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[Yngen]

........KNF personel switch to command encrypt X-ray for fleet wide alert..........

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[AU]Anton_Blix
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[Malaclypse 666]

Message to: Nebotuda, Captain, T/O
Comm ID: [KNF]Yomigae

Sir,

Ensigns Yomigae and Myouri wish to report completion of basic orientation and training at Battleship Nagumo.

All paperwork and missions completed. Both ships also completed several mapping missions, and then transferred to BS Matsumoto to await further assignment.

During our training missions, we encountered a NovaPG patrol. Both our vessels were severely damaged (1 kill), and had to retreat to Nagumo, where we lost much face with Nagumo's training officer for not completing our missison.

However, once the NovaPG ascertained our training status, they withdrew. Apparently they found no honor in attacking green recruits.

We will not be lax in our duties again, Sensei.

Hai,

Ensign Yomigae
Ensign Myouri

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[ghostcat]

Whoever's in command now;
Kasuma reporting, we have escaped the temporal distortion caused by the activated Nomad artifact.
Unfortunately, our gunboat was destroyed in the process. The crew has dispersed at Yokohoma for R+R, while I take the old Chymera out of dry-dock.

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........Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;..........But when the blast of war blows in our ears,.....
........Or close the wall up with our English dead...........................Then imitate the action of the tiger;.................
........In peace there's nothing so becomes a man........................Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,.........
........As modest stillness and humility:........................................Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage!....

Dasher

"Another popup faction. Great. What's wrong with my popup blocker?" - Denelo
"Oh come on, slow and steady doesn't win any races, fast and steady does."

Back, if I can get this thing working!

[Yngen]

Whoever's in command now;
Kasuma reporting, we have escaped the temporal distortion caused by the activated Nomad artifact.
Unfortunately, our gunboat was destroyed in the process. The crew has dispersed at Yokohoma for R+R, while I take the old Chymera out of dry-dock.

Your brothers welcome you back home. Expect updated orders and encryption packets shortly.

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[AU]Anton_Blix
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[Guest]

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To: Kusari Naval Forces High Command
From: Captain Hikaru Sulu
Type: Field action report #4
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Subject: KNF Search&Destroy mission in Tau-31/Leeds
Target: Destroyer [SF]-SFDS-Dauntless
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Yesterday a Kusari Naval Forces military convoy undertaken with success a S&D action in Bretonia Space.
The expedition made up of the destroyer Kurashiki, Cpt. Nebotuda, Ensign Myouri and Ensign Yomigae outnumbered their target in Tau-31, forcing him to retreat in Leeds.
The Dauntless was finally destroyed at Glasgow Outpost.

[Malaclypse 666]

Message to: KNF Tactical Command, Nebotuda
Comm ID: [KNF]~Chijin~

Subject: Violation of Hiroshima Space

Hai!

While on routine patrol today, I detected a vessel of unknown type and affiliation passing thru Oida and Hiroshima and into Honshu system. Vessel transponder squawked [P-CLS]Gaspjan.

Repeated attempts at direct comms with vessel were ignored. I undocked from Kansai Research and squawked system-wide warning of possible hostile in area. However, vessel, had returned through Hiroshima by this time, and was last seen on long-range scanners in the Illinois system.

Recommend this vessel and any others squawking the [P-CLS] designator be considered as potentially hostile until their vessels can be scanned and their intentions determined.

Heavy local storm interference forced termination of patrol. The Chijin will remain in Hiroshima, and resume patrols when possible.

Lt. Arata
[KNF]~Chijin~

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[Yngen]

Osaka report, Hiroshima security:

Monitored P-CLS Caspjan (sp?) traveling through restricted Hiroshima space. Trader ID'd C-trans refused to halt for questioning and fled. Osaka intercepted the interlocutor at Akita Border station whereupon it vanished.

Adding this vessel to the 'wanted for questioning' list.

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[AU]Anton_Blix
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[Yngen]

Under the baleful gaze of the Tau-31 star, a Kusari strike force assembles at the Leeds Jump gate.

