Golden Chrysanthemum Player Guide

[The Gen'an Chrysanthemums]

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Rumors about the Golden Chrysanthemums

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462063
The Golden Chrysanthemums occasionally dock here for supplies, just as they do at Roppongi Station in the New Tokyo system. However, there is less risk for them out here as there are no police or navy patrols in the entire system. It is a shame really, because the Hogosha wouldn't be nearly so audacious with the navy around to keep an eye on them. Either way, the GC girls are friendly enough, and always eager for stories and news from beyond Kusari. - Interspace Commerce, Bartender Kenshin Ohmae, Furyoku Station


462068
There's some real strange stuff going on around here lately. A lot of transports have reported seeing ships with unknown transponders and anomalous energy signatures following some of the GC patrols lately. They aren't Outcast and they aren't Dragons. And that's aside from the recent rash of other 'anomalies' that have been popping up. Lots of mysterious lights and random sensor pings. Something's going on out there, thats for sure. - Interspace Commerce, Bartender Kenshin Ohmae, Furyoku Station


465850
This base was built as a last line of defense for The Alliance. The constant GC and Blood Dragon attacks on Kagoshima forced our leadership to build this complex. It's loaded with all sorts of top of the line Samura equipment. - Farmer's Alliance, Bartender Yoko Mamatze, Cape Soya Station


131265
All of our cruise ships require constant resupply of Luxury Goods for our clientele. I ship Luxury Goods from here at Newark to the Mackinac in the Nagano system. It isn't a joy ride, since there are all kinds of fun exciting ways to get blown to bits on the trip. Hogosha, mad Farmers, drugged out GC babes, Blood Dragons, Outcasts...Bartender, where's my drink?! I'm about to launch and I need three or four stiff ones! - Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines, Travel Agent Miguel Sanchez, Planet Manhattan


132892
The Hogosha are not really criminals, like the GC or the Blood Dragons. They may engage in questionable behavior around Kishiro and foreign shippers' storage areas on occasion, but will never directly attack any ship. Artifacts are harmless trinkets. All this fuss with the bans outside Kusari seem rather extreme to me. - Kusari Population, Bartender Hirotsugu Tansho, Planet New Tokyo


133268
They're sending me on the Artifact run to Leiden tomorrow. I don't like going there. Those Lane Hackers are drug addicts, and the Liberty Rogues smell badly. The GC will also show up sometimes, which can be dangerous for us. There have been Hogosha "accidents" in the cloud near the base. - Hogosha, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Kabukicho Depot


133411
Can I buy you a drink? I definitely need one. It was a difficult day. My unit was on a deep reconnaissance patrol in the Shiden Cloud, looking for the GC. We were engaged in battle with the GC for 15 minutes, and then they vanished. Our unit lost Takana-san and Ogawa-san. I was just singing karaoke with them last night, so sad ... - Kusari State Police, Detective Takeo Ishikawa, Sapporo Station


133416
One day Sapporo will be converted into a large complex, much like Osaka. Then we will no longer be needed, assuming that the Blood Dragon and GC is gone. I do not believe that day is coming soon. - Kusari State Police, Detective Takeo Ishikawa, Sapporo Station


133421
One day this system will be full of gas miners, and the enemies of Kusari will be distant memories. The police must first find and eliminate the GC base, which lies somewhere to the west of this outpost. - Samura Heavy Industries, Dr. Kenji Ono, Sapporo Station


133469
I'm in this system operating on behalf of Universal. I handle the problems that they encounter when shipping into Kusari. Let me give you some advice about hunting here: There are two sides fighting a dirty war here. You have Samura paying to kill the Dragons and GC, and Kishiro paying to kill the Farmers and the odd Hogosha. Both sides will pay to kill criminals from Liberty. - Bounty Hunter, Hunter Yoko Maeda, Deshima Station


131408
Outcasts, Corsairs, Red Hessians, Blood Dragons, Golden Chrysanthemums, Liberty Rogues, Unioners, Xenos, the LWB, the Farmers Alliance, Gaians, and Lane Hackers -- all these groups attack Trade Lanes. And that's why IC will pay any Bounty Hunter top dollar to kill them, any of them. But especially Lane Hackers. - Interspace Commerce, Bartender Mike Karlin, Newark Station


131610
We get shipments of H-Fuel from the Golden Chrysanthemums in Hokkaido and ship them Food, Side Arms, and Software. Those Golden Cs love the latest Software versions. And guns, they really love guns. - Lane Hackers, Bartender Wade Edmonds, Leiden Base


