Konnichiwa officers, I have caught 2 smugglers this morning, which I shall report upon now. I first noticed them by their suspicious movements on the long-range scanners. Once they entered the Trade-lanes I was able to confirm these suspicions. Unfortunately, both of them made it out of Honshu and into the Sigma's. However, I waited by Aikta Border Station until they came back. The smuggler by name of Exon was first, coming into the Honshu system via the Sigma-21 jumphole. I intercepted them by the Osaka ruins, whereupon they fled. They refused to drop the Sorted Artifacts, so I opened fire. However my guns were not able to make much headway. I was however, able to chase them to the Sigma-13 jumphole, where they left kusari space. At this point my ship needed serious repairs, so I headed back to Akita Border Station for repairs.
While my ship was being repaired, I grabbed the KDS-Nihon. Seeing that the second smuggler had made their way through Kusari and were in fact returning with more illegal goods, I headed to the New Toyko to Shikoku jumpgate. On the way there however, I ran into the first smuggler, Exon again. This time, they were much more compliant, and after trying to bribe me, they dropped the cargo and paid their fine of 5 million. While this was happening the second smuggler had made it from Shikoku, through Kyushu and into New Tokyo. I deduced that they were likely going to use the Honshu jumphole, so I raced over there and waited for them. Sure enough, they appeared, a corsair freighter. Again, after trying to bribe me, they dropped the contraband and paid a 2 million credit fine, whereupon I escorted them to Osaka's ruins and they flew off to the Sigma-21 jumphole.
However, I while I was writing this report, TLAGNET reported another smuggler- Exon again. I managed to intercept by the Honshu jumphole in Hokkaido. They were quite ashamed, but dropped the cargo and payed their fine again, this time, 6 million credits. Afterwards, I tried to intercept another smuggler, but was not able to catch them before they made it into the Tau's.
Signing off for now,
Junsa-Bucho Tanaka Hidarijima
