Miles to Midnight

[Erremnart]

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Virginia sighed and nodded, "It began feeling too complex the very moment I said it aloud.", and scratched herself again under her her watches, "No, it must swift and simple, as any other surprise attack.".

She closed her eyes for a moment and rubbed bridge of her nose as she was thinking this through again, "One quarter of my crew are my veterans from times in Legion, they had issues with current Insurgency course before, so they will be on my side. Most senior officers, if not all of them, will be on my side or wouldn't be interfering. One half of my crew are clueless greenies who know nothing better than following their officers first and asking questions later. However...".
She stopped for a while as he opened her eyes, "Remaining quarter of the crew can have those troublemakers. They are more experienced men, who already have their own head, but haven't served long enough to be truly bonded with others and large portion of them will be loyal to the Insurgency - more or less. These might the most unreliable.".

"I wish there'd be some preparation I can in order to tip the scales in my favor without leaking whole plot prematurely. The only thing I can do now is to change shifts in way that unreliable part of the crew could be sleeping in quarters while this will happen, and thus - out of immediate reach of any key systems or potentially explosive devices. This can be even easily explained - I need to evaluate newer crew members, so they will be running the ship and my vets will be off duty in order to spread them around the ship.", she smirked and nodded at Damien, "Greenies will have their heads full of following orders so they might not even know what's happening until it's done. Your wings will surely have some psychological effects on them as well, making it looking more widespread and more acceptable.".

"Yes, this starts to sound much more sensible. Manipulating shifts in my favor to have any possible troublemakers sleeping, drilling newbies at their stations through the whole ordeal and your men justifying it as even another force who felt the same and changed cause, and to intimidate possible loyalists.".

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