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To: Bowex InfoNet.
From: Peterson, ExSec.
RE: Op. SQUEEGEE.

Today, myself and Mr Bellock decided to don the doctor's gloves and penetrate Kusari where they least expected it! During our examination, we found a Hogsha-shaped tumour that had to be cut out poste haste! If we'd left it, it could have gone malignant, doncha know? In any case, we took the usual route through the Taus, from Leeds. The battleship Nagasaki may cause lesser men to balk in fear, but Mart and I have guts in such quantities as to make a mockery of nature's intentions for lesser men. Prunes and fibre live in fear of our intestinal fortitude!

Fearlessly blazing through the Tau blockades, we swept aside those who would waylay us, eventually losing them in Tau 29. From there, we proceeded into Kusari proper, once again dodging yet more ineffectual patrols from the Battleship Nagumo. We lost them in the nearby nebula, with the assistance of some roving Golden Chrysanthemums, who helpfully attacked the KNF patrols and scraped them off of us. Despite their fearsome reputation, the Chrysanthemums are rather nice chapettes, when you get to know them.

As we travelled through the system, I began to feel claustrophobic - we could hear the radio chatter of passing natives (in the short space of time before they noticed us and consequently made an issue of our presence). This chatter was hardly comprehensible, and somewhat reminded me of a monkey I'd once seen at a New London zoo; it would jabber meaninglessly at passing guests, in the hope that they would give it peanuts. Unfortunately I had neither peanuts, nor the inclination to feed them to the local Samura and Kishiro pilots.

Our main point of interest occurred in the New Tokyo system. Just as I was about to jump to Honshu, a Hogsha transport appeared, travelling in the opposite direction! I called Mart over, and together we demanded it drop all its cargo. We would have requested it sing a silly song, and defame the Emperor too, but it elected to wordlessly engage its thrusters in a bid to escape. We weren't going to stand for such rude conversational manners, so we gunned for it. Eventually, with considerable cunning, Mart succeeded in dropping a nuclear mine on its bridge, scattering the [|]Purotekuta and its foul cargo of Corsair Artifacts to the solar winds.

Image: The Leeson (Peterson) and Fenning (Bellock - not in
picture) give the Hogsha a lesson in foreign policy.

After that, we seemed to have rather aggravated all the local forces, seeing as a [KNF] fighter appeared. Deciding we'd best scarper, we jolly well vanished into Chiba Field, where the QCP had previously told us a convenient jump hole was located. True to their word, there it was, and we jumped to Honshu (without unexpected rains of Hogsha this time!). At this point, we dug in our spurs and urged our noble steeds forward, travelling as fast as our engines would allow us. As a precaution, we dropped the trade lanes behind us. Eventually we reached Okinawa and pulled in with the local GMG. We lay low there for a period, launching almost an hour later, after a refreshing session of luncheon.

We were told by a GMG paramilitary officer that a large force of KNF - and even Farmers Alliance vessels - followed us into the system a short while later. Well, they weren't there when we left for the return trip! With a few minor variations, we took the same route home. Aside from a near-miss with a Kusari destroyer's missile, my return was uneventful. Once more we blasted through the Tau blockade, and sauntered home victorious. That's another 1,080 units of fuel for our Leeds depot.

Which reminds me, you chaps really need to step your game up. Op. SQUEEGEE is going well, but your Supervisors and Managers are still holding the lead. You fellows need to get out there and raise some trouble! Remember, fuel comes home, the wreckage of Kusari shipping stays out there! Bring back the fuel, lads!

~Peterson.

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