Right after launching from New Tokyo I headed to Tau-23 to meet with Chûsa Myuki Kokori. A rather large fleet of mostly EDGE| tagged vessels had rallied near Java, along with a few IMG, Colonial Remnantsand freelancers, as well a Kusari Naval Forces battleship IKN-Nagato. The had been reports of outcast fleet gathering on the other side of nearby jumphole, presence of two outcast fighters near the JH seemed to confirm it.
However, the oucast offensive didn't follow as expected. As more and more reinforcements arrived at java, Kokori-san decided that our presence here is not necessary and we headed back to Kusari core space, to Shikoku Jumpgate in New Tokyo, to be exact.
It is interesting to note that we never get there due to series of unforeseen events that required our immediate attention.
First, I noticed a trade vessel carrying optronics passing us on lane in Kyushu. We turned around and made a demand to the ship to halt for a scan. We caught the vessel at Tau-29 gate, where it somehow managed to moor securely with Battelship Nagumo. He refused to leave and instead resorted to meaningless insults. Vesselš callsign was Minnie, Even though I did not have time to capture scans of its cargo, the communication logs speak well for themselves:
We left for the New Tokyo. Once there, we picked up a communication in system-wide channel between an IND vessel and unknown ship. Kokori-san made a request to IND to wait at its location for a cargo scan. The location was given as Kyushu JG. The vessel was not there, but we caught the ship, [IND]Invisible.Hand in cloud in Kysuhu.
The cargo was food rations, yet the location and route seemed suspicious both to me and Kokori-san.
The circumstances with the wrong location given to us was rather confusing as well.The original communication log display that well:
Communication log excerpt:
Quote:[08.01.2011 00:06:41] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: IND, we would like to have a scan of your ship please
[08.01.2011 00:07:01] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: Could you give us your position?
[08.01.2011 00:07:11] [IND]Invisible.Hand: I am just jumping to Kyushu
[08.01.2011 00:07:17] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: Please hold on there
[08.01.2011 00:08:22] [KNF]Di.Taiki.Ono: I'll check other side for IND
[08.01.2011 00:09:02] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: On the jump hole
[08.01.2011 00:09:15] [KNF]Di.Taiki.Ono: hai
[08.01.2011 00:10:09] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: Sir, why didn't you wait at the place I told you to wait?
[08.01.2011 00:10:19] [IND]Invisible.Hand: I took the jump hole, sir
[08.01.2011 00:10:25] [IND]Invisible.Hand: not the game
[08.01.2011 00:10:28] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: And what did I tell you?
[08.01.2011 00:10:29] [IND]Invisible.Hand: not the gate
[08.01.2011 00:10:37] [IND]Invisible.Hand: to wait at the gate
[08.01.2011 00:10:48] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: And you couldn't imagine that I wanted you to stay on the other side of whatever you used to jump?
[08.01.2011 00:11:08] [IND]Invisible.Hand: Well I was trying to head for the gate
[08.01.2011 00:11:09] [KNF]Di.Taiki.Ono: Cargo scans show a large quantity of edible material
[08.01.2011 00:11:22] [IND]Invisible.Hand: food, this is a food shipment
[08.01.2011 00:11:31] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: Where did you pick up that food?
[08.01.2011 00:11:43] [IND]Invisible.Hand: This food was bought in Okinawa
[08.01.2011 00:11:57] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: Which station
[08.01.2011 00:12:01] [IND]Invisible.Hand: My route took me from Okinawa, through Honshu, through New Tokyo
[08.01.2011 00:12:22] [IND]Invisible.Hand: The station was Isehara
[08.01.2011 00:12:48] [IND]Invisible.Hand: is there a problem running these goods, sirs?
[08.01.2011 00:13:09] [IND]Invisible.Hand: if there is I can drop the cargo
[08.01.2011 00:13:10] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: Not those goods, but now, I cannot confirm if you picked them up in Isehara, or Kagoshima
[08.01.2011 00:13:18] [KNF]Di.Taiki.Ono: We just find it suspicious that food shimpment route gous through such remote areas
[08.01.2011 00:13:22] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: Or you brought something else from Isehara
[08.01.2011 00:13:38] [IND]Invisible.Hand: Plutonium? I don't deal in the stuff
[08.01.2011 00:13:50] [IND]Invisible.Hand: nasty and volatile and no profit in it
[08.01.2011 00:13:59] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: How can we know?
