The assessment document ran to two hundred and forty pages. Rodriguez had it organized by category, cross-referenced, prepared with the same institutional thoroughness he'd applied to every major review since Coalition's founding centuries prior—though this particular assessment covered ground no previous Coalition Commander had needed to address.
Rama, Sekar, and Nakamura reviewed it together the morning after the anniversary celebration, coffee replacing champagne, the particular clarity of the day after significant emotion settling into productive attention.
Operational capacity: 92%.
