[SIS] - Intelligence Database

[Victor Steiner]

Location: Planet Cambridge
Sender: Agent J. Skirka
To: SIS Control

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After making my return trip through Kusari I had the pleasure of encountering a couple members of the Shimamori-clan in Kyushu. While our conversation was civil, almost friendly in fact, I regret to inform the Directors that they are also on friendly terms with Auxesia, or the Technocracy of Auxo to be more precise. This does call into question a few things regarding the alliance between Bretonia and Kusari, while that is not our concern specifically, it does mean we cannot trust the Shimamori-clan with any degree of certainty.

I reccomend reconnecting with the Blood dragons and possibly the GCs as well for future relations with the Kusari underworld.

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Radio logs

[22.08.2022 06:22:45] Preparing to cloak...
[22.08.2022 06:23:00] Zuiryu: Shimamori: I believe the scanners were not lying. What would a Bretonian intelligence pilot be doing in Kusari
[22.08.2022 06:23:06] Cloaking device on
[22.08.2022 06:23:20] Zuiryu: Shimamori: I doubt you want to worsen the relations now
[22.08.2022 06:24:13] 2022-08-22 06:24:12 SMT Traffic control alert: Zuiryu has requested to dock
[22.08.2022 06:24:31] Cloaking device off
[22.08.2022 06:24:32] Alert: Cloaking device disruption field detected.
[22.08.2022 06:24:44] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Bloody hell.
[22.08.2022 06:24:55] Zuiryu: Shimamori: time to explain yourself, Bretonian
[22.08.2022 06:25:00] [SIS]-James.Skirka: What in gods name warranted that>
[22.08.2022 06:25:16] Cloaking Device restored.
[22.08.2022 06:25:19] Zuiryu: Shimamori: you should know that foreign intelligence is not welcome under our laws
[22.08.2022 06:25:35] Zuiryu: Shimamori: similarly to how KOI should be doing nothing in Bretonia.
[22.08.2022 06:25:56] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Hence the original plan to travel through as quickly and as quietly as humanly possible.
[22.08.2022 06:25:59] Zuiryu: Shimamori: nevertheless, the relations between the Houses are amicable right now
[22.08.2022 06:26:00] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Which obviously did not work.
[22.08.2022 06:26:13] [SIS]-James.Skirka: I beg your pardon?
[22.08.2022 06:26:14] Zuiryu: Shimamori: so, you were passing through...
[22.08.2022 06:26:20] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Amicable?
[22.08.2022 06:26:33] Zuiryu: Shimamori: Bretonia and Kusari right now are friends
[22.08.2022 06:26:42] Zuiryu: Shimamori: at least that's what I have heard so far
[22.08.2022 06:26:59] Zuiryu: Shimamori: hence, no hostile actions will be taken against you
[22.08.2022 06:27:05] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Perhaps we should start again.
[22.08.2022 06:27:37] [SIS]-James.Skirka: James Skirka, Her Majesty's SIS at your service. Very recently recalled to service
[22.08.2022 06:28:10] Zuiryu: Shimamori: marquess Shimamori Masahito. Pleasure to meet you.
[22.08.2022 06:28:11] [SIS]-James.Skirka: I am not aware of the current relations between our houses at the moment, I have been away.
[22.08.2022 06:28:19] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Miss Masahito.
[22.08.2022 06:28:28] Zuiryu: Shimamori: Mister would be more appropriate
[22.08.2022 06:28:50] [SIS]-James.Skirka: I....My apologies, Marquess is the female term in English.
[22.08.2022 06:29:09] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Things must be different in your language.
[22.08.2022 06:30:05] Zuiryu: Shimamori: I beleived, marchioness is the proper female counterpart
[22.08.2022 06:30:42] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Then you have my apologies again sir.
[22.08.2022 06:31:07] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Obviously I am even less well versed in Noble titles than I first thought.
[22.08.2022 06:31:18] Zuiryu: Shimamori: no need to apologise, there was no ill intent
[22.08.2022 06:31:51] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Given the immediate situation I believe you will want some answers to my being here.
[22.08.2022 06:31:58] [SIS]-James.Skirka: I shall answer what you ask sir.
[22.08.2022 06:32:14] Zuiryu: Shimamori: that certainly would be beneficial, Skirka-san
[22.08.2022 06:32:57] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Fire away then sire.
[22.08.2022 06:33:25] Zuiryu: Shimamori: what would bring you on this fine day to Kusari, Skirka-san?
