[Erax]

Admiral Wiers' private log, SGY 2402.3:

The Hutt accepted our goods. We offered them some more, attached to a Trade Alliance; Reima tells me their greed ensures they will accept.

Our first security forces are now active. Brigadier General Sheer has organized simultaneous parades on all Imperial worlds, and the crowds loved them. Productivity is at an all time high and still climbing.

The people don't know it, but almost all of the troops in those parades were carrying mock weapons. We can produce bLaster pistols in moderate quantities, but no bLaster rifles yet. While it would be a simple matter to divert one or two small workshops to small arms R&D, we cannot spare them. We need starfighters badly; we can build their hulls, but we still can't fit a decent ion engine into them. One alien invasion while we are still vulnerable and all could be lost.

Comet II has landed on Gesaril IX; the Comet ships were an excellent idea, they are expensive but they buy us even more precious time.

I must talk to the shipyard design staff. I hear they have some new faces.

Naval personnel on Virgillia have a bad case of planet fever. They want more warships, they want a berth on the Seeker, they want anything that can take them out among the stars. I may have to order another Seeker to accomodate them.