Luxury and Politics

[Tenacity]

Day Two: Kyushu
<Vacation Log Entry #2>
<Location: Planet Kyushu, Kyushu System>
<Local Time: 1148 Hours>

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"I arrived on Kyushu today to meet with leadership figures within the Farmer's Alliance, the Hogosha's closest ally within Kusari space. The meeting was held in a high security establishment owned by the FA not far from Kyushu's primary starport. When I arrived in New Tokyo last night, it was already dark and raining, but taking off this morning and then arriving at Kyushu reminded me just how beautiful Kusari architecture is, the buildings here are sculpted peices of art, as visually pleasing as they are functional."

"The Farmers Alliance had arranged a large banquet for our meeting today, serving the finest food Kusari has to offer, and all of it fresh grown in Kyushu's farms and oceans. It's been so long since I've eaten anything but synth paste and cryo-meals that I had forgotten what Sushi and Sake tasted like."



"Over the course of the meal we discussed the arrangements between the Farmer's Alliance, Hogosha, Samura, and the Kusari Government, as well as what we could offer and gain from working more closely with the Alliance themselves. Even their food exports would greatly raise the morale of The Order's pilots, it's a shame such 'real' food doesnt preserve well enough for extended keeping onboard starships and space stations."

"What more interested me was the natural medicines the Farmers Alliance had created from plant and animal life native to Kusari planets, some of the effects of these natural medications, after extensive testing, could prove very valuable to The Order. Most interesting among them was an herb that disrupts nerve receptors in the brain temporarily, inducing a short-lived coma; some of our scientists have experimented with synthetic medication that creates similar effects, though to a less potent degree, with the purpose of severing the connection between a nomad parasite and it's human host, allowing the nomad to be extracted more easily."

"I was able to procure a small sample of the herb in exchange for a pair of modified nomad weapons from my ship's cargo hold. When I return to Toledo after this vacation, the medicine will be delivered to our researchers to study further."

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