Yokohama Shipyard

CLASS: Okinawa

GRAVITY: Partial

DOCKING: Yes

AMENITIES: Yes

POPULATION: 2K

POPULATION: 9K

Constructed in 50 AS by Samura, Yokohama Shipyards was the first orbital construction facility built in Kusari. While Samura has been forced to cede the construction of gas transports and miners to archrival Kishiro, Yokohama still does a bustling business building large orbital habitats to house the overflowing New Tokyo population and servicing the ships of the Kusari Navy.

## Bribes & Missions Offered

* Gateway Shipping
* Kishiro Technologies
* Orbital Spa and Cruise
* Kusari State Police
* Samura Industries
* Farmers Alliance
* Hogosha
* Deep Space Engineering
* Synth Foods, Inc.
* Universal Shipping

## Commodities

* Gold
* Food Rations
* Basic Alloy
* Super Alloy
* High-Temperature Alloy
* Superconductors
* Optical Chips
* Construction Machinery
* Pharmaceuticals
* Ship Hull Panels
* Polymers
* Optronics
* Cardamine

* Scrap Metal
* Oxygen
* Water
* MOX
* H-Fuel

## Rumors

* We've got a special ship for bringing in the MOX to Kusari from LD-14. Bringing MOX across the Border Worlds is a nail biter, to say the least. Pirates of all types fancy potential bomb-making material.
* Bowex has an exclusive contract with Samura to handle Kusari government MOX and Toxic Waste delivery and disposal. We had to be pretty competitive on our rates, since ALG already has a foothold in Honshu.

* Most of our structural materials for shipbuilding come from Stokes or Pueblo. Combustion chamber and nozzle materials are supplied by Rheinland. They are transferred at Narita or brought in directly by our ships from Mainz.
* Yokohama is also the site of Samura's commercial transport assembly. We currently control 70% of the market for Small and Large Transports. Kusari military contracts are not as numerous and lucrative as they once were, so we must be flexible to keep our yards busy.

* The Blood Dragons have been focusing more of their attacks on the Hokkaido Jump Gate. They realize that if Hokkaido can be isolated, it will soon fall into their hands. Our expeditionary force in the system is weary of the nonstop combat, heavy losses, and fanatical hatred that the government bureaucrats and Samura share for the enemy.
* The Blood Dragons attack us incessantly here, usually from the Kanto Field, but other times from the Chiba. They will also hide behind Kitadake and launch surprise attacks when all of our patrols are out of range.
* Tokyo Command says that once the Blood Dragons' fire is extinguished, all of Kusari will again be in peace and prosperity. I doubt this. The government is almost bankrupt. Arming the GMG during the 80-Years War was very costly for Kusari. The ongoing difficulties around the Chugoku Gate Construction site have created a new burden on the already depleted Treasury.
* The Golden Chrysanthemums have staged several suicide attacks on the shipyard in recent years. They are not considered a threat, unless there are Blood Dragons in the area, who will often come to the GC’s assistance in times of trouble. They make a strange alliance, those two.
* The Naval Forces is somewhat uncertain of our relationship with Samura. Kishiro has shown us more promising research in 10 years at our new center in Kansai than Samura ever has at Nansei. They recently offered to build our ships at the Yukawa yard in Honshu. Given their more advanced shielding technology, this is an attractive proposition.
* The GMG acts as our border guard in the Sigma systems. This has been invaluable in reducing overall security costs for Kusari. Otherwise, the *Matsumoto* would not be available to patrol the Hokkaido system, which is arguably not of much strategic value to Kusari.
* We will never allow Republican to land at Yokohama, not after all the financial hardship that the Kusari people had to endure during the 80-Years War. Because large amounts of government money were available for advanced weapons research and development, the war did enable us to increase our shielding and cloaking capabilities.
* The Kusari Naval Forces has learned that Liberty is developing a new class of super ships far more advanced than that displayed in the Missouri class. However, we have been unable to learn of the secret location. It would be impossible for Liberty to conceal its intentions in the New York system.

* We've had problems with stolen goods at Roppongi recently. I'd swear that the cargo container of Superconductors outside is the same one that was lifted from our storage depots a few weeks ago by some Hogosha.
* These Naval Forces types are really secretive here. They won't let you outside of the docking area or the bar. It’s kind of a run down place -- not as nice as I expected. Looks like they're hurting a bit on maintenance budgets.