I was on usual patrol duty in Shikoku. As I landed on Myoko to re freshen myself at the bar, I have received a report of few of our pilots getting ready to ambush a small Blood Dragon installation in the system. I immediately rushed into the docking bay to support the effort. It was a short fight, the base had very few defenses and only two rookie Dragon pilots were patrolling the area. I decided to tractor them in after the fight and take them to Myoko for interrogation. After that was done, I undocked only to see a {SOB}Cool.Breeze Outcast tagged ship in the perimeter. I came closer to investigate only to find out he was drugged out of his mind and drunk as well.
A KSP officer, Fujii Ayu, arrived and tried to help me take the man into custody by peaceful means. We talked for a while trying to convince him to come with us - without success. SInce none of us had a Cruise Disruptor mounted, the Outcast escaped into they Hokkaido system. We decided not to follow him in, since there seemed to be none other patrols in the core systems, which we both found odd. I have set course for Myoko and officer Ayu moved to patrol the lanes in the Kyushu system.
Just as I was to jump to Shikoku, I heard her speaking on system-wide comm, what I usually interpret as an undercover call for assistance. After a brief talk on the private comms I arrived to planet Aso, where she hit into a Tridente class gunboat vessel. Upon scanning the vessel, I figured out why there were no other patrols in the area. The Trident had 14 KSP officers in it's hold. I immediately called for backup to liberate the poor pilots and tried to stall the vessel from whatever intention it had. It (yes IT, because it was obviously no human, based on the way it was talking to us) wanted us to follow it and it's 2 sabre companions to Hokkaido for and unknown intention. It did speak of some sort of 'enlightening' (note: request on intelligence info on \CS\ tagged vessels). In a few minutes, [KNF-K]Sakabatou and [KSP]Sakura.Kai showed up to assist us. We successfully managed to damage the Tridente severely to a point it ordered a tactical fallback to Hokkaido.
We successfully managed to retreat the pilots from the wreck and deliver them to Tsushima.
A Blood Dragon pilot showed up in the area with several Kusari citizens onboard. Katana Sabakotu persuaded him to drop the civilian pilots. The Dragon obviously taunted us into fighting and ended up in a short duel with Sabakotu, until a Destroyer patrol (//npc) scared him off.
After the Dragon left, I went to dock on Nagumo for a well earned drink and rest.
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