No Update today guys, instead I'll leave you with something else.
>>6324432Ok, jokes aside I burned out badly on that quest. So here's a little something to give you closure.
<span class="mu-s">Shima Battle Report</span>
Every now and again your mind wandered back to your homeworld of Shima. After the Imperials had taken over the Empress handed over the star system to Lady Shirin of House Shimada. Just because a large number of your peers had been loyalists to the old government Lady Shirin had seen fit to imprison you and sent off to be used as common labour in her sister's shipyard. It was a miserable time; having rations extorted by the common thugs, beatings by the guards and insipid anti-aristocracy rhetoric whispered by clownish ideologues on the lower bunks as you desperately tried to get some sleep. Oh the indignities you’d suffered.
Fortunately Mayumi Shimada had seen fit to separate you from the common rabble and for a brief moment you were finally allowed to shine.
You didn’t care for politics and you would have gladly continued crafting ships for Horned Princess Shipyards but then you were replaced with an AI. Such things were taboo in Raiha and you were surprised Lady Shimada would stoop so low being of the Nobility… then again you’d heard rumours that she’d had sex with her own brother.
The Pact had enacted a plan to cripple Shima’s economy but that had failed. You had the clearance now so you accessed the data, curious to see how things played out.
Hmm… so the plan was to distract the system’s garrison with privateers while the famed mercenary Galatan Starwind unleashed a giant space crab on the orbital command centre. And Fleet Command thought <span class="mu-i">your</span> ideas were stupid.
The crab was killed by a precision strike from a previously unknown type of strikecraft. Starwind himself was engaged by House Shimada’s flagship and their sole knight frame. The flagship sustained heavy damage and the knight had been shot down, but Starwind’s own ship and infamous “Harem Squadron” had taken their share of hits. Once Shimada’s own mercenary cruiser moved in to assist Starwind was forced to retreat without having destroyed anything of strategic importance.
What really piqued your interest was the presence of several ship designs that had not been observed in the wider Imperial Fleet. It would seem House Shimada had personal access to technologies that the Raihan Navy did not. Curious…
