First up, Michiyo, captaining the BD|Owari,Merchant. picked up a load of heat sinks from the junker's Trafalgar base. The paperwork will be filed as soon as the new bonuses can be figured out clearly. The Owari,Merchant is currently in Drydock at Mito, undergoing maintenance and repairs including checks on its engine pods.
The BD|Owari.Merchant, pirate transport class, has been rechristened the BD|Owari.Raider and is prepped and ready on Kyoto. We are repairing a salvaged repairship, purchased from a zoner. The transponder is currently malfunctioning, but repairs should be complete in the near future. It has been christened the BD|Owari.Engineer.
Finally, Machiyo headed out on patrol and found a few interesting things. I encountered a Junker Marauder in Kyushu, having problems with Naval Forces patrols. I assisted him by distracting a majority of the patrol craft allowing him to make his escape by tradelane.
After disengaging, i flew a pass over the Nansai Research Station and then came across a jumphole that my computer labelled as leading to the Tottori system.
I proceeded through and traversed the system, documenting all stations and other features i found. Several stations, bearing either Farmers Alliance or Hogosha transponders are present in the system including what looked to be a small sized shipyard. There is also a station belonging to Samura present.
The system links to both Rishiri and Tau-44. On the return leg to Chugoku, i was able to pick up some basic weapons from Naval Forces wrecks which are being checked out down in engineering.
That concludes this long report. If you need us, we'll be eating dinner.
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