Continent Tariku Moro Moro, ‘a quiet place in the country’, sited at the southern edge of the Sequoia Rainforest in the Satoyama Chiku {managed woodlands district}, is a chartered city of the Zakharovich Dai Ichizoku. [Moro is near the southern border of the chiku, Zakharovich Fortress is near the northern border of the chiku.] The geography around the city is a mosaic of foothills, woodlands, arable grasslands, rice fields, (warm) temperate rainforest, and rivers, streams, canals, ponds and reservoirs. The climate is warm with an annual mean temperature between thirteen and twenty-three degrees celsius, a spring/summer wet season rainfall average of about two hundred centimeters, and a better than even chance of a few summer typhoons. The portion of the Sequoia Rainforest located in the Satoyama Chiku, home to more than five thousand plant species (thirty percent of which are unique), is classified as a sustainable, renewable timber protectorate by Parliament and must follow strict logging and forestry guidelines and regulations. The forest here is dominated by tsuga, fir, hemlock, cypress, hiba, beech, oak, bamboo, ferns, sedges, shrubs, lichens and mosses, mushrooms, willow, sugi, sequoia, stratosphere ironwood, tabunoki, axe breaker, cedar, stone oak, and rhododendron. Also making appearances are black bears, gold eagles, wild horses, chernaya puma {black cougar}, giant salamander, sika, grass lizards, dragonflies, serow, macaque, aodaisho {blue general snake}, tanuki, and fireflies. Unlike many cities on Nejiro that have civic centers and/or high rises in the middle of the city, Moro has the Akaiki Stands – unofficially referenced as ‘The Park’ by the locals – a microcosm of the Sequoia Rainforest preserved by the City Charter, it is credited with much of the relaxed vibe of the city. The city is filled with traditional nihon style minka architecture and construction invisibly integrated with modern conveniences and materials such as streaming holos, wireless internet, solar, rain barrel hvac, and hydrocell technology. The largest example of this is the sprawling Moro Station, which has platforms for all the continental and regional passenger and freight lines on the move daily, a rolling stock depot, warehouses (several of which are kept reserved as public shelters during typhoon season), a large public market, and several comfortable and quiet waiting areas. Buildings in the chiku are on stilts due to the proximity of the canals and the myriad waterways and have lacquered wooden boardwalks and engawas instead of sidewalks and squares. There are a few continental highways and tollways but most freight is moved through the waterways or via rail. What roadways are available are generally narrow, two lanes at most, (the city itself being an exception - for as many as two additional lanes in high traffic areas, one of these dedicated to the public transit trams and buses) and are engineered to a high degree to handle drainage several different ways simultaneously. The cache system that was developed for this is highly popular as the water is recycled and filtered into agricultural irrigation. There is a regional airport, Akaiki Airfield {red tree}, located south of the city, used primarily by the Nejiro Fire Brigade Satoyama Chiku Battalion – Search and Rescue Units and Wildland Firefighters, personal aircraft, the local aviation clubs, and a small amount of freight, business, and tourist travel with regular flights scheduled weekly. Local mass transit consists of water taxis on the canals, and buses and trams throughout the city. Electric bicycles, scooters, and motorcycles (rental and ownership) are also an extremely popular transit choice, and they comprise more than a third of city traffic. Most of the local industry is situated around Timber. Local manufacturing includes lumber mills and yards, paper mills, printers, book binders, textile mills, ink and dye makers, stationery and calligraphy tool makers and supply, umbrella and parasol makers, boatyards (junks, barges, and river boats), electric vehicle (consumer, commercial, agricultural) manufacture, cabinet and furniture makers, tool and equipment manufacture and supply for logging, forestry, carpentry, agriculture, and construction. Agriculture here is chiefly organic open field plantations (tree, hemp, and bamboo), rice fields (paddy and wild – paper, textiles, and sake), autumn barley fields, fruit and nut orchards, free range livestock pastures from beef to poultry, freshwater fishing, and some foraging of the woods and forests – largely for mushrooms. There are roughly thirty-three thousand permanent residents of Moro, with a rotating population of an additional ten thousand or so, attributable to an abundance of public and private boarding schools, the two score or so logging camps, fire lookouts, and Wylde Ranger stations in the hills north of the city, the NPO Sequoia Regional Headquarters and the Nejiro Fire Brigade Satoyama Chiku Battalion Headquarters being located in the city. Moro is governed by an elected Mayor (currently Sjors Zackary) and their appointed staff, working with an elected Ward Council which supports its own Sheriffs Department, Fire and Forestry Service, Green Utility Service (water, power, sanitation), and Magistrate Court. [The Satoyama Chiku is overseen by Naomi Sachie, Meritous, Common House MP from her office in Moro.] The suburban residential areas of the city are very slowly growing as families and retirees discover (through word of mouth – no advertising due to adamant public opinion that ‘country folk wanna stay country’) and enjoy Moro’s slower and more relaxed pace of life and emigrate to ‘that overgrown town’. Akaiki Stands is a seven hundred ha nature preserve in the middle of the city, an original part of the Sequoia Rainforest, with trees more than three thousand years old, that the city builders chose to leave in place - surrounded by a public park – The Lawn. ‘The Park’ has a number of running and hiking trails rated from novice to expert, cobblestone walking and biking paths, and unpaved path horse trails over which Park Rangers lead tours in a variety of topics from birding to foraging for students, tourists, and hobbyists. ‘The Park’ is encircled by another hundred ha of wide and soft green lawns and strategic placements of shade trees, playgrounds (skate park, chess and go challenge boards - life and table size, ice rink, swimming pools, pitches, courts – basketball, tennis), benches, cobblestone trails, and gardens for people to relax or frolic, picnic and play. Akaiki Amphitheatre, located adjacent to ‘The Park’, and constructed completely of preserved or lacquered local woods has five thousand seats, handmade by local craftsmen, from which to enjoy concerts and theater during the warm dry days and evenings in the autumn and winter. It also hosts Graduations in March, and the Kids at Heart Easter Egg Hunt in early April that sends you off with clues for locations in and out of Moro. Footie Field is a ten thousand seat stadium that hosts both amateur and professional association football matches. The roof which resembles an umbrella is constructed of transparent polymer compounds over metal spines engineered to let in enough sunlight to keep the real grass growing, to shield the spectators from sun, wind, and rain, to completely power the structure from solar, and to provide all the water for the real grass field, the ground based thermal hvac system, the food and beverage vendors, and the restrooms and locker rooms from the catchment and recycle system. It is a designated public shelter during typhoon season. The Satoyama Gazette is a local community newspaper that covers Moro, the Satoyama Chiku, and the Sequoia region at large. The paper also runs national, stellar, and interstellar headlines in its daily print and digital editions. The paper enjoys great support from both its loyal local base in Moro and its regional, national, and stellar advertisers and subscribers, and only needs to charge one ryu for a daily print edition and/or one ryu weekly for its expanded digital edition to maintain a generous profit. Green Cab Co. is faithfully modeled after the historic London cabbies and their iconic vehicles, in this case painted hunter green, digitized and