Ishikawa here. I'm sure that's obvious by now. I have a number of incidents compiled together in this report.
Firstly, a minor contraband breach with regards a DSE Mastodon. It was hauling Stabiline without the appropriate licensure, and was picked up by the Lane and Gate sensor network upon entering Honshu. After I intercepted it at the New Tokyo jumpgate, the pilot was made aware of his error and - in compliance with my orders - was turned back to the Sigma systems.
Immediately following the preceding incident, I was just commencing a routine sweep of the Kyushu system when I noticed a red-flagged contact pass by me in the trade lane from the jumpgate to the planet. Upon turning around immediately and investigating further, it was discovered to be a Hydra-class gunship flying Colonial Republic colours.
The pilot claimed to be 'scouting' for a transport convoy, which was worrying, but he was eventually ejected from Kusari space with a minimum of fuss, and given a stern warning to not consider returning - with or without an attached convoy.
Furthermore, as I re-entered New Tokyo, I ran into an Ageira lane technician performing maintenance on the closest ring to the Kyushu gate. His freighter held a small amount of an admittedly restricted commodity - Magnetic Superconductors - without valid authorisation, but after talking the situation through with him, I was inclined to believe that there had simply been a clerical error with regards the paperwork not making it to our department.
Unfortunately, a nearby member of the Hogosha - indeed, of the well known 'Black Dragon' syndicate - took issue with this, and demanded the letter of the law be enforced. The pilot was stubborn and refused to leave the scene, and - frankly - her behaviour almost warranted an arrest of her own for causing a disturbance in public and disorderly conduct.
Basically, if you get a complaint from the Society - yeah, that was probably me. On the plus side, I personally checked the lane in question after the technician's maintenance was complete, and it was fully functional as always.
Finally, the most serious incident of all, in my opinion. Within seconds of finishing with the previous incident, I received an urgent transmission along a private channel:
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[13.07.2014 23:50:00] Douglas.Kovic: You!
[13.07.2014 23:50:05] Douglas.Kovic: Let me tell ya' somethin'.
[13.07.2014 23:50:22] RKS|-Izumi.Ishikawa: I hope it's good.
[13.07.2014 23:50:51] Douglas.Kovic: 'I don't like yeah, an' I never will! What I got's to say goes against mah' self in many ways!
[13.07.2014 23:50:58] RKS|-Izumi.Ishikawa: I hope you'll forgive my tone - whoever's calling - but-
[13.07.2014 23:51:07] RKS|-Izumi.Ishikawa: Well, I guess that sets the scene.
[13.07.2014 23:51:25] Douglas.Kovic: You got's a fella', named CJ Hawk, headed yer' way with slaves.
[13.07.2014 23:51:48] Douglas.Kovic: Goin' through Colorado! I'm too old to go chasin' after 'im, and the got dang police is sleepin' on the job!
[13.07.2014 23:52:08] RKS|-Izumi.Ishikawa: I see.
[13.07.2014 23:52:20] RKS|-Izumi.Ishikawa: Any information pertaining to the vessel's class and type?
[13.07.2014 23:52:38] Douglas.Kovic: Transport, Bretonian make.
[13.07.2014 23:52:47] Douglas.Kovic: Independee, too!
[13.07.2014 23:53:27] RKS|-Izumi.Ishikawa: I can work with that.
[13.07.2014 23:53:47] RKS|-Izumi.Ishikawa: I'll keep one eye on the Lane Sensor Network.
The information proved to be accurate, and the transport in question entered Shikoku via the Galileo jumpgate almost on cue.
He attempted to flee into the cloud, rather than jettison his pressurised cargo bay, but after I pursued him and forced his ship to a halt, he released his 'slave container' whole, and left it floating in space with life support barely functional. How three and a half thousand people could have been packed in such a small space, I have no idea.
