<div class="floatright">(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000312843758/c3fc56b763c2610cc0e83100caa09f81.jpeg)</div>Brooklyn blinked in surprise at Janos's suggestion, unsure as to how he would respond to the idea of skipping over the officers and talking straight at the commander.<br/><strong>"While I appreciate your suggestion Janos, that sort of action is generally reserved as a last resort,"</strong>Brooklyn responded, his tone measured as he looked Janos in the eyes.<strong>"To go above your direct superiors head is pretty much the biggest slap in the face I, as a soldier, could ever give the officers.  It would mean a complete breakdown in communication and the chain of command, and even if the commander did intervene and show some agreement in my direction, there would be a permanent breach of trust.  I would effectively be a squealer and treated as such."</strong><br/><br/>Brooklyn shrugged,<strong>"Now, admittedly, comments were made with the commander present in the debriefing room.  But that was a conversation between the officers and recruits, not a direct dialogue.  I appreciate that the commander is someone who would sincerely listen and act on complaints, but one hope is that he would intervene before it reached the point where I couldn't trust the officers to ever take my complaints seriously, if that turns out to be the case.  The other hope is that the officers take what was said seriously and figure out a method to address it that ends in a reasonable compromise."</strong><br/><br/><strong>"But that's my training as a soldier talking,"</strong>Brooklyn finished.<strong>"This mercenary company is hardly like the military, and maybe an open line of communication to the commander is the best approach."</strong>