After searching the PANTHEON database, I remember you! Of course, Alastair! You sure have been promoted fast!
Good thing you don't work for SAINT—your intelligence is wrong. While the Kaiyō was in drydock I was stationed nearby and for the last year she has been taking on missions. Have you been watching the news with your eyes closed? You always were funny that way.
Asuka's got a good head on her shoulders and knows not to eat shrimps with wimps when she could be eating lobsters with us squid-killing monsters. She wants to be a captain someday, though, and if you ever hear of a ship opening, pass it along. I really think she should get that white hat of command. But if you sent her a collar, I'm going straight to the Butcher with my complaint against you.
All that said, I'm proud of you for heading your own starship when we needed you in the Kuvexian War, but even more so for sticking with it and not giving it up or getting demoted. You may not have been the most conventional of crewmen, but you had heart and you haven't lost the passion and uniqueness that only you're capable of.
Warm Wishes,
Taisa Taiyou Hoshi, YSS Kaiyō II