Chapter 2
Meanwhile in the Triangulum Galaxy
A young Furling general, or more correctly speaking currently holding the even higher rank of Marshal, one of the youngest ever officers to ever have reached the rank of a Terrestrial Engagement Service (TES) general, navigated the long hallway leading to the largest and most important conference room in the Combined Warfare Services Command Center (CWSCC). He had to stop several times in his tracks to reply cordially and downplayingly to military personnel passing by in his direction doling out greetings and compliments which frankly the young elfman found to often be overly generous. Commissioned officer,noncommissioned officers and enlisted soldiers from all five of the Armed Warfare Services branches. His uniform was lacking the magnetizations of his numerous military decorations he'd earned over his years serving. Not that most military personnel in the Furling Unified Republic's five services wouldn't know of them off the top of their heads. Lekilis, despite often denying the fact, was a living legend of the Armed Warfare Services. Comparing him to one single prestigious Earth general alone was comparing him inaccurately. Lekilis possessed the reason, academic intellect, and concern for the well-being of the average enlisted soldier of General Omar Nelson Bradley. He also possessed the youthful physiques and revolutionary military thinking habits of both General Maxwell D. Taylor and General James 'Jumpin Jim' Gavin. Not to mention the
"Hey, Aelerothi!" a loud voice rang out his last name from behind him. "Slow down, will you please? Where are you off hurrying to at this ungoodly early hour anyway?"
"Aravansel. Its you once again, eh?" he looked behind him and replied. It was Marshal Nerilis Aravansel,a fellow Terrestrial Engagement Service and his soon-to-be brother in law. Earth's General Jack O'Neill had more than once remarked that Nerilis Aravansel displayed characteristics, both positive and negative ones, which reminded him the Earth United States Army George S. Patton Jr. "Same damn place where you're going, or I hope for the sake of your important career, where you're going.
"That's at least one thing you're planning to. You're aware that the Combined Warfare Services High Command prefers its high rankers to show up on time? Sets a good precedent to encourage the lower ranking officers to follow, as you can imagine."
"Oh, but Lekilis, you need to start realizing that we are essential elements of the Terrestrial High Command. Not yet the Supreme Terrestrial Officer or the Deputy Supreme Terrestrial Officer. And unfortunately not yet the Supreme Warfare Officer or Deputy Supreme Warfare Officer. But all in due time, eh? A general is never late, because he he or she has very little obligation to strain himself or herself. One can only therefore consider he or she to be early or on time. The officers should be able to discern which " Nerilis explained to Lekilis with an evil grin.
"Ah, but you're mistakenly likening Terrestrial Service officers of the rank of Phylaie, General, and marshal to the tenors of the National Choruses. Very inaccurate comparison, don't you think? Considering that if they misbehave, they don't potentially cause a national crisis.
The all-time famous External Intelligence and Threat Counterance Agency (EITCA) All-Agency Director [ ] was speaking to his highest-ranking subordinates, and below them, the divisional directors . "Well, ladyelves and gentleelfmen of our esteemed and highly effective national agency. We find ourselves, having countered the previous menacing Ori threat, to the point in which the Ori no longer exist with the exception for Adria who Ganos Lal is currently keeping out of our way. In their place of power, we've freed from deceptive servitude, for their their own sake as well as our own sake, placed a now non-genocidal group of people who we now count as one of our closest allies. We find now, though, for a dramatic change, that we need to turn our attentions to the Erri Eternal Empire. Quite a mouthful I do realize. We should keep in mind that although we enlisted the rather accurately considered involuntary assistance of the for the enterprise, we now need to. Of course, this agency didn't lose all the gains it made during the Anti-Ori War. We came away with a good working understanding of how the Erri Eternal Empire, despite the unavoidably evident internal divisions that such a political entity built on principles of elf to elf treachery manages to hold themselves together during an external threat which might destroy them if they don't act prudently. And I can tell you now that their"heap of loose sand", to quote the Earth Chinese revolutionary Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, is not only significantly loose in many important areas to begin with, but it's still not able to stand so firmly. Not when those sand particles of various sizes are constantly putting their efforts into opposing each other, it undermines them trying to stand strongly. We plan to exploit every single weakness in the fabric of their nation, and the Erri would shake with fear which they are actually capable to feel if they knew what we'll succeed at."
The gathered personnel inside the large room the
"So the External Intelligence and Threat Counterance Agency, shall, along with the local and provincial-grade law enforcement Internal Surveillance and Criminality Thwartation Organization, the National Communications, Transmission, and Encryption Agency, the Military, the Paramilitary, wage a valorous and brilliantly imaginative war against the Erris. This is likely to be the last-ever conflict between the Furling and the Erri for all time, and we need to win it. If we don't win it, we know the unthinkable circumstances that this galaxy and perhaps this whole universe will face."
Internal Surveillance and Criminality Thwartation Organization (ISCTO) Central HQ
Aravansel-Aelerothi City, Furliya One
ISCTO All-Agency Director was meeting with his highest-ranking subordinates and the individual department and division directors.
"We recently helped vanquish the Ori and their corporeal servants. Goodness knows that the Ori tried to send their flesh-and-blood followers into our very own territory. Both to try striking those high governmental officials who should've been safe within the hundreds of layers of protection within Furling Space. Secondly, to try and reverberate the psychologically damaging effects of successfully striking random, nongovernmental Furling citizens all throughout our noble republic. I wish to emphasize that the Erri, being our admittedly non-proud-doing cousins, know much better how we function and can infiltrate us more easily. However, they still lack certain knowledge of our ways which would guarantee they could infiltrate and internally spy on and sabotage both our citizens' to-then safe lives and our organization's operations. We need to collectively alert ourselves to these discrepancies, for at certain times we can only rely on noticing and responding to these that we can thwart Erri operatives inside our. If we can convince with our vigiliant responding, we might even be able to dissuade the Erri operatives from contintuing, After all, they return to face not only receving no reward, but also receving a gruesome execution for failing the Eternal Empire. If they turn themselves in, they can live a life of being treated according to the law, not above the law or below the law. They won't reap any excessively harsh conseqences for failing at their career. It's a nice enticement."