Kusari Parliamentary Elections - Autumn 821 A.S.

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Sapporo Station, Head Quarters for Samura Helium-3 extraction and processing facility, administered by veteran of Samura transporting convoys Ken'ichi Nagatomo, the head of Nagatomo family and it's oldest member. Due to the years he spent in Samura and partially Kusari politics he often gave advices to his numerous children, in a way helped create their personalities in lines of traditional Kusarian with sense of heritage and honor, and would hopefully give them to his grandchildren in the coming times as well.

Even though not a very old man Ken'ichi has decided to step down from his old career at the helm of the transport ship and give it to the younger generations he had no intentions about leaving Samura. Knowledge gained during his career he thought would better served on position of an advisor or manager of a certain business. Thus he applied for administrator position of a Samura stations and waited for his 5 minutes. Not long did he wait before the Samura Board of Directors recognized his accomplishments within Samura and offered him the position on Sapporo Station as the last stop in the long lasting career. Ken'ichi accepted the position and decided to justify their trust in him by noting less than outstanding management of the station he was appointed to.

Several years have passed since his appointment to the administrator position and ever since his presence there Helium-3 production has always, slowly but steadily, been going up. With new business plans and proposals the future seamed bright or so it seamed. With the new government put in place instead of an Emperor, the way of life within Kusari went from good to bad in short time. Heritage and honor were left a side or pushed under the carper, greedy and power hungry politicians rose up and Kusari people got the worst of it, the pressure from all sides.

Ken'ichi wasn't pleased with ousting of the Emperor and instituting a so called democratic government in his place, more to the point he was in rage even though being and old man and very patient. He spent most of his life in Imperial Kusari, loyaly serving the Empire and the Emperor, the Kusari people and Samura and if it was up to him he wouldn't let it all go to waste. Thus he was looking forward to so called elections to make his mark on history and light one more candle for Emperor future return to Kusari.

Since there were plenty of election offices opened on Sapporo Station there was no need to fire up the old Puraido, the Geisha Yacht. Ken'ichi proceeded from his office towards the comerce district where one of the closest voting offices was set up and give his vote in person. Once behind the curtains he sat down on the chair and initialized his card into the voting machine. There were five parties in the parliamentary run and without much rethinking he selected the ''Kusari Reformation Party'' and confirmed the vote. Ken'ichi knew that Reformists were be the only one still true to the Kusari heritage, honor and way of life and that they were the only one able to bring back the Emperor that people loved so much.

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Recently promoted to Director of Interstellar Assets position within Samura Heavy Industries, Yuto Nagatomo had his hands full with employing new Kusari youth and managing Samura off world assets as overseer. To put it mildly, a demanding position.

Being the oldest son of Ken'ichi Nagatomo, Yuto had big shoos to fill. Thus he looked to his father as his role model to which he aspired to become one day.

With the present working office on Shinjuku Station, Yuto had only but to walk to the voting presidium. Once there there was little doubt about which party to chose. It was the party that would bring the old way back, the one which was fruitful for Kusari during the centuries. Yuto selected ''Kusari Reformation Party'' on the screen of the voting machine and confirmed the vote. While exiting the presidium he smiled a bit and inside hoped for the best.

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Many problems made their way into Kusari lately, the coup, increasing pirate activity, foreign threats at the doorstep. Ryouichi Nagatomo was puzzled as to how he could help his homeland get through that difficult period.

While attending the school and college on Planet Kyushu, Ryouichi was parallelly attending the school for martial arts as well as course for learning to pilot small space vessels such as fighter, bomber as well as gunboat class.

While in the youth period Ryouichi often wondered what would he do with his life after finishing his educations. Some of his good friends, gained during the school and college years, recommended that it might be a good idea to join the Kusari Naval Forces, due to his skills in space combat while on the other hand others suggested that he should join the ranks of Kusari secret intelligence organisation. He gave a lot of thought to those advices. On the other hand his older brother Yuto suggested joining the ranks of Samura and defending the traditional life of Kusari.

Samura was facing many enemies, both inside and outside of Kusari. While being undetermined what next to do, Ryouichi remembered his father's teachings that family and honor come ahead of the personal needs of the individual. Thus he decided to join Samura Heavy Industries and even though he wasn't interested in being the captain of a transport ship he was very much interested in being a pilot in the security division and clearing the Kusari space of all the threats that might arise to both Samura and Kusari, whether they were domestic or foreign.

Today, Ryouichi has risen in rank within Samura security division all the way up to Deputy Director of Security right behind the famous Director Hideo Matsumoto. Even though in high position and being needed in the office, he often flew his security ships, escorted Samura convoys during their trade mission throughout Sirius sector.

Never to much interested in politics, Ryouichi was wondering as to which party he should give his vote to. He was thinking about democrats because offered something new, but he also though with the installation of government the Kusari has grown week and subjected to house of Gallia. Because if it was up to him Kusari would never back down from a fight and every war could be won if waged properly, with wisdom.

The Exiled Emperor showed in the Bretonia and Taus that he was willing to fight for his people and not subjugate to the stronger opponent. That was the positive thing in Ryouichi's eyes and he respected Emperor's determination and honor towards Kusari people greatly. It was the thing that in the end determined his political orientation on the following elections.

With the election underway and at the time being in Nagano system, Ryouichi decided to make a quick stop on the planet Tomioka and finish his civil duty towards Kusari. He started his descent on the planet and touched down in the capital city. Voting office was close by the landing pads and the process was to be a short one. Once at the voting terminal Ryouichi voted for ''Kusari Reformation Party'' and exited the office. Later on he finished the needed business on the planet and took up an escort shift for the Samura convoy that was about to depart from the planet.

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Being one of the older transport captains with years of experience behind him, Hiroto Matsuyama was for some time captaining the experimental supertransport. Having a great responsibility on his shoulders he wasn't about to make a rookie mistake and dishonor Samura.

He felt the same about the current situation within Kusari. Certain people making rookie mistake and discarding everything that was behind them for the their selfish needs without regards for the rest of the people they would swear to protect.

While being on the Osaka Storage Facility and station crew reloading the cargo between the station and the experimental supertransport, Hiroto decided that voting for the right party will change things for the better. During the free time he went over to the voting office and voted for the ''Kusari Reformation Party'', the party that would bring old glory to the house of Kusari and put it in rightful place within Sirius.

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//PS: I'll add more text to those 4 char's role play once I have more time and inspiration. For now I hope that's enough.

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