[22.08.2022 06:33:38] Zuiryu: Shimamori: that is the only question of concern, honestly speaking
[22.08.2022 06:34:06] [SIS]-James.Skirka: And incidentially that question has the more complicated answer.
[22.08.2022 06:34:32] Zuiryu: Shimamori: Kusari has witnessed a lot of "complicated" encounters in space as of recently.
[22.08.2022 06:35:06] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Two years ago the SIS was disbanded, our director retired and we were out of a job.
[22.08.2022 06:35:21] [SIS]-James.Skirka: However, he came back and requested my services again, to which I agreed.
[22.08.2022 06:35:43] [SIS]-James.Skirka: However, I had by that time, ended up over in the Sigmas, so I needed to go home
[22.08.2022 06:36:16] [SIS]-James.Skirka: So I either had to wander through Rheinland....which I aimed to avoid if at all possible, or travel via Kusari.
[22.08.2022 06:36:25] [SIS]-James.Skirka: I believed it to be the....safer, option
[22.08.2022 06:36:42] Zuiryu: Shimamori: I believe, that is a reasonable choice, Skirka-san.
[22.08.2022 06:37:07] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Reasonable but not accurate as it turns out.
[22.08.2022 06:37:41] Zuiryu: Shimamori: many in my place would have scrutinise your words but I see no reason to go full inquisition
[22.08.2022 06:37:51] 2022-08-22 06:37:49 SMT Traffic control alert: Akira_Sasaki has requested to dock
[22.08.2022 06:37:56] Zuiryu: Shimamori: konnichiwa, Samura vessel
[22.08.2022 06:37:59] Akira_Sasaki: Konnichiwa
[22.08.2022 06:38:15] [SIS]-James.Skirka: May I ask why you are being so...neutral about this?
[22.08.2022 06:38:20] Zuiryu: Shimamori: you have not been seen snooping around so I suppose that fits your situation
[22.08.2022 06:38:47] Zuiryu: Shimamori: because I believe in peaceful resolution. We should not seek hostilities where they can be avoided
[22.08.2022 06:39:02] Zuiryu: Shimamori: yoi tabi wo, Samura vessel. Safe trip!
[22.08.2022 06:39:12] Akira_Sasaki: Thanks
[22.08.2022 06:39:30] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Then it seems you are more well versed in current geopolitics than I
[22.08.2022 06:39:35] [SIS]-James.Skirka: What has happened recently?
[22.08.2022 06:39:41] Zuiryu: Shimamori: besides, I would not want this small incident to jeopardise the relations between the two Houses
[22.08.2022 06:39:58] Zuiryu: Shimamori: apparently, Liberty wants to suck Bretonia dry with the post-war restoration
[22.08.2022 06:40:25] Zuiryu: Shimamori: and it has led to Bretonia cautiously looking for other supporters of post-war revitalisation
[22.08.2022 06:40:29] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Oh? Liberty? Being cutthroat capitalists? No!, Never would they...
[22.08.2022 06:40:39] Zuiryu: Shimamori: and Kusari was eager to answer the call
[22.08.2022 06:40:52] Zuiryu: Shimamori: you can ask my retainer, Bolotin-san, about Liberty
[22.08.2022 06:40:58] SC-SlaveLabor-: Hello
[22.08.2022 06:41:17] Zuiryu: Shimamori: he is from there originally, he has a first-person experience on their capitalist initiatives
[22.08.2022 06:41:36] [SIS]-James.Skirka: I try to avoid Libertonians if I can get away with it.
[22.08.2022 06:41:46] Zuiryu: Shimamori: I am not certain about the details but the very fact that Bretonia and Kusari got closer over it says something
[22.08.2022 06:41:52] [SIS]-James.Skirka: May I ask who the freelancer is?
[22.08.2022 06:41:54] SC-SlaveLabor-: Do not promote me that much, Shimamori-san. I felt it long before the war.
[22.08.2022 06:42:00] SC-SlaveLabor-: //left*
[22.08.2022 06:42:20] Zuiryu: Shimamori: this is Yuri Bolotin, a mercenary in the employ of my Clan
[22.08.2022 06:42:25] SC-SlaveLabor-: I'm a security officer for the Shimamori Clan.
[22.08.2022 06:42:39] Zuiryu: Shimamori: the nobility of Kusari quite often has a noble retinue for various purposes
[22.08.2022 06:43:13] [SIS]-James.Skirka: I...think I understand.
[22.08.2022 06:43:46] [SIS]-James.Skirka: A plesure master Yuri.
