Ourani Pirates

The same day as the news of the victory at Ama'til was spreading through Sinari, there was a quieter rumor spreading through, starting at the airfield from the crew of a damaged merchant vessel. Bounty of the Sun had been traveling with her sister ship Sun's Fury along an established route in Ourani when they were set upon by several smaller craft, a design that made the captain think they were pirates. They were hailed to land, but fearing for their lives regardless, they fled instead. Fury was forced down, and the crew can't agree if her propellers had been broken or entangled, or if they'd employed some new weapon against her that caused her to break apart.

The rumor is spreading more than it may well have on its own as other vessels that should have arrived had not yet, the Bounty being the first in some time, and days late as well.