Hullo Tom!
I'll give you a summary.
The Miharu escaped Taii successfully. The Taii star had exploded, wiping out most of what was in system and would later turn into a nebula. The Mishhu fleet commander, instead of stopping to fix her ships, pursued the fleeing refugee ships to the nearby systems.
Trouble struck the fleeing ships by the way of fold engine troubles apparently leftover by the anti-FTL effect the Mishhu super-battleship had used. Most of the circuitry went haywire and replacing the units would take a long time. Tom and the rest of the techs at first began working on this and on raising the performance of the CFS units, which weren't working as well as they ought to.
Miharu was now in the Tsuyosa system, part of the 5th XF had fled to it while fleeing in the direction of Vaalad, the last 5th XF base, instead of following the rest of the refugee ships going toward Hanako's Star and regrouping at Kimura, where the 1st XF had more ships to protect the ships with malfunctioning fold drives. With only the Kinkou carrier group in system, they began engaging a mishhu skirmish battlegroup.
In the midst of this battle, Leutre at first didn't do all that well as a tech thanks to his devil-may-care attitude, but with Masako overseeing his work, he actually started to show improvements.
Miharu tried to take down the leading battleship, but only managed to take down one of its escorts before the mishhu commander's vessel escaped. It then turned to helping the Kinkou group tangle the new SMX scouts, which were blowing up large holes in the Yui-4 scout destroyers that were defending the less able Odori-class frieghters carrying refugees.
Miharu went to the scene and managed to forcefully unphase the new mishhu vessels and finally take them down, though the shields had to be sacrificed in the process and the ship got more than its share of holes in the hull.
NPC Tom has mostly been taking care of trying to figure out what was wrong with the fold engine along with NPC Chigusa (since the latter player left this plot to join the Sakura instead). By now, most of the people on the ship have been woken up earlier than usual, not everyone had the time to groom/wash themselves properly, had time to make a stop by the restroom, time to dress properly or time to eat (and by now some stomachs are growling) - but Kotori gave no sign that the crew was going to be permitted those small allowances anytime soon. Plus, the workload he has on his hand will probably take more than a day to fixed; the tech crew are being swamped with work.