RPExample

An aged and tired Destroyer, the JMSDF Shimayuki (Designate TV-3513) had set sail for waters north/northeast of Hokkaido as part of a cold weather training exercise. Having observed a coming storm, the ship's Captain thought it to be wise to have his fresh mates brace for the storm to help 'weather' them more thoroughly.

Aboard the Shimayuki was a smaller compliment yet of more grizzled Naval veterans (as well as the ship's primary compliment of nubs), whose assigned tasks were to pass on knowledge and provide oversight in the operations of the ship.

However, it would turn out that this storm had much more to it than high waves and poor visibility...

"Chikushō..." a young Sonar Technician (This would be the instruments pulling in pings off of any other potential ship) had murmured aloud as he lightly tapped at the screen before him. He had thought he had seen something out of the ordinary appear before him, however due to poor electronic behavior from the current circumstance the Ittō Kaishi (Seaman) was unable to determine much if anything at all until the solar flares had perhaps calmed above them.

As instructed by the Captain, the ship's Operations Specialists worked tirelessly at disseminating what information could be gathered through the ships instruments and computers. At a certain point, it appeared that the solar storm had begun to improve - however shipboard instruments were still experiencing malfunction to a certain degree. The CIC was abuzz at this point, however nevertheless the OS crewmen managed to make some sort of a link through their GPS/MTSAT systems.

At some point during the chaotic combination of solar interference and the still raging storm, the ship managed to drift closer inland toward Hokkaido. Radar Technicians were unable to gather much information from the primary and auxiliary radar instruments, and so the ship had remained reliant on data that was perceived through GPS/MTSAT. Having to correct the ship's change of course more inland, the Shimayuki began to move further North toward Japan's Maritime Boundary.

However, unknown to the Ship's Veteran and Novice crew and her Captain, the Shimayuki was beginning to only just breach further from Japanese Maritime Boundaries and closer to Russian-defined boundaries south of the Kuril Island Chain... (It would appear to the Ship's crew that the stormy waters caused the ship to go adrift, as the Captain ordered [not specifically mentioned above] to maintain relatively lower speeds to try and brace the waves more calmly. Combined with interference, both naturally and soon to be suspected by man as well, the ship continued to drift more steadily away from Japan's legal boundary. Despite any effect noticed by direction of the waters or the winds, if anything was determined accurately by Meteorology aboard the ship, it would not have provided enough through a relatively novice crew that would be having their nerves tested by malfunctioning equipment and a rather torrid storm. Ergo - Even with accurate/good information, there's a great chance of mismanagement of that information.)