To: Kaishō Takahashi

[Bakamono]

Kempeitai-Shi, arigatou for your reply.

No one, at least those that are in direct contact with myself, is itching for a war with the Libertonians.

I am glad to hear that your men do not want war, however I do not see how provocation averts any disaster.

You may be asking why a Destroyer element as well as another...unidentified ship with a cloaking device... managed to pull off such a clean escape and destruction.

Our ships are agile, and cloaks increase their chances of escape, I am not surprised at the effectiveness of any strikes: I am surprised that an assassination was attempted in front of witnesses, that one was attempted at all, and that the agents in question would endanger us all with political disaster.
Any mission of such importance and impact would be government sanctioned, and should not be undertaken under private initiative.
Any data you see fit to send would do little to justify such an action or the associated exposure.

The Liberty Navy has been involved in some very strange experiments lately, as you know, we do not "openly" have kempeitai agents in Liberty space.

I understand that Liberty experiments would be interesting to you: they did pioneer ground-breaking technologies. Of course I cannot support any action involving Liberty forces, without their knowledge and approval.

I have had to share information with Liberty Navy in regard to this situation in an effort toward damage control. Their security forces are operating at a heightened state of alert, they will be looking for anything out of place, and verifying that which seems benign. I would rather not have given Tenshis name nor divulge information on possible incursions, but the blatant act and persistence to continue foreign ops has forced my hand.

As you know any intelligence is subject to counter-intelligence, so I urge you to scale back any probative operations '€“ which may well be designed to draw you out into the light. Relations are just too delicate to justify the risk at this time.

Sometimes the only way to bait out the snakes is to put a fat mouse in front of its hole.

I had feared that intelligence games and machinations were at the root of this. I understand that you are satisfied that the risk was worth whatever you discovered. I cannot hold to that: in my experience, the cost always exceeds the reward.
'Reliable Intelligence' just had me send hundreds of men and women to their deaths. Families bury empty caskets, grieving for their lost, and I cannot even tell them how they died.
I fear that submergence in the world of intelligence leaves some disconnected from the brutal consequences they set into motion.

...sometimes the Kempeitai doesn't act within the confines of the Defense Minister... while we hope to change this,...

Division and autonomy are luxuries we cannot afford right now. Failure to correspond with the Ministry has your wing listed as a security liability. Come home and report in and perhaps they will be lenient.
May the shadows shroud you well,
[color=#FFFFFF]Bakuryō-chō taru Kaishō Takahashi,
Kusari Naval Forces.

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