This strong Kusari warship with the class of Tokugawa has entered the frontline, Tau system that's bordering with Bretonia and where enormous battle is going on. Both sides are doing their best to tear each other apart and conquer as much territory as possible to gather more resources. Situation within the ship is alarming, as everyone is rushing all around the ship to get to their positions, and work together to act as they're supposed to in this battle. All 500 crews are prepared for this conflict, and are ready to fight for the Empire, which is reason they've come so far. 'Warning, to all personnel on the ship. Controller of IKN Isonami speaking to ship-wide channel. We have entered the frontline successfuly. Whoever is not in its position, be sure to, because we are about to enter the battle. For the great Emperor. Domo Arigato, Controller of IKN Isonami signing out. Terminating ship-wide transmission sequence. Over.' Everyone on the ship is nearly on their positions, including Admiral Tano who's not really mentally ready for enter this conflict and to spit fire with its 'heaven's dragon'. There's one good thing about him, that is he got Kusari spirit inside of him, therefore he is at the same time ready to release the 'dragon' into battle. Suddenly ship has received a transmission signal that's headed to all Kusari forces within the system. To be more precise, that was an emergency call. 'Admiral, we received an emergency call from our forces in this system. I will forward it to you.' Signal of the emergency tranmission was pretty low, probably during the combat. Admiral took this responsibility into his hand and answered the transmission. 'Roger. Play the tranmission feed.' Main ship's interface has loaded the tranmission and displayed it to everyone om the bridge. 'Mayday, mayday! This is Kusari Forces squadron Alp... [Warning. Tranmission signal is low. Enabling signal booster.]... we are under attack and we require immediate assistan... [Static]... We are taking heavy hits! Our location is in sector 41b5. Bring in warships, there's too many... [Transmission Signal: LOST]' Nearly immediately after entering the system where currently battles are happening, already a distress call was received. They're kind of lucky for Kusari bringing in lots of reinforcements into the sector, including IKN Isonami. Admiral Tano took this transmission seriously and reacted upon it. 'This is Admiral Asahi Tano from the Kusari Naval Forces warship Isonami. We have received your distress, we coming at our best speed and we're relatively close. Please stand by. [TRANSMISSION SIGNAL: TERMINATED] Controller, set us to cruise-mode. We need to get there as soon as possible.' Isonami itself wasn't too far away from the place where battle is going on. 'Roger that Admiral. We will enter cruise-mode in few minutes.' Ship has entered cruise-mode and orientated towards the location that was sent. Place where battle is happening is in an asteroid field, thus it's very hard to fight there, while also needing to check around yourself for asteroids that can potentially shake and damage the whole ship. This is probably not first time for KNF to hear such communication distress calls, which is case during the whole conflict. Even though Kusari is somewhat managing to push, it is witnessing situations as this one, all around. This specific battle will also be marked as first battle for this warship. Suddenly, ship has received another call, but not an emergency call, from leader of this frontline. 'Konbanwa again to all Kusari Naval Forces, one of leader of this frontline here, informing you about our status within this ending frontline. Currently there's only one battle happening within this system, where we are pushing Bretonian forces to one of their systems with identity of LEEDS. Few of our warships there need immediate assistance, and we are brining reinforcements to that sector which is attached with this communication channel. Bretonian battlegroup is slowly pulling out to the Jump Gate anticipating an easy path, which is their foolish mistake. Jump Gate to LEEDS is under a blockade by our forces. Leader of the first battlegroup within frontline, signing out.' Bridge on warship Isonami full of high command admirals was under a surprise for reason they were not informed before this about status within this system. Sadly, communication messages only float around within this system, heavily encrypted, and it takes time to get to other systems. However, this surprised made crew excited. From the communication message, KNF forces are pushing Bretonian last-standing battlegroup to the Jump Gate, and putting them to a deadly and unavoidable trap. 'This looks promising. We are tracking our battlegroup on the navigation map, we are not too far away. Also pretty close to the Jump Gate to LEEDS, where the trap is.' Controller has spoken being pretty excited along with everyone else on the ship. Besides the reason KNF is pushing Bretonia to this trap somehow, first battle for IKN Isonami might occur. While ship is cruising, its powercore is not charged enough to also charge weapon system, so they're probably be needing to catch some range before doing anything. 