Final Chapter: Back to work Jack my boy!
Jackson, while still not thrilled about having to work with Tevos, quickly took to his position as Spectre General. While he was granted a whole new rank with a new insignia to match, he would continue to use the title Commander. It almost felt like his first name now.
His first order of business was to see to it that all his Spectre agents got the best and brightest to back them. It was seemingly long standing tradition that Spectres operated alone. However, given his personal experience aboard the Normandy, Jack knew full well that no matter how good one man is, he's that much better with good people helping him. As such, he used his newfound authority as Spectre General and sitting council member to grant Spectre agents the ability to officially deputize their own "Spectre Support Crew". In doing so, the crew was essentially granted a limited scope of Spectre privileges, which included access to the best equipment that money could buy to better support their Spectre. While the idea was already in affect spiritually, given how the Alliance allowed him continued use of the Normandy and her crew, this act made it official.
After it became official, Jackson ran his idea by Admiral Hackett. While the admiral didn't really like the idea of giving up good people, he also realized it was for the greater good. Especially when he considered that it was the brainchild of the best soldier Humanity ever produced. Leadership among the other Council races also understood it was something they wouldn't be able to fight.
Jackson wasted no time in streamlining the Spectres for better deployment. He wanted to set up training operations for support personnel and for Spectres who just wanted to get some cross training. He tapped Joker to be his head trainer for a new crop of pilots to serve under his Spectres. Joker, along with EDI, began setting up the best flight training and simulations for this new "Wing Ops" training branch.
When Ashley got word of the new regulation, the first thing she did was turn to Vega, her lead trainer and Executive Officer in Eden Prime's militia. Together, they stood up "Titan Ops", a training cell for brute force and infantry tactics.
Kasumi Goto, who was the lead trainer for N7 Shadow operatives, was deputized by Jondum Bau, the Salarian Spectre that spent most of his career tracking her. They held deep respect for each other, and worked well in creating the "Ninja Ops" branch for clandestine operations.
Jack spoke at length with the Council to identify the most well versed biotic in the ranks of the Spectres. Expecting an Asari Matriarch with centuries as a Spectre under her belt, Jackson was surprised when he was lead to an Asari maiden named Jamie Huebert.
Agent Huebert was raised on Earth by her human father Steven after her mother was killed by xenophobic Asari who rejected her bonding a human so soon. Huebert was born in 2158, just after Humanity had arrived in the galactic community. Though young, she showed an air about herself that many Asari didn't achieve until they were at least 600-700. And being raised by her human parent, she did not develop the arrogance and penchant for looking down her nose at others that had become a stereotype of Asari. She was actually very humble, almost to a fault.
At the age of 30, barely even a teenager by Asari standards, she was the youngest Asari to ever be named a Spectre. The Council did so because she showed the potential to be the most powerful biotic in the known galaxy, and Jackson wanted to harness that. He paired Agent Huebert with an old friend, now going by her new legal name, Lieutenant Junior Grade Jennifer Naught. After finding out Shepard's first name and fully accepting her role in the Alliance, Jenn stopped going by "Jack" out of respect.
The "Psychotic Biotic" as she labeled herself, was the most powerful human biotic ever born. Hackett had made her lead instructor of Alliance Biotic Training Command (BIOCOM), the successor program to the defunct BAaT, at Grissom Academy and her students proved to be huge assets as support for ground troops during the war. Hackett didn't like that BIOCOM was losing Jenn, but it made him feel better about it to know that she was being replaced by her brightest student and now a decorated war veteran, Ensign Jason Prangley.
Jenn and Jamie were slow to catch on to each other, as their personalities were very much the opposite. Jenn was loud and boisterous while Jamie was quiet and reserved. Eventually, they began to work very well together. Once they recognized the power in each other, they became fast partners. Jamie was assigned to Jenn so Jenn could bring out the potential in her and hone her biotic talent to a razor's edge. The two of them would go on to train biotic candidates together as "Force Ops". Jackson didn't think too highly of it when they proposed that title for their cell, but let it slide when Jamie clued him in on the old Earth movie reference.
It had been a busy first month back at work. Jackson received reports from all his field agents and training officers that everything from recruiting for the support divisions to material procurement was running smoothly. Wholly satisfied, he went home for the first time in a week to be with his family.
At home, he was overly pleased to see that his twins and the Geth twins were meshing very well. The four of them brimmed with curiosity and took every opportunity they could to take in any info around them. The Geth's Primary Consensus had moved forward with the idea of Geth children after Quentin, Elmina, Yavana, and Zane all provided solid proof of concept with their early development.
Since resigning her post on the Admiralty Board, Tali had taken to spending day in and day out with the kids. While she certainly did not miss the battlefield, she yearned to go back to working with tech. She teamed up with Maelon and started Cloning-Adoption Option, a galactic firm to help families expand much the same way the Shepard clan had. They handled gene manipulation cloning for mixed race families as well as adoptions for families that were apprehensive about going the cloning route.
All in all, Jackson could see bright things all around him for he, his family, and his work.
Author's Note: This officially ends 'At War's End'. 'Murphy's Law' is already going, and I have started drawing up plans for 'Force Ops'. It will follow Jenn and Jamie as they work together standing up Force Ops at BIOCOM. And a little FYI: Consider all my stories in continuity with each other. Oh, and remember when I said that all writers like to put in a personal touch? Here's another from me. Jamie is my wife's name, Huebert is her maiden name, and Steve is my father in law's name.