Nickels and Nails

[Zapp]

Tau 29 was just one jump from Kusari, but it took a special knowledge to get to Kyoto. Chugoku, the secret Blood Dragon system, was a secret fortress at the northernmost point of Kusari. There's a reason DSE has yet to finish the jump gate from Hokkaido to Chugoku - the Blood Dragons are a tenacious lot. Convoys of parts hijacked or destroyed, the station itself sabotaged, not even positioning of the Matsumoto near the gate construction site stopped the attacks.

Of course they went to great lengths to keep their secret base - indeed, secret system - hidden from public eye. Nickels was a rather privileged man, so he knew the way. Tau 29 to Kyushu, then the secret jump hole in the north of the system to Hokkaido, and fly still farther north in Hokkaido to the Chugoku hole. Kyoto is a huge asteroid in the exact center of the system. Their Chimeras were eyed with some suspicion, but once they explained who they were and who's authority they were under, the Freelancers were let through.

Docking request sent and accepted, they set down on Kyoto.

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