131611
The Golden Chrysanthemums get most of their supplies from us. We keep them living in the style that they are accustomed to. In return, they supply us with all the Cardamine we can use from their Hokkaido base. - Lane Hackers, Bartender Wade Edmonds, Leiden Base


131616
This is the end of our Artifact smuggling route that begins in the Border Worlds and crosses all of Kusari space. We don't like to see the Golden Chrysanthemums here, but we have no choice if we want to sell these trinkets to the rich Liberty fools on Manhattan. The Lane Hackers seem okay, though -- nothing like those disgusting Rogues. - Hogosha, Tadashi Endo, Leiden Base


131651
Xenos do a lot of their pirating in Colorado. You'll find Lane Hackers there, too. Going north into Shikoku and beyond, you will run into the Kusari criminals such as the Golden Chrysanthemums, Blood Dragons, and Hogosha. - Bounty Hunter, Hunter Chris Lakowski, Ames research Station


131657
The Golden Chrysanthemums that hang out at this base are into their Luxury Goods, probably the daughters of rich Samura and Kishiro executives in Kusari. I like 'em. They're all into Cardamine and stealing -- my two favorite past times. - Liberty Rogues, Mel Jackson, Leiden Base


132038
Bretonia is the largest source of Gold for the entire Sirius Sector. We are heading back to Yokohama with a load as soon as we can arrange the escort. Between Outcasts, Lane Hackers, Liberty Rogues, Xenos, Blood Dragons and Golden Chrysantemums, whomever we hire will have plenty to do. - Samura Heavy Industries, Hakkera Endo, Planet New London


132338
Cardamine was the one good thing that fate gave us. When we first landed on Malta the weak who didn't want to live anymore could go to a better place chewing the orange grass. Taking an extreme dose of Cardamine raw from the grass is almost always fatal, but it's a gentle way to go. It was also a curse, as we became dependent on Cardamine to survive, though we don't get a high from it anymore. Now we use Cardamine to make money. Eventually we'll run Sirius. Once a large enough portion of the populace is hooked, we've got them. The Rogues and Golden Chrysantemums are proof of that. - Outcasts, Lucy Williams, Trafalgar Base


132820
It's been hard to crack into the Kusari market with our drug, because their strongest crime syndicate, the Hogosha, refuse to deal with us. But we have found allies within Kusari who will help us tap that well. The Golden Chrysanthemums have discovered the allure of Cardamine. - Valletta Bartender, Gaetano Brega, Valetta Shipyard


132881
Tokyo is the only place we can buy Light Arms legitimately within Kusari. It's very controlled here -- not like Liberty, I hear. We don't have rabble like the Rogues and Xenos in Kusari -- just misguided souls like the Golden C. and those Blood Dragons. - Hogosha, Takao Shimizu, Planet New Tokyo


132889
Life in State Police is not as simple as it once was. We and the Hogosha had an agreement. Smuggling Artifacts is fine, but not Cardamine. The Golden Chrysanthemums have disturbed this harmonious balance. They insist on importing drugs into Roppongi, where we cannot watch them carefully. IC is not very concerned with their activities, so there is little we can do. - Kusari State Police, Inspector Miki Wada, Planet New Tokyo


132891
We believe there is a Jump Hole in the Kanto Field that leads to Kyushu and points beyond. From there, the Blood Dragons and Golden C. can access our system and attack the Kusari people. We are certain that the Hogosha know its location, but they will not tell us, as it is most likely used for Artifact smuggling. - Kusari State Police, Detective Takeshi Yoshida, Planet New Tokyo


132927
The life of a Kusari State Police Junsa is not really very exciting most of the time, unless you are posted in Hokkaido. Sapporo is the most dangerous assignment on the force. It is all clouds and radiation up there. You never know when the Blood Dragons or Golden C. will strike. - Kusari State Police, Inspector Junichi Ogawa, Narita Station


132933
I'm headed to Roppongi after this. If I'm lucky, maybe some Golden Chrysanthemums will show up at the bar. They've always got extra Cardamine to share. - Imperial Shipping, Hans Knaup, Narita Station


132957
You see Golden C. out there in Hokkaido also. I guess that's where they've got their base. They are just a crazy bunch, in my opinion. Bartender, give me a shot of whiskey for the road. - Deep Space Engineering, Dr. Chris Johnson, Roppongi Station


132963
Kusari would have minimal criminal problems if the government agreed to some of the reforms proposed by Blood Dragon and Golden C. sympathizers some time ago. The new government insists on those groups laying down arms first, more likely they just don't want any radical voices in the government. - Interspace Commerce, Rep. Cynthia Williams, Roppongi Station


