Chapter Five: Planning to Plan
Harry's POV
It was a with a shrill screech that woke him. The loud noise was close enough to toss himself back and he felt the chair he was still in roll for a second with the force before tipping over and making him impact with the wooden floor behind him. He groaned as the bright sun light flooded through the window behind him and landed on his face. He rolled over rubbing at the back of his head lightly before turning to look at the desk seeing numbers flashing in the air.
Another shrill screech sounded out and he scrambled for the desk hitting the lifted button making it cut out quickly. 'Least the blasted noise is gone.' he thought as his head throbed lightly. He slipped back into the chair slouching slightly as he tried to ease the new headache he got. "Good morning, sir." Miyumi called from the door. He glanced over and nodded slightly before seeing the large plate in her hands. He sat up quickly the smell finally reaching him. "Good morning, Miyumi." He said getting a small grin in response.
"Hungry?" Miyumi asked making him nod as his mouth watered slightly. "I figured it would be best for me to bring you breakfast, there a few things I will need to go over with you, before your meeting at Noon." Miyumi explained taking a seat in front of him. He blinked as the keyboard and display that had been up since last night winked away once the plate was set down where the keyboard had been. He made a mental note about that feature. "Noon meeting?" He asked taking a bite of the eggs in front of him.
He smiled at the taste and held himself back from destroying the plate and ate slowly. "Yes, The Admirals will all be available for Conference call in the same Room as your prior meeting with the Governors, two of them will be in person though." Miyumi said making him nod slowly before he paused at the number. "Only two?" He asked thinking over the massive fleet in the system. "Yes, The Home fleet only has two Admirals, and they are only for specific functions of the fleet." Miyumi said making him cough lightly before leaning back into the chair for a second.
"But that fleet is massive!" He exclaimed getting a small smile in response. "Since we have plenty of qualifiying commanders it wouldnt be necissary to have a Admiral on every ship. Besides their functions are specific to their division in the fleet. It would be a waste of resources and man power to outfit ever ship with an Admiral and expect all of them to work together in their assigned Divisions." Miyumi explained making him nod and move back to the food. "You said you had some more things to discuss." He said slowly seeing her lay a small pad down and slide it over to him.
"Your security chief is asking to have a meeting with you to go over all the security features inside the tower, he wants to make you aware of their function as well as the possibility of learning how to use certain Manual systems on the chance that you need them." Miyumi explained making him nod slowly as he read the print out and got lost in all of the technical talk on the pad. "I'm going to assume he will be able to break all of this down into something a little more simple for me to understand." He said getting a short nod before setting the pad down and moving it back to her.
"Right, then I'll take that meeting after the Admiral's are finished, best to get everything done as soon as possible." He said hesitating slightly as he thought about that move. "Anything else?" He asked weary of the possibility of more. "Multiple New agencies have contacted us, they are expressing a desire to have you do a press conference. It would be best to do it when possible, especially to address the Civilian's, as your position has been kept a military secret for the moment their is some concern." Miyumi said trailing off as he grimaced.
'Great talking to the media.' He thought with a small sigh. "It doesnt have to be today, and I am certain we can push it off for a while yet, but it would be best to do it at some point, it's going to be talked about for a while and it would be in your best interest to have it done." Miyumi explained making him nod slowly before sighing. "I dont feel comfortable doing it today, I'm assuming it will be something we can bring up after the meetings today? I might be able to decide then I'm not really sure." He said getting a slow nod in response.
He sat in the silence for a moment until his thoughts ran back to his friends and everything that happened back then. "Miyumi, what all do we have about the Magical world? In concerns to their History or events? What was told to me by Tycon was vague and little, and while it makes sense that most of everything in the 21st century was saved due to the Internet, im confused how their history wouldnt be included." He said getting a small blink in surprise. "From what we understand is that once they made their change from being recognized as magicals to Psionics, they decided to leave that history written down." Miyumi explained before sighing.
"As you no doubt remember they were pushed back technologically, from what little was told after their name change they still hadnt achieved technological competence. Odds are information about those years are either lost in time, or if they are collected, they are in books, and with the length of time we are looking at, even that might be lost in time." Miyumi explained making him nod slowly. "Your best chance would be to head their yourself and search, but the time you could spend searching all locations would be overwhelming, and with your currently concerns, wouldnt help you." Miyumi explained making him lean back.
