Luck had nothing to do with it. I know where I stand.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Leapfrog is really the only animal I recognize, since it's used in battle plan talk by humans I work with. And you've got the same info as I do.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
What do you know of our team? Mind if I put up a message on the cuff after we've hit the pit stop so we can get talking as a unit? Find out who's on probation, what their strengths and weaknesses are, that sort of thing?
I know some of them. Athos is a Musketeer, I know him from home. He’s the finest swordsman I’ve ever known, and perhaps the best man. You could trust him with your life.
FROM:sturmhond@cdc.org
Hanna controls fire. She’s good. She’s not a trained soldier, but she’s held her own. I’ve fought alongside her. And Hibari, he’s a good friend. A little strange, but capable.
FROM:sturmhond@cdc.org
Elena is strong and fast. She always tried to take care of everyone. The others, I don’t really know. But I’d like to change that. Talking is a good idea.
FROM:sturmhond@cdc.org
Maybe all of us could meet. Get to know each other, before we’re given a mission and realise we don’t know what half the team looks like.
I've spoken with Athos twice, including during the last green mission. Seems good. I know Hanna too, dropped with her. Worked with Elena transporting stasis patients, after we dealt with the Takk.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Yulia's good. Friendly, competent, was one of the original level ones with me. Seems sharp. I share a rover with Kouha, but I'm mostly there just to sleep, so I know him in passing.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Javik's gonna be complicated. He's from my ship, back home. He's good, capable, powerful, trained to be a soldier from childhood. Problem is that he's proud and antisocial. He's gonna stiffen up a lot.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Meeting sounds like a good plan. Get us all together and mingling. And I'll work on Javik.
I met Hibari at a duel, hosted by another recruit called Sephiroth. It was a long time ago. It's how we got to know each other.
FROM: d'artagnan@cdc.org
Perhaps we could train together. We're all soldiers, fighters. That's what Green is about, and it's what we'll be asked to do. Maybe our less sociable friends would work better with that.
I do wanna get us in the simulator, when we've got access to it again. So that's a good idea.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
It's a good idea to play to our strengths, too, but I wanna push them. ...then again. One thing at a time. Get us working as a squad first, then we can start improving.
Throw them into training. Start working on drills, because they'd already have the basics down. Throw them into simulations above their skill level and let them adapt, watch them adapt, encourage it, because that's how they'd learn.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
We're expected to serve in the military from the age of 15. And we do. All of us know what we're doing early on. We wouldn't need a meeting to get a group on the same page; they'd be there already.
They're still fully trained, and then they serve in that aspect for the fifteen years. If they're a tailor, they're making clothing for the soldiers. Teachers are taught and then instruct new fifteen-year-olds.
I'm not offended. You wouldn't be first to dislike the idea of monarchy, here. I don't know anything else, and the military of my country looks to the King as its leader. We are all in his service. Some of us more than others.
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
But still, what you describe sounds closer to our monarchy than, say, the democracy Clary talks about. You still follow one man. For how long would you expect one Primarch to rule?
For as long as they feel like they can serve their people, and their people feel they're serving.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Or until they die. Considering the current war, the latter's coming up the most. But generally it's a mutual thing. And they've got other people helping them. Advisers, Generals. They're not doing it alone.
No. There's a line of options, or I guess succession's the word. But we generally have who comes next figured out down to what would be 24th in line.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
We've got general security as you do for any important building or office, but we're all soldiers. If someone goes after the Primarch, they'll fight back, and the people around them will fight.
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Garrus. I never said thank you, for what you did on Ajna. Pulling me back to Medical. I don't know where I'd be now if you hadn't. So thank you.
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Not gonna say don't worry about it because that'd cheapen things. But I got what you were dealing with and wasn't gonna leave you.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
And that's not just because it's Green's duty to protect.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
We'll get the leapfrogs through this. No matter how ridiculous our animal is.
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I'm lucky that you didn't.
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
I don't think I mind being a frog, given who the rest of them are. You haven't heard what we're actually supposed to be doing yet, have you?
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Luck had nothing to do with it. I know where I stand.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Leapfrog is really the only animal I recognize, since it's used in battle plan talk by humans I work with. And you've got the same info as I do.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
What do you know of our team? Mind if I put up a message on the cuff after we've hit the pit stop so we can get talking as a unit? Find out who's on probation, what their strengths and weaknesses are, that sort of thing?
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I know some of them. Athos is a Musketeer, I know him from home. He’s the finest swordsman I’ve ever known, and perhaps the best man. You could trust him with your life.