electric. The driver’s encyclopedic knowledge of the city and its environs as well as the wider area around the city, and their uniforms are also faithfully copied and applied to local conditions. The company has recently expanded into Hilo. Shinseina Kokina Seiiki Mosque {sacred noble sanctuary} is a scaled down version of the beautiful Al-Haram Mosque that only covers one city block. Ao Ushi {blue ox} manufactures competition and professional hand axes, manufactures chainsaws, manufactures powered logging tools and equipment, manufactures the industrial logging mech Kikori {wood cutter} (2.3 million Ryu) and variations for forestry, firefighting, mining, and agriculture. [This is a local version of the LM4C Lumberjack.] Moro Polytech is a top ten public school that teaches up to five thousand boarding students, (and up to another five thousand students digitally), vocations, engineering, applied sciences, business, construction, environment and climate science, math, social science, health, humanities, design, and hospitality. It is a key center of research in the development of polymers, microwave physics, and nontoxic food flavors and colors. MedGel, a plant based haemopilic polymer that forms a mesh to stop traumatic bleeding and seal internal and external wounds was developed in one of its labs and is now used commonly in Nejiro’s military and emergency trauma medicine, and also in veterinary and human surgical fields. The Moro Polytech Library is a six story building that holds more than three million printed works and nearly six million electronic and digital resources, it is equipped with a twenty eight hour study center, an I-Space which includes audio-visual information and production areas, the VR Experience Zone, the Internet of Things, laser cutting and engraving, vinyl cutting, 3D scanning and printing, book scanning, and large format printing. Waterlily manufactures usb portable, residential, commercial, and industrial hydrocell and hydroelectric generators, and their accessories - portable solar panels, portable wind turbines, power cables, battery and power packs, charge controllers, adapters, and inverters, offers repair services and maintenance contracts. Kamploops Kamloops, (354 sq km) sits at the convergence of five major highways, two tollways, three major railways – Heritage Railways, Via Rail, and Hikari no Sokudo – the recently expanded Kamloops Intercontinental Aerofield, and two major river – the Alouette Fleuve and the Wicked River – making it a transportation hub, a place which attracts business. The warm dry summers are ideal for agriculture and supports a wide range of crops, including fruits and vegetables. The large hilly valleys with dozens of lakes and rivers provide fertile soil and readily available water, especially underground irrigation systems, for the wide prairies. The colder semi-arid climate of the region supports major crops like alfalfa, hay, cereal grains, most vegetables and hard fruit, along with specialty crops such as herbs, berries, flowers, and specialty tree groves. Beef production from several different varieties of cattle and bison (also domesticated elk and deer) continues to be the primary agricultural activity in the region, but the sustainable fur trade is a quickly growing business. The Cattleman’s Association, the Livestock Producers Association, and the Domestic Animal Welfare Council are all headquartered in Kamloops. Mining exploration and the mining industry generates six billion ryu locally annually and has been a regional economic strength in Kamloops for decades. There are numerous metal and mineral mines in the area with a rich mining history going back over scores of years provides Kamloops with skilled mining personnel, consultants, assay labs, and suppliers ready to facilitate mining exploration and active mining. Kamloops has a vast landscape with plenty of room in which to play and engage in an array of recreational opportunities, all while enjoying over two thousand hours of sunshine annually. Housing is affordable and the cost of doing business is competitive, plus the area boasts exceptional schooling and healthcare services. Employee retention is high, with employees citing an affordable, high quality of life in the region. Kamloops is a charter city begun by the Fukuda Dai Ichizoku less than a hundred years ago with a current population of 89457. It is governed by an elected City Council overseen by a Mayor (Jade Lee) appointed by the Fukuda Shimon Kikan {advisory council}. Silverbridge Silverbridge is a chartered city founded about sixty years ago by the Sugai Dai Ichizoku, to more efficiently access their deposits of iron, carbon, clay, and silver in the area. The city claims about four hundred square kilometers of the badlands at the edges of the Eastern Desert, the Eastern Kiso Mountains, the Tiger Leap Canyons, and the Eastern Sea in the Argent Chiku. The end of the last geologic age saw the retreat of glaciers and the redirection of several rivers and the sea in the area, which left behind currently dormant volcanoes (Soren-san, Sparta Yama, Timber Mountain, and Mount Nonda), active fault zones (the Elsinore Rift, the Nankai Trench, and the Honey Lake Fault), and major deposits of iron, clay, dimension stones, kaolinite, feldspar, flint, fossils, salts, petrified wood, jadeite, obsidian, blue opal, beryl, quartzes, garnet, lead, zinc, lithium, uranium, nickel, azurite, copper, tungsten, mercury, silica, chromium, turquoise, tin, carbon, industrial diamonds, gold (mines 'produce' under one hundred tonnes per year), and silver. There are several steel mills (aogami, shirogami, tamahagane, gingami, stainless, molybdenum, damascus, and industrial), porcelain works, ferrocrete works, ceramic factories, glass factories, and military grade armor producers located in the slowly growing settlement. Even now decades after its founding, the city is still somewhat remote and secluded - at present there are no tollways through the chiku, and the population remains under twenty thousand residents. Until recently the city remained unnoticed by pirates and outside aggressors and was only occasionally harassed by local bandits, due mostly to the bulk nature of its products. It is popular with artists and crafters in metal, clay, and stone. Blade smiths and jewelry smiths are the fastest growing population due to the exemplary quality of the local resources. The newest addition to Silverbridge is Gossamer (publicly traded 38.7 Ryu per share), a textile company that combines fibers from the ironwoods of the Sequoia Rainforest, spider silks, and other natural fibers to produce fabrics used in personnel armor, sports equipment, athletic apparel, intimate apparel, space apparel and equipment, hazardous environment and materials handling apparel, storage and equipment, personal protective safety gear, compression wear, and support wear. Due to climate and geography supercells are common in this area producing torrential rains, flash floods, macrobursts, dust storms, tornadoes, and lightning clusters - therefore most of the still growing city is built underground in the Hebi Tani {snake valley}, or within Flower Peak (1472 meters) part of the Hebi Han'i {snake range} with tunnels connecting various areas of the city and mines, some as far as sixty kilometers away from the city center. Local travel around the city (outside of rail, water, and air) utilizes off road and all-terrain vehicles as there are no paved roads above ground, and travel through the tunnel systems are restricted to electric vehicles, some are large enough to accommodate fuel cell powered industrial mechs. Agriculture is mostly confined to 'ponic and vertical farms and greenhouses, with the exception of several herds of free-range domesticated deer, sheep, and goats which utilize specially trained guardian dogs and storm shelters within their grazing zones in the hills and mountains. The city center (mostly public buildings such as City Hall, the Guildhall Collegium, the hospital emergency entrance and landing pads, solar and wind farms, the Chiku offices {Rafe Vilkas MP}, and Hebi Station - a showstopper of marbled peach and green polished marble) is constructed of dimension stones, mostly basalt and granite, and military grade ballistic