"Hello there, Lucien. I need your help with something. It's really more like someone, but this someone needs to be brought back to active shoreside duty from half-pay retirement." he says to the Space Lord on the other end of the screen that happens to be in charge of BuPers.

"Who?" he asks. Then, Ellen steps into the pickup, wearing her uniform with all its medals and other decorations with PMV, giving him the classic 'You will do as I tell you or else…' look. Lucien gasps.

"I… I… didn't think you would come out of retirement." he says, saluting her.

She returns the salute before replying, "One of the people who in the past held your job, put me on medical half-pay. You recalled all half-pay officers, did you not? I'm back."

"Um… Yes."

"A better response would be Yes, ma'am, but I'll… overlook that for the moment, in exchange for you doing what I need you to do."

"Yes, ma'am."

"You need to update my login credentials, and inform people I'm back, except for the Saganami Island staff. I looked at some stuff recently and discovered that I'm apparently the 'honorary' Commandant of Saganami Island, though obviously you filled in someone due to my medical 'retirement'. I thought I'd pay them a visit in a few days, after all this logistics nonsense is dealt with, and I have an office and a staff."

"You can't be the Commandant of Saganami Island. You never took ATC classes."

"I created ATC. I also kept up to date on tactics and stuff like that while I was on 'retirement'. I also qualified to skip it based on prior command experience. I wrote those exception guidelines personally, so don't try to quote them to me." Ellen says, laughing on the first part, but her voice getting colder as she says the last line.

"Yes, ma'am."

"I'll be paying a visit to you hopefully soon."

"Thanks for your time, ma'am."

Author's Notes: Don't expect a double post ever again, as I'm really busy.