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This is Jiro Taiyouji, your favourite Nito Kaii after Nakamura-san. I've got a couple of patrols to file this time. Here's the first one.

With news of pirate activity in Shikoku, I've scrambled with my bomber to have a look at the reported position. Just to hear that the pirates have left the Kusari borders before I could reach there.

However, as I was on my way back to base, I've spotted a Light Fighter, bearing the marks of the Lane Hackers. It must have been a recon operation, or an attempt to draw our forces to open up a hole in our organization in Shikoku. I've asked the Hacker to stop and listen; he didn't.

Nito Kaii Ujisato Gamo also appeared after hearing of my find. The Hacker pilot's unwillingness to listen to us left us with no choice but to open fire. We followed him to Kepler Gate, trying to land our shots on its tiny hull, but having little success. Though, I could land my Antimatter Cannon while it tried to pass through the gate, and it really impressed Gamo-san.


I had an amazing luck in poker earlier that day, making a killing from gullible wingmates, so I was looking forward to get back to the mess hall and continue from where I left off. I made 60.000 credits, in 20 minutes, can you believe that.

Oh anyways, as I was returning, I've seen a Farmers Alliance pilot, driving a tractor. Nah... I wish. It was a friggin' Hayabusa, another Light Fighter, and this one didn't try to dock to the gates.

As I was gently insulting the Farmer, a lot of pilots swarmed up around us, all of them from the Navy, sadly for the peasant. The Farmer started to shoot at me anyways, he couldn't take it anymore, I had probably offended him a bit tenderly, finding a soft spot with his love for the Emperor.

Lucky me, he was an awful shot, as expected from a peasant who should be plowing fields or catching fish in Kyushu right now, rather than playing soldier or going 'Ahoy! Harr, harr!'

Even though it couldn't hit me much, it was still taking a while to take the mad farmer down. The guy was not used to fighting, his hands were shaking, making his aim shakey, and also his flight pattern. You don't land a SNAC on a shakey Hayabusa; add to that, the peasants are simply too lucky by nature to be hit by a SNAC.

They are good people in essence. They just don't know how good a life they have, and it is frustrating when they sell their tractors to buy Hayabusas with the cash.

Before we could take down the Farmer, a strange, creepy thing [which I am not told really what] appeared. It obviously wanted to shoot at stuff, so Nito Kaii Kenji Tokusha thrusted out to meet it with a single fight. Their fight was occasionally interrupted by our Farmer friend, who apparently hated the creep more than me, somehow.

The farmer didn't last long afterwards. And I don't know what happened to Tokusha-san's fight. I heard that their engagement spanned longer than my patrol hours.

Soon after, as though the earlier pure hearted farmer's curse worked, my headache got awful, and I could barely fly my ship to the closest station. I had to call it a day.


The second patrol's report will be included in a separate file.

Sender ID: Tetsuo Shimizu
Target ID: Reporting Center
Encryption: High

This is Nito Kaii, Jiro Taiyouji again. This is for the second patrol.

About 2330 SMT, I decided to fly around a little bit. The doctors said that I should rest for a few days, but flying felt a rest enough.

As I was patrolling through Shikoku, I saw the Tokkeitai agent Kiyohime, having a talk with a junker smuggler she caught. Just as I reached their position, another smuggler tried to penetrate into Kusari.

I ran a scan on the smuggler's ship, a Zoner BW Transport, carrying counterfeit software. I told it to stop, it didn't. First it docked to Deshima Station, after being kicked out of there, he started to fly further into Kusari.

I gave chase until it reached Shinjuku Station in New Tokyo, where it docked again, and where it was captured by the station personnel.


A while later, agent Kiyohime got the scent of more Junkers, this time in Kyushu. I was notified and told to assist her, so I tried to reach her position as fast as I could. Kiyohime was following a freighter to Tau 23, and I could reach their close proximity in just about the same time as the Junker jumped to the other side.

I immediately jumped in, without much consideration. On the other side, four Junker Marauders were lying in wait for me. They've come out of their cloaks, and started to shoot at me. There was a bomber, the earlier freighter that led us to ambush, and two frigates.

They were of course not successful with their seemingly cunning plan, and it only allowed themselves to be caught by us in the end.

Kiyohime jumped to the other side as I notified her of the ambush, and we both targeted the frigates. An IMG fighter also appeared to shoot at the Junkers, saying that these group of Junkers are known trouble makers, and have shot the IMG transports earlier.

It didn't take long for the fight to finish. One of the frigates took refuge in the Outcasts' rock, and the other was destroyed. The smaller junker vessels made a run for it before the fight was literally over, seeing that they have no chance. Agent Kiyohime and I didn't take any damage of note.

The IMG fighter thanked us. I'll also forget to mention that he gave me 2.000.000 credits as thanks. Oops. Drinks are on me, fellas... I doubt Agent Kiyohime would drink though... she'd even scold me for asking... so I didn't.


We decided to return home from northern Kusari, after the fight was over. Not much to tell about most of the flight, our scanners were totally clean. Only Kiyohime was trying to do her job and making me talk, something which she'll report herself, I am sure.

In Honshu, however, we found a couple of smugglers. Both of them were smuggling counterfeit software. I stood by one of them who couldn't escape, while the other made a run for it through the lanes, which Kiyohime chased after to no avail.

