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Dear Hayashimura-san,
From my point of view, I guess this communique was more or less inevitable, as I believe the course of events that took place in Sigma-19 not long ago demand a statement to be made from our side. Surely you know about what I am talking about, the sudden appearance of two Kusarian crafts, one to be of military grade, claiming to be from the Naval Intelligence Forces or being hired by such and accusing our pilot who was present, Mason Coleman, and with him our whole organization of cooperation with the Imperials. In the end, our vessel got shot down, making the whole incident far more unpleasant than it had already been.
First of all, the statement: We aren't collaborating with the IKN in any form. It seems your agents had been misinformed or followed a trajectory that, this I can guarantee you, wouldn't have any outcome supporting the accusations. Then again however, if you might allow me to voice my doubts, the whole situation back then seems to have been somewhat off. First, the scrambled sensor data. Now this alone of course wouldn't be a piece of circumstantial evidence, but I can't help but think this was a major hoax pulled off by a third party. The fact that out of nothing a Libertonian Guardian with similarly scrambled sensors, engaging within the ambush as well on side of the agent, is only adding to it. To put it simply, I judge an intervention of Libertonian forces the way it was pulled off as extremely unlikely to say the least. I got told from our mutual friend that you as well believe this to be a hoax rather than an actual undercover operation, so I probably don't bring anything new onto the table right now.
However, I managed to get my hands on some additional sensor datas and also guncam shots that, as I've been told, you are still missing. Forwarding these information to you and that way to the KNF, I'm hoping to show what I've told you above, that we are just as keen on resolving this situation than you are, and that we don't treat the KNF as an enemy. Call it the expressed wish from our side to improve relations and contact with your side. Judge for yourself, I am not commenting any further on the attached evidence, yet I can say it just strengthens my doubts and your own probably as well.
This is it, I will be awaiting your reply eagerly. The promised data can be found in the attachments section.
Yours sincerely, Knight Captain Voigt
The Forlorn Hope
Comm ID:Kiyoko Hayashimura Recipient:Elena Voigt Topic:Clearing Things Up
Elene Voigt,
Let me get this straight before you jump to any false assumptions, the Naval Forces - and the Naval Intelligence by extent- have no outstanding hostilities or ill-intentions towards your group, The Forlorn Hope. However, while you haven't shown any ill-intentions towards the Republic either, we are quite wary and suspicious of your presence in the Republic ever since you first showed yourselves there, specifically in Kyushu - the system occupied by Imperial forces. Multiple members of the Naval Forces have reported Forlorn ships shadowing certain Naval Forces vessels, as well as an unexplained, long and repetitive presence in the Kyushu systems. The former led us to presume possible sympathy from you towards the Imperials, which is quite harmless from our standpoint, provided it doesn't develop to conspiring against the Republic.
That said, the agents you've encountered are not affiliated with either the Naval Forces or Naval Intelligence. As you could imagine, corruption would be the first to come to mind in such situations; however, with the substantial evidence Karin Walker provided me, I believe it is safe for me, and the KNI, to identify the group as infected individuals; the guncams you attached also support my claims. Karin Walker should be safe to go wherever she wants, as I don't believe these individuals have anything to do with her. As for Mason Coleman, I frankly don't know if he did anything to piss of the wasps' nest. Keep him under protection for some time. Just in case.
Anyhow, back to the first point. If you truly wish to improve relations with the Naval Forces, then I suggest you be more open towards us. Assist us against common criminals and unlawfuls in Kusari, and most importantly; don't meddle in affairs where you don't belong. The KNF finds it loathsome when outsiders intervene in our war against the Imperials, whether it is with us or against us. Take my advice, don't plan on interfering or taking sides. If you haven't done that already. Frankly, your relatively displayed paranoia in contacting me personally about this issue only gives me doubts regarding the honesty of your statement. However, I will leave time to uncover any hidden truths laying beneath, if any.
