"Not him. He makes the decisions. I run the apparatus." She paused. "I've been running it for three months with significant gaps in the foundational documentation because the previous administration left very little that was actually functional." Another pause. "Your documentation filled most of those gaps."
"Most," Elara said.
"There are items I couldn't reconstruct from what was submitted," she said. "Things that exist in your working list that haven't been transferred yet."
"Twenty-seven items," Elara said. "Currently open."
"How many require institutional standing to complete."
Elara thought about it.
"Fourteen," she said. "Roughly."
"And the others."
"Can be progressed from outside," she said. "Through Liang Meridian and the relay network and the eastern base."
"So half require you inside the structure," the administrative director said. "And half don't."
"Approximately," Elara said.
The administrative director was quiet for a moment.
