YUKAWA SHIPYARD, HONSHU - Following rumors that the unusual amount of newly commissioned and retrofitted warships in drydock around Yukawa are slated for deployment on the already tense Liberty-Kusari border, Admiral Isoroku Nagumo has issued a statement condemning said rumors as ‘perfidious Libertonian propaganda.’ The newly christened IKN Minato is said to be in the final stages of shakedown, and is set to launch within the week.
With no end to Liberty-Kusari tensions in sight, both houses continue to scramble in preparation for the inevitable escalation as a concerned sector looks on with gleeful anticipation and dread.
Though it is uncertain where the leak originated or how the intel fell into the hands of the LSF "White Rabbit" Division, detailed schedules of the IKN MINATO final shakedown inspections have indicated a twenty minute block of vulnerability. Post initial drive tests, the IKN MINATO will move outside of the main YUKAWA SHIPYARD drydock cradle and power down as part of an untethered ECCM and emissions test - wherein she will remain stationary and with no weapons until tests have concluded or fifteen minutes after shots have been fired.
With insufficient time to prepare for a more careful surgical strike, but unwilling to pass up a golden opportunity to set Kusari war preparations back, the LSF has scrambled Task Force CHESHIRE to Sector D2 in the Hiyo Cloud as a operational staging area for a covert 'under cover' strike on the IKN MINATO at YUKAWA SHIPYARD.
DETAILS
Strike Details:
LSF players will base themselves from the "OSC-Cheshire" - a spoofed transponder luxury liner POB in the Hiyo Cloud (D2). All LSF ships must be fully under cover, with no equipment, transponders, or tags that may trace back to Liberty. Freelancer IDs for the purpose of this event are permitted so long as all ships remain on the same 'side' for the entirety of the event and exclusively base off of OSC-Cheshire
Non-LSF players (everyone else) may base themselves off of anywhere that is not Yukawa Shipyard or Battleship Sado
All participants that are "under cover" will be considered non-hostile by the Kusari defenders until the first shots are fired - 'undercover' ships in the vicinity of Yukawa Shipyard may be ordered to leave by the Kusari authorities, and treated as hostile if noncompliant.
The 'IKN-MINATO[x]' will be a titan armored Kusari Battlecruiser that sits inert from 1900 UTC to 1920 UTC, or 15 minutes after the first shots have been fired. Destruction of the IKN MINATO is the goal of the event.
All ships in this event are limited to Cruisers and smaller (Hybrid Classification Ships such as the Longhorn, Bulwark, Hegemon, etc, EXCEPT the Bustard and the Amaterasu, are permitted).
Infinite resupplies and respawns are permitted until the IKN MINATO has been destroyed, or until 1930 UTC, after which the MINATO will dock on YUKAWA and 'survive'
There will be no listed rewards for this specific event, but outcomes will affect certain subsequent events.
EDIT: 1800 UTC to 1900 UTC because 8AM my time is a tad early.
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