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stopped abruptly next to her superior.
    Instead of taking a seat the Lieutenant placed her valise on the table in front of her chair and withdrew a stack of bound softback booklets and began passing them around the room.  “Gentlemen, My name is Lieutenant Arvada. I will be your liaison to Monsieur Oiseau and the Luion Department of Intelligence.  These booklets are a brief guideline to understanding the magetech that has thus far been distributed, and is also under development, as well as the procurement procedures for requesting training, resupply and the protocols for storing and dispersing the artifacts that you will be receiving.  At the present they are for military personnel only.” 
    At the beginning of a protest from some of the civilians in the room Roger held up his hand for silence.  “Please carry on, Lieutenant.”
    Continuing the Lieutenant concluded her introduction by saying,” They have been designed for military use only; the security risks by having them fall into the wrong hands are something that we are not prepared to mitigate at this time.  If you have any concerns with the guidelines contained in these documents you may submit them to Monsieur Oiseau through me.  I will remind you that the information in these booklets are to be considered highly confidential and are not to be shown to anyone outside of this room.”
    Turning to the finance and magetech secretaries of whom she had not issued the booklets.  “Monsieur’s I apologize for excluding you from this information at this time.  I will be meeting with you separately with your superiors to brief you based on your need to know.  Please understand this is not because of a lack of trust.  The trust that we have for your offices is incomparable; you were excluded only because you are civilians and it would put you in danger to give you this information as you are not afforded the same training and security that being a member of the armed forces provides at this time.”
    After Lieutenant Arvada at down; tucking her valise under the table near her feet, Admiral Cyrado stood and cleared his throat. 
    “ We will begin with a report from the Department of the Navy then we will hear from the Department of the Army followed be Minister Golan.  We will then hear from Monsieur’s, Shew, Chason, and Desmond, followed by a brief questions and answers session.
    “Since I represent the Navy in this conflict I will begin the Navy’s portion of this meeting.
    Gathering up a sheaf of papers the admiral launched into his brief.  “A t the moment our navy consists of basic harbor patrol craft.  The gulf of Luion has been our sole concern for over the last five hundred years.  The general mission being search and rescue of stranded vessels, or the pursuit of pirates.  Not counting various support vessels used in towing and logistics, we have a total of eighteen rescue craft, fourteen troop ships, and a dozen fast fighter boarding vessels; that are used for taking pirates ships or other possible hostiles.  Needless to say Luion has a small navy.  We have never had to defend against much and because we have been allies with Infin for generations we have never prepared for war against them. Our forces number five thousand marines and twenty thousand sailors – on land and afloat.
    Currently we have withdrawn all vessels to the harbor and the fighters are patrolling a one hundred and fifty mile perimeter along the southern coasts of Luion and the Lu Y Onton harbor.
    We have not seen any sign of the Infin Navy at this time but we have intercepted hundreds of refugees fleeing north and seeking refuge in Luion; these refugees have reported that there is a navy of over five hundred ships consisting of naval and captured merchant craft gathering at the Jehhet Harbor.  The horror stories that we have heard are both strange and frightening.  While we haven’t seen any Infin Navy vessels those escaping refugees that we have questioned are