{OOC: This is a re-written post. Please re-read all of it to get all of the new
information. -CS. }
> >"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.
>
> "Understood-I accept full responsibility, Sir."
> Lasiter was correct-he had
> failed. There was not much else to say-he let it
> hang.
>
{Sir, that is one of the numerous contradictory Fleet
Regulations,, as you HUmans say"Good judgement comes
from experience,, but experience only comes from poor
judgement.". Had any of those ships exploded, we would
not be having this conversation. Structural fields
were low enough that even the Laliirian Frigate
'XXzpPt" had blow while in the Bay, we would have had
complete structural failure that I could not have been
able to compensate for even while integrated into the
station systems. The orders from Operations were to secure all stations.
I belive it was a misconception that the sabotuers may
have been on one of the ships."
"That was a possibility, but so was the possibility that the station would go up in a
great big fire ball. If that were to have happened the starships inside, along with
the would be saboteur, would be ionized gas or debris. However, that is not the
point. The whole point of this conversation is that the actions taken during the
emergency could have cost Starfleet far more than some station damage and the few
injuries and deaths that we had. It could have cost the Federation the back bone of
the defences of sector 001." From the mannerisms of the CinC, it was evident that he
was still quite pissed.
{ You humans, as the Vulcans say are "Quite Illogical". You give orders that are both
expected to
be followed and Not followed. How is one to know what is to be done?}
"As us illogical humans say, You're damned if you do, and damned if you don't. Or
more to the regulations, look after the safety of your crew first. Investigations can
be taken care of after the situation is under control."
{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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