(I don't own Babylon 5 or any characters within the show, also please forgive any grammar and spelling errors I am Dyslexic and even with spell checker it's difficult for me to see them)
(18/05/2232)
David sat behind his desk working on adjusting the E-web system on the Savage; he had had some difficulty intergrading the polarising amour and the E-web effectively and the way that the E-web was designed meant recalibration was difficult and time consuming, in some cases it seemed deliberately designed to be difficult, he had already adjusted the polarisation frequency of the armour to make it more efficient and the E-web was the last part he needed to finish the defensive systems.
The meeting with G'Kar hadn't gone as planned; from the very moment the ambassador had entered he had controlled the conversation his charm and charisma had been almost overwhelming and added to that he hadn't come alone no he had brought his uncle with him War Leader G'Sten, David had put up a valiant effort and the two wile Narn's had left with nothing he had gained a potential contract for refitting half the Narn war fleet, for just over half of the cost estimate.
But somehow David felt that he had lost, like the two had purposefully allowed him to win and he could not fathom the reason why, it was like every instinct with in him told him that he has lost. With a final adjustment David decided to just save his progress and move on to something else, with a sigh he closed the file and flicked past one named Kronos, he didn't know what to do with himself and what to work on but he needed something to settle his mind.
"Mr Clarke" a voice cut through the intercom, David tapped the blinking red light to answer back
"Yes Mrs Robinson"
"You asked me to contact you when Mr Dubois arrived"
"Excellent send him in"
Mr Dubois was a tall man of Franco African decent; he was tall lean and held himself like the former military officer he was, he had some facial scarring and he was also missing his left arm. He wore a pair of black suit trousers and a white shirt with one of the left arm sleeve pinned to the shoulder, he could tell that the man was not happy.
"Colonel Dubois" David got up from his desk and approached the man to shake his hand; using his other had flummoxed him for a second before he adjusted quickly enough for the colonel not to notice. "It's an honour"
"Mr Clarke" he responded is strong Parisian accent flowed like silk despite the gruffness of the greeting "I must confess I was surprised to get your call I have only recent been discharged"
"Yes I wanted to be the first to snap you up Colonel" David smiled trying to make him lower his defences
"Oh and what would make you think that a crippled army officer worth the trouble", indicating to his stump as he spoke David could see the man was still bitter about the loss.
"The loss of a single arm is not the loss of the man as a whole", David replied "besides I have need of a man like you to lead and train my security forces and to help with a few projects",
"Security forces"? Colonel Dubois raised an eyebrow "mercenary bully boys you mean",
"No I mean security forces", David said as he led the man to a seat and walked around his desk and sat in his chair "have you kept up with the news Colonel Dubois?"
"Yes, hard not too when yours and your fathers company is plastered all over the finical and technological news paper and magazines",
"Yes well I have purchased a section of space, a solar system with twenty three planets one inhabitable so far", David said brining up the solar system the name underneath it indicated that David had named it "Kronos" system "this is Kronos prime the only inhabitable world in the system",
The information displayed about the planet was all in good order though some was missing or incomplete.
"We have begun the initial surveys for colonization of the planet",
"So why do you need me", he asked
"Someone leaked information about my intentions for this world and my own projects, I am being besiege on all sides by Earth Force, the Alliance colonial office, the media and I need someone to help me", David entered another command into his desk and another image popped up "this is what I wish to create with your aide",
"Oh Môn Dure", he muttered under his breath loud enough for him to be heard "this is not a security force this is the beginnings of a military",
"this is my project", he said as images of grey uniformed men and women appeared "I have model it on my own ideas of what a military should be, taking the best ideas from history and science fiction and condensing it all down to this", he said "the planetary defence force for my new world and my security for all buildings and bases for the company, separate branches within the shall also crew the ships as well as a dedicated self defence navy",
Colonel Dubois drank in all the information presented to him
"I have them divided into thirteen orders", David stopped himself "technically twelve", he said looking the Colonel in the eyes "the thirteenth would be a dedicated intelligence and counter intelligence organisation",
The Colonel sat looking at the information again.
"Why me Mr Clarke",
"I want you to build this Colonel Dubois, I", he stopped as the Colonel stood looking over the information "have heard that you had some radical ideas for the restructuring of the earth force army that where turned down", he said as the Colonel started to walk around the desk to where David sat
"Do you mind" he asked indicating towards the control panel
"no do you want..." he was about to ask if he needed to know what buttons did what but the man just pressed to began to cycle through the information.
"Interesting", he said reading through the information "fascinating", he scrolled through uniforms iconography, banners, pay grades, weapons, armour, transportation, benefits, medical cover "you have given this some very deep thought" the man suddenly smiled "you've read Dune"
"Yes, it has always been one of my favourite books"
"I want a completely free hand if I am to do this" he said sitting on the table edge "I will cover the training and the recruitment and use this" he waved his hand through the hologram "as a guide line but some of this is not useable, some of it is common practice and others are innovative and need to be tested"
"I want to be consulted on who you are recruiting but I see no problem with the rest" David smiled and shook the man's hand before handing him a pad and a small stack of paper he pulled out of his desk along with a pen, David nodded as he signed both pieces of documentation, he knew as a military laymen but with his knowledge of Klingon and Cardassian military equipment came a rudimentary understanding of their military organisation and using his own understanding and some ideas from science fiction and history books he had put together his outline, but now he had a proper military consultant he could build his forces for the coming war.
"Welcome to the company General Dubois" David said as he shook the man's hand again,
"I've noticed that you have some blacked out sections here" Mr Dubois ignored the impromptu promotion and pointed to the sections in the weapons lists and statistics that were blacked out "and please call me Louis if we are to work together"
"Yes Louis" he says as if testing the reaction of the man who nodded " come with me" he said as he got up Louis following after him.