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Alloran-Semitur-Corrass ([personal profile] takenalive) wrote in [community profile] piper90 2021-01-12 04:43 am (UTC)

This will seem like boasting, I expect. At the height of my career I commanded three you might call them 'capital ships', six cruiser-class ships, and I forget just how many assault craft, as well as their respective fighter complements. Roughly four thousand three hundred men. Though that was only a temporary, emergency position because of Prince Nerefir's incapacitation and the death of Captain Acoaldwin, may it not be in vain. Then War-Prince Jaham arrived to confirm my on-the-spot promotions and take up much of the responsibility, and I was glad of that.

...Those might be the wrong names. Cadets choose sound-names when we enter the Fleet so that aliens with mouths know what to call us, but it's been a long time. In any case, my rank is now vestigial. I am no longer even as suited to command as I was then.

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