Ensign Tanaka reporting in. After recently being reassigned to resume patrols through the Kyushu system into the Taus, my regular patrol was interrupted due to a Bounty Hunter's Guild and Outcast incursion into Shikoku.
A large number of Naval Forces and close allies were already on scene, attempting to locate the enemies on long-range scans. As per orders incoming from the fleet, I set course and upon arrival witnessed the beginnings of a battle. Immediately engaging, the forces of the Emperor easily dispatched our Outcast foes.
While the formal report on the battle falls to the officer in charge, I must note that it was a glorious victory. Deshima beseiged, but no more stood willing to question our Sovereign claim to all of Kusari space. Let this be a lesson to the bounty hunter who took servants of the Emperor as prisoners!
Resuming my normal patrol revealed nothing of note. It seems that the size of our Naval Forces' intervention in Shikoku may have discouraged the usual scum and villainy elsewhere as well.
