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Sender ID: Santo Kaisa Katsuo Shimoe
Receiver ID: Kusari Naval Action Report
Location: Battleship Matsumoto, Hokkaido system
Subject: Patrol Reports (7 to 11 -02-821)

Konnichiwa, it's been a while. This will be my first report since I was assigned to duties in Hokkaido and the path to Gallia.

First patrol was a deployment on the 7th in response to a call for reinforcements in the Kyushu system, against a pirate group. I departed from the Matsumoto in my chimaera and headed straight to Kyushu. On the lane connecting Tsushima Depot to the Jumpgate to the Tau systems, I've found Kaisho-ho Ishikawa Hideaki in his fighter defending the Naval cruiser KDS-Kirishima against several Junker Marauders fighters and bombers. I immediately headed in and engaged the bombers.



While we were engaging the bombers, more reinforcements came to our aid, amongst them officers Jiro Taiyouji and Teta Nakamura, and the police gunboat KSP-Naginata. Unfortunately, the junkers brought up 2 large ships, and with the dodgy bombers they breached the Kirishima hull, critically damaging it.

We pressed on them, and while our forces focused on the large ships, our support eliminated some of the enemy fighters.

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The junkers managed to take down the KSP gunboat, and began to pull back trough the Tau-23 jumphole.

We chased them to the area of the Cali base. Even with the presence of the base defenses, we pressed on the enemy, and managed to take some out before they had the chance of entering the safety of the base.

After the remaining targets were out of our reach we regrouped in Kyushu, and returned to normal patrols.
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On the 9th of this month, I began another patrol on the Hokkaido and Rishiri systems. Of note where the passage of 2 zoner whales outbound to Gallia, one of them the (\^/)Eros, and another zoner called OSSC>Perica who was transporting Gallic wine.




Afterwards, back in Hokkaido, a Council stellion fighter appeared and was moving towards New Tokyo. He was intercepted in the midpoint of the lanes, and ordered to return to Gallia. The pilot Therup resisted, and I engaged him. The fight prolonged for a while until Kaisho Sakamoto Ryoma appeared, and the council pilot by the name Therup decided to retreat back to Gallia.



I was ordered to shadow him until he left, but he stopped at the gate to Lyonnais and refused to depart. Having been warned again, I engaged and destroyed the fighter after he had refused to comply.



Meanwhile, other patrols were busy with several occurrences, so I headed to New Tokyo to provide assistance to them. An unusual high volume of traffic was evident in Tokyo and Shikoku, and I helped controlling the shipping manifests of the ship passing trough Planet New Tokyo.

We stopped a Liberty transport called NRP-Lusitania, bearing a Ageira IFF and Universal ID, which was carrying a shipment of Plutonium. The captain declared that the shipment was destined to Bretonia, and when informed of the embargo through Liberty and without any viable alternative route, decided to exchange the cargo for some New Tokyo 5 Star Sake.



After that a USI convoy arrived at New Tokyo and requested an escort to Planet Tomioka in the Nagano system. After questioning a Unione Corse pilot heading back to Gallia, we were about to start the escort when tokkeitai operative Gaikotsu requested all available forces to counter a possible dangerous situation near Honshu.




We found a GMG pilot flying a BD Katana fighter, and after a few arguments, we made him return to Aomori, although we would have like him to exit out of Honshu completely. Operative Gaikotsu and other pilots handled that situation though, so I don't have all the details.

(near New Tokyo -> Honshu jumpgate)

We then ended escorting the USI convoy on it's return trip to Liberty.

(Near Deshima station)

After that our patrol dealt with an Interspace transport carrying optronic arrays, called Slow.Ninja. He was carrying the cargo without the proper permits and was convinced to surrender the cargo near Shinagawa. However in a fit of depression the pilot steered his ship into Izu surface, where the ship exploded in the crash. Such a desecration of the natural scenery of New Tokyo is inadmissible and the pilot payed with his life. Hogosha cleanup companies were called to deal with the debris.

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During this patrol my ship suffered several power failures and unexpected shutdowns. Engineering suspect radiation received during the Council engagement, coupled with an orbit too close to Shikoku's sun at one point. Ship was checked at Myoko during the patrol.

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The last patrol occurred today in Hokkadio and Rishira area. Little activity to report upon, except for the presence of a Republican shipping transport and fighter escort, carrying uncut diamonds to Gallia, and another convoy returning afterwards with super alloys.

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Katsuo Shimoe signing off.

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