<Personal Log Entry> Commander Aki Kimura, Order Guard
Log Entry #317817
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"While investigating the presence of a Zoner ship in Omicron Minor today, I received comm chatter from a man named 'Jubal Early'... strange man, he had an odd way of talking that puts you off balance, makes you question yourself. At any rate, we discovered him to be a mercenary freelancer in service to Liberty, apparently on a 'job' that involved infiltrating order space and gathering recon on our vessels. After a lengthy search of the system, his ship - a bounty hunter's guild gunship - was discovered just out of scanner range of the Omicron 100 jumphole. I approached the ship, offering to let him live if he left the system... luckily for me I have quick reflexes, he opened fire while strangely apologizing, forcing me to go on the defensive. Soon after the engagement began, one of our AI units, Fenrir, showed up to assist in the battle. Realizing that he was outnumbered and now outgunned, Jubal Early attempted to make a run for it, resulting in a nearly fifteen minute pursuit around the system, firing weapons back and forth the entire time. Eventually we chased him to the alaska jumphole where he fled the system. After the Pakhet having been ambushed in such a manner months ago, I was not about to make the same mistake twice, I called off our pilots and let him escape. We'll be ready for him next time he enters Order space."
"Shortly after dealing with Mr. Early, sensor platforms in Omicron Major picked up an unidentified vessel nearing the Omicron 100 jumphole. I quickly landed and jumped into my bomber, expecting the vessel to be a large warship - apparently those sensor platforms need to be recalibrated, however, as the vessel was only an Sabre-class fighter being flown by a maniacle outcast who insisted that he, single handedly, would wipe out the order. Without much warning other than his raving madness, he opened fire on my vessel. Unfortunately for him, and very fortunately for me, he was not a good fighter pilot at all. He attempted to joust my ship, and was dispatched in the second pass by a supernova shot."
"That was all the hostiles encountered today. I just got done with some practice combat in 100, with members of the 42nd and some of our other vessels. It would seem I'm losing my touch as a fighter pilot, or perhaps I'm just tired today, I dont know... regardless, it will be a comfort to stand on the bridge of a warship once more."
<Personal Log Entry> Commander Aki Kimura, Order Guard
Log Entry #7118817
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"Not much has happened lately, a few minor incursions by bounty hunters, smugglers, and liberty... but nothing out of the ordinary. Overall, it's been quite quiet in Order space, and I've spent this small amount of time 'off' dealing with the ever growing stacks of paperwork in my office at Lisbon Station."
"Diplomatic negotiations with Kusari are going well, I think. While I cant be sure, I do think a future alliance is being seriously considered by the Kusari Leaders, hopefully this goes through and The Order gains a little more freedom of movement in Sirius. It would be much easier to get to our operational zones if we could move through Kusari. I've also heard of similar negotiations being undertaken in regards to Rheinland, though still no word on those talks yet. If we can get both Kusari and Rheinland to ally with us, we'll finally be able to start pulling public support for The Order's operations. Not being labelled a terrorist everywhere I go would be a nice turn of events..."
"I held a small conference with the lead engineers on Evora shipyard today via longrange communique. From their estimates, our new line of warships should be ready in roughly a month's time, once preliminary testing is completed. Hopefully they're ahead of schedule, we need those ships as soon as possible. If The Order's fleets buckle to the constant nomad, liberty, and bounty hunter attacks we've been pressured with, the rest of Sirius could end up paying the price. If only we could get those idiots in liberty and the guild to understand that we're trying to help them as much as everyone else... ignorant bastards."
"Alright, already too much time spent talking, the paperwork calls."
<Personal Log Entry> Commander Aki Kimura, Order Guard
Log Entry #3121817
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"I wasnt able to get away from Lisbon today, with all the changes occuring in The Order's command structure going through. Black squadron has now disbanded, and The Order has been seperated into two seperate fleets; The Primary Fleet is under the control of Grand Admiral Sius Malacos, with the Reserve Fleet reporting directly to the new Order High Command council and being lead in the field by Reserve Fleet Admirals."
"We held a fairly lengthy conference today regarding the new High Command members. Last night, Grand Admiral Malacos sent me a communique notifying me that I had been selected as one of the new High Command board members. The notice was sudden, and I was up all night writing the speech for this conference... I already had a lot on my shoulders trying to deal with engineering projects at Evora and working on our diplomacy with Kusari at the same time, I'm not sure I can handle having to run a fifth of The Order on top of that, but I'll do my best I suppose."
