I too was at Deshima. Once I heard the news I jumped on my bomber, Swordfish, and made haste to Deshima's defence along with a handful other agents in bombers. I can tell you this eh, what a sight it was to see such an array of Kusari forces including the Imperial Yacht nearly at the doorsteps of Deshima! We didn't have any of these pilots they were speaking of, something to do with agents in Bretonia would be my guess. To further complicate matters we were informed that Deshima and it's contents were property of the Emporer to be seized immediately and were to leave it's space immediately otherwise be branded criminals."
Agent LaRouche looked around at the assembled hunters in the hall,
"Did everyone hear that? Property of the Emporer. Well I for one am not aboot to stand idly by as 7000 occupants of Deshima gets left in Kusari hands eh. What else could we do? We refused to leave and stood in protest between Deshima and the assembled forces. This clearly did not please the Emporer at all who dismissed us and said we were in the hands of his shogunate before departing.
"I'll admit this, eh. One of our boys couldn't help but send a taunt in the direction of the departing Imperial Yacht. I was astonished but not so surprised, we recruit and train from so many colours we are defenitely bound to have a memeber or two that are fugitives from Kusari law. I'm not even sure if the decisiaon wasn't already made and if the taunt made any difference because as soon as the Imperial Yacht left the forces came in hard.....
"We fought valliantly , I may add, but those are some ships those Kusari have eh. Still we managed to do a surprisingly large amount of damge with our bombers. Unfortunately, for myself, I was just aboot to finnish off a gunboat when I was taken apart by concentrated fighter power. The rest is as you heard; the station almost in the hands if Kusari. They didn't have any ships left in the first wave to send a landing party but another wave is sure to come.
"If we don't have a peaceful solution to Deshima than I'll pledge my ships to saving the 7000 occupants of that station and teach the Kusari that the Guild is not some minor group of rabble eh."