Assorted spaceborne and planetside duties have made me fall slightly behind on paperwork. I hope I will manage to document my flights more thoroughly in upcoming months. Starting from yesterday's patrol.
First of two encounters worth mentioning was on New Tokyo orbit. An Albatross-class vessel, Aldario_Carvalas, with Junker IFF signatures. It's cargo hold contained an average amount of optronics.
After a while of discussion it was clear that the IFF system is slightly malfunctioning for this vessel. After confirming its destination (Liberty), it was allowed to proceed, yet advised to fix the transponder as soon as possible.
After that there was a short period with little to no traffic. However, a bit later Shōshō Mikako Takahashi, Shōshō Kogan Ryu and I halted a civilian Bumblebee transport at New Tokyo gate in Kyushu. The vessel, GhostDog was trying to transport H-Fuel towards genereal direction of Tau systems.
Of course, the law was explained and demand to drop the cargo was made. The captain of the Bumblebee complied and was released afterwards. The Fuel was seized by our support ship [KNF]IKN-Bakufu.
Takahashi-san spotted a Lane hacker vessel in distance making its way to Tau-23. However, it was deemed not worth the chase.
Due to Ion storms being strong in that particular time, I decided to end my patrol before my Chimarea has got any more serious damage than what it is used to.