'We shall win or die with honour, there is no other available option. Alert whole ship once we get into range of combat. We are very close now.' Ship finally has got into range, but not yet into battle-rage for reason that powercore needs to charge. Controller used this opportunity to alert all crews on the ship to prepare for battle and navigation. 'To all personnel on the ship. We are very close to the rage of battle. We are picking up several Bretonian warship along with lots of fightercraft. This is surely gonna be rough. Concentrate on our orders during the battle, and everything will be fine. We shall either win or die with honour. For the Empire of Kusari!' Everyone on the ship was already in their positions, depending on their profession, which is most likely key to success. Ship has got into battle rage, and charged its powercore before entering it. 'Admiral we have entered battle-rage! Weapons are fully charged. On thy signal, we are opening fire upon Bretonia ships. One of KNF warships there is burning, I am not certain if we will be able to act before it happens something! I'm ready!' One of KNF warships there from which distress signal was made, was being chased by several Bretonia warship. From long-range, there were also KNF reinforcements coming in with warships and fightercraft. Objective is if we can't destroy ships, to push them to Jump Gate which leads to LEEDS, where they will be put into an unavoidable trap. 'Well done. Open fire immediately! We must save the ship if possible! Watch out for asteroids as well, we don't want to suffer from them as well.' Ship has opened fire upon the Bretonian warships that were chasing a lone KNF warship. 'We're opening fire!' Another KNF battlegroup has joined the battle, representing themselves as reinforcements as Isonami is. Both Isonami and other reinforcements were chasing Bretonia warships, as they were chasing that lone warship. During the battle, it was pretty intense as both sides were suffering, Bretonia side was suffering from KNF reinforcements, while KNF side was suffering from intention to save the warship if it's possible. Everyone participating in the battle was moving towards the Jump Gate to LEEDS, where that lone KNF warship was knowing about the trap they are setting to Bretonian last-standing battlegroup. Warship was already losing lots of crew due to critical damage that was done. Bretonia battlegroup was taking heavy hits, eventually getting to the Jump Gate. KNF warship lost most of its crew, and wasn't able anymore to even shoot back, while Bretonia battlegroup was also taking critical damage from the KNF reinforcements, including IKN Isonami. 'Don't stop firing, we must to destroy them! I also see they've entered the trap, and I see KNF warships blocking the Jump Gate to LEEDS. Now Bretonia battlegroup probably knows there's no exit for them.' Bretonia Battlegroup has entered the trap, and was surrounded by even more KNF warships, without ability to use the actualy Jump Gate. The KNF warship that was taking critical hits, managed to exit the fire, however, nearly destroyed. Nearly all crew onboard got killed. Bretonian battlegroup containing of numerous fighters and warships, was being destroyed completely, this Kusari trap was a total success. 'We're tearing them to pieces! We better hurry up and save the crews onboard that KNF warship, if nobody else can. Wait... there are freighters somehow getting crews onboard that KNF warship, and it is about to blow up! I hope they will gather as much crew as possible.' Situation was intense, having Bretonia battlegroup relatively close to KNF warship in which freighters are somehow docking at and picking up survivors. Bretonia battlegroup was attempting to focus fire upon that warship, however they were not successful for reason every other KNF warship and fighter was destroying them and tearing to pieces. Bretonia battlegroup wasn't able to shoot like the KNF warship, and eventually their warships were also at the point of destruction. Kusari freighters that picked up as much crew as they possibly could, had to back away because warship's main reactor was about to explode. They managed to get away to safe range, without thinking of Bretonian battlegroup, because they were also shattering. 'Freighters managed to pick up some crew from that warship. It's going to explode any moment, along with Bretonian warships. I'm picking up heavy readings from the ship... it's main power reactor is exploding! We got no Kusari ships anymore near that warship.' This "spectacular" view was a thing now, where all of the Bretonian warhips were exploding at the same time when that KNF warship. There is no way to save the ship from not exploding, since it was tearing apart itself from the heavy and long Bretonian shots. At least, every survivor that was found on the ship was also rescued, thank to KNF blockade that was tearing Bretonian battlegroup at the same time, leading to point where they can't even shoot. Suddenly KNF warship along with rest of Bretonian warships has exploded at the same time, giving a pretty view, but at the same time sad view. 