The Battleship Tawakemono secures the assembly area while the assault is staged:



"Strikeforce commander, this is Taskforce control, your operation is go, repeat, you are go."

Comms officer onboard the Destroyer Osaka: "Acknowledged Tawakemono, beginning jump preperations."

"Draw swords fellow warriors, we will await you where the blue clouds caress our homes. Tawakemono out."

On board ~Osaka~

"Captain, we have execution authorization from Fleet command."

"Thank you Lieutenant, let us account for all our samurai."

"Yes sir." (changes to operation frequency and encrypts)

"Strike force Kagi, rotate frequency and report."

"Hayase on station and standing by."

"Hotaru ready and waiting."

"Osaka, this is Chijin control, we await the your command."

On signal from Osaka, the small but potent force transmitted its pirate gate code signal and entered the jump gate to Leeds. From the bridge of the Tawakemono, an admiral silently calculated the odds of ever seeing those proud warriors again.

16 hours later, Cambridge

Strike force Kagi had made its way through Leeds undetected. Either that or their enemies where lying in ambush.

As they made the preperations for the jump into Cambridge, Captain Seiji Nebotuda went over in his mind the objectives they faced. Planning for this operation began 3 weeks before when Kusari signals intelligence had intercepted transmissions implying a weapons development facility on Cambridge research station. Analysts suspected a large scale reverse engineering effort dealing with Nomad technology, possibly even corsair weaponry. Imperial command had charged Nebotuda to lead a lightning raid on the facility to aquire research information and disrupt Bretonian weapons research. Kishiro was spending high amounts of R&D funding with a twin program to the Bretonians, but the Brets obviously had progressed further. A raid of the Bretonian research programs would prove too useful to the Imperial fleet to pass this opportunity up.

Nebotuda was honored such an important mission would be assigned to him and he had impressed the gravity of this assignment to his force members. Both the captain of the Chijin and young Hayase were veterans in the war, having seen service behind enemy lines before. Young Kitsune Hotaru had shown brash zeal when told of his mission. Nebotuda wondered if the cocky Chimaera pilot had fully understood the danger he was about to be in.

As for the crew of the Osaka...the captain smiled to himself. They had been through much together and each knew the other's moods as they would their own children. Never before had Nebotuda served with a more acutely honed set of samurai than those found on his ship. They would do their jobs when the time came. Even the friendly competition between his Naval crew and the Kusari Special Forces waiting in the forward airlock made the Junyo-born captain proud.

"Confirmed slave lock for the force, we are ready for Cambridge insertion."

"Hai, execute now."

As the mottled light of jump space enveloped the Gunboat Chijin, her commander reflected on the audacity of such a deep invasion. Having followed the ~Osaka~ into battle before, he felt confidence to a degree, but then they had never traveled so far from Kusari supply depots. So much enemy territory seperated the small force from their objective that if luck swung against them their would be little grace in the stars to save them.

To himself: "Nebo, you take us far from the Lagoon in search of answers..."

Strike force kagi materializes on the edge of the Cardiff belt and begins its approach into Cambridge. The first hurdle on their trip will be the Battleship Norfolk near the Ross Planetoid. Hayase and Hotaru deploy out to a standard screen for the 2 larger ships and cruise engines are engaged.

Watching long range scans for trade traffic between the IMG base at Cardiff and the Planetoid, the group make its way to their first way point. At a distance of 20 kilometers the group bears into the Norfolk with the sun at their backs.

"Contact sensei, looks like a local police patrol."

"Eliminate them, tell Chijin to begin jamming now."

Hotaru and Hayase peel off from the group to close on the police fighters. Surprise is on their side and the fighters are nuetralized before any transmissions get out.

On board the Chijin, orders are given to activate the large piece of equipment sitting in its hold. A wide-band transmitter connected directly to the gunboats power supply. The transmitter begins its blanketing call, canceling out all wave form transmissions within 50 Km.

"Now they will come for us," Nebotuda says to his crew.