"I guess I'll have to push that off for another time then, you are kinda right, I've got a lot going on, and I doubt right now I'll have the time." He said hesitantly before sighing and rubbing at his temples. "If you would like, you have enough time to finish eating, shower, and change, before you will need to follow me to the meeting." Miyumi explained making him nod and quickly eat his food. It was with a feeling of freeshness and relief that he stood in front of the selection of clothing after his shower. He choose a simple plain suit as one of the only things he had in selection.
'I feel stiff.' He thought walking down the short hall to the elevator. "Miyumi, I know I have to keep up a certain appearance but would it be possible to get some more casual clothes to add to the selection of clothes I have?" He asked getting a small amused smile. "If you would like, I am certain we can take a small trip out to a nearby store and you can make any choice you want." Miyumi said making him nod slowly and roll his shoulders slightly trying to diffuse the tension in his shoulders.
He moved out of the elevator quickly feeling slightly awkward in the silence and looked towards the doors of the conference room. He halted for a moment hand hovering near the handle before pushing down the sudden flare of nervousness and walked into the room seeing the light conversation halt and every turn to look at him. Everyone jumped to their feet and saluted making him almost stumble having stopped so fast. "Erm... At ease?" He said hesitating slightly getting everyone to relax and take their seats.
He glanced over to Miyumi seeing a slightly uncomfortable look on her face before she composed herself and gestured to the seat. "Right, Before we get started, I'd like to apologize ahead of time if my less than stellar entrance was insulting in any way, I am not exactly well versed in the ways to great those in a Military position." He said slowly seeing a few who were still tense relax slightly. "I am hoping to fix that at the next opportunity." He said seeing everyone nod in response.
"Alright, where should we begin?" He asked getting Miyumi to step up and drop the pad into his hands. "Ah, Fleet placements then?" He asked seeing everyone perk up. "Before I get to that, I'd like to know what everyone has to say over their Division and how you feel about your current placement." He said getting blinks of surprise. "We'll start with the Expedition Fleet." He said looking over everyone and seeing the two at the opposite end of the table stiffen slightly.
"Yes, Sir." The two said making him nod slowly. "It seems I've neglected an important portion of this meeting." he said seeing everyone look over in carefully hidden curiosity. "Introductions, My name is Harry James Potter, A pleasure to meet you all. I suppose we will begin around the table clock wise then?" He questioned looking to the two who spoke. "Admiral Grizelda Moralez, Current Commander of the Expedition Fleet." The woman said slowly staring him in the eyes.
He held himself in place at the stare, even if it was a hologram and the two nearest him were the only people there in person, he could almost feel the piercing effect of her gaze. "Right." He said before turning to the male of the two. "Admiral Montgomery Murphy." The male said simply. With each person it went, names flowing out with ease and he sighed as it all ended. "Right back to buisness. There has been talk of the fleet being disbanded and absorbed by the three other fleets." He said seeing the two stiffen and he could seeing the fiery anger burn in Grizelda's eyes, and the slight murmur break out from the others.
He frowned as everyone seemed a little surprised. "That wont be happening." He said quickly getting complete silence from that command. He watched everyone sit up a little straighter at his order. He narrowed his eyes as he looked everyone over just in case they had been hiding their intentions. "Not only would that action be completely pointless, it would also remove two Admiral's from positions they both earned and further than that the men and women who serve under them and respect them would not be to happy with this sort of move." He said seeing a small smile break out over Grizelda's and Montgomery's face.
"Another reason being that what information we have on the current state of the Galaxy is limited and removing a fleet dedicated to the discovery of whats out there, on top of gathering us this information is a wasteful choice." He said seeing the grudging respect for the move and decision in a few of them. "Although I need to know." He started looking over the two as they snaped all their attention to him and away from the quickly rushed communication.
"How soon can you deploy?" He asked getting surprised looks from the two. "We could be fully outfitted in a day or two, depending on the level of urgency." Montgomery said making him nod at the gruff mans voice. "I'm going to need a notice of when your preperations are finished, as soon as that happens I will forward a list of systems I would like you to start with, It will be up to you how you wish to go about completing the list." He said getting nods in return. "Next The First Response Fleet. It shouldnt be to difficult to see that you will need to be prepared in tandem with the Expeditionary Fleet." He said getting slow nods in response.
