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Here are some information about Samura Industries, provided by the KNF State Library.
Research and analysis made by Yngen (Apr 2007)

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Samura Industries

Bloated, corrupt and politically ambitious. That's what Samura is. For the most part you see Samura rumors surrounding undercutting competition or taking advantage of its workers.

A list of rumors listed by station follows:

Tsushima Depot: A facility in place extracting Hydrocarbons from the Rings of the purple gas giant in Kyushu.

Samura primarily employs blue collar class workers. a Samura employee never retires, but dies working for the company. To quote one of the workers at Tsushima: "The young bucks who come to work here do not understand the life they have chosen for themselves. They will understand in twenty years or so that we are nothing more than machines that Samura will throw away when it is done with us." To quit your job at Samura means the ultimate dishonor. In Kyushu there is a news story about the Samura CEO, Nora Samura, visiting the planet. On his PR visit he gives a speech honoring the people of Kyushu for their working spirit, while at the same time news stories speak of an appalling unemployment rate in on Kyushu and a general exodus of the working classes to New Tokyo to find jobs there.

Shinjuku station, New Tokyo:

A trip to the core world and Samura's main corporate offices reveals an even more sinister story:

One Samura goon describes a typical day at work: "I've got orders to put pressure on a Kishiro supplier in Tokyo tomorrow, and then I'm off to a bureacrat's office to ensure he has enough money for his golf membership. Various other employees in the bar reveal that Samura has many criminal contacts: "The Blood Dragons are an annoyance, but they have served their purpose well. Once the fields in Hokkaido are fully operational, Samura will have a revelation and rethink it's views towards the terrorists." And in reference to the Hogosha: "By relieving our suppliers & compeditors of extra commodities in storage, we can keep our costs down and remain clear of suspicion." Samura is also known to actively support the Farmers Alliance financially-out of patriotic support? Or greed for their market share of Kusari food production?

The invasion of Kusari markets by Synth foods is also mentioned. In an effort to remain competitive with the Liberty Firm, Samura began harvesting alien organisms on Kurile to use as feed for the fish farms on Junyo. Only now their scientists believe this practice is having long term health impact on Kusari citizens. There is some connection between alien organisms and Cardamine which makes the ingestion (direct or indirect) have similar side effects. People who have lived on Kyushu their whole lives eating the fish become ill when they leave the planet and get better when they return-much the same way Outcasts feel when they get to far from Malta. There is also some sort of psychological effect that scientists have yet to understand. But people who have lived on the organism fed fish all their lives tend to be apathetic and less prone to ambition.

Samura runs the Yokohama ship yards in New Tokyo as well. The only rumor of relevance there is a comon notion that the shipyards are under staffed and in disrepair. Suspicion abounds that Samura is funneling money elsewhere and leaving the shipyards as a front only. A small amount of manufacturing goes on there that includes the production of large transports.

The Osaka storage facility is the remnant of a long history of Samura/GMG partnership in the distribution of H-Fuel throughout Sirius. Now that the GMG work exclusively with Kishiro, rumors are surfacing of a planned insurance fraud to be committed involving a bogus Blood Dragon attack on the facility.

On planet Kurile, the Samura workers are somewhat insulated from the main body of the company and are possibly under different influences. The top headline in the papers there involves how the Kusari/Bretonian war was started, and it claims that Bretonia started the war by attacking the IMG. The rhetoric is thick and stinks of government spin, but at least gives some indication as to the genesis of our campaign in the Taus.

There are Cryer Pharmacueticals Traders landing on Kurile daily. They purchase the organisms on Kurile for their research into creating a sythetic form of Cardamine. They believe there is some connection between Cardamine and Alien Organisms which explains the health conditions being seen in the Kusari core worlds.

Compare Samura with Haliburton in the US, they have many similarities. They excel at maintaining government and political connections and generally covering their asses.
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KNF State Library can also provide informations about Kishiro Technologies if needed.

@Simon Black, I think we will do that way if an official faction is created. Exellent suggestion.