Yokosuka

[WesternPeregrine]

Kansai Research Station, Honshu system

The center of the Hiyo cloud was an odd anomaly in terms of traffic. A hub of activity of research ships, supply transports, and military transports all concentrated into a small corridor along the tradelane, limited and secured by one of the densest mine fields and area denial weapon platform networks in existence among the Houses known space.

A holopad laid on top of a office desk, with an overview to the nebula outside, and the Yokosuka Experimental Model located below the research station. A series of documents were open on the screen, detailing plans for the expansion of the module, and a considerable tight schedule to achieve it's expansion.

It almost seemed that the Admiralty had waited on the political musical chair game to come to it's current form to proceed with the project. Admiral Tatsuya told him that support for a budget increase, which would allow for among other things the Yokosuka expansion, was guaranteed now.

However, most of this stuff was hard to procure from Kusari sources only, and few could compare with the standard some of the prime companies in Sirius could dish out. Asking Kishiro or Samura subsidiaries to waste time developing those modules would be mainly that, a waste of time. And Shimoe didn't had all the time he could wish for.

Still, while they could not directly provide all the things, the keiretsu were a reliable shipping force, and their contacts would provide them with the avenues to acquire the needed materials.

Shimoe started drafting the communications necessary for the plan to proceed...

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