Forum:Internal Memo to Systems Alliance Commanders

To all of you out there running strike teams in our contested theaters, I wish to commend your performance, and your success in integrating the new volunteers at this late stage. Earth is seeming closer than ever. However, I've been receiving troubling reports from our command posts in Reaper-controlled space concerning our rules of engagement and our new allies from Rannoch, the Hegemony, the Justicar corps and Clan Urdnot. The following is a refresher on command structure and Systems Alliance UCMJ.


 * Please stress to the Battlemasters who have joined our efforts the importance of caution as regards allied troop positions. While we are grateful to Clan Urdnot for providing their support, human troops do not constitute acceptable collateral damage. The chain of command does not dictate expendability on the field, and "he was in the way" does not entail an exception from this policy.


 * The tradition of "trophies" is largely handled on a case-by-case basis, and can be left up to commanding officers. Dog tags, weapons, etc may, if there is not a tactical or practical encumbrance issue, be requisitioned under some circmstances; body parts such as fingers and ears are strictly forbidden. Please remind our Batarian volunteers that, no matter what their "day job" may be, live enemy combatants do not constitute appropriate trophies, regardless of the "street value" of a Phantom.


 * Following the regrettable incident in the Euler system this week, and pending a ruling from Alliance command, interim policy regarding the Justicar code is to grant exemptions from any duty when it is cited. This applies to requisitions, rations, and ship quartering as well. Caution is the better part of valor, after all.


 * Remind our Geth engineering consultants that written permission must be obtained prior to any mainframe access of classified Alliance networks. "We were just talking" is not an acceptable excuse for any recruit, synthetic or not, to violate this policy.


 * Similarly, "Compiling" is not an appropriate exemption from the duty roster under any circumstances.

Ctrl alt belief 21:20, April 11, 2012 (UTC)