"Elizabeth Moon - Serrano 6 - Change of Command" - читать интересную книгу автора (Moon Elizabeth)

Memorandum to the Chair of the Benignity:
Whatever the Familias Regnant hoped to gain by attacking the Texan Militia, and despite the
successful extrication of the Speaker's daughter, they will find they have poked a hornet's nest.
Although it is tempting to take advantage of this, I believe that any contact with the Militia
would endanger our longstanding policy, and would risk alienating the Holy Father.
Our intelligence reports indicate continuing and widening splits between the ruling elements,
however, which might well be exploited without entangling us with the New Texans. Project Dance
has provided the most accurate assessments so far of the behaviors of major Familias septs.
Project Retainer is showing a profit, and the latest data indicate that some 15-23% of the R.S.S.
senior NCO corps will be severely affected within another 180 days, with peak incidence at 250-300
days. Three independent sources confirm early failure beginning over 300 days ago. It is somewhat
surprising that the Familias have not cut back manufacture and distribution of the drugs . . .

Memorandum to the Admiral of the Fleet:
At the request of the Table of Ministers and the Grand Council, all ships not on high-alert status
will maintain one minute of silence at 1200 hours on the day of Lord Thornbuckle's funeral, and no


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other recognition shall be given; specifically there shall be no salute of arms.



"One minute of silence in respect for the Speaker of the Grand Council."

Silence dragged on. Longer than a minute, it felt like. Esmay wondered how Brun was holding up.
She had not had time to recover from her captivity, and already she had lost her father. Esmay
murmured prayers she had not thought of in years.



Memorandum to the Chief of Personnel, from the Chief, Medical Services:
Urgent you refer all enlisted personnel who received rejuvenation treatment within the past ten
years to medical immediately. Make no exceptions. If necessary, refer in order of rejuvenation.



Admiral Vida Serrano, now securely in command of Sector Seven, read the memorandum in silence,
very aware of the tension in Master Chief Valdos' shoulders. She herself had forwarded the
concerns of Barin and Captain Escovar about mental deterioration in senior enlisted personnel,
under the tightest security. She had followed the subsequent medical investigation, but the
details eluded her. Rejuvenation neurobiology was not her field. She needed to be briefed on it,
and so farтАФdespite several increasingly firm requests to Fleet HeadquartersтАФno such briefing had
taken place.