To: Hōjō Clan, GC, Sisters of Light, Order, 141th; Subject: Return of an old enemy!

[Tyroflion]

A man in his mid fourties appears on screen. He is wearing a formal kimono adorned with pictures of birds and flowers. There is a katana at his side. He bows to the camera before starting to speak.

Konnichiwa to honourable allies.

It seems my call came just in time. Today 19th of June 817 a gunboat of the Taira clan encountered a strange ship aproaching the Heaven's Gate, better known as Tekagi's Arch. When our pilot came to investigate he saw a Kusari Navy Gunboat undocking from the Arch.

After aproaching and asking what business the ship had in the abandoned base the pilot exclaimed the base was theirs and the Blood Dragons crossed their line by aproaching it. Our scanner detected a nomad infested presence aboard and our brave pilot engaged the Iseijin.

Sadly our pilot's skill weren't able to match the Navy gunboat's agillity and after a long exhausting fight the Taira gunboat was destroyed and the pilot did not survive. We sincerely hope that he died quickly in his exploding ship and was not captured since the infestation is a fate I do not wish upon anyone.

However his transmissions and gun-camera shots of the enemy ship were recived and we will honor his sacrifice by putting them to good use.

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Shogun bows his head and remains in silence for a minute or so. Then he looks up again and slowly draws his tanto sword.

Upon this day I Shogun Kazuto Taira, first of his name, head of the Taira familly formaly declare war upon the Iseijin. It will continue untill one side of the conflict is utterly destroyed. There will be no compromises, no prisoners and no mercy.

Shogun holds the tanto in one hand then cuts a straight line across the palm of the other hand. Blood starts to pour from the wound and drops on the tatami on the floor.

Today the blood of a member of Taira clan was spilled. And by that all of us were wounded. And this wound will not heal untill it is avenged. We live for the clan and we die for the clan.

Shogun bows again, then the image fades in black.

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