Audio excerpt from the "Koshiba Bulletin" newstation radio broadcast

From: Valda Mackenson, Koshiba Bulletin News Anchor
To: Residents of Port Koshiba

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Ladies and gentlemen, Valda Mackenson here wishing you a good third work-quarter and coming to you live with the top stories of the day. As early as the start of the first work-quarter today, two warships arrived in-system broadcasting the data-heraldry of Household Serrato, the toughest fighters on this side of the Forge. We here at Koshiba Bulletin have secured a first-hand, exclusive recording of the Serrato proclamation of their mission here, playing now:

"Hear me.

I am Tybalt-Yhen, son of Bertold-Yhen, bearer of the axe Shattersky and captain of the battlecruiser Kaal-Kaaz of the Household Serrato, and in this moment I speak for the crews of its present ships and the 43 warriors spread across them in this moment.

We do not come to trade. We are responding to sightings of the pirate filth that have declared themselves as the "Ascendancy of the Awakened Worlds". Whose crimes encompass, but are not limited to, attempts to pillage the Serrato fiefdom of Helia-36 and crashing into the colony of Reck in the Ackriss-2 system

Those who have been accosted by these void-scum may present an accounting of your woes to me as we replenish our munition stockpiles in preparation for the hunt. Upon their eradication, the Household Serrato pledges to return to you that which has been stolen in as whole a form as it is found.

Elsewise, make way."

Well, sounds like this Ascendancy had better find a god to start praying to now that they're awake. Up next, the Saint Yukihara College football team has-