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Sender ID: Nito Kaii Katsuo Shimoe
Receiver ID: Kusari Naval Action Report
Location: Planet New Tokyo, New Tokyo System - KNF Fighter Divisions Main Barracks
Subject: Northern Patrol occurrence (820-11-22)

This is Katsuo Shimoe, Nito Kaii, reporting on the events of a patrol made to the northern systems of Hokkaido, Rishiri and Nagano. I apologize for the rather delayed delivery of this report.

I launched with my fighter from Planet Honshu an headed to Hokkaido to check upon the traffic coming trough the north, while keeping an eye for criminal activity. There was no other naval pilot present at the time, so I went alone.

The first passing trough Hokkaido went without problems, and both the Battleship Matsumoto and the Otaru border station reported no incidents or enemy sightings in the previous hours.

The Rishiri system was also peaceful, with only independent traders passing trough. All documents and cargo manifests were in order.

I entered Nagano and patrolled the areas surrounding the Luxury Liner Mackinac and the access to planet Tomioka. Although long range scanners indicated the presence of ships of unknown affiliation in the system, no vessels were detected in short range scanners.

Passed trough Rishiri without problem and entered the Hokkaido system again.
Here however I spotted a Order agent which somehow had passed the Battleship Matsumoto surveillance undetected.

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The pilot named Sarah Hoffman, Rheinlander, was motionless in the clouds east of the Matsumoto position, apparently focused on long range scanners. The pilot showed cooperation to my interrogation and complied with my orders.
Hoffamn-san declared that she was in Hokkaido after chasing a Nomad ship from the outer systems, and had lost contact with the target. I considered this strange, since there had not been any reports of nomad sightings in Kusari in the previous 6 hours. The Order agent requested passage to Liberty trough Kusari to follow the lead she had on the Nomads. Considering the status of the Order in Kusari law enforcement forces, the existence of nomad based weaponry on the ship, and potential diplomatic incidents with Liberty, the request was denied and an order to leave Kusari space under escort was issued.

Hoffman-san accepted the order and was escorted to the Nagano system, were it was released.

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The order agent was shadowed for a few more minutes to make sure it obeyed the order and did not attempt to dock on any base in system. Contact was lost a few clicks away from the Mackinac position and long range scanners confirmed that the vessel had left the system.

Afterwards, I remade the pratrol path from Nagano to New Tokyo, with the only mentionable occurrence being two Bounty Hunter vessels in Hokkaido in transit to Deshima station.

This concludes my report. Katsuo Shimoe signing off.

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