that they expect flights of long duration and have replaced creature comforts with this arrangement or, they are originally designed as evacuation ships. When we release a power surge at or near them, it causes the type of capacitors they are using for FTL to discharge every bit of its energy that must then be recharged and that is a time consuming exercise. In the meantime, they sit defenseless in space. It would appear that their weapons do not require the same capacitor banks to operate so they may still have some teeth. The stasis system is also on a different system that would not be affected by the power surge. The stasis area appears to be separately shielded and contains a separate power source with backup. It also takes up a relatively small part of the total volume of the usable space in the ship, about tube near LM3 on the ship that is 904' in diameter and about 1800' long. That area is essentially a capsule within the ship. Why so many is still a puzzle. We need to be close enough to do the kind of precision scan that only proximity will allow. We should be able to read them down to the very circuit boards and controls they utilize. In theory we could fully replicate one of their ships. That would be most advantageous in dealing with the main group. It would allow for precision targeting that I am sure the Glarin do not suspect is even possible. I urge you to accept Fador's suggestion in this matter. The amount of knowledge we could acquire about our foe is huge." With that he sat down.
"Anyone else have any thing else to add to this suggestion" asked Hank. Josh rose and said, "I concur, Fador and Ter-Amin have posed an excellent argument for this course of action. It just makes good sense." He sat down.
Hank said, "I agree, let's do it. Now we have to get the personnel to operate our weapon systems should we need them."
"At some point, we will need to go public. We will need to recruit. Initially, I do not want a preponderance of greenhorns here just for the sake of filling slots but I am not going to rule out their inclusion. There are also many good people in third world countries that just do not have the education to be effective but we have the ability to provide them the necessary education and skills in a fairly short time. It is going to occur to the politicians down there that we are only selecting the cream of the crop. That is not going to sit well. Also we may be barred from the recruiting we need to do. However or whatever they feel, we are still going to recruit. I expect that I will be visiting heads of state and getting in the door may be a challenge. I think in some cases we may go for something spectacular. At the moment I am leaning toward a worldwide broadcast to let the people of Earth know what is coming, that we have the means to stop it but it will require their help. Otherwise we pack up our bags and move to the next system willing to help. I do not expect we would do that even if there is resistance but they do not know that. In any event, I am reluctant to play that card so it will stay on the back burner."
"We will need a good screening process. Sam and I will be working with Barana to assure we have something that is useful and effective. We do not want radicals or extremists on Station unless they are in stasis and are being shipped somewhere. Fador has agreed to furnish me with the list of candidates that have already been vetted so we can start with those as a core group to the extent they are willing to sign on. We are going to go for people that have been through a rigorous training regimen. That will provide some preference to those with Marine Corps, Navy Seal, or Special forces type training. We will initially recruit persons from the elite services regardless of nationality. We will have to be pretty careful to avoid unwittingly weakening a country to the point of leaving them vulnerable to their neighbors."
"I have given this quite a bit of thought and it occurs to me
"Anyone else have any thing else to add to this suggestion" asked Hank. Josh rose and said, "I concur, Fador and Ter-Amin have posed an excellent argument for this course of action. It just makes good sense." He sat down.
Hank said, "I agree, let's do it. Now we have to get the personnel to operate our weapon systems should we need them."
"At some point, we will need to go public. We will need to recruit. Initially, I do not want a preponderance of greenhorns here just for the sake of filling slots but I am not going to rule out their inclusion. There are also many good people in third world countries that just do not have the education to be effective but we have the ability to provide them the necessary education and skills in a fairly short time. It is going to occur to the politicians down there that we are only selecting the cream of the crop. That is not going to sit well. Also we may be barred from the recruiting we need to do. However or whatever they feel, we are still going to recruit. I expect that I will be visiting heads of state and getting in the door may be a challenge. I think in some cases we may go for something spectacular. At the moment I am leaning toward a worldwide broadcast to let the people of Earth know what is coming, that we have the means to stop it but it will require their help. Otherwise we pack up our bags and move to the next system willing to help. I do not expect we would do that even if there is resistance but they do not know that. In any event, I am reluctant to play that card so it will stay on the back burner."
"We will need a good screening process. Sam and I will be working with Barana to assure we have something that is useful and effective. We do not want radicals or extremists on Station unless they are in stasis and are being shipped somewhere. Fador has agreed to furnish me with the list of candidates that have already been vetted so we can start with those as a core group to the extent they are willing to sign on. We are going to go for people that have been through a rigorous training regimen. That will provide some preference to those with Marine Corps, Navy Seal, or Special forces type training. We will initially recruit persons from the elite services regardless of nationality. We will have to be pretty careful to avoid unwittingly weakening a country to the point of leaving them vulnerable to their neighbors."
"I have given this quite a bit of thought and it occurs to me
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