Proposing Kusari mining vessel Noboru

[Jinx]

my original concept looked different...

no head, no pagode like temple bridge but instead a non-discript-design ... a design one might suspect to be used by a company that focusses on money.

but the head was asked for specificly - and it also makes sense in a way.

a spaceship of that size is not only a tool. - it is also a presigous object much more than just some holographic advertisment .... and freelancer doesn t even have those in space.

such a rich and expensive design may be much more expensive to build and terribly expensive to maintain.... but the gain might still outweigh the costs. it speaks of a great self confidence - and it tells business partners that there is a company that is strong enough to believe in showing what it can do and what it has.

its a bit like a managers car. - certainly it needs to be safe... - but one could drive around in some ugly but very safe and easy to maintain no-name car. - managers prefer to show off a bit, too though... .

this is a mining facility - a full processing plant, not just a ship. - the captain might easily be the plant manager, - a higher ranking official of kishiro - and the ship is his way to tell the common miner in his ugly hegemon: "look at my ship, it does the same yours is doing... but not only can i spend my evenings in a bubble bath in the stone garden, but i can also make you turn jealous by simply looking at my ship"

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