FROM: Rear Admiral Blake Wayne Van Leer TO: 46th Strike Force Commodores and Admiralty SUBJECT: A need for a science, research and development division? Fellow Officers,
I would like to start off by saying that I have been around in my many years of experience before joining The Strike Force. From working with The Core in the Omicrons before they decided to go our separate ways, to my operations in Taus and Coronado.
But despite by journey I will be the first to admit that I am not a man of particularly high intellect, especially when it comes to science, strange materials and organisms. I suppose I place honor and frontline duty over well...deep diving into books and research and such.
Maybe you are the same, maybe you aren't but still there will be situations like these today where we encountered an initially non-aggressive adrift alien creature.
[] K'Hara|Sascya: ***...-yours- shells are getting in -ours- way, but -ours- still looking for answers...***
[] 46th|LNS-Wedmate: what's your business here?
[] 46th|Van.Leer: What the hell? Can you understand it anyone? Seems to be adrift.
[] 46th|Van.Leer: It emits some sort of sounds though
[] 46th|LNS-Wedmate: It's disturbing
[] K'Hara|Sascya: ***...-ours- is the -light-...***
[] 46th|Van.Leer: Commodore I am puzzled. It seems to lack intelligence
[] K'Hara|Sascya: ***...-yours- mind are weak to understand...***
[] 46th|Van.Leer: Commodore: I suppose we could disable it and tow it.
[] 46th|Van.Leer: Commodore: But what if we'd be shooting a lost confused lost animal
Take situations like these, with the confusing ships and artifacts in Omicron Nu that makes wonder if we should consider hiring xenolinguists, scientists and researchers to join 46th in an advisory role.
I am not talking a full fledged large R+D branch that would ruin our budget here. Simply several key personnel in advisory roles under our banner that could help us deal with and make sense of confusing languages, creatures, artifacts, materials and potentially even adapted weaponry when we need them. This would avoid confusing situations not suited for us more straightforward military brains.
Do you think there is a need for such positions?
Would we find space in our budget?
And, as I am by no means qualified and prefer to focus on my duties Would one of you be willing to spearhead the effort of doing all the necessary vetting, acquiring of research vessels and facilities et cetera?
We could, of course, delegate the task to one of our Captains or Lt.Commanders since we aren't talking about a very large operation here.
