The Meaning Of Command
Author: Chaoseternus
Chapter 9: Command
Thundersdawn
Captain Peters curse silently as another wave of paperwork hit her desk, she knew Thompson would have lot more of this to deal with than even she did, but this was getting ridiculous. The RSS desperately needed more senior officers to spread the responsibility out more but high ranking officers who were not only cleared but passed the psych profile and could pass the particularly stringent medical were few and far between. At least the Williams twins knew all of the Admirals plans, and were dealing with as much of it as they could, but they lacked the seniority to deal with a lot of the essential details… Now that she could do something about.
"Ensign, get me a pair of Promotion forms and call Captain Ewian up from the Indomitable to countersign""Aye, Captain" the skinny ensign turned, and left leaving Peters alone to deal with the paperwork mountain. Let's see… another request from the Russians for Dauntless specs and blueprints… Denied, officially we see no reason to provide those at this point in time, unofficially half your StarGate team works for the Russian Mafia and do you really think we want Dauntless blueprints in their hands? One down… Standard requisitions from Nelson on the Devonshire, nice to know Thompson had briefed Nelson before the brown and sticky stuff hit the rotary impacting device, granted and glad the damage wasn't as severe as it first looked… Next, latest report on known NID operatives… looks long and boring, better leave that till tonight. Promotions list, read, sign to say it been read and pass the buck to personnel… Report from Chocky's homeworld on the relief efforts, better read that now. Damm, fifty-thousand confirmed dead, mostly the sick, elderly and the very young as usual. Infrastructure largely rebuilt in areas destroyed by debris from the mothership, and an updated and expanded defence grid made top priority by the locals… kinda like locking the barn doors after the horse has bolted but still… once bitten twice shy as they say. At least we will have a BIG favour to call in over there if we ever need it. Whats the place called anyway? Doesn't say… Chocky's recovering, good, friends like her are hard to find, Kalinda too, even better but… huh? They what? Chocky spent to long in Kalinda's body, and they now have a permanent connection?
Okaayyyyyy. That should be interesting, especially to explain to her parents… Hehe, never happen but funny image anyways… Oh, well at least they aren't screaming for more supplies anymore, just letting us know it'll be another month minimum before the relief teams can be withdrawn. At least the local defence grid has been repaired, well what's left of it anyway so most of the fleet has been able to return to normal operations. Right, well that's done, sign it, outbox it, good, next one.
Final damage report from the Graving Dock fire, nothing new, sign it and outbox it. Final report on the full security sweep of the base, damm! Add a note, have inventory made manually of all explosives stores, there is no way in hell they smuggled all of that onboard. They had to have hit official supplies for a lot of it, sign it, outbox it. Note from accountancy, confirm intention to add a Prometheus to the RSS rolls, Yes, as soon as the batch 2 design has been proven. Confirmation from the SGC, purchasing two Dauntless'es, nice, signed and outboxed. Phew, this is taking a while. An interruption, hurrah! "Come in!" Ahh… Ewain and the promotion forms. Quite happily countersigns to allow the Williams twins to be bumped two grades to full Commanders, obviously he's got a pretty good idea how much of the management of the RSS those two actually do. Damm, thank you for reminding me, Yes they got to Thompson in time; yes he will recover, how long? At least a month the doc's are saying, thank you and good bye. Strike one more job from the list. Now onto the next and… what now? Come in! Enerina's left, joint Tok'ra, Enerina, SGC mission? Fine, strike her off the available for system defence list, but remind yourself you're lucky to have her in the first place, good bye! Next, standard updates and requisitions from medical, another five moved to quarters well within the body of the station on medical grounds, well that will slow their assignment to a ship right down. Requistions… huh. We sure do go through a hell of a lot of those. That'll be the soldier boys again, when will they learn that everyone knows what they really use those for, its too keep water out of their guns for heavens sake, now if they were using them to keep err… water out of… ahem. Stopping that thought right there! Just sign it and outbox it. Good girl and next up is Coalmine's production report. Still overproducing, good, that puts a nice bonus in the budget, selling the excess on. Pity it won't last, more we build, more we use and there goes the bonus. Ah well, sign it and outbox it. And next!