To: Adm. Goro; Shogun Yamato | From: Lord Mitsuo

[Kusari Uchugun]

Kusari Naval Forces

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Recipient: Lord Protector Mitsuo
Sender: Kaigun Gensui Okamoto Goro
Date: 28.07.835 A.S.
Subject: Galileo Situation
Priority: High

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Lord Protector.

Plan Hikari resulted in a disaster. The hows and whys are being drafted and presented to me shortly. We will have to discuss these matters in private within the coming days.

For the time being, I will release you from your duties as strategic command.
Your new orders are plain and simple, aligned to official orders soon to be released:

• Establish a secured corridor around both Jump Gates forming our borderline. If you deem it necessary to establish a forward installation, you are to arrange Keiretsu assistance yourself.
  
  
• Prepare all units under your command to interdict any and all Libertorian vessels attempting to exfiltrate Optronics or Quantum Multiplexors out of Kusari. The same will apply to any other vessel found carrying these goods within the Shikoku system, minus Samura and Kishiro vessels of course.
  
  
• Additional strict trade regulations will be introduced. Any and all vessels coming from and going towards Galileo will be subject to extensive search operations. Any vessel raising suspicions may be boarded and steered to the Tsukishima Yards. These are orders of my own, I will not bother our policy makers nor the Shogun over something as trivial as legal matters when national security is at risk, especially not as § II-2 of the Imperial Stellar Codex suffices for this arrangement.
  
  
• As by the wish of his Imperial Shogun, Yamato-sama, you are the person to draft a concrete plan to board Deshima Station and forcefully evict all Libertorian representatives. The Bounty Hunter Guild may remain, I do not like the prospect of their continued operations in these times but their services may still prove to be of undeniable value to keep the lesser scum under control.
  

Okamoto Goro
Kaigun Gensui
IKN-Nagato

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