Operation Deep Lance The president was tired of excuses from the Planetary Union Navy. Three years of expensive breakneck construction, and the Krall were still raiding Rim and New Colony worlds at will. Her conduit into the inner workings of the Navy was her military advisor, Admiral Anderfem, retired. She was on the carpet right now, and told to sit quiet and hear the President out. Stanford had her summary list for reference. “Jean, you passed along the Navy’s requests to me, with your recommendation to support their construction programs and to push for them in Parliament. I did that, and every program requested was approved and budgeted. “The Navy now has their new faster fleet. All of the ships were purpose built, or modified to use the new Tachyon Squared Jump, and better Normal Space drives, copied from Krall technology.” She almost knew it by heart, but she checked the list anyway. “We’ve built them two carriers, each with fifty single piloted fighters and twenty-five two-man fighters.