The captain fled the scene without paying the fine, and I - regrettably - was forced to break off pursuit. The free-floating container had no navigation beacon or signature, and had I left visual range of it, the souls on board would have likely drifted beyond sensor range until the container's life support went offline. Oddly enough, the fine was partially wired to my account five minutes after the rogue captain had exited scanner range. I'm not sure what happened with regards that, honestly.
Fortunately, a Hogosha transport was in hailing range, and I was able to oversee the recovery of all survivors. The Raba's cargo bay was hastily pressurised by starport services on Junyo, and - although it took two trips - the entire population of freed people made it planetside before their oxygen supply ran out.
This was one illegal transport that I was very glad to not miss.
Finally, Shinosuke-keishi, I have a formal... complaint of sorts that I would like to lodge, with regards the extremely lenient treatment of a Junker transport in our capital system.
I'm not sure if you read the report in question personally, keishi, but I did - and allowing a captain who had not only fired on Territorial Police personnel - even putting your own daughter in a pod - but who also had a list of additional violations too numerous to count - for him to be let off with a fine of only nine million credits is, frankly, worrying. You heard how quickly he agreed, after all. I even fancy I caught an undercurrent of disbelief and joy in his slimy, hateful voice.
I'm sorry if you feel it isn't my place to air this concern, Shinosuke-keishi, but next time - please - don't cut unrepentant criminals that much slack. I don't feel the gendarmes would approve, either, if it caught their attention and I - for one- would appreciate that particular bureau having as little dirt on us as possible.
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Keibu Matsuda here. Our patrol started in orbit of New Tokyo, where we were monitoring the lanes, with a Freelancer transport carrying Helium-3, a commodity which's ferrying is illegal to unnafiliated ships. The Freelancer was uncooperative at best, ignoring all of our warnings and obeying none of our orders, going as far as to try to escape from us. Unfortunately, the vessel preferred to crash into orbit rather than surrender. The debris were confirmed to have burned up upon entering the atmosphere and no damage was caused to the planet.
This left us with a sizeable amount of Helium-3 floating in orbit, which we secured with the Otsuchi. Not wanting these to go to waste, we contacted the Liberty Navy to see if we, Junsa-Bucho Kojima-san and Ishikawa-san, could secure the cargo ourselves. The Navy Officer, a certain Hudson Ravis, was our escort through Liberty space, who also decided to double out as a tourist guide for us. Aside from an enemy contact that swiftly ran from the scene when it spotted our convoy, the travel to Pittsburgh was peaceful, and the goods were safely transferred on planet.
Our return travel was much the same, with only a swift detour to the crown jewel of Sirius that is Manhattan (a stunning sight, I might add) before heading back to Shikoku, where Ishikawa and I then proceeded to Honshu from. To our surprise, we found a facility which was not registered under the Codex. It only took a few moments for Kishiro to arrive on scene and explain us the situation, that the Government had approved the building of the station in secret for security concerns. Apparently, the Naval Forces were aware of the situation as well. Considering our duty to secure the commerce of Kusari, I believe we should've been warned as well. Perhaps we should raise the matter to the Government.
This concludes my report.
~ Keibu Tomo Matsuda, Signing Off.
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Keibu Matsuda here. As soon as I undocked from New Tokyo, I was greeted by the sight of a Freelancer being harassed by two KTA vessels. The Freelancer was carrying an artifact, which the KTA decided it was cause enough to threaten to open fire on the civilian. Luckily enough for the Freelancer, I took charge of the situation.
She seemed traumtized, which only seems fair when she was being threatened by two heavily armed vessels, but was cooperative enough with me. She did not wish to keep her artifact, claiming that the fact it was on board of her ship was in itself an accident. Since it was such a minor offence, I simply confiscated the item from her. All the while, the KTA did not stop its aggressive behavior, weapons armed and ready to open fire, despite my warnings and requests for them to leave the area.
