Yukawa Shipyard

CLASS: Chiba

GRAVITY: Partial

DOCKING: Yes

AMENITIES: Yes

POPULATION: 7K

The Yukawa Shipyard is the primary ship construction facility for Kishiro. While Kishiro constructs ships for the commercial and civilian market, they have also become the chief supplier of ships and equipment to the Gas Mining Guild (GMG) and the Yukawa Shipyard operates around the clock to meet demand.

## Bribes & Missions Offered

* Border World Exports
* Synth Foods, Inc.
* Orbital Spa and Cruise
* Republican Shipping
* Kusari State Police
* Kishiro Technologies
* Samura Industries
* Gas Miners Guild

## Commodities

* Gold
* Oxygen
* Water
* Food Rations
* MOX
* H-Fuel
* Basic Alloy
* Optical Chips
* Construction Machinery
* Pharmaceuticals
* Ship Hull Panels
* Polymers
* Optronics
* Cardamine

* Scrap Metal
* High-Temperature Alloy
* Superconductors

## Rumors

* Kishiro does generate some Toxic Waste and Scrap Metal, which we take back to Dortmund via Sigma-13. Usually we pick up additional containers at Helgoland. That's the site of the Yanagi Debris Field cleanup operation, a legacy of the 80-Years War.
* Our most difficult system is Sigma-13, although the clouds at the eastern end of Honshu come in a close second. Corsairs mostly. They'll always take a few shots at a MOX shipment, just for grins.

* Kishiro was locked out of the GMG/Samura monopoly for many years, so we had to develop superior technology that could economically mine less concentrated deposits of H-Fuel than those found in Sigma-13. Now the research and development is finally paying off. We will not sell the GMG our latest miners unless they agree to abandon their relationship with Samura.
* There is a secret area of the shipyard where we build new Hull Panel prototypes for the Kansai Research Station. We also have a restricted area where a second massive onboard field generator prototype is being tested. It's not for gas miners.
* Raw materials are shipped here from all over the colonies. ALG has become an important ally, bringing us High-Temperature Alloys and other products of their Dortmund plant. The rest we import from Narita, Honshu, or Shinagawa.
* The Blood Dragons are in the area. You can sense their presence in the cloud. They rarely bother us, except for supplies on occasion. Those Farmers Alliance pests are a different matter. We caught them stealing supplies from our storage area the other day.
* The Yukawa shipyard may be building the new Kusari Navy soon. The current class of Edo ships is obsolete, derived from old Samura designs dating back almost 100 years. We are working in concert with the Kansai Research Center to create a new generation that will be competitive with the new Liberty ships now in development.
* Huge electrostatic fields must be created by a gas miner to attract the desired Deuterium and Helium 3 gas molecules into the collectors. Other gases such as Oxygen are often collected as byproducts. We use specially fabricated Superconductors built onsite to perform this task.
* Yukawa also manufactures Kusari freighters. We have ceded the Transport market to Samura, however. It is difficult to compete with a corporation that steals its building supplies from its competitors. They bribe the Tokyo bureaucrats and police to look the other way.
* We ship Superconductors and other research materials to Kansai on a regular basis. Unfortunately, the Blood Dragons view the Naval Forces as the enemy, regardless of their partners, so we must protect ourselves when we enter the cloud.