RP Concluded Aside - Small Ship and Big Business

Tachiko straightened and stacked herself, adopting her most professional sort-of-smile as she felt appropriate for a briefing. "Vester-shōi," she turned to her intelligence officer, "If you would display the latest."

With the volumetric projection active, and the lights in the room dimming ever-so-slightly in response, Tachiko continued, "We have active signals and image intelligence that indicates the presence of Mishhuvurthyar activity in a high concentration in the central-rimward subsector across several star systems. Probes launched by our intelligence and science teams have indicated they are likely research installations with accompanying industrial, security, and logistics infrastructure. Perhaps most strikingly, each facility complex is located on a planet with an overwhelmingly dominant biome that covers most of the surface, with radically non-Yamataian but Yamataian-inhabitable conditions. Our working hypothesis is these are biotechnological research and development facilities for bioweapons optimized for climate and biome conditions. The timeline of activations and movement lead us to surmise they are all part of a larger project, or are interrelated ones."

Making a change to the display to highlight a single system of a dim dwarf with an enormous, closely-orbiting gas giant and extensive moons and ring systems, Tachiko zoomed in further. The scale revealed a hive network of orbital facilities hidden among the moons and moonlets. "Whatever is here, in this system, TX-01," a little blush rose to her cheeks as the naming convention put her initial in the name and she had to pause with discomfort at the distinction, "is big. Bigger than any of the others, by nearly a full order of magnitude, and it came online first according to quantum simultaneity approximation relative to Yamatai time."

"Therefore, it's where we're going first."

Katsuko listened as her daughter briefed her crew, the Yukika II as finally onto its next mission. The Taisho had to make her decision in that moment, she looked to Miho and communicated wirelessly //"I think it is time for me to head back, When the Sapporo comes back to pick you up. I will accompany you.""// Miho made eye contact with Katsuko for a moment and replied back simply, //"Hai, Taisho."// When Tachiko finished the main information in her briefing Katsuko stepped in, "The YSS Sapporo will be back shortly to retrieve the Shôshô. I will be departing for now with her. " It was inevitable that Katsuko would eventually depart the Yukika, it just ended up being sooner rather than later. She looked to Alina, "Shanui-Hei, it looks like you will not need the bunk after all, you will join the Shôshô and I on the Sapporo." This was the best time it appeared, at least from the Taisho's point of view, as the Yukika continued with its mission she could get the YSS Battle of Becurn launched and on mission.