Really? Are you really that thickheaded as to why they would come out with this statement?
Yeah. If the captain hadn’t used proper channels to request aid and they were therefore unaware then why would they make that statement, you mincing effeminate little martinet.
Explain how they made that statement, as post 19 asks. As I asked. As you have failed to do.
Yeah. I really truly fail to see how a command structure makes that statement at all if they haven’t been informed of the state of the ship through proper channels.