*: Grand Marchale - Lucie LeBlanc. From: Your best Admiral ever!

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Royal Naval Flagship Chant du Cygne, Brittany
28. juillet, 743 AGS

Sender: Grande Maréchale Lucie LeBlanc, Royal Navy of the Kingdom of Gallia
Recipient: Admiral Alice Marie, Royal Naval High Command
Topic: Re: Recent Events

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Amiral Marie,

I have no intention of encouraging your inane attempts at humour. You will keep personal business off of official channels in future.

Whatever your thoughts on Maréchal Lebeau, he and I have been hard at work coordinating our recent intervention into the affairs of the homeland -- far more than I can say for you. I should expect a much more solid performance in the weeks and months to come -- the Royal Vauquelin is a fine ship with a distinguished history, and I will not have her squandered under the command of a captain who has forgotten her place in the greater scheme of things.

You'll mind your tone and employ the appropriate level of respect when speaking of your superiors in future, even on a one-to-one line; and you'll stop with your persecution of our remaining Legionnaires as well. Despite my initial misgivings about the project, it appears some of our Sirian elements do in fact have an admirable sense of loyalty -- perhaps even devotion, if you could venture to call it such.

The fiasco at Leeds and mismanagement of our remaining forces by our brothers-in-arms have left us in dire straits, to say nothing of the fact that Gallia herself has been breached for the first time in eight hundred years. You already know where I expect our efforts to be focused; coordinate those elements under your command in and around Gallia proper and the bordering Tau systems as per your standing orders.

I will address the only remaining part of your message that is neither banal small talk nor obsequious fawning and reiterate my desire that yes: you will have a full, formal, clear and concise report on your activities in Champagne across my desk before the end of the week, or I will be passing your case the good maréchal's way instead. Be assured that he has even less patience for these sorts of things than I do.

Cordialement,

Grande Maréchale Lucie LeBlanc
Duchesse de Languedoc et Maine
Gallic Royal Navy

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