Des held him close hoping to make him feel better by telling him that everything was all right and that no one was going to hurt him. Jamey was sendin... images of how he watched his mother getting beaten by his father as she screamed for help and screamed for his father not to hurt her son. Then the images changed and seemed to go back in time, Jamey was showing us different times that she had been beaten instead of him. She was a brave woman and yet no one came to her aid. That's when I. The clerks had made numerous copies of the 18 Standing Orders, and they were now posted in all of the barracks in several places so the men could spend time memorizing them. Of course that presumed they had someone there who could read the orders to them, as not all of the men could read.The afternoon was spent with basic squad and platoon formations and movements. Explanations were done under the barracks with the formations first drawn on the floor and then demonstrations by one of the. “Attention attacking ships, my name is Mark Phoenix, I am the King of the Atlantean Federation, the new toys you mentioned are Atlantean ships! We are in this region of space on a diplomatic mission of peace. If you fire on us again it will be considered an act of war against the Federation and we will retaliate.”“Atlantean Federation ... we’ve never heard of you. I was wondering where the scum would have gotten new toys, they are tougher than those pieces of junk the Athosians use.”“Now please. ... somewhere abroad… She wasn’t sure the police would really take that conversation that seriously and even if they did, could they really act on it, it would really depend on what was being used as the cause of blackmail.If this was something that really was going to work, the blackmailer would need to know what meant the most to the victim, what would be the worst thing in the world to come out, that would need to be the leverage. Samantha considered this, she realised that it was her job.