[22.08.2022 06:44:03] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Although I would not have picked that name as one coming from Kusari.
[22.08.2022 06:44:04] SC-SlaveLabor-: A pleasure is mine.
[22.08.2022 06:44:10] Zuiryu: Shimamori: so as for Liberty - I think your organisation might soon find itself investigating them
[22.08.2022 06:44:26] Zuiryu: Shimamori: Bolotin-san is not from Kusari indeed.
[22.08.2022 06:44:57] [SIS]-James.Skirka: I certainly hope that is not my job, I build bridges rather than investigate.
[22.08.2022 06:45:01] SC-SlaveLabor-: That's a long story, but yeah. My recent motherland was a periphery.
[22.08.2022 06:45:21] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Ah, not one of the Coalition by chance?
[22.08.2022 06:45:28] SC-SlaveLabor-: Zoners.
[22.08.2022 06:45:36] [SIS]-James.Skirka: I see.
[22.08.2022 06:46:14] Zuiryu: Shimamori: since we are all friendly here, another thing for your service to investigate might be the system of Orkney
[22.08.2022 06:46:33] Zuiryu: Shimamori: I believe, that the Bretonian intelligence has a dossier on the recent "events" there
[22.08.2022 06:46:47] Zuiryu: Shimamori: this is most concerning for Kusari, and I believe no less concerning for Bretonia
[22.08.2022 06:46:58] [SIS]-James.Skirka: May I ask, what was the name of your clan?
[22.08.2022 06:47:19] SC-SlaveLabor-: My clan?
[22.08.2022 06:47:28] Zuiryu: Shimamori: Clan Shimamori. In Kusari the clans often take the surname of the clan leader
[22.08.2022 06:48:08] [SIS]-James.Skirka: I am not in charge of what the SIS does, however, if it is acceptable to you, I will request a possible appointment to you
[22.08.2022 06:48:24] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Since you seem to have knowledge of events that is of interest to both of us.
[22.08.2022 06:48:48] Zuiryu: Shimamori: you may do so. However, I would suggest the KNI. They must have more knowledge on it
[22.08.2022 06:49:12] Zuiryu: Shimamori: despite my position with the government, I am not from their inner circle
[22.08.2022 06:49:12] [SIS]-James.Skirka: I doubt the Kusarian Office of Intelligence will share anything with us.
[22.08.2022 06:49:32] SC-SlaveLabor-: Not for free, I guess.
[22.08.2022 06:49:51] Zuiryu: Shimamori: *chuckles* indeed, Bolotin-san, they might ask for something in return
[22.08.2022 06:50:11] [SIS]-James.Skirka: It is more likely they will think we have nothing of interest
[22.08.2022 06:50:26] SC-SlaveLabor-: But I'm sure you will be able to find compromise.
[22.08.2022 06:50:56] Zuiryu: Shimamori: my knowledge on the matter is also quite likely limited speaking in terms of intelligence.
[22.08.2022 06:51:08] Zuiryu: Shimamori: but I can gladly share what I know. There is no harm in that
[22.08.2022 06:51:09] SC-SlaveLabor-: I would say, Kusari is now rather.. open-minded. My appliance to the Shimamori Clan shows this.
[22.08.2022 06:52:00] SC-SlaveLabor-: //application*
[22.08.2022 06:52:09] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Indeed, which is why we would be interested in working with you.
[22.08.2022 06:52:15] [SIS]-James.Skirka: If only temporarily
[22.08.2022 06:52:58] 2022-08-22 06:52:56 SMT Traffic control alert: Akira_Sasaki has requested to dock
[22.08.2022 06:53:04] Zuiryu: Shimamori: more people investigating the events in Orkey certainly would benefit everyone
[22.08.2022 06:53:29] [SIS]-James.Skirka: If I may, where is your clan seat?
[22.08.2022 06:53:43] Zuiryu: Shimamori: Honshu, broadly speaking.
[22.08.2022 06:53:43] [SIS]-James.Skirka: The family manor, as we would call it.
[22.08.2022 06:54:08] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Wonderful.
[22.08.2022 06:54:15] SC-SlaveLabor-: Samura vessel, I can escort you to the border, If you would like to.
[22.08.2022 06:54:25] Akira_Sasaki: It's okay
[22.08.2022 06:54:30] [SIS]-James.Skirka: I shall arrange a gift to be sent to you.
[22.08.2022 06:54:37] [SIS]-James.Skirka: For your hospitality.
