Turn 50-GR - Work It
<Jeremy POV>
Mom made this seem so damn easy, but as far as you are concerned sitting here in her office behind her desk with all of the weight of responsibility on your shoulders? You are really glad that this is temporary.
You would much rather be in command of your division. You understand military politics, it’s the civilian stuff that is driving you up the wall already. You have petitions from various groups wanting patronage, you have appeals from other groups wanting you to rule this way or that way on their issues, you have members of the Chamber of Delegates and Senate barraging you with paperwork and requests and… argggggg…
So far pointing out that you were only keeping the seat warm for your mother has deflected all but the most persistent. That won’t last forever.
Thankfully both Bastet and Sekhmet had stayed behind, and having two grifftigers glaring murderously at the most stubborn politicians had proven to be an effective means of getting them to listen to you.
And now you are having to deal with this. Admiral Jamison Kirk of the Exploration Fleet has unilaterally ordered USS Challenger and USS Atlantis to depart their surveys of the Griffon Outer Asteroid Belt and join USS Enterprise, USS Columbia and USS Endeavor at Griffon VI, and he hasn’t bothered to file a report as to
why. He’s also declared the Griffon VI planetary system an exclusion area, summoned a dozen of the most powerful System Patrol tugs, and requested that Admiral Benjamin deploy Capital Fleet, Home Fleet, and Strike Fleet to Griffon VI, all without telling him, and by extension you, just
why.
[] | Indulge the Admiral | He has a solid reputation for loyalty to the Crown and is widely considered a steady sort, not prone to fits of whimsy despite his name. If he’s being this secretive, he’s probably got a good reason. |
[] | Deny the request | You are not going to deploy so much force that far away from anything strategically important without a DAMN good reason, reputation be damned. |