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Konbanwa!

Our recent patrol brought us to the Tau-29 system after reports of Kusari Naval Forces Rebel activity in the vicinity of the local Freeport. I joined Commander Tetsuo Shimizu san on this assignment, and after patrolling the system for a while, Shimizu san spotted the rebel identified as Junko Sanada near the Tau-23 jump hole. To our surprise, she was surrounded by flotsam including a considerable number of slaves. As our primary obligation was to save the poor slaves, the Commander left to call for a transport. Incidentally Sanada did the same and soon the civilian transport [IND]Bulls'N'Bears appeared. After it had recovered the remaining three thousand slaves, I escorted him to make sure the slaves would be released on the nearby Freeport. As Shimizu san had not returned by then, we lost track of Sanada there, for now.

After this we were joined by Sub-Lieutenant Jiro Taiyouji san and continued our search for the despicable Rebels. At this time Commander Shimizu san was on his own in Tau-23, and we received word from him that he spotted the Rebel identified as Hideaki Ishikawa, chasing him further into Tau-37. So we proceeded to meet up with him in Tau-37, but came across two pirate ships calling themselves some kind of Ghosts. It was then for Shimizu san to give Taiyouji san and me orders to chase the pirates instead of rendezvous with him in Tau-37, because he supposedly already got support from the inferior Royal Navy at his location. The pirates on the other hand were only light fighters, so chasing them with the Chimaera was impossible, and they run.

At this point, communication with Commander Shimizu san was lost, and we headed to Tau-37 to look for him. Surprisingly, we met Sanada there again, near the local freepoint. She claimed to be looking for the escape pod of her fellow rebel Ishikawa, who was chased by Shimizu san earlier, so we in turn tried to chase down Sanada for her to tell us the possible whereabouts of our Commander. The chase went as far as close to the Planet Aso in the Kyushu System, where Sanada, her Chimaera almost breaking apart, still refused to give us any further information. While still hoping for any sanity to remain with her, so that she could eventually cooperate, we refrained from destroying her ship, and so she was able to slip away eventually.

On the last part of our patrol, returning to New Tokyo, we came across an Armored Transport of the Bretonia Police named Starflier800. The moment Taiyouji san asked him what he might be doing in Kusari Space, he tried to run, and we had to incapacitate the Spy.

Concluding, I recommend and would gladly volunteer for a search party for Commander Shimizu san in the Tau-37 system.

Nito Kaii Teta Nakamura,
Kusari Naval Forces