Niigata Star City

CLASS: Kowloon

GRAVITY: Complete

DOCKING: Yes

AMENITIES: Yes

CREW: 6200

Niigata is a gargantuan space colony established in the otherwise-remote Sigma-59 system. With the influx of inmates and colonists actually outpacing the number of jobs on the surface of Miura, the GMG unveiled an equally ambitious project. Pushing the limits of structural integrity and with enthusiastic investment from Interspace Commerce, GMG unveiled the first "Star City" constructed within Sirius by appending the original GMG-owned stations of Sigma-59 onto Niigata's chassis, forming one titanic construct.

Niigata's internal bustle belies the frontier nature of Sigma-59. While transports and Guild patrols are common around the immediate fortresslike periphery of the City and the nearby jump hole, the station has a population easily capable of self-sufficiency. Advanced hydroponic technology and frequent imports from Synth Foods ensure that the vast majority of the over six-thousand people aboard Niigata are fed and thus able to contribute to the full-blown metropolitan economy aboard, whose goal by a year's time is to become a net exporter.

While the corporate sectors of Sirius have either applauded or looked enviously on at the GMG's overall success with this audacious project, the lower reaches of the maintenance decks are rumored to already be an impoverished nightmare. Station security is rumored not to enter certain decks without heavy arms and numbers, causing some aboard to worry for the station's integrity. GMG continues to assure the sector that its investment is safe, claiming that the sheer number of failsafes and redundant life support systems mean that a serious threat from within is unlikely.

## News

Ageira disputed this finding in their own press release, calling EFL 'fantasists' and countering that their own scientists had narrowed the cause to a rare 'hypernova' stellar event that originated outside the Sirius sector. Both corporations claim that network-wide hardware safeguards have been implemented that would prevent a similar occurrence in the future. Independent researchers have sharply criticized the corporate announcements, accusing both of self-interested misdirection.
Professor Sophia Nagel from Heisenberg Research Station called EFL's accusation 'incoherent' and the hypernova explanation 'nonsense' that did not explain the characteristics of the 'Blackout Pulse'. Despite multiple different Pulse recordings being widely disseminated across the neural net, public efforts have so far failed to triangulate its source.

## Rumors

* We are very fortunate we've managed to keep Okinawa secret from the public long enough to entrench ourselves. It's not as easy for us like it is for a house. Our claim would have been rejected had we not already had fully setup industries underway to make their contribution to Sirius - Samura would likely have moved in and staked a claim on Miura themselves. It's the game we have to play out here because while a House has the military power to claim an empty space as their with little to no one to refute it meanwhile we have to ensure we are fully there to justify the claim as ours.

* We might have underestimated these Outcasts in Omicron Beta. We didn't expect them to offer much resistance but they continue to fight hard to this very day. We do not see any industrial developments beyond Ruiz in Beta yet their territorial nature refuses to give. Eventually we'll dislodge them, but for now we will avoid that area. With the reserves in Okinawa, Sigma-13 and Sigma-19, there is no reason to initiate a bloody conflict over resources we will not develop rightaway.

* There's no doubt about it anymore. GMG is entering a Golden Age. Our space has been more peaceful then it has ever been in centuries, despite the Corsair and Outcast incursions. GMG borders have greatly expanded and include just as many operations outside of the clouds as within. Our developments have more than doubled and more importantly, thanks to all the wars, the demands for H-Fuel are skyrocketing. Eventually, our people will even have a planet to settle on, but it will be some time yet before it is comfortable to do so.

* Many in Kusari are trying to portray our assault on Kurile as but the mere antics of greed. I can be first to admit that they aren't far off from the truth because Samura's conservative methods are too painful to watch when we are ready to harvest that planet in earnest so that it's wealth may be distributed across Sirius in a more efficient fashion. There is a bigger less known picture behind all this. GMG does consider that space its territory, and does not appreciate Samura's intrusion, along with their Hogosha lapdogs. We will protect what is ours, we've had to endure Samura extortion and trickery long enough, we can and will take action against it.

* Sometimes I find it so hard to meet eye to eye with my neighbors in Kusari. How can I be blamed? Six hundred years and still we find ourselves reminding Kusari of our sovereign space. One of these days it's going to happen where they learn once and for all where their border ends and ours begins. Mark my words, Rheinland will not be the only House that has to learn this lesson the harshest way.

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