glass to withstand earthquakes and storms, with no building allowed over ten stories high - including the newly constructing NPO Tower and the Sugai Yoroi Zensho-chi {outpost}. Summer highs regularly reach forty degrees Celsius which makes the city underground more comfortable to live and work, and so reaches as deep as thirty stories in places with spaces large enough for factories, sports fields, and concert halls. The landscape is dotted with sensor equipped camouflaged and secured cisterns, skylights, garage, and ventilation architecture. The north end of the valley hosts a small regional airport (Argent Aerodrome) and the inland Argent Canal waterway (suitable for narrowboats, river junks, and barges supplied by waysides and road stations at the locks) fed by a small offshoot of the Chikugo-gawa, the Gin-gawa {silver river}, that links to Silverbridge Port (currently only reachable by rail, air, and water) on the coast of the Eastern Sea at the outermost border of the city, approximately one hundred kilometers from the city center. Currently the biggest corporate entities in the city are Stark Heavy Industries - metal refineries and armor factories (publicly traded 1,810 Ryu per share), Light Au Naturale - manufactures solar tube lights, skylights, and natural daylight fixtures and bulbs (private), and Cypriot - manufactures organic ultra-filtered and strained goat milk Greek yogurt in plain and a dozen or so revolving seasonal flavors like berry smooth, lemon curd, pumpkin pie, and chocolate truffle (public 47.3 Ryu per share). Visitors are advised to be cautious and aware as most of the human habitation and activity is underground the wildlife has prerogative above and roams throughout the area with absolute freedom, including migrating herds (bighorn sheep, antlered rabbits, boar, goats, horses) and predators (cougar, eagle owl, coywolves, landsharks {constrictor snake - six to eight meters}, novosaurs) willing and able to take down adult humans. The Enclave The Enclave is a small walled city (78 square kilometers) designated as a special economic zone, with a population constantly in flux (from twenty thousand or so permanent residents and employees to as much as half a million due to tourism, customers, vendors, traveling sales reps, traders, transient workers, and 'seasonal' workers), positioned on the Deccan Peninsula northeast of the Spaceport on the continent of Tairiku, Nejiro. It was established shortly after Yousai began building its foundations by Parliament to attract immigrants, trade, and business into the stellar system. The city is located nearby the Meander River a tributary of the Yoshino-gawa that flows into Subarashi Bei. The entire city is a free trade zone with some limited manufacturing, and a safe haven free port with the associated security measures. More than eighty interstellar firms have invested in the zone including Buki Industries, Stark Heavy Industries, Element Six, GE Sensing, New Worlds Media Productions, Zimmer, Cerulean Waters, Metals of the Earth, Ballard-Dukempic Foods, Galileo Instruments, Isesaki Shipping, Lufthansa Technik, Lustrix Commodities, Intel, Ryan Iceships, Odin Manufacturing, and UCB. The city houses places where traders may own, rent or lease space to demonstrate and sell their goods, and where trade envoys and other professionals may keep offices. There are several apartment blocks, parks, condominium and townhouse complexes, blocks of warehouses, factories, vaults and secure storage areas, research and technical services facilities, arbitration and mediation services, negotiators and hagglers, guides and translators, commercial and personal concierge services, workshops and repair facilities, transport and distribution facilities, conference centers, banks, financial markets, commodity and security trading,tradeshow facilities, marts and trading centers, independent traveling markets and fairs, traveling roadshows, hotels, inns and hostels, bars, theaters, restaurants, kabukicho {red-light district - love hotels, kyabakura, host clubs}, casinos and gambling, yukaku {red light district - brothels, pleasure houses, yujo} shrines, trade schools, entertainment, and health facilities to serve the traders and their customers as well as employees and residents. Many interstellar spaceship crews stay here while in system. The Enclave has strong ties with the Spacer League and Traders Trust. The city is administered by the Enclave Trade Council, and is considered somewhat of a foreign embassy, which is currently led by the Chief of the Enclave Trade Council Raji Rahman. The Enclave administers its own police force, defense/security force, fire stations, city services, medical centers, and paramedics. The Market Square, the most well-known feature of the city - a sizable open-air bazaar, is located in an enclosed and gated court within the city next to the caravanserai. The Market Square has the most substantial and significant farmers markets on Nejiro and sells local and interstellar produce, meats, cheese and dairy, bread and bakery products, plants and cut flowers, live animals’ seafood, prepared food, and beverages. The Market Square closes to custom at sunset and there is no vehicular traffic allowed in The Market Square after six am. The Market Square is filled with an enormous variety of goods and services (anything and everything may be found here) from across the Periphery and the Sphere. The Market Square is found in the largest most accessible area of The Enclave, with more than sixty narrow streets (some with glass covered arcades) organized into specialized souks associated with the local guilds and types of goods (textiles, handicrafts, spa and salon services, spices and herbs, gold, sento, books, leather and fur, drugs and traditional medicine, mecha and robots, fashion and accessories, yoshiwara style yukaku, weapons, furniture, animals, beer and alcohol, footwear, toys, engineering and technology, tools, vehicles, lighting, armor, tea and coffee, components, film and media, entertainment and attractions, gambling parlors, sexy emprium - sexual novelties, sexual aides, sex toys etc., soap and candles, housewares, music and instruments, electronics and computers, telecomm services, gadgets and gear, ammunition and explosives, engines and generators, water fun zone of slides and water coasters, stationery, barbers, printers, tailors, cleaners, prepared food stands, and restaurants etc.) of merchants, market stalls, peddlers and tinkers, vending machines, crafters and artisans, and over four thousand shops 9from pawn shops and antique stores to specialty shops and luxury boutiques) that attracts more than two hundred thousand visitors daily. Many of the bazaar corner's house koban {community police substations - some with K9 partners}, outdoor and sidewalk cafes, shipping service facilities, lounges and park areas, convenience stores, and pachinko parlors. There are also a great many fountains, and public art installations such as sculptures, mosaics, murals, digital lighting and architectural structures. The Market Square bazaar is the only place in The Enclave open to the general public. Non-residents generally require an appointment, tickets, or an invitation to gain entrance to other parts of the city. There are both canal and high-speed rail line connections to the Spaceport and Neptune Port (Iona Koichizoku - on the easternmost coast of the Deccan Peninsula) on Subarashi Bei with additional connections to Leyte and Bridges, as well as a regional aerofield with small craft and limited dropship access. There is of course a small inland port connected to the continents waterways that docks commercial and leisure traffic including yachts and cruise ships that may also dock a handful of deep draft ship traffic. The Eastern Desert The Eastern Desert (colloquially) – the Thulo Besina Marubhumi {Great Basin Desert} (officially) is a geographical region on the Tairiku {continent}, Nejiro north of the Sharqiun Kiso Yama {eastern backbone mountains} with boundaries of the Kuroi Oka {black hills} to the north and between the Yoshino-gawa in the west and the Samenoumi {shark ocean} in the east and includes the Sugai Peninsula, the Woy Woy Peninsula, and the Tora Hanto. The region was most recently shaped