"I will need both fleets to coordinate your placement, on the off chance they are attacked I need you within immediate jump distance to provide support." he said getting some frowns. "I understand you all are very skilled as are the men and women under your command, but I've learned fairly well that being ready for anything is something necessary." he said getting small nods in response. "Good I'm sure you can handle that Admiral Sandler?" He asked getting a nod and small grin from the woman. "Our current location could have us outfitted in a few hours, we will be more than prepared." Amber Sandler said making him nod.
"Now as for the Defense Fleet, I want to get your opinion." He said surprising Admiral Harriet Hood, and her two subordinates, Admiral's Hiyori Shimizu and Gillian Lindsay. "With what, Sir?" Harriet asked making him shift in his seat as the three stared at him. 'That certainly isnt comfortable.' He thought before sighing and staring back. "With current information, where do you believe your fleet is best needed?" He asked getting a small blink of surprise before the woman turned to the two across from her.
He waited in the Silence knowing a silent conversation was going on and took a moment to look around the rest of the room seeing everyone waiting patiently although the two nearest him were watching him with curiosity in their eyes and what looked like a light of mischief in their eyes. He glanced at Miyumi and tried to silently message her to help him only to get an amused smile in response. "Our current position in the Sirius sector is a waste, and moving to the Alpha Centauri sector would be just as wasteful, considering their are only two entry points to our controlled space via Hyperspace, we'd suggest positioning along the route leading from the eastern arm of the galaxy to our arm." Harriet said slowly making his head snap back to her.
"Hmm, alright, so our defensive movements will be based off prior data about what technologies the known empires have, why is it that most developed Hyperspace Drives?" He asked getting amused smiles in return. "Jump drives are incredibly advanced and complicated, our technology is hundreds of years more advanced so we got there at a natural rate. However Hyperspace isnt the only form that is seen outside of our technology, some have Warp Gates." Hiyori said making him nod slowly as the information flowed into his head.
"Ah, so even with possible advancements they most likely dont hold a candle to our methods and likely still reside in that area?" He asked getting nods from everyone. "It's entirely possible it wont ever matter anyways, with how empires work, they wont change methods of travel easily, if what you know works well its better than risking mistakes with what you dont know to well." Miyumi said making him glance over and nod slowly as he thought that over. "Do we have any known enemies at that area, or the other location?" He asked getting a small shake of the head.
"It's been so long even with long standing grudges they most likely dont want to risk waking armageddon. Odd's are high we will be ignored even with strange movements, and thats even if they could find out, since we are insular, it would be extremely difficult for any information of our movement's to be known to anyone." Harriet said making him nod. "I'll leave any finer details to you." he said getting a slow hesitant nod. "Lastly, the Home Fleet." He said getting everyone to stiffen. "Sir?" Admiral's Angela Blake and Anastasia Pushkov asked a hint of weariness in their voices.
He stared the two down for a second and could see the unease that ran through the room. "You arent mobilizing, I'll put that out there." He said seeing everyone relax. "But..." He started getting them all to resume their position. "You will be once my training is completed." He finished letting the silence hang for a moment. "Sir?" Both asked seriously. "Listen up, I am not a well trained soldier, Honestly most of what's going on goes so far over my head I've been abusing the hell out of my Interface to understand a tenth of whats being said let along more." He said dryly getting a small smattering of soft chuckles.
"What I do understand, at least a little of, is that we wont be invisible, and odd's are extremely high, we will make someone nervous. Since I've been given control of the Home Fleet, and will be expected to lead it in battle, I want us ready to move." He said in the completely grave silent room. 'The training's gonna be hell as it is, and now I'll have to command a fleet, my life gets more difficult each passing moment.' He thought before seeing everyone nod. "Anything else we need to address?" He asked a little weary of the possibility.
"Sir, we might as well discuss this now, since we are all available." Angela said making him look over. "Your training, we'd like a decision on which branch you wish to train with first as far as Boot Camp goes." Angela explained making him sigh and rub his face. "Odd's are the General's are going to call a meeting in a few days." He said glancing at Miyumi only to get a nod and slumped into his chair. "They wont like it but I'll take your Boot Camp first, I'm going to need a foundation in place before I even join their type." He said mumbling the last bit.
