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"The simplest one from the technical perspective would be to get Engines to temporarily reassign a couple of their reactors to our grid. Which I realize they have a bunch of hangups over, but with Barter currently idling in orbit, they have power to spare and then some."
The kasath winces visibly.
"While I certainly see your point when viewing this as a purely engineering problem, I'm afraid it would currently be impossible to implement due to... political factors."
"What, is Aft having another succession crisis or something?" you note the change in his expression. "Seriously? <span class="mu-i">Again?</span> How bad is it this time?"
"From my understanding, there are four major factions and each one has accused the other three of trying to unionize."
There is a collective, quickly stifled groan around the room.
Just send in ProfSec, seize the reactors, and shoot anybody who resists - is what you actually want to say in response. Or vent all of Aft into space and start over, hopefully this time without all the stupid-ass decisions that led to that entire mess.
But saying that probably would land you a sedition charge, linguistic chicanery notwithstanding. So you just sigh and move on.
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