Optionally, if you want to draw out the inevitable crushing...
December 1, 2016
Drake's Rock
Sol-Neptune L5
"We still don't know where the intruder is, sir."
Ingolfsson's office door opened. "I'm right here. Mind if I come in?" She didn't wait for a reply. At least she looked like she was Draka, but her English had the wrong accent - one of the German dialects was making its presence felt. "Your defenses, both computer and physical, are pathetic. Your tactics are laughable. And, while you have some good ideas for mass-driver weaponry, your implementation of them needs work. In short, you need me, and as much as it pains me to admit it, right now I need you. I'm here to discuss an alliance."
"Who do you think you are?" demanded von Schrakenberg as he drew his sidearm.
She batted the pistol out of his hand without looking. "I'm someone with the brains that you imagine you've given yourselves. Agatha Clay, at your service. Perhaps you've heard of me?"
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
December 1, 2016
Drake's Rock
Sol-Neptune L5
"We still don't know where the intruder is, sir."
Ingolfsson's office door opened. "I'm right here. Mind if I come in?" She didn't wait for a reply. At least she looked like she was Draka, but her English had the wrong accent - one of the German dialects was making its presence felt. "Your defenses, both computer and physical, are pathetic. Your tactics are laughable. And, while you have some good ideas for mass-driver weaponry, your implementation of them needs work. In short, you need me, and as much as it pains me to admit it, right now I need you. I'm here to discuss an alliance."
"Who do you think you are?" demanded von Schrakenberg as he drew his sidearm.
She batted the pistol out of his hand without looking. "I'm someone with the brains that you imagine you've given yourselves. Agatha Clay, at your service. Perhaps you've heard of me?"
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012