<em>Telekinesis was a great asset to Raglan. He pondered on it's use while looking through the crew list he had prepared. Venturians used a combination of telepathically projecting sexual images, telepathically caressing the brains pleasure centres and telekinetically wrapping their women in an inescapable invisible sheath of energy in order to make love. They could telekinetically probe inside their partner from numerous locations while plunging their thoughts into an erotic heaven at the same time. The effect on humans seemed to be a state of pure orgasmic bliss. Raglan had not had sufficient time to experiment with other races.<br/><br/>But that wasn't the greatest asset telekinesis provided, that was the fact that few Venturians actually had Telekinesis at his level of power. He has managed to keep secret his power and also that of his mind control ability. This was helpful. When he had to sever a windpipe, crush a skull, stop a heart or simply push a button on an airlock open seal when someone was walking past... it gave him a perfect undetectable method to dispose of enemies. Best of all, it left no finger prints.</em><br/><br/>He wouldn't be needing it here, his days of killing were behind him. He controlled through direction and redirection of resources and power now. He looked around the room, the twelve seats were filling up fast. He had organized an interim military/civilian coalition council, until a joint council could be officially formed. He would be at the head of course, as was Company law, primarily to provide a casting vote if there was a tie. Otherwise the choices which needed to be made would be voted upon six civilians against six military.<br/><br/>This interim council would last a mere week, then any crew or civilians could be voted onto the council by their peers. Of course he had reserved a seat for the Captain, and Ms Manari. The others had been carefully selected for appropriate skills, but he had made sure that they were all open to his mental manipulation powers, just in case the Captain, or anyone else, proved to be some goody two shoes wild card.<br/><br/>He would also make sure any new members voted onto the council were open to mental influence, by controlling those already here. He knew they would all agree to join. It was just the Captain and Ms Manari that he had no idea about.<br/><br/>He looked up when they entered the room. “Ah Captain."  He said above the voices of the gathered individuals. "Find a yourselves a seat.”<br/><br/>Raglan got the minute taker to hand out the various documents detailing the roles the gathered individuals were best suited to. Ms Manari’s was to be cultural and meeting liaison officer to facilitate communication between alien groups. Making sure that at any such meetings there would be no misunderstandings. The Captain was to be in charge of security and law enforcement of course… under Raglan.<br/><br/>“This is of course temporary until other civilians and military are settled in. Thank you for your time, if you could indicate if you are willing to accept these responsibilities.”