Kasugai Hatusmi

[DeathsOverture]

It was a tough day in Sigma-13. Sum Yungai and Kasugai Hatsumi halted at least five smugglers and dealt with a handful of corsairs. Earlier in the day, a massive battle between Corsairs and Outcasts/Blood Dragons occurred. Kasugai was exhausted.

Then they heard.

A terrified trader emerged from the lanes coming from Kusari, screaming about Phantoms in Honshu. Kasugai did not know much about the terrorist group or its motives, but they had to go to Aomori to raise its defenses. The cursed Kusari Naval Forces couldn't hold Kusari... leaving the GMG's back door wide open. Kasugai put Gas Miner Naha on full alert and the two officers deployed.

Though Kasugai was not born into the GMG, it was running through his blood like a poison. He had not touched earthly ground in a month. In the guild, every footstep corresponds to a simultaneous 'clank.' Every beverage tastes somewhat of steel. Every meal is frozen, and has traveled across the Sirius Sector. Somehow, he couldn't be happier.

The GMG are the modern ninjas of warfare. They use jumpholes to get around to get behind enemy lines, strike hard, and use the cover of the nebula to make their escape. As they approached the Sigma-19 to Honshu jumphole, Kasugai recalled that the GMG used it to stage their attacks against the lumbering Rheinland Fleet in Sigma-13 from Aomori during the 80-year's war.

When they arrived at Aomori, there were no hostiles within range, but desperate transmissions from the pilots left in the phantoms' wake were prevalent on the coms. Aomori deployed the Tartary IMG Gunboat for defense. Moments later, Guild Master Katsuo Okazaki reported a siting near Akita border station, just one trade lane away. As he fell back to Aomori, enemies started appearing from the nebula. The GMG were surrounded.

The battle was at a standstill for what seemed like forever, neither side lost a single pilot. The only reinforcement the GMG forces received was a lone bomber, piloted by Mai Suma. The GMG gave their best to hold Aomori, but the enemy gunboat could not be brought down. Kasugai hit it with his Supernova time after time, but the two bombers only took the shields down a couple times, and never scratched the hull. He deployed countermeasure after countermeasure after his systems told him there were incoming missiles. A good strategy, until he deployed his last.

Damn.

Flurries of missiles headed his way, and there was nothing he could do, save for making evasive maneuvers. He lost component after component until he was left only with mines. Looking around, the GMG was falling apart. The Tartary was a floating wreckage. Finally, Katsuo ordered the retreat.

Kasugai disappeared into the nebula with his crippled bomber. The GMG lost, but they would not forget.

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