5.6.2014
We have received reports of another Abyssal attack earlier today at 1230 hours, this time on the Yokosuka Naval Yards in Tokyo Bay, near the Japanese capital city.
Our informants in Japan and the American Seal Team Six, with their own informants in the country, have determined that at 1230 hours Japan Standard Time, a fleet of about twenty Abyssal destroyers, ten Abyssal light cruisers, seven Abyssal heavy cruisers, two Abyssal battleships, three Abyssal light carriers, and two Abyssal capital personnel launched a massive attack against the Yokosuka Naval Yards near Yokosuka Naval Air Base. Their objective was unclear, but they have caused significant infrastructure and personnel damage, mainly against the Japanese fleet of ship girls who had been present at the naval yards due to naval combat training that they appear to have there every Monday and Thursday.
I am being told that five Japanese fleet personnel have been killed today as a direct result of the Abyssal attack, among other heavy casualties. About 35% of the naval yards have suffered some kind of damage, and the warship destroyers docked at the Yokosuka Naval Yards as their home port have suffered moderate damage as well.
This is the first incident of Abyssal attack since their ambush on the Japanese base at Okinawa one month ago. The Americans have told me over a phone call earlier today that this particular attack is even more significant than their previous assault at Okinawa, for this could mean a resurgence in Abyssal activity. I suggested that this could also mean a full-scale war between the Japanese and the Abyssals, but the Americans have ruled that out, for they pointed out that should this indeed be a full-scale war, it would have made more sense for the Abyssals to hit multiple naval bases at the same time to deal as much damage as possible in one single day's worth of operations. It was clear that the Abyssals, judging by how they attacked Yokosuka Naval Yards, knew of the base beforehand; in other words, this was not some kind of attack that happened because they simply stumbled upon the base on accident. Therefore, knowing the Abyssals, the Americans figured that they should have led a multi-pronged attack on Japanese naval bases if this really did mean war between those two entities. So the possibility of war can be ruled out for now.
Oberfeldwebel Jollenbeck, who is also heavily involved with our Bundesnachrichtendienst, has confided to me that he is very nervous about the situation that Germany is in now, perhaps even the world. He told me that he is getting a bad feeling about these NDP rallies and the Abyssal attacks in Japan. While he has no solid evidence to base his sentiments, he feels that somehow, in some crazy way, these two events are connected, even if by a tiny thread. The only piece of support he can give to defend his claim is that both incidents are occurrences of odd circumstances, circumstances that nobody, not even the insane, could have predicted accurately. While I hesitate to agree with him so hastily, I cannot help but feel that he may be onto something here.
The oberfeldwebel also informed me that he will appeal to the Bundestag for an increased military spending budget for the next fiscal year. In the wake of these incidents, he feels, like many of us who are heavily involved in the defense industry, we must do what we can to strengthen our nation's forces, especially considering how weak our armed forces currently are. If two attacks on Japanese military installations can deal this much damage, imagine what our own country's assets should suffer should we be the next target. Of course, as stated before, we cannot be sure that we are to be targeted too by these Abyssal forces, but if the intel that we are housing ship girls of our own should ever leak out, most definitely by then we shall be subject to the possibility of attack by these same Abyssals.
But what concerns us more, right now, is how the Japanese government will react to this new attack in regards to our Wunderwaffe girls. Because in one sense, one could take this situation and view it as a positive net gain for us in the sense that the Japanese Diet will be more willing to accept our request to put our girls in a joint training operation and use them as a buffer against future Abyssal attacks. I do not prefer putting it in such a manner, but the girls truly wish to undergo proper training of any kind to improve themselves, and the sooner the better. But to play the devil's advocate (and really this is the more realistic result), the Japanese government can instead shelter themselves even more and close their communications off even more, and it has already been proven hard enough to get a hold of them to begin with. They will consider themselves victims, and they will use this incident as legitimization to cut diplomatic ties with countries they view as suspicious.
Plus, this latest Abyssal attack is sure to attract a lot of attention from the Japanese media. Apparently, Abyssal combat aircraft flew over the Miura Peninsula and was spotted by many civilian eyewitnesses, and this has struck ripples throughout the Japanese public media. According to the Americans, every major Japanese newspaper and news station is covering this incident, and the NHK is planning to produce an hour-long segment on this incident before this week is out. Already the Japanese tabloids are claiming alien attacks, and the more right-wing ones are pointing fingers at Americans, blaming the possibility of American saboteurs. Speaking of right-wing politics, I expect that this incident will quickly become the trough from which ring-wingers in Japan will feed their political commentary over the nation. Already, ever since the Moebius Armament Pact went into effect, Japanese right-wingism has been on the rise, but now, it is clear that left-wing Japanese political commentary will no longer dominate Japanese politics as it had ever since the war. The Japanese people will be called to defend their homeland, and perhaps a new breed of xenophobia will be piped into the country. This is propheteering, I'm sure, but it is the natural way that things should unfold; I will be very surprised if this does not indeed happen.
The point is that the Japanese public will find out eventually what kind of enemy has been attacking them for the past month. The secret will be out - that there exist these enemies from the sea called the Abyssals, and that there are superhuman beings known as "ship girls" who are working to protect them and combat this Abyssal threat.
Perhaps this is the most dangerous implication of this incident at the Yokosuka Naval Yards. Eventually, the world will find out about the existence of ship girls. The world will realize that we now have the technology to produce these superhumans, these fleet personnel. Once the secret is out, the world will be plunged into another quagmire of furious, stormy debate on the legitimacy of such beings. And that will be just another hell none of us want or need to deal with.
The girls are very worried and agitated by this developing situation. Bismarck is, as usual, the most opinionated of them, declaring that it is cowardly of allies to simply sit around whilst their allies are getting attacked. Prinz Eugen, Lebe, and U are all very concerned about their counterparts in Japan and are saddened to hear that the fleet of naval personnel present at the scene of the battle have suffered heavy casualties, and Max, the usual serious one out of the bunch, has no words to share, only simple and stoic acceptance of the situation. They have asked me what has become of their request to be transferred to Japan in the joint exercise program, and I have assured them that my husband has been doing all he can to make this a reality. In fact, he has yet to return home today, even though it is already 23:40, because he is investigating the effects of this disaster on German soil.
But even Max is getting restless. All of the girls are. They have been constructed as naval personnel charged with combating enemy threats at sea. Their duty is calling to them, but they have no way of responding to it. I hope that for both their own country's sake and for our girls' sake, the Japanese will somehow find it in themselves to accept our offer of joint exercise and agree to have these girls flown out to Japan to serve alongside their own forces. Our girls may not be much numerically, but I have confidence that they can become any nation's finest fighting force. They just need a chance.