HFB-Polyphemus

[Charos]

"-Lord Commander, you requested to see me?" The fleet captain paused. "-Sit down Marcos." Marcos took a seat on the opposite side of the Lord Commander's desk. "-Engel Marcos, a distinguished lieutenant with a service history since Lord Commander Cristina Hunter and then promoted to the rank of fleet captain during mine. Pretty good... I wanted to meet personally so I can hear your opinion on the Legion's current state." Engel bowed his head momentarily as he was thinking. "-With all due respect Lord Commander, your decision on calling back the heavy guns from Warhammer was not necessary, our technicians and logistics could have handled restoring the minimal damages Vespucci suffered after the little rebellion and keeping our capitals in flight..." Engel paused once he lost control of his speech. Markus was not disappointed in the fleet captain's behavior, for he was looking for bright minds in the middle ranks of the Legion. "-I like you captain. You were correct in everything you said, however that would apply only if we were up against Liberty alone. Look at Bretonia. Look at Magellan. Look at Cortez. It is not only Liberty, a bigger threat that threatens to destroy both us and Liberty completely, Gallia. Diplomacy with them is impossible because they seek to destroy Liberty and we don't want a destroyed or enslaved Liberty by Gallia. We want a Liberty ridden of it's hidden corruption amongst it's goverment and military. The decision to call back the heavy artillery from Liberty was to prevent Gallia from further invading, we've already dealt with a couple of their skirmishes both in Magellan and Cortez." Markus paused and refilled his glass with the fine whisky from his Molly friend. "-I called you here to inform that you are being withdrawn from the field and will be stationed on Fort Leniex. That is all, dismissed." Engel was secretly frustrated by his new post, his reason to join the Legion was to fight for a worthy cause, not to stay in a fortress for the days to pass! But he kept it for himself and left the Lord Commander. Markus looked at his glass and noticed it was empty and few seconds afterwards everything was black. He had passed out on his desk from exhaustion.

The time for Daniel's daily report on Polyphemus's state was nearly there. Once Daniel set a foot in the Lord Commander's office he saw his sleeping on his desk, leaving a loud snore. Daniel approached him and tried to carry him to his quarters. Upon laying a hand on Markus, he woke him up accidentally and backed off. "-Markus, are you awake now? I came to give you my daily report on Polyphemus and I find you passed out. Go to your quarters man and get some rest." Markus nodded weakly while rubbing his eye. "-Yeah, thanks for waking me up Daniel. If I had slept here I would have a hell of a rest, old age is starting to get to me you see.. Anyway, leave the report on my desk and... You know the rest. Don't let my work pile up while I'm resting!" Markus got up slowly and left for his quarters Daniel remained there on the Lord Commander's stead to deal with minor reports and requisition forms.

After a long sleep the Lord Commander, finally rested, went to his office. The first thing he saw was a pile of documents that needed his attention and a special document left by Daniel, the Polyphemus report. Markus opened the status report first of all to see how his flagship was proceeding. "-Mhm.." He moaned to himself and dropped the report on his desk and activated his comms to the Polyphemus bay. The chief-engineer responded to the Lord Commander's call "-Chief-Engineer James Wi-" He was disrupted by the Lord Commander "-What you have requested is already authorised and is on it's way to you. Resume work on Polyphemus, I want it flying this month." Markus's words were an alarm to the engineer, he responded affirmitive and spread out the orders to his crew. Polyphemus was going to leave Leniex's dock once again.

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