TA11

==Chapter 11 - The Armada==
LCS Tatyana Steiner
Frederick Steiner-Class Battleship
Zero Wave, Waterpoint Six
Deep Periphery, Near Clan Space
3167 CE
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Liz MacAulliffe read, and then re-read, the reports from the Tranh Truk Ngo.
"Thim stuppit sunzabetches..." she marveled at what the Coasties found.  It should have been easy, make contact, give them the data their leaders had neglected to give them, offer to help.
She turned to their Snow Raven Liaison, "Lissen up y'all, to this..."  she hit 'play' on the audio portion. 
"...half the garrisons immediately started picking fights with each other and everyone else over resources and launch order.  I have to report the destruction of eleven military dropships from two out of three Clans after they initiated hostile actions.  If Eden is the model for what we're going to be facing further along, things are going to be very complicated...The challenges have ceased for the moment, but only because I started threatening to leave people.  While the threats have managed to cool their interest in taking the ship by force, they're still beating the snot out of each other to establish a functional command hierarchy.  'Trials of Position', we may need Marines to secure evacuation routes to the pickup points.  More to follow later."
"They will not need the Marines." he asserted confidently.
"That is eleven dropships that could've been useful in the evacuation, Star Commodore.  Eleven ships with eleven crew, wasted." she articulated it slowly, "Do you understand?  We are not going to stop until we have everyone, safe, out of the path of the shockwaves.  We must make them understand that."
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