Project Rebirth

[Kusari Uchugun]

Kusari Naval Forces

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Battleship "Nagato", 1st Major Fleet, Battlegroup Matsumoto
Refitted experimental "Heisei"-class Tokugawa
Status: Trial Run Phase I

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Battleship "Nagato" in proximity of Heaven's Gate

Debrief:

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During the large-scale joint offensive operation by the Blood Dragons and the terrorists of the Order twenty days ago, the IKN-Nagato under direct command of Kaigun Gensui Okamoto, successfully staged a distraction maneuver enabling other Naval Forces units to protect the engine nodes in a critical last moment. This noble sacrifice resulted in a grandiose success of the defensive operation conducted within Tohoku, albeit at the cost of the Nagato's engine systems and significant, but non-critical damage to the reactors. The disabled husk was towed to Ichiyaga Drydock, despite the KOI facility lacking the means to properly work on Tokugawa-class vessels, to guarantee its safety until the situation normalized.

Following intense discussions between the KOI and the Admiralty, the Nagato was provided to the engineers of the Chochinbi Division as testbed for a possibly revolutionizing engine array based on lessons learnt from the ongoing engine node experiments. Due to the prototype nature, the performance of these arrays was tweaked to mirror the previously utilized standard Samura built engines at the request of the Kaigun Gensui - despite assurances by the KOI that the engine output could be much higher. Comments about the strange energy emissions surrounding the ship were dismissed by the Chochinbi engineers as a required side-effect of the reduced engine performance output, citing that the node installed to provide the engine arrays with thrust has a fix energy output and any unused energy requires to be expelled otherwise and may materialize as some sort of "energy mist" at the polarized hull of the vessel.

As Ichiyaga lacks the means to finalize repairs on the standard reactor systems, the Nagato is scheduled to return to Kure Shipyard within the next days.

[Debrief last amended: 21.12.834, 13:34 SST]

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