by the retreat of the glaciers at the end of the last epochs ice age, numerous layers of heavy dense sheets of ice compressed the land that was once sea floor during a prior geological epoch and the planetary crust beneath it. When the glaciers broke and slid to the sea it took great pieces of the landscape with it. Now the Eastern Desert is as much as one thousand three hundred meters lower than the rest of the continent of Tairiku, and slopes significantly from the eastern banks of the Yoshino-gawa towards the coastlines of the Sulu Sea {dynamic flowing water}, and the Sangosho Gulf {coral}. The region is substantially more arid due to its low elevation, as the air currents carrying rain travel at high altitudes the water evaporates before falling to the ground. Although there is little rainfall, (the region only averages approximately one hundred fifty millimeters per year - mostly from weather systems sweeping in from the ocean - the Same no umi {shark ocean}, the Sulu Sea, or Sangosho Bay during the relatively humid winters), there is considerable water in the region due to the large rivers left in the wake of the retreating glaciers, in addition to deep aquifers, lakes, canals and cisterns. The hot summers bring ample sunshine where the temperatures rise to an average of thirty-eight or thirty-nine degrees Celsius in the region and occasionally torrential rains or haboob {dust, sandstorms}. The coastlines along the Sangosho Gulf and Pearl Bay are overwhelmingly soft white sand beaches, of mostly terminal quartz sand particles and carbonate shell particles, that gradually slope to the ocean from cliffs and hilly woodlands of eucalyptus, poplar, kapok, aspen, cottonwood, and elm. In the hilly areas of the countryside the depressions have filled with older lime rich material developing deep, rich, dark clay soils excellent for dryland farming and the heights have diatomaceous albariza that provides ideal conditions for vineyards and olive groves. These inland woodlands are abundant in cork oak, redsilk cotton, pines, fir, holm oak, citrinae {citrus varieties}, cistus {rockrose}, juglans {walnut}, prunus {almond and peach}, thyme, and rosemary. The Eastern Desert is on the migratory route for a considerable variety of birds and other wildlife including great flamingo, greyly geese, imperial eagles, griffon vulture, knobbed coots, azul kites, nero condor, and horned tiger owls. Among the local herbivores are sheep, ibex, idaina kemono {mighty beast – ungulate}, serow, masked bears, desert mule deer, roe deer, sambar deer, horned andalusians, wild horses, hares, goats, nhema boars, and criollo cattle. Local carnivores include sarkans wolf, xolotl, strandwolf, iberlynx, otters, spotted genet, aardwolf, saltwater crocodiles, tomistoma crocodylian, and gharial. Other notable species in the Eastern Desert region are agassiz kame {desert tortoise}, hawkmoths, lestat viper, rayfin pupfish, spotted hyena, habu pit vipers, and banded sea krait. There are three major rivers in the Eastern Desert region and several smaller bodies of water. The Kanawha River {white rocks} is a tributary of the Yoshino-gawa that flows north through the Sharqiun Kiso Yama {eastern backbone mountains} and then northeast through the city of Hilo and its metropolitan area, the river then continues northeast past Camp Haken and then flows north into the Sangosho Gulf {coral}. The river ranges from two to sixteen kilometers wide and is up to one hundred meters deep in parts during its journey of over four thousand kilometers. The Quoile River {narrow} originates in the Sharqiun Kiso Yama north of the Anheru Taki {angel waterfall} within the KrissKross cavern system. It flows mainly underground except for a few dozen kilometers where it surfaces in the city of Hilo due to geological quirks. The river then enters Kawaita taki sankyo {dry falls gorge}, a gorge several dozen kilometers north of Hilo, and then due to past geological activity the Quoile River disappears and continues underground east for another thirteen hundred kilometers and empties into Pearl Bay west of Baja. The Waikato River {flowing water} originates from Tazawa Lake, a crater lake in the Sharqiun Kiso Yama which fills the river with kunimasu trout, sockeye salmon, red-fin, carp, char, catfish and eel. The river flows northwest and onward through the city of Hilo and its metropolitan area and then crosses abruptly east and meanders into Bear Paw Lake north of Baja, the river then snakes its way further east through the Woy Woy Peninsula and on into the Sulu Sea. The Waikato River has an average depth of ten meters and easily accommodates barges and small freight ships, but nothing handling over five thousand containers which require depths over twelve meters. The Akichi Erg {empty quarter} is a prominent local of the Eastern Desert region found between the south-western coast of the Sangosho Gulf and the Kanawha River in a deep depression left by the movement of glaciers millennia ago. It sits on a platform of sedimentary rock that hosts giant hydrocarbon deposits that is now covered by sand blown from the south. It is about one thousand kilometers long and five hundred kilometers wide. The surface elevation varies from eight hundred meters above sea level in the southwest to below sea level in the northeast. The terrain is covered in wind swept sand sheets and sand dunes with heights up to two hundred fifty meters interspersed with gravel and gypsum plains. The sand is generally a reddish orange color due to the presence of feldspar. There are brackish salt flats closer to the gulf coast on the deserts eastern edge. There are several asteroid impact craters filled with iron and glass deposits buried by the sands. The region is classified as hyper arid with less than fifty millimeters of annual rainfall and daytime temperatures regularly exceed sixty degrees Celsius and rarely goes below forty degrees Celsius at night. Fauna includes birds, arachnids, insects, lizards, snakes, and rodents with sparse waxy coated desert shrubs being the only flora. It is one of the driest places on the planet and virtually uninhabited, except for the railway lines from Leyte, Yousai, and Bridges. The Akichi Erg makes up a significant amount of the Akichi Chiku which continues west almost to the Yoshino-gawa and is classified as an Environmental Seat in the Commons House of Parliament, its MP is Jeddah Zahid, Meritous. The Tora Choyaku Kyokoku {tiger leaping canyons} on the Tora Hanto {tiger peninsula} in the Eastern Desert region has formed over eons with the changing course of the Chikugo-gawa {builder river}, the Laohu-he {tiger river} and the movement of glaciers. It has outstanding views and prominent geological and paleontological features. There are exciting multicolored rock formations and a diverse landscape of hills, canyons, and washes. Many plants not only survive but thrive and the plant genera includes species from the agave family, palm family, cactus family, legume family and numerous others. Creosote bush and bur sage dominate valley floors along with indigo bush and mormon tea. Wildflowers include desert sand verbena, desert sunflower, and evening primroses. Ascending the valleys you may find various trees and shrubs such as velvet mesquite, palo verde, desert ironwood, desert willow, fairy duster, ocotillo, whitethorn acacia, jojoba, and boojum tree. Multicolored rock walls and mesas are prevalent with over two dozen canyons and caverns. Weather extremes and poisonous snakes are common hazards to this area as well as flash floods and a diverse variety of desert adapted wildlife – for example horned viper, Gilia monster, scorpions, sabaku puma {desert}, fire ants, dacho {ostrich}, dingo, akakangaru {red kangaroo}, and it is here among the canyons that the most noted species of the Eastern Desert region resides, the amoy tiger. These obligate carnivores easily recognizable from their distinctive striped coats measure up to two hundred sixty-five centimeters in length and weigh as much as one hundred and eighty kilograms. The length of the tail does not usually exceed one half of the head and body length. It prefers hunting large ungulates (ibex, idaina kemono, criollo, javelina, pronghorn) but frequently kills wild