News Stories

Star Army Seeks Volunteers By Watanabe Miyako, Star Army News Distribution and Reporting Agency Kyoto, Yamatai - The Star Army of Yamatai has placed several fleets on alert status tonight and has sent out a call to the patriotic citizens of Yamatai to immediately enlist in the Star Army of Yamatai. "An alien invasion situation has arisen on our frontier that could likely lead to war," explained Chujo Ketsurui-Chinomai Minori, the head of Star Army Personnel. "We are asking our citizens, especially those with prior service experience, to join for another 3-year enlistment term to keep our military strong. While we will continue to create Nekovalkyrja, the large numbers of them we are making have left us with a shortage of experienced...

Yamatai Enters Into Defense Agreement with Nepleslia, Lor By Watanabe Miyako, Star Army News Distribution and Reporting Agency Kyoto, Yamatai - After a tense round of negotiations and consultation with Her Imperial Majesty, Himiko I of Yamatai, former Empress and Imperial Premier of Yamatai Ketsurui Yuumi signed the Defense Arrangement Treaty (of the) Alliance of Signatory States, as did Ik'hin Nibbi "Middlewoman" New Tur'lista, a diplomat of the Lorath Matriarchy, and Charlie Coast, Premier of the Democratic Imperium of Nepleslia. The treaty signing comes on the second day of the International Relations Conference of YE 36, a diplomacy event held every other year by Yamatai to help promote galactic peace. The defense treaty lasts 4...

YSE to Return Former UOC Refugees, Close Camps By Ichiro Fujiko, Star Army News Distribution and Reporting Agency Valentine System - After 3 years of living in metal huts in spawling farm communities, many refugees are ready to move on with the next stage of their lives. When the Mishhurthyar military, the NMX, invaded in YE 31, the breakaway nation calling itself the United Outer Colonies was a place full of hope and full of people. It was a peaceful nation that has obligingly returned all of its Star Army of Yamatai military ships and equipment back to its mother nation, which magnanimously opted not to crush the rebellion, saving billions of lives...at least temporarily. When the NMX attacked, the UOC Peacekeeper Forces were...

Fort Minori, Nataria - The Star Army of Yamatai's personnel division announced today that it would has updated the policy regarding buyouts of enlistment contracts. The new policy removed the old flat rate of five thousand KS per year and replaces it with numbers equal to yearly pay. This change makes leaving the military early less expensive for ranks E2 and below and more expensive for ranks E3 and above, with the highest ranks costing nearly twenty times more. You can read the new policy below: Buyout Option The Star Army of Yamatai understands that life circumstances may change and soldiers may have to leave the military, so it provides a way out of the contract. In the event a soldier needs to escape the contract, she can do so...

Fleet Depot, Nataria - The Star Army of Yamatai announced today that it would be consolidating its forces into fewer fleets based on necessary roles for the military's operation. In a statement issued by Star Army Command, it placed First Fleet as the defender of core Yamatai space and moved Second Fleet from the Ketsurui Military Sector to Nataria, where it will be expanded and retooled as an invasion fleet for unspecified future conquest operations, and general defense operations against invading alien fleets. As part of the rearrangement of fleet, the 12th Fleet, formed for the Second Mishhuvurthyar War, will be disbanded and its assets merged into the Second Fleet. The Twelve Fleet has been without a Taisho since Taisho Kurita...