FROM:sturmhond@cdc.org
Hanna controls fire. She’s good. She’s not a trained soldier, but she’s held her own. I’ve fought alongside her. And Hibari, he’s a good friend. A little strange, but capable.
FROM:sturmhond@cdc.org
Elena is strong and fast. She always tried to take care of everyone. The others, I don’t really know. But I’d like to change that. Talking is a good idea.
FROM:sturmhond@cdc.org
Maybe all of us could meet. Get to know each other, before we’re given a mission and realise we don’t know what half the team looks like.
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I've spoken with Athos twice, including during the last green mission. Seems good. I know Hanna too, dropped with her. Worked with Elena transporting stasis patients, after we dealt with the Takk.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Yulia's good. Friendly, competent, was one of the original level ones with me. Seems sharp. I share a rover with Kouha, but I'm mostly there just to sleep, so I know him in passing.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Javik's gonna be complicated. He's from my ship, back home. He's good, capable, powerful, trained to be a soldier from childhood. Problem is that he's proud and antisocial. He's gonna stiffen up a lot.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Meeting sounds like a good plan. Get us all together and mingling. And I'll work on Javik.
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FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
So then there’s some that neither of us know. It would be good to change that before we’re given a mission. I like this plan.
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
Do you think Javik won’t want to work with us? Hibari tends to work alone, too. We might have to do some convincing.
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Once there's a mission he'd be willing. The problem is getting him involved before something serious comes up, so that we can work as a unit.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Really not sure how to get either of them engaged. Guess that's our first challenge.
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I met Hibari at a duel, hosted by another recruit called Sephiroth. It was a long time ago. It's how we got to know each other.
FROM: d'artagnan@cdc.org
Perhaps we could train together. We're all soldiers, fighters. That's what Green is about, and it's what we'll be asked to do. Maybe our less sociable friends would work better with that.
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I do wanna get us in the simulator, when we've got access to it again. So that's a good idea.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
It's a good idea to play to our strengths, too, but I wanna push them. ...then again. One thing at a time. Get us working as a squad first, then we can start improving.
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You don't want to push them too hard. It might push them away. Especially if some are happier about it than others.
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
But mainly, I want to get to know them. The ones I don't know, anyway.
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Good point. Forgot they weren't turian.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
We'll start fairly easy. Mingle, simpler simulator levels.
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FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
How would you do it if they were? Turian, I mean. It's not my culture. That doesn't mean you're wrong.
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Throw them into training. Start working on drills, because they'd already have the basics down. Throw them into simulations above their skill level and let them adapt, watch them adapt, encourage it, because that's how they'd learn.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
We're expected to serve in the military from the age of 15. And we do. All of us know what we're doing early on. We wouldn't need a meeting to get a group on the same page; they'd be there already.
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All of you serve in the military?
[ That's a strange thought. Though not unprecedented - Alina had talked of extended military service, too. ]
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
What about those who aren't soldiers - tailors, teachers, and the like. What happens to them?
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They're still fully trained, and then they serve in that aspect for the fifteen years. If they're a tailor, they're making clothing for the soldiers. Teachers are taught and then instruct new fifteen-year-olds.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Everyone's got a purpose.
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So then everything for your people is based around the army?
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
Do you have a king and queen?
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We're a meritocracy, not a monarchy. We've got a Primarch, chosen based on service, reliability, the job they've done.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Rank's determined by how well you do your duty and what you can handle, not blood and who you were born to. Makes things a lot more efficient.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
No offense meant.
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I'm not offended. You wouldn't be first to dislike the idea of monarchy, here. I don't know anything else, and the military of my country looks to the King as its leader. We are all in his service. Some of us more than others.
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
But still, what you describe sounds closer to our monarchy than, say, the democracy Clary talks about. You still follow one man. For how long would you expect one Primarch to rule?
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For as long as they feel like they can serve their people, and their people feel they're serving.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Or until they die. Considering the current war, the latter's coming up the most. But generally it's a mutual thing. And they've got other people helping them. Advisers, Generals. They're not doing it alone.
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The King rules for the whole of his life. We protect him when it comes to fighting, that's our role. Especially the role of a Musketeer.
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
If a new Primarch is needed, do your people vote?
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No. There's a line of options, or I guess succession's the word. But we generally have who comes next figured out down to what would be 24th in line.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
We've got general security as you do for any important building or office, but we're all soldiers. If someone goes after the Primarch, they'll fight back, and the people around them will fight.
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It's so strange to me that a whole planet is full of soldiers. What about food, don't you have farmers or people to raise animals?
FROM: dartagnan@cdc.org
I'm a soldier, but I grew up on a farm. I don't think we'd be able to function if no one did that work.