I can move to Bretonia any time you want. My suggestion would be tomorrow, 18.00 Sirius Standard Time. We can either meet in New London, Manchester, Cambridge or Newcastle. In that case I would arrive with my Bishamon. Alternatively, if you want to see the ship with your own eyes, I can bring the Apahanta to Omega-49. There is a nice passage we discovered that allows that without drawing too much attention.
Oh, and you can be assured I will bring a little sortiment of tea from Curacao.
[img float=right]http://i.imgur.com/U1OxmMr.png?1[/img] Priority:Medium To: Ezrael Vertiga From: Admiral Jacob McIntire, BAF Location: HMS Ark Royal, Newcastle System
Mister Vertiga,
My deep aplologies for the delayed answer, I must have missed the notification yesterday, the job takes its toll sometimes.
I propose that we meet at the Ark Royal in Newcastle. Quite a remote place, not the worst for speaking about things.
If 18:00 standart time suits you for the day after tomorrow this would be the time I'd prefer. Tomorrow I'll be burried by work for a board meeting.
The offer to see the ship itself I have to decline sadly. Omega 49 is far from beeing a safe place for men in uniform and I'd prefer not to have to bring a guard with me.
[img float=right]http://i.imgur.com/U1OxmMr.png?1[/img] Priority:Medium To: Ezrael Vertiga From: Admiral Jacob McIntire, BAF Location: HMS Ark Royal, Newcastle System
Mister Vertiga,
Worry not, the whole Tea service will be ready. I assume you will not despise some shortbread either.
However, I expect your arrival.
once more thank you very much for this meeting. I do hope I was able to answer your questions. Here is the list of names of my crew members the Commodore requested. I doubt though any of them are problematic. So far we have a working microcosmos here on the ship, most people are socializing pretty well.
Adrianna Carr, 46, Manhattan, Doctor
Lindsay Camillo, 28, New London, Counselor
Collin Bush, 28, Pittsburgh, System Engineer
Veronica Cummings, 26, Manhattan, Hazard System Officer
Jennifer Hauser, 22, Freeport 9, Energy Core Engineer
Tasha Wright, 29, New London, Botanist/Biologist
Kyle Wheeler, 38, Corfu Base, Weapon Control Officer
Insa Bockmeyer, 41, Neu Berlin, Consultant
Jeff Powell, 46, Freeport 5, Technician
Lorena Hawkins, 25, Libertonian, Shield Distribution Officer
Cedric Vaughn, 21, Corfu Base, Sensors Officer
Brian Tate, 29, Freeport 4, Damage Control Engineer
George Poole, 33, Cambridge, Astrometics Scientist
Annie Reese, 23, Freeport 5, Maintenance Engineer
Sherry Aguilar, 28, Gran Canaria, Conn Officer
Darrel Hodges, 42, Houston, Security Officer
Kevin Boone, 20, Neu Berlin, Armory Officer
Asato Toru, 22, Honshu, Diagnostic Engineer
Rafael Glover, 30, Freeport 9, Space Warfare Specialist
Leon Isley, 26, Curacao, Chief Engineer
Ezrael Vertiga, 32, Curacao, Super Hero
That is how it right now looks like. Thallia Thorn technically is also part of the crew, however we didn't see her for months. I guess she is either somewhere on Cambridge at the university or working on something in the cellars of the IRG. You see the list is rather small, and we completely rely on our Kishiro Service Robots to have them perform most routine tasks. In the meantime, we are trying to hire more reliable personnel, however the circumstances don't often allow it to find trustworthy people. Unlike you, I don't have a Commodore to keep my back safe.
By the way, Admiral, I would like to ask you whether you could share the things we talked about with me. I probably will find the public announcement of the Coalition myself, but I would really like to know what weird stuff the bird and her cybersuit-fanatical Who-Am-I loverboy and her power rangers were talking about my crew. At some point, that simply has to stop. Although that shouldn't be your concern.
Also, what I wanted to add. It might be only helpful to a certain degree, but I have this little remote-controlled ship in Bretonia, the Handsome Rover. My chief engineer surprised his girlfriend with something similar, as he managed to connect the auto-pilot via neural net to control it remotely. Pretty cool for, has quite a bunch of issues, like it doesn't work too well in nebulae and needs to be used in a system with jump gates or with the controller in two jumps range. It also does only work with Light Fighters so far, some companies probably have better versions of that. However, I used that for the Handsome Rover to assist the BAF a few days ago in the Taus and in Leeds. Just poke me and I can send the drone with your fleet. It won't be able to fight, but intercept ships and missiles with cruise disruptors. Since I am not a combat pilot for snubs, that is what I can offer in the meantime, while the board discusses my case.
[img float=right]http://i.imgur.com/U1OxmMr.png?1[/img] Priority:Medium To: Ezrael Vertiga From: Admiral Jacob McIntire, BAF Location: HMS Ark Royal, Newcastle System
Mister Vertiga,
Thank you for providing the personel list, I will forward it to the board.
As for the intelligence Auxesia provided, I am afraid it would break trust if I shared it to anyone. You will surely understand that and I will treat information you provided to me with the same discretion towards thrid parties.
As for the drone you mentioned, every gun helps. I would appreciate if it would help us in our fight.
Apart from that I'll forward a summary of our meeting to the Admiralty Board today and make sure the discussion will not take longer than necessary. Expect to hear from me soon.
any news yet? I'm patroling Cortez and Magellan with the Rover rather frequently. I'm afraid you know yourself how they establish their footing in Magellan with each day.
[img float=right]http://i.imgur.com/U1OxmMr.png?1[/img] Priority:Medium To: Ezrael Vertiga From: Admiral Jacob McIntire, BAF Location: HMS Ark Royal, Newcastle System
Mr. Vertiga
There sadly is no conclusion yet, some of out esteemed Admirals and Commodores were not convinced that we have enough informations about you and asked to get time to gather said informations.
Nothing unusual I assure you, the position brings a certain degree of paranoia with it.