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A Taste of the Future Stuttgart | New Tokyo Trade Event
OVERVIEW
Cataclysmic storms have wracked Planet Kyushu during an unprecedented monsoon season. These one-in-10,000 year typhoons deluged cities and destroyed many of Kyushu’s traditional rice plantations. With the planet facing an enormous humanitarian disaster, aid has poured in from across Kusari and surrounding regions. The effects are not localized to Kyushu alone, however. With Junyo’s fisheries on the brink of extinction due to disrupted Alien Organism supply chains and Kyushu’s crops ruined, Kusari faces the prospect of acute food scarcity. Consumers have already felt the pinch with food prices skyrocketing in New Tokyo and Honshu.
Samura claims their recovery plan will ensure the next planting season is not affected, and that remaining harvests and stockpiled produce are sufficient to last out until that point. Despite this, it is clear to see that Samura’s agricultural business has been grievously wounded, and rivals are already prepared to take advantage of this. Synth Foods in particular has been paying close attention to developments. Synth recognises that Samura’s current setback is a wedge they can use to capture even more of the Kusari markets, while Kishiro is forward-looking or spiteful enough to realize that this foreign interloper can be used as a weapon against their ancient rival.
The two megacorporations have provisionally agreed to cooperate on a large scale shipping campaign, bringing Synth Paste into Kusari, and exporting cutting-edge Kishiro agricultural robotics back to Stuttgart. Synth is even willing to run this operation at a considerable loss, offering exorbitant bonuses to their own and Kishiro employees to ensure the situation is decisively exploited. This has not gone unnoticed however, and the Farmer’s Alliance, Hogosha and even Samura’s own paramilitary units have mobilized to ensure this partnership dies on the vine.
DETAILS
Date:
17:00 UTC, 3rd November to 22:00 UTC, 12th November.
Allowed IDs:
Synth Foods
Kishiro Technologies
Rule Changes:
Designated Event Systems are Stuttgart, New Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Sigma-15, Sigma-13, Honshu, New Tokyo, Shikoku.
Farmer's Alliance, Hogosha and Samura can treat Synth Foods and Kishiro ships carrying Event Commodities in Event Systems as Combat Targets.
Farmer's Alliance, Hogosha and Samura will receive $200,000 bounty rewards for kills on Synth Foods and Kishiro ships in Event Systems.
Synth Foods and Kishiro will receive $50,000 bounty rewards for kills on Farmer's Alliance, Hogosha and Samura ships in Event Systems.
Note: RP consequences may apply when murdering the competition - be careful where you set your trap.
Trade Bonuses:
Synth Paste from Planet Stuttgart (Stuttgart) to Narita Outpost (New Tokyo).
Profit per unit at Narita Station with valid ID - $111
Robotics from Narita Outpost (New Tokyo) to Planet Stuttgart (Stuttgart).
Profit per unit at Narita Station with valid ID - $111
Non-eligible IDs will receive no bonus profit.
Aftermath
Sensing a historic opportunity at Samura’s expense, Synth Foods has massively ramped up Paste exports to Kusari from their Rheinland holdings. With Kyushu devastated by storms and many of its rice plantations destroyed, Synth has marketed their immensely profitable campaign as humanitarian relief. Whether the shipments were altruistically motivated or not, it is true that food-linked inflation in Kusari has markedly dropped, while Synth has noticeably expanded its market share.
Synth had long been in negotiations with Kishiro Technologies about arrangements within Kusari, however the current crisis provided the perfect catalyst to accelerate matters. Contracts were signed on an expedited basis to secure large scale orders for agricultural Robotics produced on Planet Honshu. Additionally, Kishiro transports would take on responsibility for distributing Paste shipments within Kusari, from Narita Outpost’s warehouses in New Tokyo.
The two corporations have not been permitted to operate unfettered however. News of Kishiro and Synth’s plans had quickly spread, sparking outrage among senior conservative politicians. The Hogosha, Farmer’s Alliance and even elements of Samura’s paramilitary escort service were mobilized. Wrecking a bloody toll in the Sigmas and even Kusari core systems, Synth and Kishiro transports were savagely attacked. Despite the ruined hulls of dozens of ships littering the nebulae, Synth’s mass shipping scheme was ultimately a success.
Kishiro has also grown frustrated by Kusari’s inaction on the Farmer’s Alliance, who have increasingly targeted their own vessels over the decades. Kishiro knows that Samura, their ancient rival, are using the Alliance as a cudgel to strike their competitors, but cannot prove the allegations. Rather than cowing Kishiro’s ambitions, these attacks have had the opposite effect; Kishiro has become increasingly sympathetic to Synth, with the two forming a nascent ‘modernisation bloc’ that intends to force Kusari’s protectionist markets open.
Senior executives will soon meet on Deshima Station to formally sign a Memorandum of Understanding that will solidify their relationship.
Results
Total shipped: Robotics - 4,823,299 / Synth Paste - 4,836,343
1) The Kyushu Storm arc will progress.
2) Kishiro Technologies and Synth Foods will move one step closer to a formal NPC alliance.
3) Forum title "Famine Forbidden" can be claimed by anyone who shipped 100,000 units or more of either Paste or Robotics.
4) Forum title "Paste Purveyor" can be claimed by anyone who shipped 20,000 units or more of either Paste or Robitcs.
5) Forum title "Kyushu's Wrath" can be claimed by anyone who killed 5 or more Synth or Kishiro ships.
6) Forum title "Conservative Palate" can be claimed by anyone who killed 1 or more Synth or Kishiro ships.
7) Forum title "Synth's Soldier" can be claimed by anyone who killed 5 or more FA, Hogosha or Samura ships.
8) Forum title "Get Pasted" can be claimed by anyone who killed 1 or more FA, Hogosha or Samura ship.
Are there any leaderboards/event rewards for killing Kishiro/Synth Foods ships and, if so, may I suggest adding a separate leaderboard for the opposite so there's incentive for pvpers to play both escort and piracy rather than all of them /1 /2ing transports? If it's just credits then I'd also suggest 100k rewards on FA/Samura/Hogosha, so it's again encouraging pvpers on both sides rather than going for the side with obviously more reward.
[03.07.2024] LNS-Beast***: we can do this every day but you have to buy bigger stronger ships...and i'll help you
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