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Good evening. Agent Shiranui, Octavarium Intelligence Commission. Given your organization's legal status in most of our neighboring nations, we thought it best to handle first contact through the Commission.

It's true, we prefer space stations. One reason is that there are many Octavarians who sympathize with your movement, myself included. We picked up a number of people from Leeds even well before the attack, and they greatly appreciated being able to breathe for a change.

Our current planetary operations are at Salina and Oraibi in the Coronado system. Oraibi's atmosphere is so toxic and corrosive that not only can we not use manned mining operations, our drones need special shielding to survive. And Salina is a gas giant. So, neither has an ecosystem to disrupt. We skim gases from Salina to produce fuel and mine copper and other useful metals from Oraibi. So far, all of it's been used for our own ships and industry; with expansion, we'll be able to export some, allowing us to become a more independent power in the Barrier, less reliant on Crayter's assistance. Our copper exports could potentially cut into the business of the Hellfire Legion and hinder the spread of their exploitative libertarian nonsense as well.

Proving a lack of environmental exploitation isn't something I can feasibly do on this channel, though. You should be able to dock with Kwinana Refinery yourself to see how things go - find a colorfully-haired woman named Astra Solberg, think it's blue this week. Tell her I sent you about clean industry, she'll show you some of the drone footage.

We also established food production on Canberra without any support from Synth Foods. The inhabitants of Baffin brought us the equipment we needed to establish vertical farming operations inside the station. Frankly, Synth's biodomes are a wildly inefficient design, serving more to advertise Synth Foods than to actually grow food. For variety, we also import rice from Kyushu and other foods from farms on Cambridge. While our farms are capable of producing enough food for the station, we find that variety is good for morale.

The insidious part of Synth's marketing is that their emphasis on their large-scale "solutions" deceives smaller groups into believing that they cannot support themselves.

Living aboard a station allows for total control of the environment. This means that we can create ideal farming conditions, better than even the natural environment for these plants. With extensive artificial lighting we can even stack the plants vertically; layers of crops within a single room, a density beyond what any traditional farm could provide. A picture is included.

Fundamentally, this is all based on ancient technological concepts. As in, pre-Exodus. Historically, power generation was the biggest problem such vertical farming endeavors encountered, but modern generators can more than compensate. In the unlikely event that your generator is inadequate, station solar panels can cover the gaps. Samura's HydroGro has been a tremendous boon as well. While we make use of a small number of Synth-Kishiro "RoboCultivars" for monitoring and upkeep, the actual harvest is usually done primarily by actual humans - someone in Services thought it'd be a good community-building exercise, and it seems to work well.

One important thing to account for is keeping your crops environmentally isolated from each other. While not necessary, it allows you to fine-tune each plant's environment for best results, and since supply lines for an organization like yours aren't always reliable, I imagine you want to optimize your yields. Some older stations don't allow for this kind of room-by-room environmental control, unfortunately.

I'm sure you'll understand if I stay off-camera. Necessities of the industry.

The delivery has been made to Canberra through a trusted Octavarian captain, and can be picked up at your earliest convenience. Your captain should inform the dockmaster that they're here to pick up the delivery for Tara Walker, with the security passcode Alpha-Delta-37. It's only basic middleman-courier security, to avoid arousing any suspicion. It's medical-grade - there's no unwanted additives in there.

As a show of goodwill, this batch won't be terribly expensive. One thousand per crate.

Also, since you brought it up, stabiline won't cure them. It's a substitute, but the addiction's still there.