To: Samura Heavy Industries. Re: Continued Support and New Arrangements

[Yamamichi-gumi]

The following is a plain text message to Samura Heavy Industries. It has been sent on a private channel so that there should be no unneeded eyes on it, at least without significant work to get access to it.

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To: Samura Heavy Industries
From: Yamamichi-gumi
Re: Continued Support and New Arrangements

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.....We would like to officially inform you that our organization has moved into space ventures, and with that, we wish to reaffirm and discuss our continued relationship with Samura Heavy Industries.

.....To begin, we have entered into a lucrative trade deal recently, so you will have noticed the deposit of 1080 units of premium scrap via Yokohama Shipyard, courtesy our fine freighters. We would like to take this opportunity to put aside any fears you may have about that, given the common nature of the trade in such commodities. This was a completely legal trade with an independent venture. We were extremely fortunate to be able to make the contact required. We both know how much use can be gained from that commodity, otherwise your dealers would not be paying such a high premium for it. If you happen to need any particular volume of that commodity, we can arrange some kind of deal to fill that need.

.....If anything, it is perhaps a shame that we cannot appropriate the commodity more directly, but we lack the technological backing required for any greater venture in that direction. It would probably require ALG support, however that would also reduce profit margins.

.....The next point is to reassure you that we have a continued presence on the surface of New Tokyo, and Kyushu to the same extent we had prior to entering this phase of our growth. Our suppression of common criminal activity will continue in these locations, and we have no intention of losing focus on the homeland. We understand exactly the consequences of groups like ours when they cease to remain vigilant at home, and that is certainly not part of our vision of the future. Generally speaking, the average person of the lower classes understand that stealing from certain businesses is not a lucrative plan, especially with groups like ours in place. Likewise, as in the past, unpatriotic varieties of Kyushu farmer unions and groups have been discouraged by our associates and we trust the value of this to your company is understood.

.....The access to docking facilities is greatly appreciated, and in turn we will from time to time bring business to your locations. Further, we are pleased at the special sale of the Irezumi, as well as the more mundane models of craft to us. This is a fine deal you offer us, and this helps strengthen our relationship.

.....We would like to thank you for the support you have offered us in these opening phases of space operations. If you have need of us, we are now open to consider contracts or filling other needs as far as interstellar matters are concerned, as well as our more common terrestrial interests. Our transponder is "[/|\]", so know this to be a friendly tag. If you have an questions or concerns, or ideas for mutual prosperity, please alert us.

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To: Samura Heavy Industries
From: Yamamichi-gumi
Re: Continued Support and New Arrangements

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We eagerly await your reply and apologize if our desire for return communication was unclear.

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[Geolog]

To: Yamamichi-gumi
From: Shinjuku Station - New Tokyo
Subject: Business proposals


Konnichiwa honorable... Hogosha representative,

I have indeed received a message from Yokohama Shipyard docking master that your transport docked there and later offloaded a shipment of Premium Scrap. You have my thanks for that. I hope you were well compensated for your job. As for the Scrap, our engineers will extract all useful parts from them and put them to good use. As for your source of the Scrap I'll take your word that it's all acquired the legal way, in my opinion that is the best way to deal with. Now, about any future shipments of Premium Scrap you know where to ship them. Yokohama will still be paying enough credits to get them.

I'm glad to hear that you will still hold fast to your Kusari roots. Having a good and safe home makes for the strong foundation and even stronger future. And even if you have moved to space ventures home still takes a central part in heart of every Kusarian.

We are pleased to hear of such a great success of Irezumi spacecraft on Kusari market. As we in Samura Heavy Industries would say: ''Our friends receive only the best technology available on market.''.

Our hands are extended to all friends of Samura and Samura works to benefit all lawful citizens of Kusari. On this matter we will be contacting you in times to come in relation to possible business contracts that we need taken care of. As for your company identification transponder I have instructed Samura personnel to mark [/|\] as a friendly.

Until we speak again...

Sayōnara,
Director of Interstellar Assets, Yuto Nagatomo

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