This message is for intended parties: Order, GC, GMG
Kon'nichiwa allies, we Dragons come to you today with a request, a big one even. In two days, the Dragons will launch a full scale strike into the Nagano system, in an attempt to calm the system for the Shogunate. However, due to a lack in ships and some crew or pilots, we come to you with a request, if possible, for your help. The Nagano capture will be part of Operation Cloak and Dagger, an Op designed to stop the Naval force advance into the Chugoku systems from Nagano, if we fail this operation, Chugoku will be more then lost upon being found by the naval force fleet.
To: The Order
Kon'nichiwa Order allies, we come to you with a request, a big one as said before. We need allied vessels, something that can help us win this fight against the KNF and their 'allies' in Nagano. As you might know, our warships are aged and falling apart, so we need some major reinforcements. Gunships or snubs should be enough for support hopefully, and some material resources as well won't hurt. Our main hope is to get into Nagano, hit the KNF and their allies hard and hopefully cause panic, in which will allow us to hopefully capture Nagano by the end of this year, at most.
The main materials we seek are mostly to finish a few operations, as O'Rhu has begun to do already. We hope to increase our max storage base in a few locations, including on our Honshu base. Another thing to note is our lack of repair materials for our ships which we have begun to run out of very quickly, if you have any possible help, please reply here.
To: The GC
Kon'nichiwa sisters, we come to you in hopes of you helping with an upcoming operation into the Nagano system, that in hopes, will help us capture the system by the end of this year. The main thing we need from the sister's, is capable pilots who are tried to kill an destroy the KNF officers that have harassed you for so long. Due to this, we invite you into Operation Cloak and Dagger which is made to target and attack the KNF stronghold in Nagano, to destroy both, Samura, F-Alliance and Naval force alike that is holding that system. Once we've dealt with the primary assault, we plan to capture the planet that the Samurians hold in that system, so that we can use it for both our revolutions that will come soon. We won't as you for materials, as we know the sisters have a limited about, however, our ship yard will be open to you so you can use it for ship repairs. Hope to hear from you soon.
To: The GMG Kon'nichiwa Gas Miners, we come to you with an urgent need of materials for an upcoming operation into the Nagano system, we plan to hit the Samurian stronghold within that system and hope to take it by force or to significantly weaken the defense of the system. Once we complete the first operation, we plan to target and take the Samurian planet there by force. If we manage to take it, we plan to later on, help you in any kind of defense you need, as well as to have open trade for GMG vessels into the captured Nagano system. If you have any ideas on materials you can spare, please respond here
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Good day... I assume High Command of Blood Dragon Shogunate, after all this invitation has correct transponder.
Unfortunately The Order has to abstain until Blood Dragon Shogunate will respond to our invocation of article 2.1 of our Alliance treaty. Situation can cost you the victory if unresolved, as source of the commotion is from among those who you call allies. Just as it happens, patrol involving our most recent recruits was destroyed just at your doorstep in Nagano that you intend to siege... at hands of Sisterhood of Dreams, supported by the Outcast ships. I will open up to you relation from one of our recon cruisers that was dispatched to answer distress call of our patrol.
They are well aware of The Order's connection to Blood Dragon movement. I cannot in clear conscience commit any ship of ours to this operation, as our own fleet may be sabotaged in allied territory from those we are supposed to trust. I hope you will resolve this matter quick enough before you attempt a siege as you said lack of our presence may prove in your own words... disastrous.
Transmission Source ID: The Sisterhood of Dreams, Golden Chrysanthemum movement. Transmission Source Location: Sirius, The Crow Nebula, North Western Kusari, Okinawa system, Karatsu cloud, Sector 4B East, Battleship Matsuda, Deck 16, Command quarter, Temple of Amaterasu. Transmission Nodes: Chrysat-137 Lima – Okinawa, Hikarisat-92 Lima – Honshu, Izu netlink – New Tokyo, Yokohama relay – New Tokyo, Chrysat-2 Alpha – Hokkaido. Ainu relay – Hokkaido. Subject: Operation Cloak and Dagger. Encryption: Even the Lane Hackers are going to have a problem with this one.
Let us introduce the Blood Dragon Movement to the Cambridge Standard Dictionary definition of the noun “Allies”:
“Allies:Peoples, groups, or nations who are associated with another or others for some common cause or purpose.”
The primary fallacy of burying the knife under silk is that you run the risk of ignominiously stabbing yourself when you invariably slip. Whilst we note that discretion is the better part of strategy, there is such a concept as being overtly discreet – it is the equivalent of adopting a bag of swag, a francophile’s striped vest and a pair of herbal eyebags in order to appear sneaky: you think you appear furtive, but you’ll attract the attention of every spotlight within any radii you choose.
Likewise, the Sisterhood appreciates the value of discretion when performing tactical manoeuvres – time is forever rarefied and the neural net is not known for being impermeable; information often seeps through the cracks, and often into the wrong sieves. Yet requesting the Sisterhood’s manpower to be tailored to a stratagem ordained to be put into action a matter of days after the message has been received, is presumptuous. The Goddess empowers the Chrysanthemums with innumerable blessings, but, surprisingly, the power to spontaneously transport many tonnes of hardware, many kilotons of munitions and fuel, and many hundreds of pilots and their respective support crews and consumable rations, is not one of them, let alone cohering all these elements into a worthy strike force to play Napoleon with.
So, back to the plural noun.
There’s a critical phrase enclosed: “common cause”. It may suit the Blood Dragon’s ideological interests to busy themselves in attempting to annex Samura’s pride and joy, and will doubtless bring much honour, fist-bumping, katana-rattling, etcetera, to the Shogunate, but we question the tactical value claiming Nagano has for the “common” purpose. Turning Kusari’s primary cardamine artery into a heavily patrolled warzone severely damages the Sisterhood’s ability to function as a coherent organisation. Cardamine is our second oxygen. Transports can, with difficulty, run blockades of police officers. They cannot run blockades of line battleships. We resent heavily the Blood Dragon’s decision to start engaging in schlieffen plans without permitting your allies to be part of the decision making process, or even any party to the process at all. Additionally, the only result disenfranchising innumerable Samura employed agricultural sector workers from their planet of employment will be, is a huge recruitment bonus for the Farmer’s Alliance. Apart from lowering Orbital Spa and Cruise’s profit margins, the overall damage incurred to the Republic will be marginal, assuming you do manage to take the system. We thus conclude that Nagano is not a worthy target for the Blood Dragons to squander their assets in acquiring – we’re certainly not going to squander ours.
Additionally, many of your closest allies (the same ones you call upon to aid you in the siege) have been extremely discourteous to the Sisterhood of late. The GMG is currently suspected of espionage, whilst the Order, of which we know very little other than what colour their guns spew when they fire at us, has been guilty of certain misdemeanours in Nagano that we’d prefer to see unrepeated.
We are well aware of the Order’s connection to the Blood Dragon movement – if we are to conduct any combined operations with the Order at all, we, A) first need to know who we are dealing with, and B) know the motivations of who we are dealing with. Right now, we know of neither.
As gesture of our continued investment in preserving our alliance, the Sisterhood will detail fighter escorts to the Nagano system whilst ‘Cloak and Dagger’ is underway. However, they will be operational in an observer role purely, and will avoid hostile confrontation with KNF personal like the plague, unless fired upon.
Good luck in your operations, Blood Dragons; fight like wolves. Learn from this incident and we may never need to lecture each other on such tiresome subjects as commonly used nouns.
May the Goddess preserve you and your Shogun, Blood Dragons. You’re going to need her.