Kazuki Kojima

> *A man of seemingly unlimited foresight, Kojima developed a revolutionary demolitions process that carefully preserves the old facilities materials to use in future construction projects, saving time and money while removing the risks explosives pose.*
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## Strategy

When you assign the epic governor - **Kaz Kojima** - to a city, building new facilities in that city will cost less credits. This effect does not affect the costs of upgrading already built facilities or facilities that are already being built.

Secondly, upgrading facilities in that city will cost less credits. This effect does not affect the cost of building brand new facilities or facilities that are already being upgraded.

Thirdly, facilities in that city will cost less credits to demolish.

This governor's effects all can't be boosted, so this governor does not have the power booster ability.

## Lore

Kazuki Kojima grew up in a time of great advancement and towering construction, but he foresaw before so many others that it could all come crashing down. Born in the densely populated urban sprawl of Tokyo, Kaz was surrounded by incredible skyscrapers holding the lives of thousands in their delicate balance. While it was easy to marvel at the heights achieved by architectural science in the early space age, he commonly expressed an acute anxiety about the dangers of such rapid development, and the shortcuts being taken in the name of human progress. His worries typically fell on deaf ears, but a handful of engineering colleagues at the Architectural Institute of Japan took his concerns to heart, and appointed him leader of a special project with the ironic aim of destruction for the common good.

No one, not even Kojima, could have foreseen the sheer impact of The Sundering. Water systems in large cities became contaminated, refugees fled from countrysides no longer livable. And as the earth shifted under everyone's feet, hundreds of buildings began to collapse. So many more lives would have been lost, were it not for Kaz's revolutionary new demolitions process which contained explosions perfectly within buildings already condemned. It took some political maneuvering on the part of the AIJ to propel his plan, but a firm endorsement from the Far-Future Institute paved the rest of the way. Starting with Tokyo, Kojima demonstrated how his controlled demolition of broken structures could not only protect nearby historic buildings, but the recovered materials could still safely be used in future construction projects.

Set to retire some decades after the discovery of his technique, with his legacy secured, Kojima instead received a call from Keahi Malae of the FFI. He'd determined that Kaz's process could have implications for the safe settlement of new worlds, laying precise groundworks and preventing structural redundancies in our solar system and beyond. And rather than simply buy the technique's patent from him, Malae wanted Kaz to lead the smart construction enterprise. Too curious to pass up the chance for space travel, and to see how his life's work could shape humanity's sprawl among the stars, Kojima gladly accepted.

## Trivia

* Him is born in Japan on The Sundering.
* He and Aria "Baby Boom" Alvarez are the 2 FFI Governors to appear after the addition of FFI. He is also the first epic FFI Governor and the first epic Governor without the Power Booster Ability.