Of Cats and Men

[GrnRaptor]

The door slid open with barely a sound as Captain Polstari entered his office at Fort Bragg, holding one of the popular cold carbonated caffeine beverages favored by active duty flight officers in one hand and a datapad with several important files in the other. The lights activated immediately, illuminating the office with a harsh white hue that made sleeping on the job difficult at best. Setting the datapad directly on holo-desk and the can on a coaster, Alan took his seat and activated the desk.

The holo-projected information suite booted up immediately, requiring the Captain to go through several layers of authentication of both bio-metric and standard security protocols before it granted access to its features. Completing these steps with a swiftness born of familiarity, it was less than a minute before Alan had full access to all of his files and programs. A message flashed across the projection reminding him that a meeting was scheduled in an hour to review progress on Project Meow. Acknowledging and dismissing the reminder with a gesture, the young Captain sat back in his seat and took a sip from his beverage while he comtemplated his next action.

Looking briefly at the datapad laying on his desk, he took a deep breathe and adjusted his seat to better suit his next action. Bringing up the communication program, he initiated a new message. Within seconds he was busy typing away on the touch sensitive keyboard that had lit up on the glass of his desk.

Completing the message with time to spare before his meeting, he connected his desk via wireless protocol to the datapad and transferred the files it contained over, and attached them to the message. Satisfied that everything was in order, Alan gestured with his hand and the message departed at lightspeed to its intended recipient.

*** START COMMUNICATION ***

TO: Boris Livingstone, Secretary of State for Internal Affairs
FROM: Captain Alan Polstari, Liberty Navy, 1st Fleet
SUBJECT: Particular Immigration Request
ENCRYPTION: Medium
PRIORITY: Medium

Greetings Secretary Livingstone,

I write to you today to request your assistance in a matter I believe requires your particular attention to resolve.

Some weeks ago units of our 1st Fleet, myself included, encountered a nearly derelict gunboat class vessel of Gallic Naval origin in the New York system. Our response was swift, and we contained the situation with little incident. However, instead of a Royal Navy crew, there was a single individual aboard the vessel. This individual had fled from Gallia with the intention of immigrating to Liberty in the only vessel he was able to obtain. We impounded the vessel and took the individual into protective custody. There are several complications to the matter, however.

First off, the individual in question, known as Merlin, requires specialized equipment found only aboard this vessel in order to live. Our engineers are currently pouring over the vessel now to see if we might be able to transfer the equipment to a more suitable vessel in the near future. Reports on that can be sent on a separate channel.

More importantly however is that Merlin himself has run into several blocks in the immigration process due to his particular condition. As immigration falls under the realm of Internal Affairs, I thought it best to request your assistance. I am including a debriefing of Merlin conducted by myself that explains his present predicament. Visuals of Merlin, as well as affidavits by Libertonian Naval personnel to the veracity of several technical claims are also included.

I understand that this situation is unusual, and may even appear to be a false message given the attached contents. I am attaching my bio-metric signature to verify the veracity of this communication, and the reality of its implications.

I understand that it may take some time to evaluate this request, but fully trust that you will find everything in order and that you will find this a worthy cause to intercede upon.

Sincerely,

Captain Alan Polstari, Liberty Navy, 1st Fleet

*Attached Audio: Open (Y/N)
*Attached Visual: Open (Y/N)
*Attached Affidavits: Open (Y/N)
*Bio-Metric Signature Authenication Code Verified: Captain Alan Polstari, Liberty Navy, 1st Fleet

*** END COMMUNICATION ***

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