Around noon, I was scrambled to assist our reserve forces fighting Blood Dragons in Hokkaido. I only found drifting debris of Dragon vessels as soon as I got there from New Tokyo. Upon my arrival to the assembly area located about 20 clicks from Sapporo, the ships present filled me in on the situation. Shoji Yakatanabe explained that the Blood Dragon vessels with a Liberty Rogue aiding them were blocking New Tokyo at first, then fled to Hokkaido with the Imperial Navy after them. The traitors stopped at Ainu to resupply and mount a defence against the Emperor's men, which was rendered unsuccessful with the superior fighting force of the Imperial fleet. The fleet, led by the IKN-Tawaramoto managed to fend off the Dragon bomber assault without loosing a single ship. Yakatanabe-san also informed me of the exact kills our ships scored, but sadly I don't have that recorded.
During the report, a Daumann mining vessel, the Aiolante reported sightings of SCRA terrorists in Honshu, he unfortunatley couldn't get a clear reading. I briefed the fleet on the situation and authorised them to commence repairs while on Yokohama, while setting the assembly point to Shinagawa station. I found the Aiolante near Shinagawa, the mining vessel was still intact. While the our fleet was being repaired, I tried obtaining more information regarding the terrorists' armament. The miner was unaware of specifics, but he did report a Harvester vessel also present in their company. I told the miner to stay back while our fleet was going to handle the enemy, but all of a sudden, my engines started malfunctioning. I gave command back to the commander onboard the Tawaramoto and summoned a lifter to take my vessel in for repairs.
Getting my engine back to action took about 20 minutes. The Naval Fleet was gone by the time I left Shinagawa. More civilians were gathering at the area and they reported that the SCRA forces have moved to Tokyo, between the Honshu-Shinagawa lane. I told the civilians passing around the area not to move torwards the Jump Gate while I attempted to contact reinforcements to deal with the terrorist threat. They started closing in, I got a visual on a ship registered to Stenka Razin first, followed by the CPW-Social Credit and Harvester 74, a Harvester gunboat. Upon the arrival of Aoyagi Ritsuka and noticing that the Coalition forces were distracted by something else (NovaPG ships if I recall correctly), we took the occasion to evaquate the area of civilians headed torwards Honshu. A Colonial Remnant convoy soon arriving agreed to provide protection for the extraction of civilians, according to feedback of the Aiolante, the operation was successful.
As soon as the civilians were secure, me and Aoyagi-san started off to check if the lane was clear, we didn't have to go far to notice that the terrorists were still present. Noticing our presence, a Mandalorian Mercenary, Petr Diordienko approached me, claiming that there was a bounty on me which was worth claiming. He attempted to destroy my ship, but I quickly took him out with well-placed Nuclear mine. In the meantime, the SCRA vessels started pulling out, it was too risky to follow them without sufficient reinforcements, so I decided our only option was to make sure they get out of Kusari without offering hardship.
Me and Aoyagi-san proceeded to Honshu, but we lost track of them as soon as the system jump was complete. We did a short search for them, but they were gone. As soon as I was about to call the search off, they hailed us on system comms, starting to argue about the fact that I repeatedly called them "terrorists". That led us to restart the search, fortunately with help incoming. The Kanadzuchi, the Sakabatou from Katana wing and a gunboat, the DragonTail from Unit 6 arrived to aid us in our search. Following a sparking communism versus Empire political debate, we eventually located the Coalition army, right near Yukawa shipyard.
The argument soon turned into an open firefight, the confronting sides started shooting at each other. The CPW-Social Credit was our first target, since it was the ship that obviously posed the biggest danger. We kept the ship under heavy fire and brought it down, Aoyagi-san's SNAC managed to bring the ship to its knees. While the rest of my wing started attacking the other gunboat, Harvester 74, I was trying to keep the fighters off our bomber wing. I picked Gabriel Mao and kept on the fighter's rear not once managing to drain its shields down, until we somehow ended up performing the joust manouver and the enemy managed to bring Aoyagi-san's ship down. As soon as the Harvester was destroyed, our main aim was to prevent the DragonTail from suffering the same fate as the other gunboats did, seeing that all the Coalition fighters started swarming our gunboat at the same time. Two of the SCRA, Stenka Razin was shot down and Viktor Heinz was taken in by the DragonTail's explosion, but we eventually did loose our heavy support. Hiroito-sama ordered us all afterwards to focus on Mao's ship, we brought the ship down successfully.
The Sakabatou bomber was afterwards heavily damaged and had to withdraw. Me and the Kanadzuchi was left alone against three of the Coalition ships, the enemy focused fire on my vessel while we tried to take Alexandra Volkova down, who was destroyed only moments after I went down. Yes, I eventually lost my ship and had to eject. Yukawa tractored my pod in successfully and I managed to get away with a scar. Hopefully, I can resume my duties as soon as possible.
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