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Considering the time that has passed I'd be amazed if the U.N. isn't already aware. Or rather, a select security committee of the U.N. who are in on all this. My guess would be that the current orders are to simply keep observing and give "Protagistan" a chance to cease the "stonewalling" and work with them again.
The Major is correct though. By revealing the presence of the aliens and situation to the U.N. council and committing to work with the agency formed by the committee, they have made promises they are now breaking which will impact trust on both this and other instances. They are in possession of everything and in the position to fully tell the U.N. committee what they will and won't allow so it would have made more sense just to outright refuse to work with them or to agree to much less interference or
oversight.
Major asks the important question. What is the point? What do they stand to gain by refusing co-operation they themselves agreed to?
Are any of those national flags in Gen. Bahins office or just Rank and Unit flags?
And while the Major personally informing the General about the goings on with the UN-Agents is fine, isn't the complaining about international relations overstepping a bit?
Whether the major is overstepping probably depends on his relationship with the general. If they know each other well enough, and share enough mutual respect, it might be fine. And it might also depend on the culture.
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The Alliance space stretches for an impressive 16 thousand light years along the longest axis and contains approximately 12 billion star systems. Despite that, 99.99% of those star systems haven't been explored even by an automatic mapping drone yet, and the borders of the Alliance space are defined mostly by the reach of spaceships from the nearest colony or space station, and in general are purely informative.
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Considering the time that has passed I'd be amazed if the U.N. isn't already aware. Or rather, a select security committee of the U.N. who are in on all this. My guess would be that the current orders are to simply keep observing and give "Protagistan" a chance to cease the "stonewalling" and work with them again.
The Major is correct though. By revealing the presence of the aliens and situation to the U.N. council and committing to work with the agency formed by the committee, they have made promises they are now breaking which will impact trust on both this and other instances. They are in possession of everything and in the position to fully tell the U.N. committee what they will and won't allow so it would have made more sense just to outright refuse to work with them or to agree to much less interference or
oversight.
Major asks the important question. What is the point? What do they stand to gain by refusing co-operation they themselves agreed to?
Are any of those national flags in Gen. Bahins office or just Rank and Unit flags?
And while the Major personally informing the General about the goings on with the UN-Agents is fine, isn't the complaining about international relations overstepping a bit?
Love the special "Red Phone" on Gen. Bahins desk.
One is of the military branch Bahin is part of, the other is national emblem.
"When the red phone rings....RUN !"
Nah...One is Internal use / Secure for eavesdropping and the other considered compromised by default.
2 different networks with vastly different OpSec tech behind it.
Whether the major is overstepping probably depends on his relationship with the general. If they know each other well enough, and share enough mutual respect, it might be fine. And it might also depend on the culture.