24.6.2014
We were given a surprise visit by the members of Seal Team Six this morning - they arrived just in time to join us for breakfast. Normally both Gernot and I are quite the sticklers for enjoying family meals uninterrupted by unexpected guests, but I am willing to overlook this one instance because our American guests had relieved me of my burden yesterday during the meeting. By revealing themselves and claiming responsibility for the genesis of the German, Italian, and British fleet personnel, Seal Team Six effectively shifted all of the pressure from the other nations' representatives off us and onto themselves. And due to their top-secret counter-terrorism background, Seal Team Six can afford to do this because they can simply ignore such pressure. As political entities, Gernot and I needed to carefully balance the amount of pressure we would have received from our fellow European peers with the legitimacy of retaining our respective fleets. However, the Americans have the luxury of simply ignoring everything because they are not political entities; they are not known to the public, and ultimately, as a counter-terrorist group, their actions are justified in the name of international security. I did initially find it strange immediately following the meeting yesterday that Seal Team Six's influence was so readily accepted, so when I spoke to several of my colleagues on the EU committee with whom I was better friends, they told me that Seal Team Six was indeed rumored to be the world's best counter-terrorism unit, bar none. Never mind the fact that they were American and based and operated mainly out of America, their exploits and accomplishments preceded themselves. It would appear that, simply put, their reputation was nothing short of legendary.
A bit expectedly, however, they did not seem to understand the convenience that they have provided for me and my husband when it comes to our political agendas, but I suppose they do not have to know that. So we gladly fed them breakfast this morning, and all was well.
The attendees of yesterday's emergency European Union meeting are preparing to leave for London tomorrow (many have even already left immediately after the meeting yesterday had concluded), but Sir Sinclair and the British Prime Minister, Sir Nelson Porter, stayed in the city to come speak with us - Gernot and me, that is. So when we went to work today (I had to take my daughter with me today since the girls would be training with the Wunderwaffe team all day today), Gernot and I met with the British leaders in Gernot's office this time. Sir Porter wished to speak to us about the American team, Seal Team Six. He expressed his intentions of speaking with us sooner or later about this matter, both about the fleet personnel that our countries possess and about their creators, but to him, the Americans were a more pressing issue. He stated that he was worried about how influential this team was, and he asked us how much we knew about them in regards to their activities throughout the European continent. We confessed that apart from our limited interactions and communications with them, we knew very little, though I did mention that after talking with a few of our EU committee colleagues, they were more than just a force to be reckoned with, as it would seem. Sir Porter said I had yet to know anything about them. He went on to describe to us what were apparently only a few of their feats here in the continent, and they only knew because Seal Team Six deliberately decided to inform Mi-6 about their activities while they were operating in Britain so as to avoid appearing as trespassers on British soil, so Gernot and I now know that our American friends are indeed living up to their name as the world's most potent counter-terrorist organization. I think they can qualify as an organization by this point, if they have enough resources and manpower to build not one, not two, but four separate fleets...even if the latter fleets are much smaller in number than the first.
Sir Porter asked me what the likelihood was to convince us to let go of our control of our fleet personnel and have them deactivated and decommissioned, perhaps even scrapped. His reasoning was such that Seal Team Six, being an American military team with deep affiliations with heavily classified sections of the American federal government, was ultimately using their new technology in the form of these naval personnel fleets as a roundabout way to slowly exert control over the major European militaries. He cited the words of the Americans in yesterday's meeting when they hijacked it, making a hypothesis that these words signified the intent of the American team to slowly infiltrate the deepest echelons of European military command by producing vital combat assets that we European countries would need in this imminent conflict against this new Abyssal threat. By planting these unintentional double-agents within our chains of command and entrenching them so deeply within our governments and militaries to the point where we would no longer be able to remove them due to their combat importance, the Americans could then have a way to simultaneously sabotage every single major European military with perhaps a single push of a button. It would not be tantamount to nuclear warfare, per se, but the possibility of this happening was, to Sir Porter, almost as threatening. Humanoid killing machines being ordered by a foreign authority to rebel against their own countries and begin obeying every single order of their manufacturers? That did not sit well at all with the British Prime Minister.
