Battleship Kokura

CLASS: Togo

CREW: CLASSIFIED

ARMAMENT: CLASSIFIED

Dating all the way back to the original Sakura Coup, and one of the few Togos reactivated by the Blood Dragons, Kokura spent much of its life hidden in the Crow Nebula, receiving only minimal maintenance over the centuries. Kokura completed its reactivation in 831 A.S. and spent much of the next year and a half guarding Mito Shipyard while the scant few of her sisters that could still be saved completed their own refurbishment and modernisation.

In late 832, however, the great battleship received a new deployment; the Dragons had received word of Battleship Matsuda's destruction, leaving the Kyushu system entirely without any base for either Dragon or Chrysanthemum operations. Enraged though the Dragons were at such a careless loss of such a valuable asset in the Matsuda, they could not allow Kyushu to become ever more heavily blockaded. Over the next few months, Kokura was prepared with all the resources it would need for a permanent deployment to the Seiran dust cloud.

Once it arrived in the system, its contingent of veteran pilots set about patrolling Kyushu and ambushing trade convoys where they could. Much to the Dragons' surprise, Battleship Matsumoto had not been relieved by another warship, and instead stood in-system, still with much of the damage it sustained from its duel with the Matsuda. As a result, flights based from Kokura work to soften the Matsumoto's contingent of fightercraft in an attempt to create an opening to strike the warship and finish what the Matsuda started.

The Blood Dragons have notably abstained from raiding relief vessels bound for the storm-ravaged Planet Kyushu, only targeting vessels whose cargos consist primarily of supplies to rebuild the planet's farming infrastructure and leaving food and medical vessels usually untouched.

## News

Professor Nagel and her team are certain the Pulse originated from outside Sirius, but are otherwise no closer to identifying its source or mitigating a future Blackout event. "Following the Blackout, we began to see immediate signs of jump hole destabilization in multiple different regions, with many ultimately falling out of phase alignment altogether", she commented. The dramatic upending of Sirius' jump hole network has already prompted many groups to abandon stations and withdraw from systems that appear to risk being cut off.
While months-long trips between the stars are possible thanks to the Liberty Engine and many centuries of innovation, few ships are designed or provisioned to make such arduous journeys. Those who were displaced by Sirius' redrawn map hope that system connections will return, while adventurers and explorers rush to discover new routes.

## Rumors

* The Matsuda's loss was a waste. The Togos are undoubtedly powerful and should be treated with reverence, but they have nothing on a far more modern design like the Chrysanthemums had and completely squandered at the beck and call of their Outcast masters. All it's done is make an already-uphill battle just that little bit steeper, and that's not even touching the fact that we're having to put our own warship at risk here to cover for the Chrysanthemum's screw up.

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