boar, deer, monkeys, porcupines, hares, serow, and peafowl. Man eating tiger attacks have increased with human encroachment into their territory. The Teikoku no sakyu koya {imperial sand dunes wilderness} is a large sand dune field or erg located in the southern portion of Tora Hanto, between the southern banks of the Chikugo-gawa, west of the edge of the Tiger Leaping canyon fields, and northeast of the Sharqiun Kiso Yama {eastern backbone mountains} foothills and Silverbridge. It has a hot desert climate and may reach over fifty degrees Celsius during the day. There is sparse vegetation mostly desert shrubland, yucca palm, and juniper and a great many insects and arachnids especially beetles, wasps, and bees. There is coyote, roadrunners, burrowing owls, banded lizard, tora rattlesnake, and fringe-toed lizard among the local wildlife. The dune field is approximately seventy-five kilometers long by ten kilometers wide and extends along a line that correlates to the prevailing northerly and westerly wind directions. The area is designated as a National Natural Landmark by the Ministry of National Parks and Reserves. Most of the area is off limits and protected as Crown Reserves but twenty thousand acres north of Silverbridge at the edge of the dunes have been set aside for recreational off road vehicle traffic and camping. Book early as the park only allows ten thousand permits per season. Bajos {charm, to persuade, to tempt} or Baja {baha} – colloquially, is the first city the Sugai Dai Ichizoku built. The city is about 130 sq. km, at an elevation of seven meters above sea level laid out as a star heptagon and is approximately twenty-four kilometers from the sea. Baja is the epitome of laid back, calm, easygoing, and serene. The people are languid, relaxed and absolutely in no hurry. The city population is steady at about seventy-eight thousand but may jump to just over a hundred thousand from tourists seasonally and during festivals. The city has a mediterranean type climate featuring very hot dry summers with average temperatures of 35 degrees Celsius and mild winters with light rainfall. It was chartered in 2798 to take advantage of the nearby resources of limestone, chalk, silica, feldspar, quartz, pyrite, marble, clay, and salt while staying close to both the Pearl Bay coastal area and its beautiful white sand beaches and to the Waikato River {flowing water} for access to canals and the sea. The mineral deposits originate in the local sandstone formations which frequently occur as spectacular cliffs, cuestas, domes, and bluffs rising from the desert floor. The wide range of colors exhibited by the sandstone reflect a long history of alteration by groundwater and other subsurface fluids over the eons. The different colors are caused by the presence of varying mixtures and amounts of hematite, goethite, and limonite filling the pore space within the quartz sand comprising the sandstone. The iron in these strata originally arrived via the erosion of iron bearing silicate minerals. The precipitation of iron oxides also formed laminae, corrugated layers, columns, and pipes of ironstone within the sandstone. Being harder and more resistant to erosion than the surrounding sandstone the ironstone weathered out as ledges, walls, fins, flags, towers, and other minor features which stick out and above the local landscape in unusual shapes layered in colors and fossils, all of which attracts tourists, hikers, and photographers from across the globe. The Dako Unga {serpentine canal} (built as artificial tributaries of the Waikato and Kanawha Rivers) makes its way through much of the Eastern Desert region with significant stops in Baja by the Nuska Eki {deity of fire and light railway station}, in Hilo by the Menrva Eki {Minerva railway station}, by the Haken Eki {hegemony railway station} in Camp Haken, and by the Wahatan Eki {oasis railway station} in Madina. Baja has both a continental railway station (Nuska Eki) and a regional airfield (Thea Aerofield) {wide-shining, goddess of sight and brilliance}. The city roadways are all wide avenues or boulevards, residential streets all have meridians with productive trees (olives, apricots, almonds, walnuts), local greenery and desert flowers. Baja allows only electric vehicles inside the city limits. The city maglev subway is connected to an electric light rail system that serves the ‘metro’ area, the beaches, and local resorts. There is a dedicated high speed freight rail tunnel to Hilo that may also carry a few passenger coaches. Houses and buildings generally generate their own power via built in solar cells and/or wind turbines and power to industrial processes in the area is provided via solar furnaces, solar farms, and wind farms. The major percentage of Baja’s economy comes from its glass and ceramic factories (industrial, commercial, artisan), but mining, agriculture, textiles, and tourism also contribute. The city industry is well known and respected for its production of ceramic alloys and compounds as well as its inks, dyes, and paints. But Baja is renowned for their ceramic tiles and glass. Baja’s most prominent businesses aside from their regular concerns is Anesidora {sender of gifts} that creates outstanding lab grown hexagonal diamonds in shades of chocolat, blush, azur, vert, and cereza; Baja Gardens is a cooperative of many urban farmers from rooftop apiaries and gardens to vertical farms and pastures that produces thousands of kilos of fresh food annually to ensure city food security (and hundreds of kilos of fresh food for export), Coin-assure is a digital bank created as a secure payment processor that expanded into donations, recurring donations, go-funds, crowdfunding, exclusive content, and standard consumer and commercial banking; Chatterbox a hyper secure and super encrypted chat program; and Gotham Enterprises which creates and manufactures inexpensive and open patented medicines, farm equipment, repairable small power generation, renewable power generation, machine parts, all-terrain vehicles, water treatment, bolstered and protected crops balanced to not overwrite their environment, street worthy and off road electric vehicle re-body, component, and kit cars of antique, vintage, and classic auto designs. Gotham Enterprises is a long-standing company with an excellent reputation due to the fact that they make things that are tough and hardy and designed to last, they make things that are designed to survive with minimal and readily available parts and input, that they deal fairly, and that they value and offer sustainability the breadth of their coverage, their reputation for reliability stands them in good stead in the community. Baja evolved early in its existence as an art enclave due to the popularity of the arts within the Sugai whose Hierarchy, as well as that of Fukuda, were and still are extravagant patrons of the arts. An artist colony and an art commune soon developed as the city did. There are now many famous and infamous artists in residence at the Baja Arts Colony – potters, glassblowers, lace makers, and also wood workers, metal workers, dancers, photographers, and painters. Some of the best quality artist tools are crafted and manufactured in Baja from brushes to camera lenses. The Baja University of Fine Arts (Drawing and Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, History, Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage and Design, Traditional Crafts, Photography, Music, Dance, Performance Art, Language and Literature, Business Design, Fashion Design, Marketing Communications, Digital Media, Applied Science, Advanced Manufacturing) is one of the best schools on Nejiro and stands as a pillar of creativity and innovation. The school is acclaimed for its comprehensive curriculum and distinguished faculty attracting artists from around the globe and across the stellar system. From traditional techniques to contemporary explorations students undergo holistic artistic development and get excellent career opportunities after graduation. The city is located almost directly across Pearl Bay from Sugai Castle on the Sugai Peninsula and was architecturally designed to have a beautiful presentation, to have a spectacular panoramic view of the overlook of the city from Sugai Castle on Taebaeksan {great