Therefore, Sir Porter suggested that we rid ourselves of the fleet personnel. Perhaps, if we did this, we would prevent ourselves from turning our fleets of ship girls into military crutches against these new Abyssal enemies, and instead, we should concentrate on preparing our own conventional militaries to combat this new terrorist threat. After all, his own fleet of ship girls had informed their commanders that the Abyssals seemed to show a sharp weakness to modern air superiority, meaning that outside of our fleet personnel, conventional air forces are our greatest asset against them. This way, the benefits of the decommissioning of our fleet personnel would be two-fold: not only would w be able to unshackle ourselves of our inevitable reliance on American technology that we ourselves had no way of knowing whether or not we commanded fully, but we would also clear our countries' names of our possible secret affiliations with the American team. Despite Herr Deimos and Herr Big making it clear that their initial goals had been to supply every major European navy with their own fleet of ship girls, there were still several representatives at the meeting, namely those of France, Portugal, and Poland, who still had strong opinions about a possible secret quadruple alliance that Germany, Italy, and Britain had with America, or something along those lines, and Sir Porter wished to keep his country's reputation among the EU committee as clean as possible.
I then asked the British Prime Minister if by chance he spoke with any of the British fleet personnel, and he said no. He stated that he would like to at some point, but so far, simply because of their residence at Rosyth Dockyards in Northern Britain, he never had a chance to. When he asked why I asked this, I replied with a simple "nothing in particular".
Immediately following this, I rejected his proposition. The greatest piece of evidence that I can see nullifying Sir Porter's argument lies with Japan. We all know that Japan possesses the world's largest fleet of naval personnel; it is no secret now. We also know everything about the Japanese-American relations and their status over the past half a year, with things such as the Moebius Four Armament Pact and the remilitarization of the country. If Seal Team Six truly intended for these fleet personnel to act as pseudo-sleeper agents, to be awakened at a critical moment to take over the militaries of Europe, why did they simply allow the Japanese to seize control of their single biggest fleet? The Japanese are in full control of their own ship girls, and we had ownership of our fleets before the Japanese seized full control of their own fleet away from the American team. In addition, we always had eyes over our own ship girls as well. So even though we may not know for sure that our ship girls may truly rise up against us, I questioned the legitimacy of such an outcome. This would have to be a most elaborate scheme that Seal Team Six would have to pull off - and even if their goal was to sabotage the militaries of Europe, how would that make any sense? What would a counter-terrorist organization gain from doing the exact opposite of the nature of their organization? To aid a possible vigilante group, or, dare we say, terrorist group? Then what would be the point of them going so far out of their way to manufacture entire fleets of naval personnel? This just does not add up, because surely there are simpler and more direct ways to go about committing sabotage of this degree.
Besides, while I did not state this next reason to our British colleagues, after having spent months with our ship girls and having them live with us in our home, they have almost become extended family to us, both my husband and I. In a sense, they have become our surrogate daughters, every single of them, as we have become their surrogate guardians and parents. So being asked to decommission them, even scrap them, carries a huge negative connotation that I hugely dislike. Of course, there is no way for Sir Porter to know what kind of relationship we have with our own fleet. But the fact of the matter is that these ship girls, as odd as their existences are, as out-of-place they may be in the eye of the public, they have become part of our lives. By this point, they have become a little too important to us personally for my husband or I to place political agenda above their safety and happiness. This is why I have been getting so agitated by the pressure being put on us by our colleagues in the European Union: I want to protect my daughters from the hawking eyes and groping hands of strange men and women who wish to steal them away from us - at least, this is how I view their opinions. I cannot and will not stand for it, and keeping our ship girls protected from political repercussions that have spawned because of them, that they themselves have no way to address due to their natures and their circumstances is becoming more and more so my goals.
Our meeting lasted a fair amount of time, and by the end of it, Sir Porter still asked me to consider his suggestion. Despite it, he declared that so long as Germany and Italy kept their fleets, so too would Britain, and that was just fine, for neither Gernot nor I wish any of us three countries to get rid of our own fleets. We arrived home early because we would need to take a flight very early in the morning tomorrow to London, and we needed to take care of our guests and daughters in the meantime. We had dinner all ready for them by the time they returned from training today, though my husband and I needed to go to sleep immediately after we had eaten. Gernot complained that he would perhaps gain some weight overnight from sleeping right after a meal, but luckily for me, I am staying up just a little bit longer typing this entry. Oh, the benefits of keeping a journal - who ever thought they would also be dietary?