Two days ago I took Akaibara for a ride around New Tokyo and surrounding systems, there I encoutered our wing consisting of one very heavy fighter, one freighter and one liner, so Akaibara as gunboat was more than welcome.
First of all one of the Freelancers refused to drop passengers on board of his Camara, which really isn't suited for human cargo. After destruction of said vessel we managed retrieve passengers and transfer them to our Liner. Few minutes later we found and intercepted Bretonian transport hauling uncut diamonds. This captain, however unlike the previous one, did what he was asked for so our first demand of 8,000,000 credits was lowered down by 50% to 4,000,000 credits, captain complied and was released shortly after.
Sigma-13 was our next destination there we encountered one unusual group of vessels, which was similar to ours. One liner, one Gunboat, two very heavy fighters. After a little chat we found out it was Orbital Spa and Cruise liner and we exchanged some of their black market stuff for Passengers, captain of their liner agreed to make a comm as soon as they are delivered to Liberty. No hostilities occured even if atmosphere would hint it.
Soon a Federalist gunboat arrived, claiming to be on "vaccation" of some sorts, but soon we engaged said vessel for our reasons, the war they had with Kusari. However due to Ion storms we decided to withdraw, we had managed to heavily damage the gunboat before we did so.
The last thing I would love to inform you about was the initiation through the Trial of Severing, we tasked Saitō "Bōshi" Juri, former KSP officer to drop the escape pods of her colleagues and Naval forces pilots and execute them on spot for their aggresion and sisters taken down by them. Without hesitation Juri-san cut the strings of the past and became one of us. Welcome among us Saitō "Bōshi" Juri.