<div class="floatright">(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/jillvader/mw-nmfkmpkarimonero_zps55a1bf27.jpg)</div>”What are my plans?” Kari asked back as a reply. “That is the big question, isn’t it?” She shrugged a little as she considered the response. All the ideas had sounded good in her head or as she ran through them with Allia and Damien, but now that she was openly discussing it, she felt a lot less certain about her direction.<em>Buckle down and sell this,</em>she told herself.<em>You’re going to be doing a lot of this, and if you can’t do it here, you might as well give up now.</em><br/><br/>“The first stage is consolidation,” Kari explained. “We take stock of what assets we have left and how we can best use them. Mechwarriors, functional ‘Mechs, technicians, other personnel… whatever we can scrounge up. We keep what we can, but we’re willing to let go of what’s redundant, especially in light of our reduced numbers. That’s going to hurt, true, but it has to be done.”<br/><br/>“The second step is to rebuild from there, and that’s where you come in,” Kari continued. “We’re not going to be in the best position to hire, but at the same time, there are opportunities. Former Solaris gladiators, survivors of other units, even ones who got out of this mess and so on. I have no illusions about the sort of quality we’re going to be able to snag, which is why we’re going to need experienced officers to whip them into fighting shape and make them function as a unit. You’re going to be key to that.”<br/><br/>“And once we’ve got a functional unit, then we try to find work,” Kari finished. “That’s going to be relatively easy in this market, although obviously I want to try to avoid the Lyrans.”<br/>