---Incoming Transmission---
---SourceID: Golden Chrysanthemums---
---Transmission type: Long range, roving---
---Secuirty Protocol: Lambda---
Konnichiwa honorable Dragons, it is Sei Osugi, O-shaku of the Golden Chrysanthemums,
I am contacting you because I've just spoken to the dock manager from your Mito Shipyards, and I asked him about purchasing a Hachiman Dragon Gunboat from my honorable brothers. He told me that while new production is a pricey feat of engineering, he does have one damaged and currently inoperable boat available. Now, in order to speed things along, I offered to get a hold of the necessary parts and components to repair one in order to be put into service for the Chrysanthemums as a forward command and anti fighter vessel.
Now, I realize that this is no small thing to ask and that these ships are considered to be of the highest honor to pilot. So I am willing to submit to any and all request the Dragons have in order to gain access to said ship. I am, even now, headed to find the parts which I need. Hopefully I can acquire them peacefully, but we will see. I have also come across, partially through skill and partial luck, a fleet commander and his corresponding first officers. They are being held aboard my heavily armored pirate transport under guard. I would be willing to transfer these prisoners to the Dragon's Shogun, Sum-Gok-Li, to be used at his discretion.
If you have any question about my loyalty or my service to our cause, I am providing access codes to all archived reports which I have filed upon Ainu. Feel free to browse through the variousdocuments and holorecords.
I wait patiently for your response, though I don't think I can help but tinker with the ship when I return.