[22.08.2022 06:54:53] Zuiryu: Shimamori: I shall also advise you not to bring around Azurite. It can raise eyebrows
[22.08.2022 06:55:01] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Ah, yes.
[22.08.2022 06:55:07] Zuiryu: Shimamori: but the amount in your cargohold it too small to be of concern
[22.08.2022 06:55:12] [SIS]-James.Skirka: A rather unusual find that
[22.08.2022 06:55:36] Zuiryu: Shimamori: cloaks are generally not allowed, too, but you are a foreign intelligence so it is understandable
[22.08.2022 06:55:58] Zuiryu: Shimamori: let us construe this little incident today as a little misunderstanding
[22.08.2022 06:56:03] [SIS]-James.Skirka: I do have a favour to ask my lord.
[22.08.2022 06:56:23] Zuiryu: Shimamori: nevetheless, I must warn you not to violate our hospitality again. You can always ask for a right of passage
[22.08.2022 06:56:49] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Your man has some Junkers aboard his ship. If I may, I would like to parlay for their release.
[22.08.2022 06:57:13] Zuiryu: Shimamori: but showing uninvited again will be taken as a hostile move by Bretonia. We certainly would not want that, would we?
[22.08.2022 06:57:18] SC-SlaveLabor-: Your call, boss. These are known contrabandists.
[22.08.2022 06:57:24] [SIS]-James.Skirka: No sir
[22.08.2022 06:57:33] Zuiryu: Shimamori: why would you need this filth anyway?
[22.08.2022 06:57:54] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Ah...
[22.08.2022 06:57:57] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Auxesia.
[22.08.2022 06:58:00] Zuiryu: Shimamori: Junkers are prohibited within Kusari so they were taken in custody legally
[22.08.2022 06:58:09] [SIS]-James.Skirka: How very unfortunate.
[22.08.2022 06:58:20] Zuiryu: Shimamori: greetings, Auxo vessel. Everything is under control, you can proceed
[22.08.2022 06:58:34] A/)-SV-Starstream: Kinda weird that there's a foreign operative here, huh.
[22.08.2022 06:58:47] Zuiryu: Shimamori: we were just about to escort the Bretonian out
[22.08.2022 06:58:54] Zuiryu: Shimamori: this incident has been resolved
[22.08.2022 06:59:04] A/)-SV-Starstream: Might want to take the alien resource off 'em, eh?
[22.08.2022 06:59:10] Zuiryu: Shimamori: so, Skirka-san, if you may, please proceed to Tau 29 jumpgate
[22.08.2022 06:59:14] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Bite me Auxesian..
[22.08.2022 06:59:33] A/)-SV-Starstream: If that's a request.
[22.08.2022 06:59:33] A/)-SV-Starstream: Hah.
[22.08.2022 06:59:36] Zuiryu: Shimamori: the azurite gas in their possession is of negligeable amount.
[22.08.2022 07:00:03] Zuiryu: Shimamori: ok, Skirka-san. How about you can take these junkers and we will take Azurite from you?
[22.08.2022 07:00:14] [SIS]-James.Skirka: You'll forgive me Kusarians....Bretonia and Auxesia are....not on the best of terms.
[22.08.2022 07:00:18] Zuiryu: Shimamori: it is only fair, given that Azurite if a known contraband after all
[22.08.2022 07:00:28] A/)-SV-Starstream: Well, no kidding, you did betray us and try to subjuguate us.
[22.08.2022 07:00:35] Zuiryu: Shimamori: we are aware of that. Please refrain from hostilities at least while in Kusari space
[22.08.2022 07:00:36] [SIS]-James.Skirka: You're all insane.
[22.08.2022 07:00:50] A/)-SV-Starstream: Bretonia's not known for respecting others space, seems like some kind of tradition.
[22.08.2022 07:00:54] [SIS]-James.Skirka: I accept the offer, my lord.
[22.08.2022 07:00:56] Zuiryu: Shimamori: Bolotin-san, please keep the eyes on them to prevent a bloodbath in the orbit of Kyushu#
[22.08.2022 07:01:05] SC-SlaveLabor-: Roger.
[22.08.2022 07:01:23] A/)-SV-Starstream: I was hoping to get some information from you Zuiryu.
[22.08.2022 07:01:24] Zuiryu: Shimamori: Bolotin-san, give the Bretonian the Junkers
[22.08.2022 07:01:46] SC-SlaveLabor-: Prisoners transfered.
[22.08.2022 07:01:50] Zuiryu: Shimamori: pleasure having business with you. Now, if I may, we should be going towards Tau-29
[22.08.2022 07:01:52] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Am I to understand that your clan is on friendly terms with Auxesia?
