To: KNF High Command
From: Inuye "Mako" Toshi, ensign
subject: patrol and engagement report
Part I
I've started my patrol on planet Honshu. On Osaka depot i met a Molly tagged "Spatial" exploration vessel, which was heading towards Planet Honshu. So i followed him. When he was leaving the planet again, i ordered him to leave Kusari space. He left Kusari towards Sigma 19.
I was holding my position. After a while he returned, accompanied by an Order tagged "Rogue Gunboat." The gunboats cargo was very suspect. My scanners could identify it as a kind of lifeforms only, but not exactly. Very strange. Haven't seen this before.
I was angry about this kind of disrespect to Kusari authorities, but i gave them another chance to leave Kusari with their cargo, what they did towards Sigma 13.
Part II
I continued my patrol and on Shinagawa station in New Tokio, my scanneres picked the IFF of the notorious GC terrorist Mariko Kietan. So i was attacking her immediately, but she was jamming my scanners and so her wingman could come closer unnoticed. In this hopeless situation i had only one chance. I engaged my cruise engines and was in hope they would follow me. This way i could lure them away from Shinagawa and trade lanes. I was familiar with the position of the Honshu JH and used it. They were still following me through. I was heading further to Hiroshima JH and made contact with battleship Sado in Hiroshima. So they'd been prepared to intercept both as soon as they follow me through the Hiroshima JH, what they did. In front of battleship Sado i made a turn and was meeting the enemy face to face with the help of our stationary defense systems and a trainee squadron. Those two GC pilots were showing great pilot skills and we were not able to defeat them. Somewhen the wingman of Mariko Kietan disappeared from my scanners, but i could not see any explosion or debris, so i thought he was leaving Hiroshima, because of some damage.
Finally Kietan stripped my shields with one of the mysterious weapons, i have seen on Blood Dragon fighters. My controls got a short circuit and unable for evasive manoeuvers, my fighter was colliding with a mine, dropped by her. With a last reflex i could eject my emergency capsule, which was tractored in immediately by the Sado. Nothing was happened to me and so i was taking another fighter to start and fight her again (ooc: not really, because of the reengagement rule). But there was no sign of her in Hiroshima and the captain of the Sado informed me, she was leaving back to Honshu. Unfortunatly she was able to destroy some of the trainee fighters and when i arrived at Honshu i could not pick any trace of her.
Part III
I started my patrol again, but had to make a break on Yukawa shipyard, because of a shock after the recent skirmish. On Yukawa i received a call by a BSG wing. They were telling me about a special arrangement between BSG and our high command, namely an overtaking of one of our new bombers. So i tried to contact the high command, but got a low ranking staff officer only. This officer was telling me, the high command is in a very important meeting and they would not want to be disturbed. Since our friendly terms to BSG it would be right, he was mentioning. Also this officer gave me the order to meet with the BSG ships outside of the Nagumo to be a witness of this overtaking. So i was heading to the Nagumo in Kyushu. On Shiniuko station i had the next terrorist encounter. The Blood Dragon Gunboat "Telicaster".
I was trying the same trick as i did with the GC wing, to lure this Gunboat towards the BSG wing to outgun the Blood Dragon. The Gunboat was following me til planet Kyushu and was giving up the chase for pirating traders. I met the BSG wing and we had the overtaking in a very short manner without a ceremony. Together we were heading back to planet Kyushu asap, but the Blood Dragon cowards were running and hiding. Later the long range scanners of the Matsumoto were locating the ship on its way back to Chugoku.
Part IV
My patrol was leading me to the Nagasaki in Tau 31. On Holman outpost i had a fighter class vessel, i was not familiar with. Scans identified it as "Nephtys" with IFF "20 sqnTenacity". First i forgot to make contact to ask for his intentions, because i was diverted by its unfamiliar design. As i tried to make contact, the ship opened fire and i started evasive manoeuvers. I noticed a second ship, launching from Holman, IFF "20 sqn Darkneon". Both were attacking me now, but i was able to evade their shots and to make severly damages to one of them. Soon they fled into the ice crystal field of Tau 31. I wanted to follow them, but my cruise engine was disrupted by a bretonian fighter strike force, attacking the Nagasaki. As soon as this strike force was neutralized i began to scan for the other two hostiles, but they were gone. Later our cloacked surveillance probes noticed their presence in Newcastle. With the help of the probes i could open a comm channel and informed the leader of the wing, they would be stated now as enemies of Kusari until they send an official letter with their appologies to the high command.
