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Sender ID: Jiro Taiyouji, Itto Kaii
Receiver ID: Kusari Naval Action Report
Subject: 11-27 / 11-30

This is Itto Kaii Jiro Taiyouji.

Lately, patrols are not as full as they are, and they are more often than I could actually manage to file them all separately. I'll just mention some of the more interesting parts.

There was a smuggler in Kyushu, which Nakamura-san and Yamo-san were chasing after. I was called to help them out, so I was heading their way.

However, the lane I was taking was crippled by a dragon with a very erratic behaviour. It had a strange transponder ID, and it started to engage me suddenly.

Luckily for me, the guy was terrible at flying, and I could easily land my Antimatter on him.

As I continued my way towards the rest of the team, they were chasing smugglers into Tau 29. When I got to their position, the smugglers were caught by the Baffin hole, before they could jump into the system.

One of them were carrying Black Market Munitions, the other, Side Arms.

We told them to stop, they didn't. Munitions carrier engaged our ships and thrusted for the Baffin way. Side Arms carrier did not engage us, however she actively helped the other smuggler by purposefully creating a long traffic on the jump hole.

As we jumped to Baffin, the smuggler was out of our reach, but we still had the other one.

Some long debate on stuff started... About who's right and what happened. In the end, I just had to make it clear for everyone what we have to do, and what the case is.

The smuggler didn't agree, threatened us and started to cruise... We took it down and left Baffin system which got rather crowded.

Yamo-san started to call me Master-Jiro, afterwards.

The next day, in another patrol, we were flying with Yamo-san. Yamo-san claimed that he's really good at sniffing out treasures, which's what he calls the threats. So having Yamo-san as my vanguard, I let out to the unknown depths of space.

He was right, he could indeed locate threats accurately, and I don't know how he gained that skill. It's as amazing as it sounds.

When I asked, Yamo-san mentioned something about some theory or another he learned in the Academy, but I might have slept through those courses back then. Yamo-san did not, however, and he claims to be a perfect student... Still keeps on calling me Master-Jiro.

As a result of his skill, we found an Order alias vessel, carrying alien equipment. The arguments were long, discussions were tedious, but in the end, we just had to do what we were supposed to.

No terrorist carrying alien equipment would be allowed to exist within the boundaries of Kusari. It'd be too dangerous to allow it.

The suspect didn't want to surrender. Yamo-san quickly took the vessel down. Nothing remained from the debris for our scientists to study on.

As we were wrapping up, we heard a call from Katsuo-san. He caught a suspected pirate on the lanes between New Tokyo and Shikoku, and was still on the course of interrogating the suspect as we reached his position.

It took us a while to sort it out. Apparently, Katsuo-san witnessed the suspect bomber as it was shooting Hogosha marked vessels, near a trade lane which he assumes the suspected pirate vessel disrupted.

Discussions led us to believe that the suspect is indeed a pirate, and in either case, I advised everyone that we escort the ship to Fuchu Prison, where more detailed investigations could be held.

The suspect eventually agreed to follow us there. On the way, a couple more of our pilots joined us, and the suspect successfully docked to Fuchu where the station personnel took care of him.

Well. Not. The next day I and Nakamura-san saw him pirating in Shikoku again, and we took him down. The pirate explicitly said that he could bribe his way out of the prison, with his bomber, even.

Seriously... Do we risk our lives for nothing here? I hear that the Minister of Defence is back in business. Give it some hustle, lady.

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