@CSECJensen Thank you, Jensen.
-Matisse quietly exited the office, getting a few awkward looks from the other officers. In time, they faded, as she helped them personally tend to the wounded-
C-SEC HQ froze as Matisse's voice came over the intercom. She congratulated everyone...and then admitted to her own failures as per the leak. She announced her formal resignation, @CSECJensen's promotion to Executor, and called him to her office...
@CSECJensen If it's not you, it will be someone else. Cujo's army may be dismantled, but there will still be those who seek revenge from the leaked data.
This office, and this responsibility, is officially yours now. You can do it.
@CSECJensen -The desk was stripped of her personal belongings, which were placed in a box at the corner of the room. Matisse approached Jun and gave him a firm handshake-
When this place has settled, and we've both helped who we need to help, I want you to be the one to arrest me.
@CSECJensen The people of this station will be looking to you to protect them, to make things better. It'll be easy to cut corners, like so many others have. Don't do it in a time like this. Merely understand.
@CSECJensen You have a clean record, your focus is impeccable, and most important of all: you're incorruptible. You're what C-SEC needs after all of this is over, new leadership that can steer the ship straight.
Plenty are qualified. But you're the only one I trust to do it.
@CSECJensen I'll spare you the details.
It's easy to say, "If I were in your position, I would have done the same." But not with you, Jun.
After this is over, I'm putting in my resignation - and I want you to take my place as Executor of Citadel Security.
@CSECJensen And yet, you persevered. I was there once, in your shoes. But my hands are tainted. Sacrifices were made to keep this place running, but those compromises may be why C-SEC is as corrupted as it is.
I'm in the leak, too. I haven't been publicized yet, but it's a matter of time.
@CSECJensen I've been here for thirty years, and I've never seen anything like what's happening now. I've had to deal with a lot of backroom politics to keep this station running...and now look at our staff. It's a disappointment. So many of Cujo's forces were our own officers.
@GumshoeMan I'm working on through my own contacts as well...
It's good to have you back, Yang. But I see you're beyond C-SEC now, after what you've experienced. Maybe you always were..
@GumshoeMan We lost contact with them not long ago. The last I heard, Vicrum was investigating a mole in his ranks, T'Soni was running from assassins, and Midows is hiding in a private suite at the end of one of the ward arms.
@GumshoeMan Cujo is smart. I don't know what his game plan will be, but I expect him to hit hard. If the tide turns and he goes on the run when his forces are weak, leave the rest to your people. Edwards will use this event to buy time.
@GumshoeMan No, they won't. Cujo seeks something Pratt stole from him, and it's willing to do anything to get its hands on it.
But there's other players on this field beyond this yahg. Lycainus Feltzer has been spotted on the station, and the implicated Tywin Edwards is on the run.
@GumshoeMan >>Cujo itself is one experiment that had gotten loose during transport. Kepler's team subdued it and handed it back to the Dalatrass without knowing the full story - and now it's hellbent on taking power here, rallying forces and the like.
@GumshoeMan >>...However, they were smart and extremely adaptable. Dangerous beasts. Apparently, the salarians were secretly experimenting on them for years, and that was furthered by the current Dalatrass...who has disappeared since Cujo's reemergence. Hiding from war crimes, no doubt. >>