Chains of Command

[Boss]

I wasn’t always a Deputy. I walked the beat on Cali Minor when I first signed on, later got promoted to patrolling the lanes. That was about 792, and for about eight years it was pretty smooth. Track down and arrest the miscreant perpetrators of injustice. Some threatened, some lied, some tried to run, but I prevailed. I got on the fast track upwards, got promotion after promotion, landing at Captain in 799. In 800AS, some guy named Edison Trent did some jobs for the LSF, and then the call came through to shoot the guy as a traitor. Obedient guy I am, I tried. He got away though, out of my beat. Navy’s problem now.

It was about three hours later I heard that Deputy Chief Roy Wilson had been killed in the pursuit of that Trent and his partners. Seems some other Navy folks had gone nuts, taking a cruiser battlegroup against the majority of the Navy to get Trent out and he'd been hit in the crossfire. I still don't know why that battlegroup did that, they never told me, and they don't pay me to question that. I had a pretty clear-cut job: Bring justice. Word was out that Chief Matt Myers and the other two Deputies, Karl Agathon and Hull O’Brian, were headhunting for a replacement for the deceased Wilson, and everyone was on edge.