Calm before the Tempest

[Tabris]

As both men walked towards the meeting room where history would be made Tabakov maintained the expression of dis-interest. Why He assigned the top field agent to such a...Diplomatic assignment meant only one thing...He was having fun at his subordinate's expense...

The men and women Garcia brought with him were some of the finest engineers and scientists the Coalition had to offer, most considered Mykolaiv their 'home away from Volgograd and JiangXi'. Their input would be useful he supposed, not much a Commissar can do in that field...His expertise lay within sniffing out information behind enemy lines and ensuring the loyalty of his fellow soldiers. Skills not really useful in warship design & construction...

Still as the group entered the spartan meeting room he was somehow reminded of one of those interrogation rooms with the blank walls and little in the way of colourful attention-grabbing objects...Sitting down beside the Field Marshal, the very man who managed to humiliate him with Him watching through the many cameras he knew dotted the station. He was only calmed by the fact he gave as good as he got which resulted in that project continuing un-hindered...Still he was onguard for any further attempts to...discredit him while he waited for the last guest to arrive and the meeting to begin...