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Sender ID: Nitto Kaisa Katsuo Shimoe
Receiver ID: Kusari Naval Action Report
Location: Battleship Matsumoto, Hokkaido system
Subject: Patrol Report (21/22 - 02-821)

Konnichiwa. Last few days have been sparse with flight time of my own, although other pilots keep their constant watch over Kusari well being.

On the 21st I departed from the Matsumoto for a short range patrol, supervising the traffic in the northern route. Don't have much to report this day, other than some zoner merchants coming from Gallia.



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On the 22nd I headed to Kyushu to investigate sightings of a DSE convoy with Nitto Kaii Taisuke Bei. Before finding the convoy however, I stumbled upon a lone GC named \W/-Oda.Izumi near Tsushima depot, which seemed to be talking with a pair of pilots, A Paris.Reaver and a freelancer Kazuki.Kato. One of the pilots would later communicate with us regarding potential piracy attempts by the previously mentioned DSE convoy, although we could not verify this.



The pilots departed in direction of the Taus, while we pursued the GC that headed north, into the Seiran Dust Cloud. Bei-san arrived just in time to intercept her, and the pilot stopped at the entrance of the field.



We started our interrogation of the pilot. but after a few minutes another GC pilot in a Hachiman gunboat, called \W/~Akane.Takahana came to her aid.



Considering that we only had 2 chimaeras against the gunboat and the blossom bomber, we decided to adopt a cautious posture and proceed with a cordial conversation. The GC didn't show hostile intentions, and we found no traces of illegal cargo in their ships, so we refrained from pursuing detention of the GC. It seemed that the bomber pilot was a new member of the group, and that Takahana-san was some sort of supervisor to the little lady.



At that time we received reports of sighting of the DSE convoy and parted ways with the GC without firing a shot. We found the DSE convoy composed of 3 Liberty Defiant class gunboats near the Kyushu-New Tokyo jumpgate, apparently in the middle of a maintenance operation.

The ships were:

B-17.Flying.Fortress
F-35.Lightning.II
F2A-Buffalo




The pilots informed us that they were doing maintenance on the gate, and that it would take some more minutes to finish. Meanwhile we kept watch on the area, as traffic inbound to New Tokyo arrived and waited the DSE operation.



Just after the DSE turned on the gate again and tested it, a Chimaera with unrecognizable transponder and registry appeared from the gate, and we moved in to question him. The pilot with callsign Otousan was stopped south of the jumpgate, and was soon joined by another unidentifiable pilot with callsign Muramasa. Meanwhile we ordered the civilians to pass to New Tokyo as soon as they could.




The pilots claimed that they were from a 58th Sentai group of unconventional warfare, and were heading to the Tau-23 system to investigate activities related to the exiles. We managed to stall them until Tokkeitai agent Hakutaku arrived on the scene, and confronted them about the lack of records of such activities, even to the Tokkeitai. The pilots refused on being escorted to the Nagumo for clarification and insisted on going with their intentions. At that time operative Hakutaku ordered their arrest and a firefight began.



Another unknown contact, callsign Ichitaita appeared to assist the suspects, and although the numbers were even, it was clear that the strange equipment and tactics of the enemy gave them a strong advantage.

One by one our fighters were taken down, myself included, and we managed to survive in our escape pods until a naval patrol could pick us up.



After a few hours of debriefing at the Kyushu system HQ, I was transported back to the Matsumoto.

This concludes my report. Katsuo Shimoe siging off.

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