'I'm sorry. I done my best here, at least all survivors that were found onboard the ship were rescued... We are now left here blockading the Jump Gate.' Moment of silence was a thing now onboard the Isonami, while everyone was giving prayers to the KNF warships, which is part of honourable culture. 'We done what we could Admiral... Look. We are getting a transmission signal from frontline leader.' They opened the transmission signal, displaying the message along with leader of the frontline himself speaking. 'This is transmission exclusively directed to warship ISONAMI of the Naval Forces. I must use this opportunity to congratulate you for the amazing push to the Bretonian battlegroup. When it comes to that KNF warship, we done what we could. Survivors that were spotted onboard the ship were also rescued. Now when you're here, seeing you're not damage, keep the blockade next to this Jump Gate. We won't be thinking of jumping until we recover and bring in more reinforcements. LEEDS are our next objective. God speed.' Most of crew onboard Isonami was cheered up after hearing this transmission, while other were not themselves at the moment - reason would be invasion of Leeds, it seems. 'Our orders right now are to keep the blockade of this Jump Gate. I hope everyone onboard our ship is fine. Please keep the weapons online for various reasons.' Overall situation in that sector of system was pretty calm, since last-standing battlegroup of Bretonia was destroyed, along with that lone KNF warship. Ships that trapped Bretonian battlegroup, along with reinforcements that were playing important role while pushing last-standing Bretonian battlegroup to this trap, formed a formation around the Jump Gate to block it as well as to secure it from any danger. Reason why blockade is still a thing despite the fact victory happened, nobody yet knows what's behind that Jump Gate. Preparations must be made before taking the Jump Gate, preparations to enter another Bretonian system. All KNF ships must be fully ready to enter it, to be fully repaired, as well as to bring in as much ships as possible, to invade hostile system, which is goal of this conflict. There were also rumors flying around about so called Gallia, that nobody knows much yet, nor where they are. But something happened for sure that made rumors flying around, and nobody knows what exactly is going on. 'Some crew onboard brought this weird rumor about Gallia, with which I am not familiar with. Nobody seems to knows what's going on, but something happened that we are not aware of. I'm also amazed of this formation around the Jump Gate. Luckly our ship didn't suffer from any damage, but there were some ships that left this sector, moving to repair themselves. This is probably going to be something big.' Some ships were leaving the sector for repairs, and certainly probably once the Jump Gate actually gets used, behind it, large battle will most likely happen. Bretonians are anticipating to get invaded any moment, and they are probably preparing themselves, just like KNF are. 'I am not familiar with those Gallia rumors, whatever. But I'm sure no Bretonians will jump here, they can't be ready before us, considering the fact how fast they're now losing.' What will Bretonia do in order to possibly stop Empire of Kusari, can they even think of such? Nobody knows, but they must think of a solution if they want to prevail. Maybe it hasn't come to that question yet, but how would you eat an elephant? Piece by piece, that can be related to this conflict. 'I agree. Whatever we are doing, we are either going for victory or death with honour, and nothing can stop us from that. Now, I will do some work on bridge here. I need some concentration, anyway.' There are some documents that need to get filled up, that were sent by the governments about the conflict, also some strategies when it comes to this conflict, invasion and many other. Now when system is probably claimed, even more will come. 'Roger that Admiral, I will leave you alone and watch what's going on here. Will alert you in case of something, and rest of the crew of course.' These preparations might take some time, for KNF to quickly attempt to recover from these conflicts here. Invasions must be well-organized, without such thing, success can't be a thing. Kusari immediately used this chance to repair ships that need to get repaired, also to bring in a lot more ships. From what it is looking now and what plans are, this is going to be hell of an invasion, will either be a successful move of total a catastrophe. Will anything happen before the invasion and will Kusari manage to recover quick enough to invade successfuly, that needs some time in order to get answered. Organization is key to success, along as cooperation.
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