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Name: Sakamoto Hayato

Place of Origin: Planet New Tokyo

Status During the Bretonian War: Kusari Navy Gunboat captain

Any Kusari Affiliations: Father was a Wealthy Noble on Planet New Tokyo.

Biographical Information:
Before the war Hayato's family was extremely loyal to Kusari Empire. As Sakamoto was the only son in the family his family expected him to serve Kusari. Sakamoto was accepted into the Naval academy at the age of thirteen on New Tokyo. Sakamoto was there for 5 years and was accepted in the advanced pilot training, also in Advanced hand to hand combat, and the counterintelligence. Graduated in the top Five of his class and distinguished himself with honor. When the war broke out with bretonia he joined the kusari navy and became a fighter pilot. He advanced his way all the way to gunboat captain. When the Emperor took command of the kusari forces in bretonia after the gallic attack, Sakamoto and his crew were ready to serve the Emperor to the last Breath. Sakamoto and his crew fought for the Emperor and In the battle to defend planet Leeds. Sakamoto and his crew got separated in the battle and were cut cut off from the rest of the fleet and did not receive the order to retreat from the system. Sakamoto moved his gunboat in to the west Leeds smog cloud to avoid the Royal navy patrols .
In the cloud sakamoto met two Kusari light fighters that got separated with the fleet. First priority was to make sure his crew were safely hidden from royal navy forces to avoid detection. Then he called a meeting with the two fighter pilots and commanding officers. The decision to send the fighters to scout ahead for the fleet, and potential dangers, then rendezvous 10 days later. The gunboat would try to find any kusari pilots left behind in escape pods or prisoners take in battle. Sakamoto and his crew of 80 men looked for survivors and tried to rescue captured pilots. Sakamoto picked up 8 fighter pilots and rescued 3 addition fighter pilots from the royal navy prison transport en route to nearest prison. Sakamoto waited for 2 weeks for the kusari fighter pilots at the appointed rendezvous location. The additional 4 days waiting put the ships supply at critical levels. A hard choice to make to go ahead and find the supplies needed, but a choice that was made out of desperation to keep what crew he had alive.
They first went through Leeds and found the tau-31 jump hole and took it. Along the way, contact from traders sympathetic to their situation supplied them with enough fuel and supplies to continue to Tau-31. When they got to Tau-31 there first priority was to find some supplies at any means necessary. Sakamoto knew there were no friendly stations to resupply there so he gave the order to attack a royal navy transport carrying food and supplies. Sakamoto and his crew where down to a days worth of food left before they found a transport with supplies. The enemy transport opened fire on sakamoto’s gunboat before anything was said. The transport was then disabled and boarded by twenty men of the ships security force as Sakamoto had no marines on the gunboat at that time. Four of the Men were killed and 6 more wounded but the transport was taken and Sakamoto and his crew got food and medical supplies, Two of the wounded men died but the other four wounded men survived. Now with supplies for a few more weeks Sakamoto and his crew continued their journey to Kusari. Sakamoto’s maps did not have the Tau-31 to Tau-29 jump hole on it, so Sakamoto gave the order to start a search for the jump hole. Sakamoto did not want to try to use the Jumpgate for fear that it would be too heavily guarded for him and his crew. So for about another 2 weeks they dodged royal patrols and trying to find the jump hole to tau-29 but finally they found it. the journey had taken 4 weeks to make it to tau 29 and sakamoto feared that there would be no friendlies in the system for he did not know if the royal navy controlled tau-29. Sakamoto gave the order to head to Freeport 6 hoping it would offer some protection and time to gather more supplies, as well as info on where the location of the fleet. Parts of the non critical areas were stripped to trade for supplies and to keep the ship in battle readiness. More medical supplies were needed to care for the wounded aboard.
Sakamoto and his crew stayed there for one week. In that time, Sakamoto kept the crew busy making needed repairs with what they had, and in some cases surpassed anyones expectation. Modifications were made to the generators and shields to optimize the shields and power output. The crew who were able for duty ran drills to stay focused and ready. Sakamoto made several new contacts on Freeport 6 through traders and travelers that were willing to send any information ahead to him on the location of the remaining fleet.
At the end of the week the ship was battle ready. Information received on the Emperor and the the fleet with the location in Tau-29. With a coded transmission on secure channels, a message was sent for rendezvous location to meet the fleet. A coded message was received with instructions. Sakamoto undocked from freeport 6 and plotted the course to the rendezvous with the fleet in sector E-3. It had taken 5 weeks to find the fleet and get back to friendly space. Along the cost was high with 6 of his crewmembers dead and 2 fighter pilots missing Sakamoto would never forgive himself for their deaths. Sakamoto made a vow to never forget them. Sakamoto did save 8 fighter pilots and rescued 3 from the royal navy so it was not all bad. The rescued fighter pilots joined Sakamoto’s crew to show there thanks. Sakamoto was now ready to serve the Emperor and restore him to power.

Skills and Training: Five years in the Kusari Naval Academy graduated in top Five cadets. Trained in Advanced Hand to hand combat. Trained in Advanced capital ship piloting, and trained in advanced counter intelligence. Served in the Bretonian war.

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