Galactic Mail_Revolution! by Richard F. Weyand

Author:Richard F. Weyand [Weyand, Richard F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Weyand Associates, Inc.
Published: 2018-02-01T22:00:00+00:00

Preparation

The Board and their spouses and dependents moved down to the planet that first afternoon, and were staying in VIP accommodations contained within a wing of the main administrative building. Captain Bowers returned to the Mnemosyne.

The next morning, Dawson, Enfield, Turner, Micheli, Micheli's second, Rada Sato, her head of Tactical, Otto Sokolov, and her chief of staff, Dev MacConnel were meeting in Micheli's conference room. Several other Board members who had trained up on strategy and tactics were also present, including Bob Graham, Mary Dragic, Gretel Gadhavi, and Natasha Sanna.

“Why don't we start with a summary of Galactic Mail's field organization, Kali? We need to know a bit more about the lay of the land,” Dawson said.

“Certainly, Pat,” Micheli said. “The way the regions are organized, each of the eight small regional centers are loosely administered by one of the four large regional centers, like Kalnai. The other forty-five headquarters, the divisions, report to one of the regional centers. So I have loose authority over Bugaro and Cartref, but really each regional commander is his own boss reporting to Doma. The three of us each have three or four divisions reporting to us, as well as running division-level operations out of our own regional base.

“So the map of Galactic Mail is actually fifty-seven separate territories, over five of which I have administrative control and over another nine of which I have some oversight. The other three large regional centers, including Doma, are set up the same way.

“As for the other three regional centers, I know the managers of each of those. We coordinate a lot. On Doma, there is a regional manager below Galactic Mail's central administration, who has the same authority as I and runs her own region as independently as any of us do. I know her as well as the others.

“It's not necessarily the way anyone would set it up from scratch, but Galactic Mail sometimes grew really quickly, in lurches, and during that process, that's how it ended up.”

“Ok, let me see if I've got this,” Dawson said. “You have your five divisions, including one based here, plus you have two small regional headquarters and their total of nine divisions, including two that are co-located with them, under your more-or-less control. And you know the other three large regional managers personally, and each of them has the same span of control as you.”

“That's right.”

“So you could order your five divisions to do something, recommend it to your small region managers for their nine divisions, and suggest it to your peers at the other large regional headquarters.”

“That's basically it. I normally wouldn't take direct action in any of the other fifty-two divisions on my own initiative,” Micheli said. “You could, though. Everybody reports to you, through one channel or another.”

“What does everybody think? Jack?” Dawson asked.

“So there's two paths, right? You can send drones and messages and command routines to all fifty-seven divisions directly, neutralizing the Port Security and Ship Security forces the way we did here, or you could work through channels.

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