TO: Chujo Iemochi Feyani
CC: Star Army Command, Kyoto, Planet Yamatai
SUBJECT: Re: Cordial Discussion
Iemochi,
SAINT's leadership seeks a way forward despite your personal disruption of its operational readiness, which has made cooperation between our organizations more difficult than required. Nonetheless, this body of SAINT command staff is willing to meet to address your misconceptions if you require such. Of your suggested locations, Kyoto at Star Army Command is preferable.
We hope that will not be necessary after your careful consideration of this reply.
Any future relationship between SAINT and SASO was defined in our recommendations on participation. Allegations of insubordination or SAINT's uncooperativeness seem to stem from knee-jerk reactions rather than the content of Deputy Director Jinja Emi's communique.
Per point six (6) of SAINT's report on its SASO participation, SAINT continues to support SASO via any training or non-combat staff as requested. Additionally, SAINT's leadership wishes to remind SASO that intelligence support staff such as analysts and EWAR specialists fall under whatever chain-of-command they are assigned to. Just as in the fleets, these black panels wear SASO insignia and report first to SASO's chain-of-command.
Operatives simply will not be assigned SASO units going forward. In
previous communications, you yourself "
affirm that SASO isn't an intelligence gathering body and ... has no intention of filling an information gathering role and to that end intelligence gathering roles like Operatives will never be part of our purview as far as I am concerned."
Thusly, SAINT's leadership wonders why there has been any controversy at all. What does SASO and Iemochi want? Has it been worth introducing instability that harms SAINT's intelligence gathering mission?
For your edification, and to demontrate your own agreement with SAINT's suggestions:
1. Special Deployment Force and Alert Emergency Group—Intelligence Service units are staffed exclusively by SAINT operatives and will be maintained as part of this command's operational toolbox.
2. SDF units in particular are formed on an ad-hoc basis from the Strategic Initiatives Network's entire pool of operatives, and members work alone more often than they do together as special operations units. Operatives will not be seconded to TANTO units or other SASO formations because they perform specific roles via their black-paneled occupation. An occupation that we again recall was explicity stated to not be part of SASO's purview.
3. Both units have been re-coded away from SOFT classification to avoid any nomenclatural misunderstandings with SASO in the future. Discussions with Star Army Command have suggested that "Special Intelligence Fire Team" (SIFT) become an alternative classification that would not conflict with SASO's new definition of SOFTs.
Please indicate if you would still like a face-to-face meeting.
In Service to the Empire,
Chujo Jinja Emi, Deputy Director of Star Army Intelligence
Co-signed by:
The Assistant Directors of YOMI, SIN, and RISE (Shôshô)
The Commodore-Directors of SAINT intelligence flotillas (Shôshô)
Taisa Chikiko Ueda, Commander of the Field Division
Taisa Akechi Masakazu, Chief of the Special Deployment Force
Taisa Josephine Anquetil, Captain of Rescuemen for the Alert Emergency Group
Taisa Achariya Nhek, SAINT Training Activity Commandant of Selectees