white mountain} (2744m tall), a dormant stratovolcano in the Baekdu-daegan {backbone mountain range} of the Sugai Peninsula. The overall architectural style of Baja – what has developed ‘locally’ into the Baja style - is a mix of byzantine, sukiya-zukuri, baroque, Spanish mission, and mediterranean revival. Traditional urban houses and buildings are constructed with shared walls to minimize exposure to high exterior temperatures (summer highs may reach 43 degrees celsius) and solid exterior walls are painted with lime to minimize the heating effects of the sun. The roofs frequently are terraces or tiled in the roman imbrex and tegula style. One of the most characteristic elements are the interior patio, takhtabush {a covered outdoor sitting area opening into a rear garden court designed to capture cross drafts in aid of night flushing}, or garden courtyard, even on industrial and civic buildings. Other elements include wrought iron gratings, azulejo tiles, and balconies. There are also many malqaf {wind catcher towers}. Most of the brick and stone buildings are either whitewashed, clad in white marble, or covered in tile mosaics of numerous styles from portraiture to abstracts. Stained glass is also a popular medium used for windows, doors, street lanterns, public sculptures and other décor with styles including bohemian, art deco, art nouveau, Islamic arts, floral and geometric patterns, calligraphy, Japanese aesthetics, luminist landscapes, mingei {Japanese folk arts and crafts}, medieval, romantic, and folk. Baja also has a profusion of gardens and parks both for the artistic view of nature as well as the cooling and calming effect of nature on a city. There is a strict limit placed to keep buildings at no more than thirty stories. Like other chartered cities Baja has an extensive ‘underground’ (which was built first, like sub-basements, and then the city itself built over top it - there are utilidors, cisterns that are also used in heating and cooling the city’s buildings, yakchal {underground refrigeration structures and ice boxes}, qanats {underground irrigation system}, shabestan {public and private night rooms with lounge areas and fountain pools for night flushing and evaporative cooling}, storage areas, bunkers, disaster shelters, welipini greenhouses and solariums, and a maglev subway carrying both passengers and freight), but there are also extensive pedestrian walkways and bicycle paths that reach every destination of the city, sizable public playing fields and parks, a profusion of roman style baths and sento, several Olympic sized indoor public pools and water parks, a great many lounge and siesta areas, and numerous cafes and pubs all used extensively especially during the heat of the day. Siesta is a firm tradition in the Eastern Desert, begun during the construction of Baja, observed during the midday hours between two and five, most people enjoy a long break from the hottest part of the day and pursue a long unhurried and relaxing meal, perhaps a short nap or some leisure time. Siesta Lounges are an original Baja concept that have become a popular addition to the juice bar and coffee house crowds of the Eastern Desert and much of northern Tairiku, with comfy recliners, chaise and other loungers and ottomans suitable for naps that serve aquafresca, fresh fruit, tacos, churros, conchas {sweet bread}, horchata {rice and nut milk beverage}, pita, boba {bubble tea}, paletas {ice pops}, and sopaipillas {stuffed fry bread}. The Baja ‘metro’ area is sparse and spreads eastward out into the Woy Woy Peninsula, there are a few suburban villages around the city, several guard-gated communities and resorts closer to the coast, almost a dozen fishing villages, over a score of small villages that primarily work mines and quarries or farm, and one permanent combined paleontology, geology, and astronomy base field camp affiliated with Raissonne Daigaku - Hilo {reason university}, the Nejiro Natural History Museum and Planetarium – Yousai, Kagaku Gijutsu Daigaku {university of science and technology} – Yousai, Yabai Technology Institute – Hilo, Southeastern University – Hilo, Rose Polytechnic Institute – Hilo, STEM Polytechnic – Leyte, Quezon Institute of Science, Imperial College Yousai, the SanGun Geoscience Society – Moro, and the Nejiro Guild Halls. The Eastern Desert (colloquially) - the Thulo Besina Marubhumi {Great Basin Desert} (officially) - is a geographical region on the Tairiku continent of Nejiro north of the Sharqiun Kiso Yama {eastern foundation backbone mountains}. With other geological boundaries of the Kuroi Oka {black hills} to the north, the Yoshino-gawa {excellent beautiful respected honored graceful pleasing sound river} in the west, and the Samenoumi {shark ocean} in the east, and includes the Sugoi Peninsula {wow, amazing, awesome}, the Woy Woy Peninsula {much water, big lagoon}, and the Tora Hanto {tiger peninsula}. The province was most recently shaped by the retreat of the glaciers at the end of the last epochs ice age. Numerous layers of heavy dense sheets of ice had compressed the land into what was once sea floor during a prior geological epoch and the planetary crust beneath it. When the glaciers broke and slid into the sea it took great pieces of the landscape with them. Now the Eastern Desert is as much as fifteen hundred meters lower than the rest of the continent of Tairiku, and slopes significantly from the eastern banks of the Yoshino-gawa towards the coastlines of the Eastern Sea, the Sulu Sea {dynamic flowing water}, the Sangosho Gulf {coral}, and the Samenoumi {shark ocean}. The province is substantially more arid than the rest of the Tairiku continent due to its low elevation, as the air currents carrying rain travel at high altitudes the water evaporates before falling to the ground. Although there is little rainfall (the region only averages approximately one hundred fifty millimeters per year mostly from weather systems sweeping in from the ocean - the Samenoumi, the Eastern Sea, the Sulu Sea, the Sangosho Gulf - during the relatively humid winters), there is considerable water in the region due to the large rivers left in the wake of the retreating glaciers, in addition to deep aquifers, lakes, canals, and cisterns. The hot summers bring ample sunshine where the temperatures rise to an average of thirty-eight degrees Celsius in the region, and occasionally torrential rains or haboob {dust and sandstorms}. The coastlines along the Sangosho Gulf and Pearl Bay are overwhelmingly soft white sand beaches (of mostly terminal quartz sand particles and carbonate shell particles), that slope to the ocean and harmonize with the sapphire blue waters, from limestone and sandstone cliffs and hilly woodlands of eucalyptus, poplar, kapok, aspen, cottonwood, and elm. In the hilly areas of the countryside the depressions have filled with older lime rich material developing deep, rich, dark clay soils excellent for dryland farming and the heights have diatomaceous albariza that provides ideal conditions for vineyards and olive groves. These inland woodlands are abundant in cork oak, redsilk cotton, pines, fir, holm oak, citrinae, cistus, juglans, prunus, thyme, and rosemary. The Eastern Desert is on the migratory route for a considerable variety of birds and other wildlife including great flamingo, greyly geese, imperial eagles, griffon vulture, knobbed coots, azul kites, nero condor, and horned tiger owls. Among the native herbivores are pronghorn, ibex, idaina kemono {mighty beast - native quadruped ungulate similar to oxen found wild across the Tairiku continent that may reach a height of two meters and an average weight of seventeen hundred kilograms with tough black skin, horns, and hooves and white, grey, or greyish brown coats they are good foragers that thrive in heat and sunlight that are resistant to disease and parasites - small numbers have been domesticated for premium beef production as the meat is of very high quality}, serow, masked bears, desert mule deer, roe deer, sambar deer, horned andalusians, wild horses, hares, goats, nhema boars, and criollo cattle. Local carnivores include sarkans wolf, xolotl, strandwolf, iberlynx, spotted hyenas, otters, spotted genet, aardwolf, saltwater crocodiles, tomistoma crocodylian, and