The smuggler didn't want to drop the contraband, and didn't want to stop and listen. So I had to shoot it down. Both the transport and its cargo were destroyed on spot.


That's all from the Patrol 11-23 NT-23-A. Nito Kaii Jiro Taiyouji out.

This is Itto Kaii Jiro Taiyouji.

Lately, patrols are not as full as they are, and they are more often than I could actually manage to file them all separately. I'll just mention some of the more interesting parts.

There was a smuggler in Kyushu, which Nakamura-san and Yamo-san were chasing after. I was called to help them out, so I was heading their way.

However, the lane I was taking was crippled by a dragon with a very erratic behaviour. It had a strange transponder ID, and it started to engage me suddenly.

Luckily for me, the guy was terrible at flying, and I could easily land my Antimatter on him.


As I continued my way towards the rest of the team, they were chasing smugglers into Tau 29. When I got to their position, the smugglers were caught by the Baffin hole, before they could jump into the system.

One of them were carrying Black Market Munitions, the other, Side Arms.

We told them to stop, they didn't. Munitions carrier engaged our ships and thrusted for the Baffin way. Side Arms carrier did not engage us, however she actively helped the other smuggler by purposefully creating a long traffic on the jump hole.

As we jumped to Baffin, the smuggler was out of our reach, but we still had the other one.

Some long debate on stuff started... About who's right and what happened. In the end, I just had to make it clear for everyone what we have to do, and what the case is.

The smuggler didn't agree, threatened us and started to cruise... We took it down and left Baffin system which got rather crowded.

Yamo-san started to call me Master-Jiro, afterwards.


The next day, in another patrol, we were flying with Yamo-san. Yamo-san claimed that he's really good at sniffing out treasures, which's what he calls the threats. So having Yamo-san as my vanguard, I let out to the unknown depths of space.

He was right, he could indeed locate threats accurately, and I don't know how he gained that skill. It's as amazing as it sounds.

When I asked, Yamo-san mentioned something about some theory or another he learned in the Academy, but I might have slept through those courses back then. Yamo-san did not, however, and he claims to be a perfect student... Still keeps on calling me Master-Jiro.

As a result of his skill, we found an Order alias vessel, carrying alien equipment. The arguments were long, discussions were tedious, but in the end, we just had to do what we were supposed to.

No terrorist carrying alien equipment would be allowed to exist within the boundaries of Kusari. It'd be too dangerous to allow it.

The suspect didn't want to surrender. Yamo-san quickly took the vessel down. Nothing remained from the debris for our scientists to study on.


As we were wrapping up, we heard a call from Katsuo-san. He caught a suspected pirate on the lanes between New Tokyo and Shikoku, and was still on the course of interrogating the suspect as we reached his position.

It took us a while to sort it out. Apparently, Katsuo-san witnessed the suspect bomber as it was shooting Hogosha marked vessels, near a trade lane which he assumes the suspected pirate vessel disrupted.

Discussions led us to believe that the suspect is indeed a pirate, and in either case, I advised everyone that we escort the ship to Fuchu Prison, where more detailed investigations could be held.

The suspect eventually agreed to follow us there. On the way, a couple more of our pilots joined us, and the suspect successfully docked to Fuchu where the station personnel took care of him.

Well. Not. The next day I and Nakamura-san saw him pirating in Shikoku again, and we took him down. The pirate explicitly said that he could bribe his way out of the prison, with his bomber, even.

Seriously... Do we risk our lives for nothing here? I hear that the Minister of Defence is back in business. Give it some hustle, lady.

This is Itto Kaii, Jiro Taiyouji, reporting several more interesting encounters through the last few day's patrols.

The first case is when me and Santo Kaisa Nakamura-san were on a patrol through the lanes in New Tokyo. Two smugglers were caught that day.

Firstly, a freelancer transport was carrying Black Market Munitions. The suspect complied and the Munitious were destroyed. No fine was taken, but I took note of the name for future encounters.

Secondly, there was a cardamine smuggler who didn't want to listen, and started to shoot at my ship. Nakamura-san and I shot back and destroyed the vessel along with its cargo.


Santo Kaisa Kobayakawa-san got in trouble in Hokkaido and called for assistance as I was patrolling my usual route in New Tokyo. Once I've reached his position, he was already taking down a fighter. A gunboat remained afterwards, and it wasn't much of a fight either; took refuge in the closest unlawful piece of scrap heap.


I've caught two transports, carrying Military Vehicles in New Tokyo. I've stopped them as I thought they'd be heading towards the Taus.

As I asked them about where they were taking the vehicles, they replied 'We are taking it to one of your Battleships, you can escort us'.

By that time, I was trying to organize another operation regarding a freelancer with a Junker ship, and was also trying to get the team ready for these two suspects who might just be lying. So, I was busy with communications regarding those, as the transports started to shoot at my ship and drained nearly all of my hull.

I've asked for help, while keeping the transports from running away, as they were both trying to cruise away and shooting at me whenever they could. Once Itto Kaii Shimoe-san reached my position, I thought he'd be able to keep one of them in check so they won't be able to run, but I might have misjudged Shimoe-san's distance at that time to the transports.

One of the transports could use the lanes and get away, while I stood on my target and took it down. I hear the other one was caught in Planet New Tokyo later on.


That's all.