132964
We allow the Golden Chrysanthemums to land here, since they do not attack shipping indiscriminately. Their dispute is with the Kusari government and industry, and its stifling, paternalistic traditions. We at IC would view any reforms of Kusari society as beneficial to IC's interests. - Interspace Commerce, Bartender Shozen Katsura, Roppongi Station


132980
We view the Golden Chrysanthemums and Blood Dragons as misguided political terrorists who occasionally engage in acts of piracy against our ships. They embody the pent up frustrations that certain elements of Kusari society are feeling towards the glacial pace of change in Tokyo. Now that our influence can be felt in government, we expect these groups to lay down their arms and rejoin Kusari society. - Kishiro Technologies, Bartender Arinori Inoo, Shinagawa Station


133003
We have a little deal with the police -- no drugs, no problems. Some of the young Bosozoku object to that. They usually get a one-way ticket out of a garbage airlock in short order. The Golden Cs are a different thing. We can't control those zealots. Misguided feminists, that's what they are. - Hogosha, Bartender Watamoro Kyubei, Kabukicho Depot


133050
There are several groups with an interest in this region. The GMG lay claim to this space and run frequent patrols, mostly around the Trade Lanes and their Gas Mining platforms. The Hogosha, Unioners and Junkers come here to buy artifacts. Recently, the Outcasts have also become more numerous in the region, probably peddling their drugs to Rheinland and Kusari. The Golden Chrysantemums are sometimes seen with them. Last, there's the Blood Dragons who seem to enjoy a good brawl. No shortage of foes in this space, but that is nothing new to a Corsair. - Corsairs, Alejandro Seve, Lagos Depot


133057
This is not the safest system for a Hogosha pilot. The Corsairs are our allies, yes, but just about everyone else is not. The GMG will shoot us on sight, as will the Outcasts, Blood Dragons and Golden Chrysantemums. Luckily, these nebulas are dense enough that we can usually slip through undetected. - Hogosha, Minoru Hiroshi, Lagos Depot


133378
The Blood Dragons can land nowhere in Kusari space, so we must come here to purchase our supplies from the Golden C. girls. They are all drug addicts, which we do not approve of, but they share the passion for a new Kusari, so we help them fight the evil Samura. - Blood Dragons, Miki Hayashi, Ainu Depot


133383
The Golden Chrysanthemums believe that they have the next Emperor -- excuse me, Empress of Kusari back in a corner of the living quarters in the form of a seven-year-old Kyushu girl. They're teaching her everything she needs to know to run the country. Good luck, Kusari has no Emperor at all now, let alone a female one. - Blood Dragons, Miki Hayashi, Ainu Depot


133414
The Golden C. are the main problem in this part of the system. On the other side of the Gap, it's Blood Dragons. But that's the military's problem. Anyway, they like to attack the gas miners, or wait for supply ships to pass along the trade lanes. - Kusari State Police, Bartender RBT-86, Sapporo Station


133422
We have begun gas mining operations here, but they are not up to full production - too many attacks by the Golden Chrysanthemums and Blood Dragons. The Matsumoto should be stationed here, not up by the Tau-53 Gate. - Samura Heavy Industries, Dr. Kenji Ono, Sapporo Station


133428
We prefer to attack installations and Samura-owned transports rather than raid foreign shipping, which does not help our cause. Unfortunately, sometimes we must obtain supplies. The Golden Chrysanthemums are not nearly as discriminating, which has created a publicity problem for us, since they are perceived by the press as our allies. - Blood Dragons, Tadashi Hashimoto, Kyoto Base


133430
The Golden Chrysanthemums are a bit unorthodox in their methods, but share our vision of a new Kusari. We do not espouse their heavy use of Cardamine, however. That drug is evil, and will prove their undoing. - Blood Dragons, Tadashi Hashimoto, Kyoto Base


133435
The Golden Chrysanthemums are becoming too close to the Outcasts. The allure of Cardamine is seductive, but deadly. If you use too much of it, irreversible physiological changes occur in our body. You are no longer truly human. That is the curse of the Outcasts. - Blood Dragons, Tadashi Hashimoto, Kyoto Base


133442
The only other group that attacks this prison is the Golden Chrysanthemums. They do not have the skill or equipment that the Dragons do, but they are fearless. We kill plenty of them, but they are not disheartened. That dastardly Cardamine is such an evil thing. We must fight each day to keep the people of Kusari from falling to its allure. - Kusari State Police, Bartender Junkei Tsukawaki, Fuchu Prison


