(I'm using this next post to show the guard a bit more, we might be able to use it for future posts."
--Cathedral Guard Warehouse--
Captain Walker was not a happy man, in fact, no one in the guard was happy at the moment. For the past few hours since the conculsion of the race, the guard has been peppered with questions that had no answers. He was unhappy to leave it at that, a full investigation was in order. He did however receive message that one of his lieutenants had found a lead, which was why he was here at the warehouse. He opened the door and saw several more officers waiting for him, and amazingly, councilman Gadriel.
Captain Walker
"Councilman, it is good to see you here, may I ask what you're doing here?"
Gadriel
"Learning more about this enemy of ours, I suspect you're doing the same?"
Captain Walker
"Yes sir, foolish of me to ask."
He took a moment to look at the one who called them all here.
Captain Walker
"Alright, what have you found?"
lieutenant Ashikaga
"Sir, while sifting through the wreckage of the Galleon, we found no intelligence pertaining to the master mind behind the attack."
He wasn't worried, but he was trying his patience.
Captain Walker
"Well go on."
lieutenant Ashikaga
"But we did find this."
He took this moment to pull off a tarp off a pile of wreckage, while most of it was inconsequential, one thing stood out to him. It was an emblem, intricate and simple, did it have anything to do with birds?
lieutenant Ashikaga
"We haven't managed to gather much from it, but the analysts believe that we may be facing some sort of organization, from my sources I've learned that Anvala also faced a similar situation sometime ago, a bit on a larger scale perhaps."
From the crowd of officers a new voice spoke up.
Sergeant Redmond
"So what exactly does that give us? Other then an unknown enemy we have nothing to go on."
Another voice spoke up.
Corporal Peterson
"I'm willing to the Lt. a chance here, until now we had no idea what we were facing, while it's true we don't have any information, it gives us an idea about what's going on."
lieutenant Daniels
"Ever the idealist David, I'm with the Corporal on this though. Even if we don't know who is responsible, we at least know there is something going on here."
Gadriel
"Speculations aside, what does that mean for the city guard?"
Captain Walker
"Excuse me sir?"
Gadriel
"You heard me, the city guard is decimated, most of our vessels are unrecoverable, many of our officers dead. And all we have to show for it is a silly little emblem and a few knit theories. Tell me, what do we do about the guard?"
The room fell silent, murmurs flowed between the guardsmen in the room. Speculations, worry, guilt were present.
Captain Edwards
"With all due respect sir, until now the city guard has protected Cathedral with everything its got, and frankly we're pretty damn good at. We may not be as good as Anvala but we do what we can to protect this city and its inhabitants. While we may have had the living day lights knocked out of us we still remain here, I think it's time we rethought about how we do our duty."
Gadriel
"How so?"
Corporal Peterson
"I feel that our men are not as well trained as they should be, we should have known those two vessels were not one of us but we didn't, and it cost us lives and ships we can not replace."
lieutenant Daniels
"We couldn't recognize the threat even after it revealed its self to us, our men need to be able to act sooner then gawk in surprise when someone opens fire."
lieutenant Ashikaga
"Our men are too undisciplined, they falter when under siege even if they do fight back, they must be the walls of our city."
Gadriel
"Now where does that-"
The warehouse door opened again, and a figure walked.
Captain Walker
"Captain Morgan, seems like you finally decided to join us, finished gallivanting about the city?"
Reagan
"Please Alfred, enough with the talk."
--Wild Winds, earlier--
Spike
"Tell me, you ever have a flak charge detonate prematurely while loading a cannon? See these scars on my face. You start to learn."
She took a look at the scars on his face, looks like that flak shell did a number on his looks.
Reagan
"Sounds like a chore to me, a friend took a cannonade shot into him. He's upstairs if you want to meet him, be warned he's still out."
She took a look at her time piece, she realized what time it was.
Reagan
"Well I would like to stay and chat but I have somewhere to be."
--Guard Warehouse--
Captain Walker
"Hmph, typical. I hope you have something to contribute to this meeting, we've switched over to how to reinvent the Cathedral City Guard."
Reagan
"Personally, while your men were floundering about the place wondering what to do, a friend of mine instantly recognized the threat and managed to stall them long enough for you to get your act together."
lieutenant Daniels
"Are you just going to insult us or do you have anything constructive to say?"
Reagan
"All I'm saying is we need more then just people who are willing to defend the city, we need men with skills, specialists if you will. We've always been a generalists group, while anyone can hold a wrench or steer a ship, people who are superior to others in those fields would make for a more effective guard, spotters, gunners, pilots and navigators, tacticians, while we have several of them, we're going to need more."
Gadriel
"Fair enough start looking for them."