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[Xing]

The room they were sitting in was somewhat damaged, some hull pannel fell off during the combat and spark erupted ocasionally. But it was one of the only room still decent enough to hold a small meeting. Captain Kaito and a group of the fleet' superior officers were there, along with the two foreign "supervisors".

"Time is grave", Kaito began. "We have lost our commanding officer during this engagement, along with about 10% of our operational forces, including men, material and ships. The flagship is damaged - not beyong use, but heavily enough to handicap it. We are far from the nearest imperial station, very deep within the borders. To make things worse, we are still in the middle of a nebula known to hide a large amount of pirate."
He looked up at the other officers, most of them captain like himself. However, he was the senior captain, and furthermore, the flag captain, and as such, held authority over them all. Then he turned his attention on Isabelle and Jimmy.

"One problem at a time. We are in need of a centralised command structure. Mistress Kaitlynn, I believe you and your assistant should be assigned this role. None of us are nearly as experienced as you seems to be."

Isabelle didn't hesitate.
"It would be my honour, captain."

"Very well. From now on, we will take your commands until we manage to reach home succesfully."

Isabelle nodded, and stood from her chair.
"Very well. Our second problem, as explained by captain Kaito, would be our considerable loss in the last engagement. Poor preparation is the main cause of such tremendous casuality, and we certainly do not wish to repeat these mistakes, but for the moment we can't make ships and men appear out of thin air, nor can we call for reinforcement due to the nebula' disruptive nature."
"Thirdly, the flagship seems to be severly damaged. I am unsure myself if its structure will hold another attack - because we must take this under account as well. However, the Amaterasu is the only vessel with flag capacity in our actual fleet, and we will do with this. However, I will give order to run this ship with minimal crew from now on, this way, few will be sacrificed if this vessel was ever to be sunk."
"And finally, our distance with civilised space. I doubt we can do much about this one, since we are already running at maximal speed on damaged drives. However, make sure all ships are going at a same pace; none must go foolishly act as vanguard. At our actual status, it will be strictly forbidden for a single ship to go on hiw own without the permission of central headquarter, that is, the Amaterasu command."
She bowed respectuously,
"If there aren't anymore questions, let's get back to our duty then. Thank you, all of you."

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