated on your progress, and he will take care of
keeping me up to date. Now, if you will indulge an
old man for a moment, please remind me your reasons
for locking all of the starships that were in port
in the docking area? Who gave the orders for that,
and why did it take so long for the my orders to
open the doors and get the ships out to be carried
out?", Lasiter said switching topics.
{Sir? Regulations require a lockdown of all ships when doors are closed in
an emergerncy situation. To open the doors, Yellow Alert needed to be stepped down. For
Yellow Alert to be lifted certain requiresments need be met by regulations.
When the order to open the doors and release locked ships was given,
priority was shifted by myself to meeting the regulations needed to lift
Yellow Alert which took several minutes to accomplish. Had it ben a Red
Alert, I would have been able to just >blow the doors with the failsafes,
which was within Regulations.}
"Admiral I will verify that your order was passed to Commander Shevab as
soon as it was received."
The look on Lasiter's face was unmistakable. His displeasure was quite evident.
"So you would have kept all of those starships bottled up in port while the station
went critical. If the station would have exploded we would have lost how many
starships? Eight? Ten? That is unacceptable, totally unacceptable. To even give
that as an answer demonstrates a clear lack of appreciation for the full situation.
To think that giving as poor an answer as that, then standing behind regulation as if
that were justification is even more beyoond comprehension.", Lasiter stopped to sigh.
He was quite unhappy, but had yet to raise his voice to a yell.
"However, I will remind you both of a fundamental operational principle of starbase
command. You don't keep your ships in port when they would be safer elsewhere. If
those starships had a fighting chance of getting to safety, then they should have been
cut loose. This is not a hard concept, Admiral, Commander. It is a fundamental. A
basic concept. Since you like the regulations so much, Commander Shevab you can look
this up. Section 90, paragraph 9 of the Starfleet Operations Manual states just what
I have told you. Admiral Renaud, so you don't feel left out, take a look at Section
1, paragraph 10, which states, and I quote, 'It is the obligation of all officers in
command positions to see the successful and safe operation of their command. This
responsibility covers both personnel and material. All responsibilities of the
Commanding Officer are considered secondary to this duty- the safety of one's command
and those that serve within it.'", Lasiter gave both of them an oppertunity to
comment. Hopefully they would use it wisely.
{response}
Co-GM of the Spacedock/JSOC Game
Characters:
Adm. Samuel Lasiter,
RAdm. Markus Garibaldi,
Ambassador Marconis,
LCDR Donovan Black, and a host of others.
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