gharial. Other notable species in the Eastern Desert province are agassiz kame {desert tortoise}, hawkmoths, lestat viper, rayfin pupfish, habu pit viper, and banded sea krait. There are four major rivers in the Eastern Desert province and several smaller bodies of water. The Yoshino-gawa {excellent beautiful respected honored graceful pleasing sound river} is the largest and longest river on Nejiro. It is more than seventeen thousand kilometers in length and originates from the Tentai Mizumi {heaven lake - which is fed by the Alpenwylde glaciers in the Kiso Mountains {foundation backbone}, which in turn feeds the Genso Mizumi {illusion lake} and Morning Glory Lake in the Kiso Mountains} and flows north through the Eastern Desert and the Yushan {jade hills}, and through the Kuroi Oka {black hills} and the Annettai Heiya {subtropical plains} until its outlet into Subarashi Bei {wonderful bay}. The river widens from two kilometers at its source to a maximum of fifty kilometers during the rainy season in its delta, it has depths over two hundred meters. It is the major river of the northern Tairiku continent {everything north of the Kiso Mountains and the Sharqiun Kiso Yama} a superhighway of transport to many destinations via itself and its many tributaries and canals. The Yoshino-gawa forms the western boundary of the Eastern Desert province, as well as the Kuroi Oka {black hills} province. The Kanawha River {white rocks} is a tributary of the Yoshino-gawa that flows north through the Kiso Mountains then east into the Sharqiun Kiso Yama {eastern backbone foundation mountains} and then northeast through the city of Hilo and its metropolitan area. The Kanawha River then continues east past Camp Haken {hegemony} and then flows north into the Sangosho Gulf {coral}. The Kanawha River is a fast-moving body of water with several constricted sections that form rapids (rated from Class III to Class IV) and small waterfalls. The river has several hydropower facilities along its route. The Kanawha River ranges from two to sixteen kilometers wide and is up to one hundred meters deep in parts during its journey of over four thousand kilometers. The Quoile River {narrow} originates in the Sharqiun Kiso Yama south of the Anheru Taki {angel waterfall} within the KrissKross cavern system. It flows mainly underground except for a few dozen kilometers where it surfaces in Hilo due to geological quirks. The river again surfaces as it enters Kawaita taki sankyo {dry falls gorge}, a gorge several dozen kilometers north of the Hilo metropolitan area, and then due to past geological activity the Quoile River disappears and continues underground east for another thirteen hundred kilometers or so and empties into Pearl Bay west of Baja. The Waikato River {flowing water} originates from Tazawa Lake {hill with a raised circular top, rice paddy}, a deep caldera lake {a six kilometer wide body of freshwater with two lava domes over three hundred meters in diameter in its 423-meter depths on Ryujin no sumiko yama (dwelling of the dragon god mountain) 2236-masl} (the lake that never freezes) in the Sharqiun Kiso Yama which fills the river with kunimasu trout, sockeye salmon, red-fin, carp, char, catfish, and eel. The Waikato River flows northeast from its origins and continues onward through the city of Hilo and its metropolitan area and then crosses abruptly east and meanders into Bear Paw Lake northwest of Baja. The Waikato River then snakes its way further east and then south past Baja and through the Woy Woy Peninsula {much water, big lagoon} and on into the Sulu Sea {dynamic flowing water}. The Waikato River has an average depth of ten meters and easily accommodates barges and small freight ships, but nothing handling over five rivers, lakes and canals of the Eastern Desert province. They are also cultivated around farmlands, orchards, vineyards, and pastures to mitigate flooding. Bear Paw Lake has over three thousand kilometers of shorelines, endless sunshine, warm water, and some of the most spectacular scenery of the Eastern Desert province. The lake is part of Shu gake koen {vermillion cliff park} a national wilderness park which includes woodlands surrounding the lake, hot springs, and the Kamigami no tani {valley of the gods} a scenic sandstone valley of about four hundred square kilometers, the remnants of an ancient landscape with tall red-brown mesas, buttes, towers, mushroom rocks and other iconic sandstone formations. Izanagi Izanami Jinja is a Shinto shrine to the progenitor gods with their sixty-meter likenesses carved directly into a sandstone cliff in the Kamigami no tani. The honden {the sacred halls where enshrined representations of the kami are kept} of the shrine buildings placed protectively in front of the statues, is a three bay Nagare-zukuri style building connected to the heiden {offering hall} by a roof. Other attractions in the Shu gake koen include the Shu gake bijutsukan {vermillion cliff museum} with interactive exhibits about the wildlife, geology, and paleontology of the area; the Nigai Mizu Visitors Center and Amphitheater {bitter water} from which the local park rangers and NPO Wylde Rangers offer demonstrations, classes, and programs; ryokan {inn} and minshuku {bed & breakfast} with outdoor onsen; Sky-top Lodge a stone manor house resort hotel (with a private aerostrip) built at the top of the West Cliff and overlooks Bear Paw Lake; and the Kuma no ashi no mizumi marina {bear paw lake marina} rents and leases houseboats, powerboats, jet-skis, kayaks, and sailing craft up to twenty three meters. The marina features a Clubhouse with a sento {Japanese style communal bathhouse} and spa (soaking tubs, sauna, reiki, salt therapy, epidermis treatments, hair and nail decor, massage), a gourmet restaurant, a pub, a bakery cafe, a chandlery, electricity and communications, maintenance and repair services, and a large Inn. It offers access to a waterway station, a marine roadhouse, and charter operators that explore the lake, nearby canals, the Waikato River {flowing water}, and also the Hibari-gawa {skylark river} a small outlet of the lake that eventually empties into Pearl Bay. Ayuhwasi {meadow} is a small, chartered village (2836) {the sole instance in the Park} whose residents (491) are employed in the tourism of the area and agriculture; with a railway station served by Trinity Railways, Via Rail, Zheleznyye Dorogi {spirit railways}, and other regional lines. Activities at the Park include glamping, camping, fishing, hiking, horseback riding, photo safari tours, helicopter air tours, airship air tours, swimming and other water activities, basking in the sun on the beaches, and a championship golf course. The Akichi Erg {empty quarter} is a prominent locale of the Eastern Desert province found between the south-western coast of the Sangosho Gulf {coral} and the Kanawha River {white rock} in a deep depression left by the movement of glaciers millennia ago. It sits on a platform of sedimentary rock that hosts ancient giant hydrocarbon and artesian water deposits that is now covered by billions of tons of sand blown from the south and west. The erg is about one thousand kilometers long and five hundred kilometers wide. The surface elevation varies from eight hundred meters above sea level in the southwest to below sea level in the northeast. The terrain is covered in wind swept sand sheets and sand dunes with heights up to two hundred and fifty meters above ground interspersed with gravel and gypsum plains. The sand is generally a reddish orange color due to the presence of feldspar. Closer to the gulf coast on the desert's eastern edge are brackish salt flats. There are several meteor impact craters filled with iron and glass deposits buried by the sands. The region is classified as hyper arid with less than fifty millimeters of annual rainfall. Daytime temperatures regularly exceed sixty degrees Celsius and rarely go below forty degrees Celsius at night. Dry windstorms - haboob and sirocco that carry great quantities of sand and dust blow nearly constantly across the desert at speeds up to one hundred and forty kilometers per hour which in turn drops the humidity to below five percent. Fauna includes birds, arachnids, insects, lizards, snakes, and rodents with sparse