Ainu Depot

Ainu Depot
Kikukamonsho class Station
Owner
Golden Chrysanthemums
Location
5C, Hokkaido
Technical Data
Gravity	Partial
Docking bays	Yes
Amenities	Yes
Crew	320

Most scholars date the start of the group as the publication of Golden Chrysanthemum in Bloom in 642 A.S. The author, Yuyu Matsuda, was a young but critically acclaimed poet. Charismatic and well-spoken, Matsuda had a considerable following among young Kusari women who found their lives lacking in direction but were reluctant to become married and fulfil their traditional role in Kusari society.

Yuyu decried what she saw as the corruption of the Kusari male-dominated culture and preached a revolution led by the long-suffering women of Kusari. These ideas were eventually encapsulated in Golden Chrysanthemum in Bloom, in which Matsuda described a fictitious nation called Yomi. A place of fat, lazy male bureaucrats who handed out concessions at the whim of entrenched mega-corporations, Yomi was eventually engulfed in revolution and united under the rule of a benevolent Empress personally selected by the goddess Amaterasu to watch over her people.

Matsuda looked to the foreigners as a model, where women could be president and run corporations. The Chrysanthemum went on to become a best-seller. Unfortunately, in 648 A.S., Matsuda crossed the dangerous line between ideas and actions when she was implicated in the botched assassination attempt of the planetary governor of Kyushu. Rather than face the ignominy of imprisonment, Matsuda chose ritual suicide instead. An increase in attacks on government personnel and installations followed soon after.

Ainu Depot was the first space station built by the Golden Chrysanthemums, though the exact date of its construction is unknown it is speculated to date back to late 660 AS. Ever since its construction, Ainu has served as a valuable launchpad for raids upon traffic passing through Kyushu and Hokkaido much to the discontent of the Kusari State Police.

With the repair of the Battleship Matsuda completed, Ainu has lost its status as the GCs headquarters though it has retained its importance as an installation with the addition of a drydock, finished in late 824 AS. The ability to maintain the Sisterhood’s fleet of Fighters, logistics and gunboats is the first step on the road for Golden Chrysanthemums to become an independent and self-reliant movement.

Missions Offered

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Bribes Offered

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Commodities

Exports

Cardamine Consumer Goods H-Fuel Hull Segments Industrial Hardware Light Arms Sake Sirius Credit Card (10.000) Oxygen

Imports

Basic Alloy Bio-Neural Processors Black Market Light Arms Black Market Munitions Blood Diamonds Blue Jillies Cobalt Copper Crew Diamonds Gold Holo-tainment Bands Holosculptures Hydrocarbons Hypnotainment Bands Industrial Materials Iridium

Imports

Luxury Food Manifolds Nanocapacitors Neon Nuclear Devices Pharmaceuticals Platinum Robotics Side Arms Silver Synthetic Marijuana Tea Thorium MOX Tea Titanium Vodka Xenobiotic Filters

Ships

Blossom Heavy Fighter Orchid Bomber Kestrel Freighter