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I found it to be the best and quickest way to contact you personally about it, as otherwise I'd have probably had to send a communique to the KNF secretary, explain the whole course of events once again and could have expected longer delays due to my message being relayed through various instances until reaching the figure responsible for such matters. Don't worry, we don't plan on interfering in your civil war, neither on your nor on their side. As far as I'm informed, it's a matter of honor for you to fight them on your own, something we are acknowleding and respecting. However as you have already voiced the suggestion, I have become quite curious in which way you would have a fair idea of a lending hand from our side? I'm not aware of any form of bounty board currently active in Kusari, so I guess for such a deal, for us helping the KNF out with the pirate nuisance, we would have to contact them directly instead of applying to a bounty board. Am I right in assuming so?
Moving to the other topic, it's good to hear that there seems to be a consensus of what exactly happened in Sigma-19 back then. If the operation was neither issued by the KNF nor the KNI, and considering the evidence that is showing some very delicate equipment belonging to the vessels in question, it's most certainly about infected personnel. Now, I won't act and claim to be an expert concerning alien agents and their tactics and goals, but this explanation attempt creates new questions that need to be answered. For instance, it leaves the question of why. If they were after us for sake of the evidence that showed us in Kyushu and around your Navy vessels, it makes me wonder how they got their hands on these information that, as far as I understood, where kept inside the KNF. Which implies something in your ranks is leaking.
On the other hand, maybe they just attempted to mess with us and create trouble between you and us, but again I'm in doubt they would do it for no reason. Can you think of any explanation what they did this for? Or are infectees really known to do stuff only "out of fun"?
Karin Walker should be safe for now, I'm agreeing, as long as she isn't being dragged more into such affairs. On the matter of Mason Coleman, I'm a little more worried. Judging from the blackbox recordings which I received, he didn't piss off the mentioned individuals except that he had to defend himself, naturally. Then again, though, I don't know what other things happened to him back in Omicron Delta, if you can recall this incident that happened not long ago either, and whether he managed to pull something off that might has as well triggered certain parties to watch out for him while we back then were busy getting our pursuers off our tales. In any case, I'll keep an eye on both of them, but I doubt these events will repeat themselves anytime soon. And if they do, we know how to react on them.
Yours sincerely, Knight Captain Voigt
The Forlorn Hope
4. July, 824 A.S
Planet New Tokyo, New Tokyo System.
Comm ID:Kiyoko Hayashimura Recipient:Elena Voigt Topic:RE: Clearing Things Up
Konbanwa,
Hai. Indeed. As I'm not included in the admiralty circle and the decision-making process, I can't specifically provide you with a clear answer as to how your group would aid the KNF, so I recommend contacting the central command for this certain subject. The responses come in faster than you'd expect, that much is guaranteed. However, on a more personal request, if you could report or relay any information regarding alien activity you may encounter within or in the vicinity of the Kusari, the Sigmas and the Omicrons to me and the 66th, your help would be very appreciated, as we specialize in combatting and countering this menace.
Unfortunately, I don't have the privilege of commenting in regards of how the infected individuals got their hands on such information as it belongs to Naval Forces internal affairs; however, the 66th will be taking necessary measures and will launch an investigation into this issue as it is well within our scope of duty. Rest assured, we do not take nomad related affairs very lightly. I will say, however, that this is most likely a ruse. While it may seem out of pure fun, the infected are far wittier and aiming to do such acts for no purpose. One of the various reasons I could think of, which is most likely the one meant to be the goal of that operation of theirs, is chaos. The nomads and their minions by extent gain a lot of benefit by wreaking havoc among nations and people, causing fracture among men for their ultimate benefit.
Mason Coleman's issue with the infected might not be in the instance of that encounter, but perhaps stretched further in the past. Confront him about it, if there aren't any outstanding issues in that regard, he should be good to go as well. After all, this may be part of the ruse as well. I don't believe it is related to the incident in Omicron Delta, if it were, I would have been as equally affected as he was, if not more in fact. However, I didn't suffer from the Sigma-19 incident but instead had to help resolve it. I agree, keeping an eye on both Coleman and Walker for a while is a necessity, which I will entrust you with as I'm not able to provide any aid to Walker-san now that I'm back in service. If anything new comes up that relates to this whole ordeal, feel free to contact me.
Hayashimura out.
Signed,
Kiyoko Hayashimura, Itto Kaisa
CO 66th Special Expeditionary Division
5FLT, Kusari Naval Forces