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SENDER ID: Lt. Cmdr. Alvarez, D.
RECIPIENT ID: Liberty Navy Reporting Center
SUBJECT: Incident Report 18.03.836 - Colorado/Galileo

19 MAR 836

Alvarez, skipper of the LNS Fort Wayne, Defiant-class, making my report of a border violation incident by Kusari forces.

At approximately 18:50 SMT, while reinforcing border control stop-and-search efforts at the Colorado-Galileo gate connection, the Fort Wayne's deep scanner array picked up faint transponder signals at maximum effective range. These signals were consistent with those IFF codes utilized by Kusari armed forces.

I sent word of this contact up the wire immediately, to requisition snubcraft support. Notably, there was no word over the Battlegroup net that raised flags of any full invasion force. With that in mind, I set my ship to search-and-destroy as our most pressing concern, given probable illegal incursion by a Kusari reconnaissance unit. As the Alamosa provided the nearest exploitable terrain for any clandestine recon force, Fort Wayne moved off from the border checkpoint to begin a sector-by-sector sweep of the asteroid field.

After about five minutes, at roughly 18:55 SMT, our scanners picked up the same contact, still flashing Kusari idents, at roughly the same distance away as the jump hole to Galileo, located in Sector Delta-3. The abrupt vanishing of this contact from our scanner implied retreat through the jump hole, so Fort Wayne approached and entered a holding pattern nearby. Rather than pursue an unidentified contact beyond the system, I chose to brief our bomber cover Greyhound-1, flown by Captain Sasha Lasky also of the 107.

While getting her up to speed, the contact suddenly reemerged after a clean jump tunnel traversal, and my tactical officer acquired full target lock. It was the IKN Kuzunoha, Ashikaga-class gunboat, transmitting overt KOI transponder codes.

In line with policy announced by Secretary Worthington, we responded to this incursion into Colorado as a clear and willful hostile act. The surrender of the Kuzunoha was demanded immediately, at which point its captain elected to flee to Galileo. We pursued, and interdicted their attempt to flee via cruise disruption within the Reppu dark matter cloud.

After refusing our demand to surrender in colorfully explicit terms, the Kuzunoha opened fire on Greyhound-1, prompting us to engage the gunboat. After a short battle, the Kuzunoha was critically disabled at about 19:07 SMT. Captain Lasky then gave the order to return to the Ohio's formation ASAP to relay our report. All relevant data captured will be appended below. Several ramshackle Rogue gunships attempted to prey on both sides during this engagement, but were swiftly rendered no-factor.

A brief personal assessment:

I do not grasp why the captain of the Kuzunoha chose to return through the jump hole to Colorado, when they must've been aware we were alerted to their presence. Regardless, it is my judgement that the vessel was engaging in armed reconnaissance of our Colorado force distribution. For them to do so, even following the press release from the Liberty government, does not bode well.

My ship'll be in the repair dock for a long while, following severe damage inflicted by pirate forces in Colorado that same day.

This concludes my report. Semper fortis.

Lieutenant Commander Damon Alvarez, Gunboat Fort Wayne
Task Force 107, Battlegroup Ohio, Colorado Fleet