"Right, we will send the liason in a few weeks, once to set up the dates and hopefully meet with the Armies, hopefully with their help and scheduling you can get this all completed as soon as possible." Harriet said making him nod and watched as everyone stood quickly before winking away with a salute. "Sir, it's currently Two Thirteen in the afternoon, before meeting with your Security Chief would you like something to eat?" Miyumi asked as he relaxed in the chair.
"How long were we here?" He asked in surprise looking at the holographic clock display that flashed in front of him. "A fair amount of time, its entirely likely that you didnt notice the time moving as quickly as it did, the network alters your perception of time when delving into it." Miyumi expalained making him nod slowly before rubbing his eyes. "Might as well just eat and talk to him at the same time, can you have him meet me here?" He asked only to hear the door open and a man in a suit with black sunglasses walk in.
"Good afternoon sir, I am your current Security Chief, you can call me Smith." The man said standing at the door making him sigh and his right eye twitch at the name. "Just Smith?" He asked slightly sarcastic getting a slow nod and groaned into his hand as he laid it against his face. "Right, lets get started then, you probably have plenty to do so lets get this done as quickly as possible." He said motioning to a seat to his right. He watched the man sit and press his fingers against the table making a few large displays come up with a blueprint of the towers structure.
"What you will be dealing with as far as security in the building, ranges on the specific area's. currently only ten people have access to the top three floors, you being one of those people. The next five levels are dedicated to the in house living area of the Immediate response force for the upper Plateu of the tower. Another five levels at the lower side are dedicated for the same reason. Most floors are outfitted with Motion and Heat sensors, every possible entry way to each floor emergency or otherwise are secured by Automated Concealed Antimaterial Assault Turrets." Smith explained as every location of each point light up red for a few moments.
"Turret's? How do they identify friend or foe?" He asked getting a small twitch of the lips from the stiff faced man. "Every level is dedicated to a very specific access code and a physical keycard with a radioactive isotope keyed to that level, on top of that they are installed with physical identification software to assist. They are outfitted with a plasma based lethal and stun option to assist in capture of anyone out of place for questioning, or elimination of targets if the physical ammunition is expended." Smith explained making him stare at the man blankly.
"Right, continue then." He said getting the display to shift towards the first of the top three floors. "As you know, this level is your conference room and office area, on top of several recreational and exercise rooms for your use. Several small weapons cache's have been installed with a three key system keyed to your genetic, neural, and iris input. This system allows only you to access these cache's for use in defence should the conventional systems fail to solve the issue. Cache's like these are installed in each of the three levels." Smith said moving through a blown up image of each.
"On the rooftop, is a dedicated emergency landing pad that is protected by high output particle energy weapons with a specialized and focused Friend Foe system. Another location to note is a small hanger bay on the top level with a Spec III fighter interceptor, with overshields installed. It is your personal escape craft, on top of whatever instruction you will be getting in your military training, they will be doing specialized instruction on controls of a quick attack craft." Smith explained making the holographic image of the ship spin in front of him.
'This is overkill.' He thought to himself before stiffening as the man laid a pistol on the table. "This is a weapon I've personally selected out of a few options for sidearms, I've taken the opportunity to have it keyed into your palmprint, I would like for you to keep this on you at all times, If you want to keep it concealed I can have a specially fitted concealed holster sent to you for its model." Smith explained sliding the gun slowly to him. He lifted it and blinked at the heavy weight before looking it over.
"Right... I dont know how to shoot." He said setting it down like it was a bomb getting a small amused smile from Miyumi. "You dont need to worry about it going off if dropped, even weapons from the twenty first century were designed to ensure a missfire wouldnt happen over simply dropping a weapon, I will run you through a simple instruction on the firing of a weapon over the next few days, you will have better training provided in your training in the Military camps as those dates come up." smith explained making him nod and watch the man stand.
