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Hokkaido, otherwise known as the youngest of the five Kusari core systems is host to a number of Samura and DSE operations. Hokkaido at first was considered empty of any interesting features or characteristics due to it's lack of land mass and natural satellites. The blind eye that was turned to this part of Kusari was taken advantage of by the feminist, liberalist group the Golden Chrysanthemums which are now believed to have an established presence within the system. Most other organisations and factions took little interest in the system until DSE took a contract to construct a jump gate to the unchartered Chugoku system. The convicted terrorist group the Blood Dragons soon made their presence known within the system and highly opposed the project with a constant campaign to disrupt and end the project.
In an attempt to re-establish order and ensure the safety of the workers on the Chugoku Gate Construction Site the Battleship Matsumoto was stationed to watch over the developments there soon after. In recent years Samura Heavy Industries have also taken an interest in the system for it's abundance in H-Fuel as an alternative to doing business with their rivals the GMG.
System Overview
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Astronomical Bodies
Stellar Objects
- Shiden Cloud
- Kayo Cloud
- Unyo Cloud
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Industrial Development
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Faction Presence
Lawful Factions
Corporations & Guilds
Unlawful Factions
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Jump Gates and Holes
Nebula and Asteroids
Shiden Cloud
Please upload an image of this field. - A cloud that was only recently discovered to conceal large fields of H-Fuel. Samura has begun harvesting the Fuel using Sapporo Station as its base, in an opening of the cloud near the New Tokyo jump gate, but has found itself in conflict with Golden Chrysanthemum terrorists who claim the cloud for their own. Little can be done to guard the gas miners and trade lanes that lead through the cloud to the Rishiri jump gate on the other side of the system.
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Kayo Cloud
- A gaseous cloud. Blood Dragons frequently use the cloud to launch attacks against the trade lanes in Hokkaido.
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Unyo Cloud
- A gaseous cloud. A line of trade lanes cuts through the cloud leading the way through the lethally dangerous Kyofu -- and the Kyofu is not the only danger. Blood Dragons often lurk in the cloud waiting to attack supply shipments headed to and from Misaki Station or the new developments taking place in the Nagano system beyond Rishiri.
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Space Stations
- Constructed at Yokohama Shipyards in 798 A.S., the Battleship Matsumoto is one of the Genji class battleships that were built primarily as mobile bases and for securing key locations from pirate forces, rather than for the crushing brutality of frontline warfare against other capital ships, where manoeuvrability is often the key. As a result, the Matsumoto lacks the agility of its brothers but packs in considerably more armour, sensors and firepower. Currently the battleship is under the command of Shosho Tatsuya Mochizuki, and has been stationed near to the Chugoku Gate construction site in order to safeguard the area from Blood Dragon and Golden Chrysanthemum attacks.
- Owner Faction: Kusari Naval Forces
- Location: D/3
- Class: Genji
- Crew: CLASSIFIED
- Armament: CLASSIFIED
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- 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 followedsoon after.
- Unfortunately, any attempts to locate the Golden Chrysanthemum base or learn more about their organization has been thwarted by their willingness to die rather than talk. A Golden C. pilot will trigger her ship's self-destruction rather than be captured, and suicide attacks are common. Attempts to infiltrate the Golden C. have proven equally fruitless, due to the rituals, security measures and Cardamine addiction required to become a fully fledged member. On several occasions the Kusari government has received the finger of an undercover agent wrapped in a page from one of Matsuda's books.
- The Kusari State Police tries to keep a watchful eye on the faction, but has been unable to curb their activities with any real success. This is somewhat due to the assistance of the Blood Dragons, who have made use of Ainu Depot as a rest stop on the long journey to the inner systems of Kusari. The Blood Dragons also share the group's desire to overthrow the government and reform House Kusari, although this may eventually lead to an ideological conflict between the two groups, as the Blood Dragons may not concede to all the social reforms that the Golden Chrysanthemums will insist upon.
- Originally, the Golden Chrysanthemums were never as well armed as the Blood Dragons nor as influential as the Hogosha, and were more of an irritant to the government than an actual threat. In recent years however, especially in the wake of the war against Bretonia, greater amounts of funding from the increased popularity of Cardamine, and recruits from the dissatisfied younger elements of Kusari society, have flooded into the organisation. The Golden Chrysanthemums have grown to potentially rival the paramilitary power of the Blood Dragons, both in technology and in the quality of pilots, although due to their radical ideas they still lack the considerable political influence that the Blood Dragons secretly wield within elements of the Kusari government.
- Owner Faction: Golden Chrysanthemums
- Location: C/6
- Class: Unknown
- Gravity: Partial
- Docking: Yes
- Amenities: Unknown
- Population: Unknown
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- As the construction of the Chugoku jump gate neared its conclusion, the supply base that was used to store materials and house the construction and security personnel gradually lost it's purpose. Blood Dragon attacks on the gate however did not relent, and the Kusari government was forced to assign additional security to the region.
- The Kusari State Police have been given control of the old supply depot, and have converted it into a border outpost from which they can oversee traffic heading through the gate. However, despite the outpost's presence, Blood Dragon activity remains high throughout upper Hokkaido.
- Owner Faction: Kusari State Police
- Location: D/3
- Class: Mifune
- Gravity: Full
- Docking: Yes
- Amenities: Yes
- Population: 90
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- Built by Samura Industries shortly after the New Tokyo to Hokkaido jump gate was completed, Sapporo Station was originally intended to act as a base of operations from which Samura could survey the surrounding gas clouds and systems for resources. Ever since Kishiro and the GMG signed an agreement to open up Sigma 19 for exclusive exploitation, Samura has found itself all but locked out of the H-Fuel markets, despite the majority of the fuel still being stored at Osaka Storage Facility.
- But with the Chugoku Gate construction project pressing ahead, and the resulting drastic increases in piracy and terrorism, Samura has been forced by the Kusari Shogunate to house Deep Space Engineering and Universal Shipping officials, as well as offering a convenient base for the Kusari State Police to operation from in their never ending attempt to curb the rampant terrorism throughout Hokkaido.
- Owner Faction: Kusari State Police
- Location: E/6
- Class: Mifune
- Gravity: Complete
- Docking: Yes
- Amenities: Yes
- Population: 200
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Commodity Mining
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination - A previously undiscovered bacterial lifeform unique to the Sirius Sector, these microorganisms are remarkably efficient at metabolizing certain elements into oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide. When seeded in an immature planetary environment they can accelerate the terraforming process tenfold, or provide a rich, abundant source of food for other organisms in more mature planetary ecosystems.
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F/3
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10
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3
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E/2
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10
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3
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Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination - A lighter isotope of Helium gas, He3 is an essential component of the H-Fuel used across Sirius. When mixed in equal proportion with Deuterium, the resulting fuel has the advantage of being 'aneutronic' - that is, it does not produce dangerous neutrons that require heavy shielding. Gas Mining companies like the GMG and Samura can charge a premium by delivering the Helium-3 component directly to customers, letting them add their own Deuterium onsite. Known reserves of Helium-3 are in the Crow Nebula of the Sigmas, and the Shiden Cloud in the Hokkaido system.
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G/6
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16
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G/6
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16
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1
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G/6
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16
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1
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F/6
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16
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1
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F/6
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16
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1
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G/6
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16
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1
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Kusari Empire