133444
The Golden C. usually attack from the Keiun. The bold Blood Dragons will attack from anywhere. Most of the other criminals fly within the clouds to hide themselves, yet the Dragons will cross in open space, daring anyone to give chase, even the military. - Kusari State Police, Bartender Junkei Tsukawaki, Fuchu Prison


133453
This system is a crossroads of Kusari and Liberty shipping. Consequently, we get a lot of Liberty criminals here. There are Rogues and Lane hackers as well as our own Blood Dragons, Golden Chrysanthemums, Farmers Alliance, and Hogosha. - Kusari Naval Forces, Bartender Nagate Oichi, Battleship Myoko


133466
If you are looking to kill Golden Chrysanthemums, head north to the Kyushu Hole in Saiun. The Golden C. also use the clouds to move through the system. I get paid good money to vaporize those ladies. Watch out, if they sense that they are about to be destroyed, they have no problem ramming you. - Bounty Hunter, Hunter Yoko Maeda, Deshima Station


133488
We don't have a lot of enemies in Libertonian space, but we don't have any friends here. My ship got attacked by some crazy women calling themselves the Golden Chrysanthemums. They freaked me out, talking about how I was a male oppressor and such. Hey, the Zoners don't oppress anybody. - Zoners, Lance Harper, Deshima Station


133492
The Golden C. are dangerous fanatics who do not care if they live or die. The Cardamine has made them mad. One tried to ram my ship. Fortunately, I dodged her attack and blew her craft to pieces. - Kusari State Police, Detective Kyoko Sasaki, Planet Junyo


133511
The Blood Dragons are the greatest threat in this part of the system. We also encounter Golden C. and Farmers Alliance attack patrols on the Trade Lanes running from the Jump Gates. - Kusari State Police, Inspector Naoko Ota, Ohashi Border Station


133513
My daughter has joined the Golden Chrysanthemums. It is a terrible dishonor for my family, and I try to keep the fact secret. She was always a precocious child. I only pray she is killed without being identified. - Kusari State Police, Detective Akio Hayashi, Ohashi Border Station


133546
Golden Chrysanthemums lifted our Water supplies twice in a row. I have not been able to bathe in more than three days, nor has anyone else on the base. It smells unbearable. Do you know how badly miners smell? I am slowly being driven mad. - Samura Heavy Industries, Bartender Shingen Aida, Tsushima Depot


133553
One of the greatest threats to Kusari is the spread of Cardamine abuse. The Golden Chrysanthemums have been smuggling Cardamine into Kusari through this system, and it must end. I have ordered all Golden Chrysanthemums to be summarily executed and given flight commanders a red pass on patrols in the Border Worlds and this system. - Kusari Naval Forces, Colonel Takeshi Ogawa, Battleship Nagumo


133555
The Golden Chrysanthemums might be our number one priority in this system, but it is the Blood Dragons who are the greatest threat to our physical safety. The Golden C. pilots are young and reckless; the Dragons are skilled and fearless. - Kusari Naval Forces, Colonel Takeshi Ogawa, Battleship Nagumo


133559
Our patrols in Tau-29 come up against Outcasts on occasion. We know they are the source of Cardamine, but they are not the problem for us. It is the women who smuggle it into our system. Before the Golden C. there was no Cardamine problem in Kusari. The only other encounters we have are with the Gallic Royal Navy. We keep a respectful distance from them, as do they from us. - Kusari Naval Forces, Colonel Takeshi Ogawa, Battleship Nagumo


461670
There's a rumour that the Bretonian Queen is addicted to Cardamine and her military has been supporting the Golden Chrysanthemums in an attempt to undermine the Kusari government putting a stop to the trade. - Gambler, Mogami Yasutaka, Golden Dragon Casino


461807
We're lucky that the police keep the Golden Chrysanthemums busy toward the galactic west, or else this system would be even more dangerous. We generally only have the Dragons to deal with, and those traitors who are in league with them. - Kusari Naval Forces, Bartender Ensign Kazuo Endo, Battleship Sado


461831
We see Golden Chrysantemum smugglers moving from Okinawa to Hokkaido every now and then. We cover them when we can, but once they leave the nebula they are very vulnerable until they reach the Hokkaido hole. Sadly, not all of them make it. - Blood Dragons, Nakae Roku, Ryuku Base


461933
A lot of the technicians here at Misaki spend their days off at Planet Tomioka. It's a short trip, espeically with all the traffic coming and going from that place. We also get shipments of rice and fish from Tomioka here, and pretty cheaply. Easier than traders from Kyushu trying to get past all the Golden Chrysanthemums in Hokkaido. - Samura Industries, Noboru Suzuki, Misaki Station


