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Chapter 99 - The Administrator[]
The Triad
Tharkad system
Lyran Commonwealth
April 11, 3154
"We have a temporary peace, Sharon. Good work." Trillian Steiner said.
"It wasn't my work." Admiral Sharon Ngo said, as they walked to the Throne Room.
"You facilitated. Stone didn't get what he wanted from us, we got what we wanted from the rest of them. It's a win."
"Stone didn't get what he wanted, because he didn't want it anymore." Sharon pointed out. "If anyone 'won' it's Yori Kurita-she got a comprehensive cease-fire and a non-aggression pact with the FedSuns and the Raven Alliance. Now, Julian got breathing room and technical assistance from the Republic. Nikol Marik got the Republic to promise to refrain from retaking worlds from the Free Worlds League. Daoshen got to see Stone humiliated for three days and then got a distraction spelled 'aliens'. Alaric got time to plan his build-up for the invasion of Terra wit Khan Bekker got a new set of wars to plan defending Stone and his Republic, plus time to plan it."
"Succinct, accurate..."
"Can I resign now?" Sharon asked.
"I need you to head up another project, Sharon." Trillian told her.
"Which is?" questioned a weary Sharon.
"Exploration. With Comstar being permanently out of the business. Peace on most of our inhabited borders and nobody treating the Commonwealth like a threat or barrier at the moment. I want you to start drafting guidelines for exploration missions and survey. There is a hell of a lot of former Rim Worlds out there who've gone fallow, lost colonies and nobody knows what's going on with the Kerensky Cluster except that the Sea Foxes aren't talking about it. Yori wasn't wrong-there are plenty of potential threats out there that nobody is positioned to deal with...and it's something you want, and you've earned a boon."
"Em will make a great CNO." Sharon said.
"I hope so...you haven't been wrong on your personnel recommendations thus far." stated Trillian.
"When can I leave?"
"Oh, as soon as your ride is out of the shipyard, I expect." Trillian told her, "We're having some problems working out what a proper 'science vessel' really involves, you might stop off at Semier, and give some input, ja?"
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- Wiki Editor Note: While the Administrator Story itself has concluded. A entirely new story arc continues chronic logically, The Advisor.