Well, it appears that the Crimson Council are no more than yet another batch of hormonal teenagers with the attendant machismo. It amazes me that anything ever gets done around here. Diplomacy seems to amount to ignoring anything that you don't like, or demanding things when you can take them, then whining that no one wants to play. How people with that mind set find their ways into positions of power confounds me; fighter pilots, sure, leaders of nations, wth??!
Anyway, after kicking around the need for gravitational and tidal stress data, we have decided that quantity v quality will let us take the readings off the Omega-41 primary. A neutron star doesn't produce the same Level of what we are trying to monitor, but it still generates the same Effects. It is going to take the better part of a month or two to do it, and, just in case, Sleipnir will be staying away from Leon base, but it should be routine.
All that said, I'll be giving her back to Sandra, since it is routine survey work. Orders have picked up, and there is much for me to do in the way of routine work.