They were indeed quite opposed to the fact that I would keep the artifact for analyze, rather than simply destroy it, despite my attempts at being rational with them. Right this moment, only to make things even more complicated, a Kishirop liner with an unregistered Cloaking device popped out of nowhere next to us, which I promplty fined and ordered to drydock on Roppongi until it acquired a proper licence to own his Cloaking device. All the while, of course, the KTA was still trying to tell me how to do my job.
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Konbanwa, Patrol Sergeant Kojima reporting in. My patrol began with the tracking of a Gateway Shetland as it entered Kusari space. Normally this wouldn't be worth much mention but once I approached the vessel all communictions ceased and the vessel appeared to be drifting derelict near the New Tokyo Gate in Hokkaido.
I was able to move in extremely close given the ship's stationary state. I hoped to see if there was damage to the hull that my scans weren't picking up but..the ship seemed intact, and the interior lighting was even still active, as seen in the recordings from my Gun-Cams.
After taking several scans, something disrupted my equipment and the Shetland seemed to just disappear...which is strange, considering the lack of a Cloaking Device. A-Anyways, moving on...
Once we moved back into New Tokyo Orime-san and I were able to intercept a Gallic Metal Service ship by the callsign of 'Dozer-2', fully loaded with a cargo of Nox.
After several attempts to gain the pilot's compliance we finally convinced him to jettison it into space. However, he then threatened to kill Orime-san and myself, so we were forced to take preventive measures and destroy the ship.
Finally, after all of that was over, a Cardamine smuggler by the callsign Spinnaker managed to break orbit and get off New Tokyo without being detained by the planetary authorities...fortunately we of the Territorial Police Service were there to intercept. This ship led us on a chase into the Kepler System, were I sought to provide warning to the Libertonian Police, who then coordinated with us resulting in the successful intercept of the smuggler ship.
I will spare those details though, so Junsa Kagawa can write a report of her own!
So anyway, that's my report!.
*Akiko bows her head politely to the vidscreen as it fades to black.*
~ Junsa-buchou Akiko Kojima, Signing Off.
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COMM ID: Masaharu Morimoto
TARGET ID: Kusari Territorial Police Services Report Database
SUBJECT: Application
ENCRYPTION: HIGH
PRIORITY: HIGH
Konnichiwa, Junsa Morimoto reporting in.
Several hours ago, I was attending to my fighter in Yokohama Shipyard when I heard a call for aid in the emergency channels. A technician informed that my ship was not ready; hence, I boarded my bomber instead.
I spent precious minutes trying to find the source of the call using the tradelane sensors when a KSP gunship passed by, KDS-Taka[KSP], which piqued my interest that I followed it. I came upon a scene where a Samura operative ,Yoshimura.Kurosaki,was venting his frustration with a Golden Chyrsanthemum , ~*~Shine, for destroying his ship yesterday with two other accomplices and a Vice Admiral, [KNF]Kh.H.Ishikawa.
Ishikawa-sama was confused as to what to do with the Golden Chyrsanthemum and rather than letting Kurosaki-san get his revenge, he instead tried to passed the case to Okayama-sama in the KSP gunship. Okayama-sama refused the offer and the Kaisho-ho passed the case to me.
Kurosaki-san wanted to destroy the Golden Chrysanthemum' ship because of a bounty offered by his superiors. I then inquired as to the amount of the bounty, which Kurosaki-san replied was 8 Million Sirius Credits. After learning about the incident yesterday, I thought it would be fair if the Golden Chrysanthemum were to pay one-third of the bounty to Kurosaki-san as a fine seeing as there were three of them yesterday. Kurosaki-san refused the offer and the Kaisho-ho ordered me to be paid instead. The Golden Chrysanthemum made the payment and was escorted out of Kusari space through Shikoku. Meanwhile Kurosaki-san followed her. I do not know of the exact outcome of that matter as I immediately took my leave.
Okayama-sama commended me for the immediate disposition of the case.