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 Kaito Fakunaku knew exactly who he was. What's more, he was perfectly aware of what his fellow flag officers and the bureaucrats at Starfleet Headquarters thought of him. Ensign Scuttlebutt had long ago told him that, as far as the rest of the Starfleet brass were concerned, he was conniving,  opportunistic, uninteresting at parties, and not terribly good at jokes. By and large, that was all accurate. One of the things that was not true about Fakunaku's reputation however, was that he was incompetent. That was a fiction that Kaito had worked hard to construct, because it meant that people who didn't have to, didn't bother to take him seriously, or that he could easily feign ignorance, or shift blame when it suited him. Truth be told, with a president like Vladimir Kostya in office, that particular avenue was not only believable, but indeed likely, and that was how Kaito liked it. Moving quietly up the ranks, knowing who to befriend, who do distance himself from, and when to keep his head down, meant that Kaito Fakunaku could use Starfleet's cultural bias; that all of it's officers were equally qualified... even those who hadn't show particular distinction... to rise to positions which afforded him enormous power, and quite a bit of autonomy. Kaito Fakunaku knew exactly who he was. What's more, he was perfectly aware of what his fellow flag officers and the bureaucrats at Starfleet Headquarters thought of him. Ensign Scuttlebutt had long ago told him that, as far as the rest of the Starfleet brass were concerned, he was conniving,  opportunistic, uninteresting at parties, and not terribly good at jokes. By and large, that was all accurate. One of the things that was not true about Fakunaku's reputation however, was that he was incompetent. That was a fiction that Kaito had worked hard to construct, because it meant that people who didn't have to, didn't bother to take him seriously, or that he could easily feign ignorance, or shift blame when it suited him. Truth be told, with a president like Vladimir Kostya in office, that particular avenue was not only believable, but indeed likely, and that was how Kaito liked it. Moving quietly up the ranks, knowing who to befriend, who do distance himself from, and when to keep his head down, meant that Kaito Fakunaku could use Starfleet's cultural bias; that all of it's officers were equally qualified... even those who hadn't show particular distinction... to rise to positions which afforded him enormous power, and quite a bit of autonomy.
  
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