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

How could she reassure Valdos, and others under her command, without the information she needed?

What would happen if she couldn't?

"Get me the heads of personnel and medical," she said. "We have a situation I don't fully
understand, and I want to be sure we handle this with both discretion and fairness."

"Sir." A pause. "If the admiral permitsтАФ"

"Go ahead."

"Is it true they're looking for ways to bump out senior NCOs, an excuse not to offer any more
rejuvenations?"

Just the kind of ideas she did not want floating around. But was it true?

"In my opinion, ChiefтАФand it's only my opinion, but I do have some dataтАФthis may have to do with
medical problems from a bad batch of rejuv drugs."

"Problems."

"Yes. I am not going to blacken anyone's name, because I don't know all the facts. I'm not a
medical officer. I do know that investigation of something else revealed a source of contaminated
rejuv drugs, and there was concern that they might have made it into our supply chain. Meanwhile,
several senior NCOs began showing neurological symptoms within a few months to a year of each
otherтАФwidely separated in their duty stations, and not all in the same branch."

"Could theyтАФhave given us bad drugs, to justify later refusal to rejuv?"

"On purpose?" He nodded. "Absolutely not. If that's what happened, I suspect it is a simple
mistakeтАФor, if not, an enemy wished to deprive us of our most valuable senior NCOs in order to
make a strike easier."

"I hope you're right, sir." He went out, shaking his head.

She hoped she was right, too . . . and that he believed her. If the NCOs started worrying about
whether they had been given bad drugs intentionally, the close-knit community of Fleet could
unravel with fatal speed.



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