Katae looked at Saki, "I do not want to jump to conclusions. We do not know what is happening to those ships. Pirates, Marauders, some sort of automated weapon platform. Speculation gets us no where.
With regards to the Tamahagane Corporation ships, the first ship was hauling agricultural equipment, and seeds. Part of a venture with the HSC, growing some of the various crops that the corporation has developed on one of the Clan colony worlds. The other ship was carrying a more valuable cargo, an assortment of communicators, 150
EM-J4-1a MARI, 120
EM-J2-1a Geboku Androids, which were bound for the World Station. We do not have the inventories of the other ships which have vanished.
As for the Rixxorr, no one knows where they come from. But they have been encountered on a number of places. The Star Army is obviously trying to assess them, their motivations, how are they getting into Yamatai space. So if we encounter any of them or signs of them, we will want to gather what Intel we can.
We will start our search pattern at the point where Tamahagane flight path intersects the red path. Since it is highly unlikely that we will come upon an attack in progress if that is what's going on. We will be looking for evidence of attacks. Debris fields, wreckage, even a derelict vessel can provide vital clues. Each ship will work in an expanding pattern deploying shuttles and Ke-O5-1a VCMAD-S Drones to help with the search. The Aeon will be carrying the Tenba and we will deploy that as well."
She paused and looked around and the looked at Misaki, "I want the squadron to be at Condition 3 when we start a search grid. I want Power Armor teams standing ready to deploy. Any questions?"