## Summary Loyalty Forsaken scouted the Eastern Desert searching for Kokuryu-kai elements. They encountered a pirate band of older medium/light Battlemechs and engaged; several enemy units withdrew. ## Quests / Report ### Opposing Forces (OpFor) - CDA-2A Cicada - ASN-21 Assassin - SDR-5K Spider - JR7-D Jenner ### Defenders - Loyalty Forsaken Force - BGS-3T Barghest — 3/5 (Frederick Bosche “Duke”, Lt. General Ret., Unit CO) - CHM-C Chimera — 4/5 (Lady Hildegard Broeske) - Morningstar (Laser) — 4/5 (Lady Evelyn Blanke, Platoon XO) - Elemental battle armor (Flamer) — 4 (Lt Audie Murphy) - Badger Foxtrot — 4/5 (SSG Dale Earnhardt, Dogpound) - Standard IS battle armor (Flamer) — 4 (Cpl Henri Leboux) (outside) - Rottweiler — 4 (Cpl Butch Maddox) (inside) - Rottweiler — 4 (Cpl Heidi Moore) (inside) - Infantry squad (jump, SRM) — 4 (Sgt.) (inside) — Inferno ammo - Infantry squad (jump, SRM) — 4 (Sgt.) (inside) — Inferno ammo ### After Action Report (AAR) Loyalty Forsaken was tasked to locate Kokuryu-kai forces seen west of the Musashi Estate. The patrol did not locate Kokuryu-kai but encountered a pirate band. The band refused identification and engaged. Loyalty Forsaken captured a Cicada and damaged an Assassin and Spider; the Assassin, Jenner and Spider disengaged and withdrew. ## Salvage - CDA-2A Cicada (captured) - SDR-5K Spider — left arm upper and lower arm actuator damaged - (1) machine gun recovered ## Interactions No further structured interactions recorded. ## Related Persons - Frederick Bosche “Duke” — Unit CO, Loyalty Forsaken - Lady Hildegard Broeske — CHM-C pilot - Lady Evelyn Blanke — Morningstar pilot, Platoon XO - Lt Audie Murphy — Elemental battle armour operator - SSG Dale Earnhardt — Badger Foxtrot driver (Dogpound) - Cpl Henri Leboux — battle armour (outside) - Cpl Butch Maddox — Rottweiler crew - Cpl Heidi Moore — Rottweiler crew ## Notes - Reformatted from existing markdown `missions/Mission 55.1 - Black Dragon Hunt.md`. - No matching WorldAnvil JSON was found under `source/articles/` at conversion time; frontmatter `source` set to `source/articles/NOT_FOUND`.