Part V
Right after these short skirmishes i received an "invitation" by BSG to join them, when visiting Bretonia. I finished the mission i got from the Nagasakis commander and followed the BSG. But this time i used the backdoor to Leeds, through Edinburgh to avoid another contact with the Derby. I was surprised about the weakness of Edinburgh and, please forgive me the overstepping of my rank, recommend to include the invasion of Edinburgh as a prime objective in further strategical plannings.
I was going from Edinburgh to Leeds andd noticed absolutely no defensive systems and stations around planet Leeds.
The BSG wing was already moving depper into the bretonian heartland and i decided to follow them to New London. In front of New London was a bitter fight. The BSG wing was fighting against bretonian police, military and a single BLS tagged fighter. I was engaging the police and military fighters first, but they were no challenge and soon destroyed. Then i joined the fight against this BLS fighter. He was close to become just a note in history, when a sudden ion storm disabled all vessels around New London. I felt in unconsciousness. When i was woken up 10 minuts later i found myself alone in New London. My fighter was drifting within an asteroid field and my scanners picked up the anomalies of another JH. I was jumping through and reached Dublin. So i set course to the Edinburgh JH to return to Tau 31. While on route i noticed anothr JH and my curiosity forced me to jump through and i was reaching an unknown system, so i started to explore this system for any strategical or tactical use in our war against Bretonia. (On the Nagasaki i compared the collected datas with the datas in stellar cartograhphy. It was the Chester system. Atm useless for the Kusari Navy.) Soon i discovered a bretonian fighter wreck, orbiting the single planet in the system. The fighter was bearing valuable equipment, including 3 class 9 fighter weapons. Right after i was able to load this equipment into my fighter, i got an alert signal and noticed the bretonian destroyer "William Halsey". I attacked him, while my scanners checked the ship. I was surprised once more. The bretonian destroyers also got an upgrade, bearing 9 turrets now and me would not wonder if the bretonian gunboats got an upgrade too. So i was breaking the fight and headed back to Dublin, Edinburgh and Tau 31. As i was comming closer to Holman outpost i was informed by the IMG an bretonian destroyer was arriving at Leeds JG. They must been able to place a tracking device on my ship in the short fight. There was only one chance. Using the old trick, i lured the destroyer in weapon range of battleship Nagasaki. Soon the shields of the destroyer were gone and their captain, without any chance against our formidable battleship, decided to retreat to Leeds. I was docking safely on the Nagasaki with two captured bretonian officers, a whole bunch of new datas and 3 of the best fighter weapons, Bretonia is comming up with.
Note Part I: It seems necessary to establish Gunboat patrols along our borders, because of the increasing activity of doubtful individuums, using more and more ships of gunboat size.
Note Part II: it is absolutely necessary to get some of those shield disrupters, used by Blood Dragons and GC, for further study. We must find a way to counter them.
Note Part IV: I recommend to set "20 sqn Tenacity" and "20 Sqn Darkneon" on the KOS list until they have appologized for their misbehavior and disrespect to Kusari authorities.
Note Part V: What shall be done with the taken bretonian class 9 weapons (2 adv. Splitter Tachyon guns and 1 Ultra Sunrail Particle gun. Especially the particle gun would be an advantage against the graviton shields, used by Blood Dragons and GC. Me also can hand them over to the engineers on battleship Nagasaki for further study.
How BLS tagged ships will be treated by KNF in the future? Because in the fight above Planet New London i was asked by the BLS pilot on which side i would stay. As far as i know, BLS (Blue Lotus Syndicate) is aligned to Outcasts and they are enemies of the Kusari state and treated that way.
My life for the shogun!
Inuye Toshi
Addendum of 1/O Flaggship Sado: Normaly i would recommend to bring ensign Toshi to a court martial, because of his misbehavior. Our trainee squadrons are not ready to face one of the most dangerous pilots of the GC and two of them died, because of their heavy wounds. Additionally two more are heavy wounded and out of duty for the next six months. We've lost seven valuable fighters and a lot of equipment, while the enemy suffered no losses. Additionally he seems to be unable in the use of communication channels to call for reeinforcements.
Unfortuantly we cannot afford to loose a further promising, but unexperienced officer. So i recommend a disciplinary punishment.
Addendum of CO battleship Nagasaki: Ensign Toshi had no permission to enter bretonian space, along with a BSG wing. Such kind of a muzzlehead is a bad example for all new pilots.
He has no disziplin. His luck was, to return from his raid with a lot of valuable informations.
As a disciplinary punishment i have taken his flight permission and the next days he is ordered to clean the reactor chambers of the Nagasaki. Exception only will be to counter an assault by bretonian forces and the QCP.
