#6122: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, it is highly likely that the amalgamation of vessels on which #Adder, Fourth Fist and Sixth Fist were traveling has been destroyed.
#PBoss: How did that happen?
#6122: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, that information is not available at this time.
#PBoss: Guess.
#6122: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, should the speculation be primarily focused on the most likely occurrences, or is this another non-standard method of requesting entertainment?
#6122: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, in the absence of a response I shall commence speculation.
#6122: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, reports immediately prior to the cessation of responses from the amalgamation of vessels indicated an attack by Pantheon forces. Consequently the most likely outcome is that the Pantheon has destroyed our local assets.
#PBoss: The Pantheon couldn’t kill Adder. I told him to go and blow himself up on their bosses.
#6122: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, that information was not known. Integrating the impossibility of Adder being killed by the Pantheon, the next most likely outcome is that the Pantheon attack killed all of our local assets except for Adder.
#PBoss: Those losers couldn’t kill my Fists either.
#6122: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, that information was not known. Integrating the impossibility of Fourth Fist or Sixth Fist being killed by the Pantheon, the next most likely outcome is that the Pantheon attack killed all non Ultra local assets.
#PBoss: Then why are they not contacting us?
#6122: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, it is possible that the attack damaged or destroyed the hardware necessary to remain in communication, that our assets have been captured, that they have joined one or the other of the hostile factions, that their –
#PBoss: They betrayed me?
#6122: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, it is possible.
#PBoss: It is NOT possible. I gave Dale a boat like he asked for.
#6122: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, that information was not known. Integrating the impossibility of Fourth Fist-
#PBoss: Find out what happened. Ask the Company guys in the Union and Pantheon.
#6122: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, that instruction goes against standing order #44, issued jointly by the entire Board. It will be necessary to petition each of them individually.
#PBoss: Ok, but them not saying anything means that they don’t mind, right?
#6122: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, that is correct, Board members who do not respond to their queries are considered to abstain.
#PBoss: Great, because I killed them back when I first took over.
#6122: Honorary Vice President of Operations Martin, your humor remains inscrutable.
These chapters are always entertaining, and the end of this one was golden.
TYPO: “that our assets have been capture,” –> captured
Agree with RWabbit, but I wonder what Standing Order #44 is?
Edit: Oh I’m dumb, it’s something to prevent Company Men from leaking intelligence between sides.