"If you need any other information to do with your security while on the planet when you arent on duty, I will be available for you at any time." Smith said before leaving quickly. He dropped the fork and looked down at the empty plate. 'When the hell did the food get here and I start eating?' He wondered before brushing it off and standing leaning back to crack his back. "Any other pressing matters for me?" He asked slightly sarcastic getting a small shake of the head. "Great, I guess I'll just go back to the office." He said leaving her behind quickly eager to use this free time to look through the net, part of him hoped of finding something of his past, the other was surprisingly eager to learn what was going on around him.
He leaned in the chair and let the information flash in front of his face. It was a simple name based information recall and the information flew by so fast before the recall came back mostly empty. 'I guess it was to much to ask that one of them be involved in the muggle world.' He thought with a small sigh and pulled up feeds from some of the orbiting satalittes looking over the geography and compairing it to his memory of the world. Even after hundreds of years not to much had changed, or at least nothing so major as to really pop out.
'I wonder what my limitations with the network link is.' He thought to himself before delving deep into the link. He felt his body numb over slightly and relax and could see the network in front of him. It wasnt some simple wall of binary code or streams of information, it looked like some weird bright ball that had branching arms connected to others. He shrugged to himself and plunged into it only to be almost violently kicked back into his body. He felt his head impact the table and groaned softly as a dull throbbing pulsed out from the middle of his forehead.
He heard the door open and quick steps move towards him. "Sir, are you alright? A notice was flagged that you had dived to deep and the automated safety system ejected you." Miyumi explained laying a hand on his shoulder. He sighed and rubbed at his head. "Yeah head's killing me though, what the hell happened?" He asked getting a small sigh as she took a seat across from him. "The Neural uplink has made significant progress in allowing you access to the full scope of the network, however it has a safety feature in place to automatically eject you from the network if it becomes to detrimental to your mental and physical health." Miyumi explained making him look over in surprised.
"The network can hurt me?" He asked in surprise getting a small laugh and shake of the head. "Since your mind hasnt completely adjusted to its location in relation to itself, you run the risk of accidently leaving your body behind and 'drowning' for lack of a better term, in the network." Miyumi explained making him stare at her for a moment before rubbing his eyes. "Wouldnt that be something to tell me?" He asked getting a small hesitant laugh. "Their was an assumption that you wouldnt dive that far until you had grown used to the networks attachment to you." Miyumi said slowly getting a small sigh.
"Well I cant really fault you all for that thought, how long until I am used to it?" He asked getting a small smile of relief. "About another half a day, your current dive attempt had actually accelerated its adjustment and once the day is up tomorrow, you should be able to safely dive without being thrown out or leaving your body behind and getting lost." Miyumi explained making him relax slightly. "Good, aside from the headache it was an interesting experience." He mumbled getting silence from the woman across from him.
A/N: To those who see this update and no doubt go: "What the hell, why now of all this time its been a long ass time". I just want to say sorry, I lost the internet service at my home and without an ability to spend dedicated time looking up information with ease with which to use on this story i lost my muse for a while. it took a bit of just random thinking and digging deep for information I had learned a long time ago in order to hopefully not complete fuck the laws of physics and reality with a barbed wire bat. But I got something written down, and the first chapter that almost reached 5k words. 4,500 and some change. I'm excited to get the goal and maybe make chapters even longer than that since I dont enjoy short chapters in what I read and I doubt many readers for this would enjoy short chapters either. The next chapter is going to be a jump into Basic Training at the Naval Training Grounds. its a small jump but thats mostly because I feel like I've had this thing moving as slow as a snail for these past chapters. so its a time skip of maybe a few days, not like months or years or anything. Now I dont know how Basic training works for the most part in the Navy, and since its a space navy I will take some liberties. I did serve in the Air force as such I know what basic was for that branch and most basic training or boot camp are similar in general terms. With that said I have been attempting to get a better understand of the finer points with each branch and I hope what effort I put in is appreciated even if there are some errors. I wont be going over every day in the training, but more over certain bits that are important for people to understand and see in order to see how his character, views, and morals change and why they changed. When you go into the service you are still thinking like a civilian and certain things that are asked of you and you do dont make sense, but once you've gotten past basic you understand why you do those things, some things regular just never will understand, I hope to give you some insight so you can understand his change as a person and his changes in motivations and actions in the future that are opposite or slanted away from his canon personality.