"It was decided that The Order's personnel roster needed to be updated again, so I've been swamped with all of that paperwork as well. With all I've been having to do lately, it would almost seem I signed up with The Order as a secretary and not a pilot or officer... oh well, soon enough I'll be given a ship again and I will be able to focus more on field assignments. I cant wait to get out of this office."
<Personal Log Entry> Commander Aki Kimura, Order Guard
Log Entry #4122817
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"With the High Command Conference finished for now, I've been permitted some time offduty. I'm going to take a vacation of sorts back home to Kusari space, hopefully my physical presence there will help the Order-Kusari alliance I've been working on lately progress a little faster. Politicians seem to be more decisive when they're looking at the other party face to face."
"For the duration of my stay in Kusari space, I'll be using a seperate personal log file which will be attached at a later date, as I will be unable to access Order databanks remotely from outside of Order space. My vacation log can be found here:"
<Personal Log Entry> Commander Aki Kimura, Order Guard
Log Entry #3128817
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"With my tasks in Kusari complete, I returned to Order space this morning to present my report to the other members of High Command. At this point it seems that no agreements can be made with the organizations within Kusari, but the Gas Miner's Guild has agreed to work with us more closely. The treaty to the GMG will be written shortly, for now I need some rest."
"Full details of my return can be found in the attached Kusari Vacation Log."
<Personal Log Entry> Commander Aki Kimura, Order High Command
Log Entry #2210817
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"It's been a while since my last entry, but I've been too busy lately to have any time for personal records at all. I havent even been able to get off of Lisbon for a flight around 100 in the past two weeks. After returning from my trip to Kusari and dealing with the GMG alliance, Admiral Malacos informed me that I had been chosen to take a seat as one member of the new High Command being put together as the leadership body of The Order."
"I had thought being a member of The Order High Command would be liberating... turns out it's just more paperwork, more communiques to go over, more construction reports from Evora, more patrol logs. Oh well, I think I might just be getting ahead of all of it... back to work."
<Personal Log Entry> Commander Aki Kimura, Order Guard
Log Entry #6228817
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"Well it's been over two weeks since I've gotten the chance to make a personal log entry. I've spent almost the past month onboard Mora station 'field' testing the new warship command simulators we're developing for training new crewmen. The system is actually pretty interesting, would have helped me quite a bit if I had access to it when I was first taking command of the Pakhet. The simulator isnt much more than a single room, dressed up like the bridge of an Osiris, but it can simulate anything from combat to scouting operations and test a command crew's ability to react in a timely and efficient manner. I volunteered for testing to get some command practice back in, I've been in a fighter for so long now that I almost forget what it's like to be on the bridge of a warship."
"I did manage to make it out to Omicron Minor today, and the entire day was shot from that point on. First it's nomads and infected Liberty Cruisers, then the bounty hunters, then some LSF pilot poking his head into the system to drop off recon drones... we managed to take out the drones and the LSF ship luckily enough. To top it all off, we had a civilian somehow manage to get into Omicron 100 and I spent nearly half an hour chasing him out of the system. I really wish we could reinforce our security patrols around access points to Order systems, these intrusions are becoming ridiculous and are taking effort and resources away from dealing with the Nomads and Phantoms."
"There have been numerous delays at Evora station in completing our new line of vessels, hopefully the construction is finished soon or we're going to be overrun with no fleet to fight the enemy back."
<Personal Log Entry> Admiral Aki Kimura, Order High Command
Log Entry #673817
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"This has been a busy day, Evora finally finished the first line of our new warships, I was promoted to Admiral by Fleet Admiral Malacos, and I'm now in command of one of the first Order Carriers to ever be constructed - the Bastet. We're running quite a bit of experimental technology on this ship, and I've got an extended maiden voyage ahead of me with the goal of testing it all out for Order R&D."
"For a while I was lost without the Pakhet, the office I was given on Lisbon does not suit me one bit... but now I've finally gotten a new home. The Bastet has some of the best personnel I've ever served with in The Order, and she's armed to the teeth. I think I'm going to enjoy this..."