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Recipient: NOH
Sender: Shido Kijima, NOH
Date: 21.02.836 A.S.
Subject: Hiratsuka's Last Will
Priority: Low

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For documentation purposes only as explicit wish of the deceased.

• Name of the deceased: Issei Hiratsuka
  
• Rank: Santo Kaisa
  
• Assigned to: S-NGD, IKN-Myoko
  
• Main assignment: Squadron leader of the 2nd Ryusei training wing
  
• Last assignment: Unannounced check-up on modular installations in Galileo
  
• Cause of death: Suffocation
  

Further, the circumstances which led to his untimely demise as documented by Hiratsuka-san during his final hours:

Data Pad Entry 20-02-836

[23:50 Sirian Time] Roughly three hours. The pod suddenly started to signal falling pressure in two of the three oxygen tanks around an hour ago. Unless a patrol finds me out here soon, I think this is it. I had a good run, twelve years. Just three more to go. I ponder why a Dragon pack leader is in Galileo but it is too late to wonder now. We'll meet in hell, Neshoen Clan member, and then I'll have my answers.

To whoever retrieves this pod, I merely ask for you to get me home to Planet Junyo so that my wife can hold a proper burial.
To my commander, please inform my colleagues about my fate. I haven't seen many of them in recent years but I believe they deserve to know.

[1:37 Sirian Time] In ever lasting service to Kusari's people, Santo Kaisa Hiratsuka Issei.

Hiratsuka's escape pod was retrieved at 4:56 Sirian Standard Time by a KOI patrol in vicinity of the modular installation called "SpaceTech Station". By the time of retrieval, oxygen supplies were already depleted since at least three hours. The escape pod was in terrible shape, first investigations draw the conclusion that the pod was damaged as a consequence of the fire fight, yet the oxygen supplies were intact. This suggests a later, deliberate and cruel execution of Hiratsuka-san by an unknown third party. Such cruelty is inacceptable and the S-NGD is already drawing possible reactions should this mark the beginning of a new trend.

The burial will be held at the Sotome Shrine on Planet Junyo. For his outstanding, long time service with no faults and his courage to stand up against an enemy few would dare to face alone, Hiratsuka will be awarded the Order of the Rising Sun during the ceremony.

In service of Kusari,
Shido Kijima
Naval Operations Headquarters

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