Jamming does two things. It closes down all communication, and it tells the enemy you are nearby. Thus, the Norfolk new it was under attack before detecting the Kusari strike force, but it didn't know from what direction. Similar conclusions were reached throughout the system. At planet Cambridge the Battleship Norwich was alerted and scans throughout the system revealed a circular dead zone 50 kilometers across centered around a point in between the Cambridge sun and the Ross Planetoid. It was obvious Norfolk was under attack, but there was little they could do to assist her. Norfolk was to have this fight by herself.



15 minutes later, the Norfolk adrift and suffering structural damage on multiple decks, Strike force Kagi turns towards Cambridge and makes way for their objective. The jamming device on board Chijin fails, but no matter, it has done its part. Surprise is no longer necessary, only initiative. Reassembling its fighter screen, the Osaka sets course for Cambridge and the solitary station orbiting above it.

"Status in Airlock 1?"

"Our teams report full readiness."

"Begin Planetary defence suppression."

As the Kusari strike force nears Cambridge a large planetary defense field is detected. Thinking the invading fleet is a planetary invasion force, the Bretonians activate their most powerful defensive tool. The Kusari's objective however is not the planet, but the research station in orbit to which the Osaka is approaching. While the Chijin and their fighter escorts engage the planetary defence fighters, Osaka achieves hard-seal with the CRI main mooring collar.


"Begin insertion."

While the special forces troops do their work in the station, Nebotuda monitors the fight raging around the Osaka and its temporary marriage to the station. Odd that a larger responce wasn't mustered from the Bretonians yet. With no major threat to the operation, every second in relative peace is a blessing to the Emperor.

"Beginning download."

Seconds pass by as data is transferred directly into Osaka's main computer bank. Still no counter attack.
By now, there is a large line of civilian trading vessels bound for CRI holding near the station. Station administrators have told the traders to stay clear of the battlezone.

"Download complete."

And none too soon. Coming over the terminator line from Cambridge's dark side is the Battleship Norwich. Unescorted, apparently sent with no intelligence against an unknown enemy force."

"All personel accounted for."

"Disengage the mooring clamps and come about, recall Chijin and the fighters to close support."

Outgunned, the Norwich gave a valiant but inevitably hopeless fight.



Having eliminated that only threat in the system, Strike force Kagi makes it's retreat back to Kusari. The stolen information would be presented to the Scientists at Nansei within the week.

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[AU]Anton_Blix
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[Firebird]

Transmission To: KNF Command
Comm ID: Admiral Firebird

I'm not sure how your ships managed to break through the Bretonian front-lines, or penetrate all the way across Bretonian space but you'll find a renewed spirit and strategy in this war. Expect our vessels to be performing similar visits to your front door.

End of Transmission

OOC: Very nice, guess informing us that you would no longer be honoring the agreement of not entering
each other's space but confining the war to the actual RP front lines went out the door. Well unlike you sir, I'll give you the warning. The leash on the SF offensive forces is off.

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Retired

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[Malaclypse 666]

To: KNF High Command
Comm ID: [KNF]~Chijin~

The Chijin was scrambled this day from Battleship Matsumoto to assist Captain Nebotuda's Chimaera in Hokkaido.

The Nebotuda reported a contact near Ainu. Contact proved to be a Dragon Gunboat squawking GC ID. The "Ravens Tail" was being engaged by Nebo-san's fighter when the Chijin closed and began to trade fire at short range. Apparently the pilot was not aware of the power of the KNF Gunboat's forward gun, and was rapidly sent packing back to Ainu Depot for repairs.

The Nebotuda broke off at this point to return to the Matsumoto, and I stayed in the area of Ainu to engage other BD and GC miscreants. The Ravens Tail had repaired and reappeared, but engagement was impossible due to a fierce CME from the unstable Hokkaido sun ((Server maint.)).

The Chijin weathered the flare, and once again detected the BD gunboat on scopes. This time, the Ravens Tail was more wary of our forward gun, choosing to maneuver to evade our firepower. However, after a more prolonged engagement, the crew of the Chijin once again was able to seriously damage the GC craft, and returned to duty station Matsumoto after being saluted by the Captain of the Ravens Tail.

This "grasshopper" will be one to watch in future, my brothers. He will not always be such an easy gift for the Emperor.

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