[22.08.2022 07:02:05] A/)-SV-Starstream: You care too much, Bretonian.
[22.08.2022 07:02:07] Zuiryu: Shimamori: Auxesia is a neutral entity within Kusari
[22.08.2022 07:02:17] A/)-SV-Starstream: Technocracy isn't outlawed here.
[22.08.2022 07:02:18] [SIS]-James.Skirka: I understand.
[22.08.2022 07:02:18] SC-SlaveLabor-: We are on friendly terms with our guests.
[22.08.2022 07:02:50] Zuiryu: Shimamori: all parties visiting the House of Kusari legally are welcomed and entitled to the same protection by the law
[22.08.2022 07:02:59] [SIS]-James.Skirka: mm
[22.08.2022 07:03:03] Zuiryu: Shimamori: Auxesia includingly
[22.08.2022 07:03:11] A/)-SV-Starstream: That's the old name.
[22.08.2022 07:03:23] Zuiryu: //lol, sorry
[22.08.2022 07:05:41] A/)-SV-Starstream: Same with most things. Though I'm not a politician.
[22.08.2022 07:06:07] Zuiryu: Shimamori: indeed. Regardless, if that is what you call yourself - we will abide.
[22.08.2022 07:06:24] Zuiryu: Shimamori: we appreciate your cooperation, Skirka-san
[22.08.2022 07:06:39] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Indeed.
[22.08.2022 07:06:47] [SIS]-James.Skirka: And I appreciate your candor
[22.08.2022 07:07:17] [SIS]-James.Skirka: I believe this is the border.
[22.08.2022 07:07:34] [SIS]-James.Skirka: I assume I am free to travel on my own from here.
[22.08.2022 07:07:42] Zuiryu: Shimamori: technically, the border of Kusari ends with the Tau-31 - Tau 29 jumpgate
[22.08.2022 07:07:52] [SIS]-James.Skirka: ah
[22.08.2022 07:07:56] Zuiryu: Shimamori: according to the most recent agreement with Bretonia and Crayter
[22.08.2022 07:08:13] A/)-SV-Starstream: You actually got Crayter to agree to something?
[22.08.2022 07:08:19] Zuiryu: Shimamori: they had little choice
[22.08.2022 07:08:53] Zuiryu: Shimamori: the Crayterians pose themselves as more than they really are. Nevertheless, they coutner the outcasts
[22.08.2022 07:08:58] Zuiryu: Shimamori: and that's worth something
[22.08.2022 07:09:11] A/)-SV-Starstream: As it turns out, most people oppose the Outcasts.
[22.08.2022 07:09:16] A/)-SV-Starstream: At least those who value their autonomy.
[22.08.2022 07:09:28] Zuiryu: Shimamori: the outcasts are the only ones to blame for that
[22.08.2022 07:09:59] Zuiryu: Shimamori: actively spreading addictive drugs, enslaving people and engaging in human trafficing is their alter ego
[22.08.2022 07:10:00] [SIS]-James.Skirka: I take it the Auxesian will follow.
[22.08.2022 07:10:05] A/)-SV-Starstream: Even if they were "nice" - still doesn't disregard the fact that they relay on Cardamine.
[22.08.2022 07:10:20] A/)-SV-Starstream: I get that you have a self-centered kind of thing with your kind, Bretonian, but I don't care about you.
[22.08.2022 07:10:21] SC-SlaveLabor-: Most likely, Bretonian.
[22.08.2022 07:10:35] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Yet here you are.
[22.08.2022 07:10:44] A/)-SV-Starstream: I'm not gonna chase some spook in a Research Vessel.
[22.08.2022 07:10:45] Zuiryu: Shimamori: they like portraying themselves as being beyond us, common humans
[22.08.2022 07:10:59] [SIS]-James.Skirka: So either you care enough to want to kill me, or you really like me. I'm not sure which is more worrying
[22.08.2022 07:11:11] Zuiryu: Shimamori: the Auxo pilot had a question to us, I beleive, so I guess she sticks around for that
[22.08.2022 07:11:18] A/)-SV-Starstream: I'll let you dawdle on that fantasy on yours
[22.08.2022 07:11:19] SC-SlaveLabor-: I suggest you go now, and we'll chat with Auxo representative for a bit more.
[22.08.2022 07:11:38] [SIS]-James.Skirka: But of course.
[22.08.2022 07:11:44] [SIS]-James.Skirka: Cherrio Kusarians

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