[08.01.2011 00:14:08] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: All I can tell is that you came from Kagoshima
[08.01.2011 00:14:09] [IND]Invisible.Hand: well it is pointless to ship it this way
[08.01.2011 00:14:13] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: You could have dropped those there
[08.01.2011 00:14:17] [IND]Invisible.Hand: The profit in Plutonium goes south
[08.01.2011 00:14:31] [IND]Invisible.Hand: I am bound for the Taus
[08.01.2011 00:14:37] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: I've heard well of Newcastle
[08.01.2011 00:14:49] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: But you would never do that
[08.01.2011 00:14:52] [IND]Invisible.Hand: NewCastle? I didn't know that...
[08.01.2011 00:15:03] [IND]Invisible.Hand: strange, I thought they sold not bought...
[08.01.2011 00:15:10] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: But apparently, as the IND cannot follow a simple order to hault for scan
[08.01.2011 00:15:17] [IND]Invisible.Hand: again I don't know, I don't deal with the stuff
[08.01.2011 00:15:21] [IND]Invisible.Hand: I halted right here
[08.01.2011 00:15:32] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: I told you in New Tokyo to halt
[08.01.2011 00:15:40] [IND]Invisible.Hand: after I jumped
[08.01.2011 00:15:44] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: Not at alll
[08.01.2011 00:15:44] [IND]Invisible.Hand: I was mid transit
[08.01.2011 00:15:50] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: But once again
[08.01.2011 00:16:01] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: I'll ask High Command to force all the traders to use trade lanes
[08.01.2011 00:16:11] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: As I don't want to deal with suspicious ships
[08.01.2011 00:16:22] [IND]Invisible.Hand: Until that becomes law
[08.01.2011 00:16:22] [KNF]Di.Taiki.Ono: In suspicious areas
[08.01.2011 00:16:24] [IND]Invisible.Hand: Officer
[08.01.2011 00:16:34] [IND]Invisible.Hand: I suggest you refrain from harassing honest people
[08.01.2011 00:16:36] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: Keep something in mind, sir
[08.01.2011 00:16:42] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: We are the law
[08.01.2011 00:16:45] [IND]Invisible.Hand: Now you wait a minute
[08.01.2011 00:16:59] [IND]Invisible.Hand: Even you answer to a higher power
[08.01.2011 00:17:03] [IND]Invisible.Hand: Remember that!
[08.01.2011 00:17:06] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: Not to you
[08.01.2011 00:17:15] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: And certainly not to anyone from your organization
[08.01.2011 00:17:17] [IND]Invisible.Hand: No but to the people and to the magistrates
[08.01.2011 00:17:30] [IND]Invisible.Hand: disgusting behaviour.
[08.01.2011 00:17:36] [KNF]Ca.Myuki.Kokori: Likewise
[08.01.2011 00:17:38] [KNF]Di.Taiki.Ono: *shrugs*
When this was deal with, the next place that required out attention was New Tokyo JG in Honshu. There we stubled upon a pirate we were reported about, as well as two trade vessels carrying plutonium.
While Kokori-san dealt with the pirate, Sajet, I assumed a chase of both trade vessels: De_Pappets/Pappe_Banski and De_Pappets/Pappe_Beijrt.
I caught up with them on the other side of jumphole, which lead to New Tokyo. I halted them and demanded to drop the contraband. Kokori-san arrived there in a few minutes.
They were very slow to cooperate, and after the last futile demand Chûsa Kokori ordered to open fire. Both of the vessels went down in a matter of minutes.
With that done, we returned to Honshu JG, where a pirate had been reported. He was not there, but on our way back we encountered seemingly Naval Forces patrol, yet with strange readings. They claimed to have just destroyed a patrol which consisted of Remnants of Takegi. They also made a claim of us being one of that kind, after Kokori-san doubted their allegiance.
Daii Youji Nakamura joined us in his Umibozu at this point. The encounter, however, did not evolve into a fight, as the suspicious vessels departed towards Honshu.
Since my Chimarea was low on fuel, I left my fellow officers on their way to Honshu and returned to planet New Tokyo.
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