It's true. I've recently had reason pull out my 5k again. I was deeply embarassed at the amount of times the message GMG|GTS-Raikoke-Maru was killed by an NPC had shown up on the console. I've taken Fridays advice and went to Shikoku to do KNF missions against Rogues (lol solo missions in a 5k brought back memories). My trip back was uneventful so far. It may have done the trick but I'll need to do another run to see. Otherwise we even have Kishiro NPCs hunting us.