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Sender ID: Kaisho-ho Katsuo Shimoe
Receiver ID: Kusari Naval Action Report
Location: Yukawa Shipyard
Subject: Sigma expeditionary mission, May 15

To the attention of the KNF Admiralty, Tokkeitai Wing, KNI command.


Our expeditionary survey of the Sigma systems was incomplete, but provided some initial readings regarding our closest neighbouring system, Sigma-21. Encounters with the GMG, freelancers, and a certain Auxesia Battlegroup were recorded.





However, the taskforce was targeted by an increasing force of hostile ships, many of them reportedly of Naval Forces designs. With the exception of an isolated Outcast collaborator (or maybe he's part of them), all of the enemy units were identified as part of the Aoi Iseijin mark of Nomad aligned entities.

The Kirishima, the flagship I was aboard, was intercepted several times during it's flight back to Kusari by these units. While we tried to avoid confrontation near any installations of the Gas Miners Guild along the way, the Aoi forced an engagement near Aomori, back in the Honshu system.

Severely outnumbered and with our fighter escort busy in the rearguard, the Kirishima was disabled by heavy fire of a Komainu class vessel. No accurate data could be retrieved from that section of the mission.
Commander Kunio Enomoto was gravely injured from the combat, as he did his best to ensure the safety of Aomori and the crew. Several hundred people died or were missing, including some important figures of the survey team.



Reinforcements arrived at Aomori, and warded off any remaining Aoi that were in the area. The enemy assets had mostly vanished by that time however. The Kirishima has been towed to Yukawa for repairs, which may take some time. Any data of the survey that was extracted was sent to Honshu for recovery and analysis.

This attack on the KNF forces, as well as some behaviour reported by the flight wing during the mission, indicate a special interest by the infected forces in the region. I advise consulting with the KNI for investigation of this matter, as well as contacting the GMG, Rheinland forces, and maybe Core, in warning of this threat.

Katsuo Shimoe, signing off.

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