462061
Damn the Hogosha! They might be legally tolerated by the authorities in Kusari, but Okinawa is still a frontier system in most respects, and the police and military are busy with the war in the Tau systems. We seem to get a raid every week or so now on this base, and I heard that one of Fujisawa's gas miners was destroyed recently after the Hogosha broke through the GMG's defensive perimeter. Furyoku's manager contacted the Golden Chrysanthemums recently in order to request their aid in clamping down on the Hogosha issue, but it appears they and the blood Dragons have their own problems of late. Something to do with a system called Tohoku, I heard. - Interspace Commerce, Bartender Kenshin Ohmae, Furyoku Station


462064
Don't try to hit on the Golden C. Girls when they're in the bar, buddy. They might all look stunning, but they're tough women, for the most part. Still, I managed to get chatting with one the other week and it progressed to the point where we...ahem...best not say here, my manager is watching. But it was really something, let me tell you! - Interspace Commerce, Samuel Peterborough, Furyoku Station


462184
I fly the occasional mission for the Gas Miners Guild as an escort and fighter pilot. There are also several fat Naval Forces bounties on members of the Golden Chrysanthemum. Being a free-wheeling mercenary, I'm able and willing to collect. I've equipped my Eagle with the appropriate shields and weapons for countering the G.C. There's one pilot in particular, Noriko Sato, which I'd like to bring in. - Kishiro Technologies, Jiro Iwasa, Isehara Refinery


470158
It's been hard to crack into the Kusari market with our drug, because their strongest crime syndicate, the Hogosha, refuse to deal with us. But we have found allies within Kusari who will help us tap that well. The Golden Chrysanthemums have discovered the allure of Cardamine. - Outcasts, Javier Hernandez, Cali Base


470162
One of our allies is the Rogues. They aren't our partners as much as our pawns. We have them under control because they are addicted to Cardamine. Soon more groups will fall to the allure of the drug, and they will also be ours to control. I see this upon the horizon for the Golden Chrysanthemums. - Outcasts, Gloria Ruiz, Cali Base


133549
I would love to take a shower; I haven't bathed in days. At least those damnable Chrysanthemums didn't steal our Food shipments or else we would be starving to death right now. Imagine starving to death in Kyushu -- there's irony for you. - Samura Heavy Industries, Bartender Shingen Aida, Tsushima Depot


462055
Adam Sensicle basically runs just about everything that comes through Okinawa. He has his hand in so much dirt he's gonna end up dead one of these days. That or running off to the Chrysanthemums for protection when the Naval Forces finally catches up to him. - Interspace Commerce, Sarah Montgomery, Furyoku Station


462091
We've had an alien biology division aboard Sendai for over half a century. Though the Blood Dragons own and operate this base, we have a surprisingly large contingent of Chrysanthemums here; many were educated and trained as brilliant scientists and the work in xenobiology and xenoarchaeology we offer is the only alternative to a life of crime due to the corrupt, Samura-backed government. - Blood Dragons, Miagi San, Sendai Research Complex


462094
Samura's not present in person in Okinawa, but their pathetic lackeys, the Hogosha, have a base here - somewhere in the Hasuda asteroid field - and constantly attempt to find Sendai in a misguided bid to displace us from the system. The Hogosha are amateurs, their vessels weak, their pilots inferior. Perhaps they can kill the occasional Chrysanthemum, though even there, they're outmatched, but never a Dragon. - Blood Dragons, Miagi San, Sendai Research Complex


462096
Noriko Sato, a fighter ace of the Chrysanthemums, frequently docks here. She's a credit to her sisters; there's many a Dragon that could learn something from her. The Naval Forces have placed a sizeable bounty on her head - well-merited - but she's escaped or destroyed all pursuers to date. I doubt she'll ever be caught; she's far too agile and alert. - Blood Dragons, Miagi San, Sendai Research Complex


(Deleted Vanilla Rumor)
"We get shipments of H-Fuel from the Golden Chrysanthemums in Hokkaido and ship them Food, Side Arms, Pharmaceuticals, Engine Components, and Luxury Goods. Those Golden Cs love their Luxury Goods."


(Deleted Vanilla Rumor)
"Kusari would have minimal criminal problems if the government had agreed to some of the reforms proposed by Blood Dragon and Golden C. sympathizers some time ago. But they refuse to change their fundamental way of doing business, whether it is looking the other way with the Hogosha or supporting the corrupt Samura."

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