To: Golden Chrysanthemum Leadership

[Section 8]

Section 8

Sender ID: Lieutenant Colonel Catherine Hawkins
Receiver ID: Golden Chrysanthemum Leadership
Subject: Base of Operations

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Ikeda Yume,

Kusari is a stronghold of alien activity. Both the Kusari Office of Intelligence and the Naval Forces, as well as considerable portions of the government are compromised with non-human agents. Their activities have escalated as of late, including a strike against The Order in the deep Omicrons, which failed. We believe they are now turning their attentions towards the other houses in order to sow discord and distrust among the governments and residents of Sirius.

Armed conflict has erupted between Libertonian and Kusari corporate entities in Galileo. The Kusari Diet has passed legislation to increase military spending while the Naval Forces have mobilized on the southern border. Similar developments are being reported out of Liberty. The unilateral decision by the Liberty Supreme Court regarding the Galileo platinum deposits. The involvement of the LSF in the thwarted terrorist attack on Deshima Station. Sudden changes in policy by previously ardent pacifists in the Senate - confirmed now to be alien agents - resulting in a military buildup in Colorado.

These unprecedented acts of hostility between Liberty and Kusari come too suddenly and are too finely tuned to result in open conflict to be the result of sound, uncompromised human politics. A war between the two houses would be plainly pointless and result in economic suicide for both sides. It is for this reason that we believe this conflict to be the result of alien influence aimed to destabilize and weaken the great houses of Sirius.

With your assistance in providing our operatives with safe harbor and a forward base of operations, we will investigate these developments and, should our concerns be confirmed, do our best to contain and counteract the effects of alien sabotage. With any luck, war between Kusari and Liberty and the ensuing bloodshed and suffering will be avoided.

Neither Morioka Base nor its residents will be negatively affected by our operations.

In service to humanity,
Hawkins

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