Scattered Diary Entries of Iwakura Reiko

[Amba]

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Tanegashima Station, [REDACTED] System, Border Worlds
17/06/834 AS

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It is finally time. Supply lines have been established with the Core and the Independent Miners Guild, with more soon to follow. The final location for our installations has been chosen and the lifters and cargo ships have begun operations. Our neural-net presence has been established and orders have already started entering the system. Our logistics team has secured an initial stock of materials to begin work on said orders right away. Projected profits show the installation will have paid for itself in less than a month.

My friends in the research team say I am more smug than usual, and I have every right to be! This right here was a masterfully orchestrated plan, if I do say so myself. A year of hard work is finally coming to a head, and the rewards are just within sight. Of course, it will be far from smooth sailing from here on out. The Expeditionary Division will require a good bit of oversight and diplomacy will be a constant balancing act. Nothing I cannot handle, of course.

Maybe now I can afford myself a little vacation. It has been years since I've been to Curacao...No one would fault me for using a jump drive to get there in a timely manner, right?

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