Yesterday, after we finished one more run to supply our allies with much needed Plutonium at Omega 49, the long range scanners showed QCP activity in Kusari; more serious then that was the fact that the GMG-GST Raikoke was alone in New Tokyo and not answering the comms.
We feared the worst so we assembled a quick intervention force with the Ronin|Tannakai-Maru, Ronin!Ikari-no-Ken, both kusari gunboats, Ronin|Mirumoto Rosanjin and Ronin|Kairu Tsubasa, these in Kaichu bombers, and we quickly were on our way to New Tokyo.
We had barely got out of the jump gate into New Tokyo system when we saw the Privateers. Two Challenger class bombers and one gunboat, long range scanners showed a fourth vessel was inbound from the Taus systems.
The QCP proceeded to insult, while we were mainly interested in tagging their whereabouts for the sake of the Raikoke. So we made our famous sphinx impersonation.
Finnally they made their move and engaged us.
After a while we had the two bombers down but had lost our two kaichu also. The ratio of forces was at the time unfavourable to the privateers, since both AFA - Food for Tought and an Hogosha vessel had joined the festivities.
Me and Ken proceeded to hammer the remaining gunboats and, to our chagrin, they both managed to evade our efforts and fled. One of them already badly damaged as those bretonian vessels are no match for the agile kusarian gunship which was impossible to shake off his tail.
There was a tense moment when the hog tried to insult us but the AFA quickly put him to order and the situation defused.
We tractored both bretionian and our pilots escape pods, delivered the QCP pilots to a nearby KNF representative and returned Aomori.
We tried to get the Raikoke at comms but only got a faint sound that we think it was static, or a very faint snoring as some suggested, we believe that the comms of the honourable Guild Master were malfunctioning the whole time.
Latter on I will ask Rosanjin to post a report of a junker smuggler we caught red handed at Ogoshawa, he has guncam evidence which I lack, and will have Sen Tsudo confirming here my report of the QCP incident.
I will now proceed to the overhauling of my ship and will replace the faulty guncam.
