<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/1/18/LtMorgensternMacross2032JPG.jpg)  (https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/5/5f/MaikaTorokMacross2032JPG.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>NPCs, Maika Torok, Hitomi Morgenstern<br/><strong>Date:</strong>March 10, 2032<br/><strong>Location:</strong>The Park / Copper Kettle<br/><strong>With:</strong>Kyclia, Open<br/><hr/>"Agreed, it is a good ship. That's why our exploration fleets are centered around them. But you don't really need them for the defense of Earth. At least not for command and control. We have more than enough static installations for that. And again, personnel strength comes into play,"  Hitomi remarked. "A battlecruiser converted to the command carrier function in use these days can just as well control a fleet, and we can crew three of them, plus a few frigates, with the same number of people."<br/><br/>She looked out over the park, followed a few humans with her eyes for some moments, before she slowly shook her head.<br/><br/>"Change may be necessary at some point, but there is limited appetite for it, unless there is a good, and obvious, reason. A lot of people don't know what the world was like before the war from personal experience. Change, for them, means building cities, starting farms and factories, re-building civilization – on Earth. Why join the military when there is still so much to do on Earth? Unless more people decide to join the space forces, options for grand fleet reorganizations are limited."<br/><br/>Maika Torok remained silent, for once, and just eyed the human Lieutenant, wondering how old Hitomi Morgenstern was. Early 20s? Mid 20s? Certainly young enough to speak from personal experience when she talked about not remembering what the Earth was like before the war.