I have received your instructions. Although unexpected (especially given that so little time has passed), the instructions will be carried out to the letter:
Commandant Adelaide Gauthier shall be recalled to Le Monarque for debriefing and reassignment. Her status as Commandant des Révélateurs shall be revoked, but she will not be stripped of her military rank. Given the amount of time and resources that went into Gauthier's training and conditioning, I understand your decision to deploy her away from the frontlines. Her minor nobility, prior clearance level and experiences may help her in the role you have planned for her.
Capitaine Emeline Coste shall be promoted to Commandant and be put in charge des Révélateurs. Albeit somewhat of a dark horse, she possesses the same qualities as Gauthier, some in greater amounts. Matching Gauthier in terms of loyalty, Emeline Coste is a definite step up in organization and combat tactics. Admittedly, she favors a more direct approach and is a slight step down in terms of communication, diplomacy, and finesse, but those qualities won't help in our current situation.
Ex-Commandant Damien Germain should be ready for duty soon enough. If he's deemed fit after evaluation, he'll be reinstated as Capitaine to assist Commandant Coste. If not, other people will be chosen to assist her in commanding Escadron XXII. Utmost loyalty and obedience remain his defining traits. If reinstated, Damien could be used to keep Emeline's more independent approach in check.
Commandant Coste shall be informed of the further steps and the induction speech personally when the time comes.
As per your request, I'm also attaching my own intermediate summary of project "Parole". It will also serve as the summary of Gauthier's term. The project continues steadily, and has been a moderate success this far, not living up to our expectations in some areas and surpassing them in other ones:
[Success]Reorganization of Escadron XXII – whatever assets that were left of the battlegroup after the failed Germain's blitz have been prepared for deployment. Preparations were made for additional construction. Command structure has been reestablished, and all the necessary paperworkhas beenhandled.
[Success]Cooperation with other military branches – communication was established with severalofficials de la Marine Royale. It resulted in several joint operations and a massive training session: the Orleanais war games. This can be attributed to Gauthier's skills as a negotiator; one more reason for her future Ile-de-France assignment.
[Success]Recon and combat – the central frequency covers most of the operations, albeit not in as much detail as you might expect. Nonetheless, the mission reports should speak for themselves.
[Success]Side operations – there is more to project "Parole"than just Escadron XXII ops. Thanks to the efforts of Commandant Gauthier, the more subtle aspects of our work haven't been discovered so far. Only those informed directly by us know about them. I understand that secrecy regarding our work behind the scenes continues to be paramount, at least until project "Parole" is completed and implemented widely.
[Failure]Induction of new ranking officers – one of the most important aspects of project "Parole" continues to be the most difficult. So far, we've had just a few candidates. All of them showed promise, but few of them reached the point where they could be inducted and granted access to the true nature of our work. So far, the number of is limited to Coste, Gauthier, and Germain (to an extent). Given that induction itself is pretty selective, one of Coste's objectives will be to get more people for high-level pre-induction evaluations.
Project "Parole" works, we know that much. It will be up to you and Commandant Coste how we're going to scale it and capitalize on it.
