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"if you still have people available to you... you could still be of use militarily" kalus says evenly, the sour looking sergal looking at him warrily and stating "no. no he cannot."

"high general halis, this matter falls under the jurisdiction of the economics division. not the military division. you have no say in the matter" kalus says evenly, derah laughing her ass off to the point she falls out of her chair, babbling "oooh! the queen's play thing grew some stones has he?! man they made a racket when they fell!" as she rolls around on the floor, quite thoroughly drunk. "come with me commander. there are a few things for me to show you" kalus says evenly, the high generals dispersing as kalus leads him out to a room that looks to be a cafeteria before typing away at a terminal and coming back with blue cookies with purple chips in them and a glass of opaque yellow liquid, setting them before him.