OHatsu Me ni Kakarimasu. Greetings, Miss Amaia. I believe some introductions are required on this message. I am Ueno of Shimonoseki, long time ago a comrade in arms in the Dragons, working together with you and your sworn sisters against the machinations of the Kusari corrupt government, in whatever form it presented itself.
Nowadays, the Dragon movement is stale in it's tracks, lost steam after the effort of pushing into Nagano, and internal squabbling. But fortunately that is not of my concern, nor the topic of this message.
I've asked a few of my remaining contacts within the Sisterhood for who might be interested on some business, and your name was presented. Me and some acquaintances from the old raiding days have developed quite a few trade tricks about moving around stolen goods in and around Kusari, and were considering setting up a very considerable operation regarding it. We are however lacking a bit of manpower to do it all in one go.
I was considering an exchange of favors of sorts. Let me help you with something that you need, and in return you will consider adding some weight to these future projects of mine. You may rely on my efforts for procuring goods and equipment in and around Kusari.
I'll be operating in the north corridor of our home, waiting for your message. Let me know if you prefer a more direct contact.
Death to the Tyrants, Power to the Brave and Bold, Shimonoseki no Ueno
Now that is what I would call a surprise, a quite positive one if you ask me. The first one today. Send my regards to the sisters who gave you my name.
Let us get to your message. You have a business proposal regarding goods flow within Kusari?
Consider us interested. And I already know a matter you and your people could be of help with. We have found an abandoned, intact Gas Miner within the Hokkaido system some time ago and ever since tried to bring it back to an operational status. I suppose we have something in common as we planned to use this Gas Miner as a future trade hub for our people and allies alike. Unfortunately the station's systems are not readied yet and we will have to show patience for some more days, but I suppose you could be of help then. Raiding traders and gathering goods required to build up the base will be in great demand soon then. If you can help us out with this, I am sure you will meet many open ears regarding your business idea. Which reminds me, would be good to know the details about it already.
Hmm, I guess you were searching for something like this, for me to receive such a quick response.
You have in your possession an installation in Hokkaido? I guessed that we could arrange some of the business of ours to work from Ainu, but I believe a detached place that can run without interfering or being interfered by general GC matters is the best for all involved.
Consider me available to search and provide what your humble outpost requires.
My simple ambition is to expand from traditional hubs of underground trading routes, and set new hubs from which we can control the flow of smugglers in and out of Kusari. For the commerce raiders like I was, for the blockade runners who will dare to cross the war zones to bring the needed goods from the other line, we will provide an outlet for their stock, and get the buyers to flock to our outposts for those desired rarities and cheap luxuries.
Currently, we are exploring ways to benefit from the stranglehold Rheinland and Kusari are putting on the transit in the sigmas, and I'll try to get a feel of any interested parties on the other side. We will try to explore other regions for exploitation as well. I will share more concrete details as the situation changes.
Death to the Tyrants, Power to the Brave and Bold, Shimonoseki no Ueno
Excuse our long silence but we have managed to break down the installations security grid and recently finished the construction of the first storage depots attached to it. With other words, we shall open the first business hub within the near future. There is just the issue of defense left.
While its location gives it a relatively good cover, we simply could not spare the forces to protect it from possible agressors such as the Imperial Navy. To higher our chances, we thought about installing a shield module like they are used on other modular bases.
If you were to give us the identification of your vessel, we could add you to the whitelist.
Here is the list of everything we need for the shield generator:
I hope that you can help us out with the last two commodities, given our limited access to them. Name us your price, Ueno-san. In the meantime we will work on a secured neuralnet page for our future customers as information source.
Congratulations on your success. I myself have done some forays with other interesting parties on the edge of Kusari, and hope to provide some good mediation between them and your business savvy people.
You can count on me on the Shimonoseki.Arrow . For the moment it will be my relay vessel with your team and my other contacts. I'm still having some issue with acquiring a fresh transponder code to replace the corrupted one that the prev-- the one that was assigned to it in the previous task.
I shall start procuring the needed equipment. I would say I would do it as a gesture of our ongoing partnership, but I may need to call on your support to grease some wheels to get the desired conclusion. Hopefully not.
I shall contact you again with news soon.
Death to the Tyrants, Power to the Brave and Bold, Shimonoseki no Ueno
Given the Project "Miner 04" can be called a full success so far, to a huge part thanks to your assistance, I suppose it is about time we plan our next steps. We thought about freeing an additional room to increase the storage capacity even further.
This base aside, we wanted to approach you to plan our next steps regarding the other bases, possible locations and clear issues such as ownership and administrative duties of each station.
Naturally the facility in Hokkaido will be directly under the regulation of one of my teams but we consider giving you rights over one of the outposts in case you prove yourself as even more useful as you already are.
I hope we hear from you soon. The Golden Chrysanthemums look forward to advance alongside you, a new found old friend.