waxy coated desert shrubs being the only flora. It is one of the driest places on Nejiro and virtually uninhabited. The exception being the railway lines, built on bridges anchored into the sedimentary rock underneath the sand that cross the desert from Leyte, Yousai, and Bridges. There are no roadways. The Akichi Erg makes up a significant percentage of the Akichi Chiku {empty quarter district} which continues west through the Shirudo no taka-sa {shield heights} {composed of arid rocky hills that reach heights of more than one thousand meters formed from granite and crystalline igneous rock with deposits of precious and industrial metals and minerals (gold, copper, tin, silver, zinc, lead, iron, tungsten, mineral sands, phosphates) but mining is not pursued in the Chiku at this time due to the shortage of water and infrastructure and the resources are currently un-needed}. The Akichi Chiku continues almost to the Yoshino-gawa and is classified as an Environmental Seat in the Nejiro Commons House of Parliament. Its MP is Jeddah Zahid. The Kuroi Sabaku {black desert} features picturesque volcanic mountains that appear blanketed with black char, with hot springs and salt lakes creating dreamlike natural spas. Cloud Peak the eminent attraction of Stargazer Wilderness Park (property of the Badawi Group {desert dweller} - the umbrella corporation under which the Malik and Rizvi Koichizoku partnership conducts business together), is among the most popular ascents in the region with big wall climbs on both the east and southeast faces and the Kiri no tsuki {misty moon} and Kodoku {solitude} trails provide challenging hikes that yield one breathtaking view after another. The Kuroi Sabaku covers an area over forty thousand square kilometers of rocky basaltic desert south of the Akichi Chiku and north of the Sharqiun Kiso Yama foothills formed by large lava flows into a massif of volcanic hills in the Eastern Desert province. The topography of depressions, rifts, and ridges with scattered arable patches is characterized by rocky soil and scarce vegetation, characteristically acacia shrubland with patches of juniper at higher altitudes. The area comprises ancient volcanic fields formed by tectonic activity millennia ago. It contains the remains of more than eight hundred extinct and dormant volcanic cinder cones that reach an average altitude of eleven hundred meters above sea level. The plains are relatively low plateaus roughly six hundred meters above sea level that consist of the rocky remains of lava flows or large patches of arable land derived from decomposed basaltic and volcanic rock. The grassy arable oases fauna includes caracal, Asian lion, mongoose, weasel, grey wolf, xolotl, idaina kemono {mighty beast}, honey badger, sandcat, gazelle, deer, wild goat, ibex, hyrax, jerboa, hedgehogs, oryx, striped hyena, golden jackal, ibis, kestrel, great bustard, and imperial eagles. Mount el-Leja {the refuge} is an extinct stratovolvano fourteen hundred meters high surrounded by an arable plateau that has been occupied since shortly after the Terran Alliance Navy (2217) populated the planet. The relatively frequent rainfall and an abundance of water springs allow the area to have stable grain, juniper, vineyard, and orchard (citrus, olives, nuts) cultivation, as well as pastures for sheep and goats. The el-Leja community produces one of the more sought-after wines in the distant Draconis Combine (and Nejiro), especially the Me Entoli tou Vakchou label. The vernacular architecture uses basalt exclusively in a fusion of ancient Greek and Roman styles. TheTora Choyaku Kyokoku {tiger leaping canyons} on the Tora Hanto {tiger peninsula} in the Eastern Desert province has formed over eons with the changing course of the Chikugo-gawa {builder river}, the Laohu-he {tiger river} and the movement of glaciers. The Chikugo-gawa originates in Morning Glory Lake in the Sharqiun Kiso Yama {eastern foundation backbone mountains} then travels north into the Tora Hanto and its varying course majorly shaped the canyons and other geographical features of the area, the river currently ends near Tora Point and outlets into the Sulu Sea {dynamic flowing water}. The Laohu-he source is the Genso Mizumi {illusion lake} {formed from runoff from the Alpenwylde glaciers} between the Kiso Mountains {foundation backbone} and the Sharqiun Kiso Yama from which it travels east then north into the Tora Hanto to help form the topography of the Tora Choyaku Kyokoku. The Tora Choyaku Kyokoku on Tora Hanto has outstanding views and prominent geological and paleoentological features. There are exciting multicolored rock formations and a diverse landscape of hills, canyons, and washes. Many plants not only survive but thrive and the plant genera includes species from the agave family, palm family, cactus family, legume family and numerous others. Creosote bush and bur sage dominate valley floors along with indigo bush and mormon tea. Wildflowers include desert sand verbena, desert sunflower, and evening primroses. Ascending the valleys you may find trees and shrubs such as velvet mesquite, palo verde, desert ironwood, desert willow, fairy duster, ocotillo, whitehorn acacia, jojoba, and boojum tree. Multicolored rock walls and mesas are prevalent with over two dozen canyons and caverns. Weather extremes and poisonous snakes are common hazards to this area as well as flash floods and a diverse variety of desert adapted wildlife - for example horned viper, gila monster, scorpions, golden wolf, jackal, sabaku puma {desert}, fire ants, dacho {ostrich}, dingo, akakangaru {red kangaroo}, xolotl. And it is here among the canyons that the most noted species of the Eastern Desert province resides, the amoy tiger. These obligate carnivores, easily recognizable from their distinctive striped coats, measure up to two meters in length and weigh as much as two hundred kilograms. It prefers hunting large ungulates (ibex, idaina kemono, criollo, javelina, pronghorn) but frequently kills wild boar, deer, monkeys, porcupine, hare, serow, and peafowl. Man eating tiger attacks have increased with human encroachment into their territory. The Teikoku no sakyu koya {imperial sand dunes wilderness} is a large sand dune field or erg located in the southern portion of Tora Hanto {tiger peninsula} between the southern banks of the Chikugo-gawa {builder river}, west of the edge of the Tora Choyaku Kyokoku {tiger leaping canyons} fields (which continue into the sea), and northeast of the Sharqiun Kiso Yama {eastern foundation backbone mountains} foothills and the city of Silverbridge. It has a hot desert climate and may reach over fifty degrees Celsius during the day. There is sparse vegetation - mostly desert acacia shrubland, yucca palm, and juniper - and a great many insects and arachnids especially beetles, wasps, and bees. There is coyote, roadrunners, burrowing owls, banded lizards, tora rattlesnake, and fringe-toed lizard among the local wildlife. The dune field is approximately seventy-five kilometers long by ten kilometers wide and extends along a line that correlates to the prevailing northerly and westerly wind currents. The area is designated as a National Natural Landmark by the Ministry of National Parks and Reserves. Most of the area is off limits and protected as Crown Reserves but twenty thousand acres north of Silverbridge at the edge of the dunes have been set aside for recreational off-road vehicle traffic and camping. Book early as the park only allows ten thousand permits per season. Achizu Kokuritsu Koen {arches national park} has seventy thousand acres on the Tora Hanto {tiger peninsula} north of the Tora Choyaku Kyokoku {tiger leaping canyons}. It receives more than one million visitors a year to see the natural red rock sandstone arches and jagged pinnacles of the desert landscape. The park lies on an underground evaporite layer or salt bed, which is the main cause of the formation of the arches, formed more than three hundred million years ago when a sea flowed into the region and eventually evaporated. It is located in Mufaraga Hawd {paradox basin} on the Aquarius Plateau, part of the Bluebell Knoll Range. The park constitutes the highest density of natural arches on Nejiro. Many tour the park from the air in airships or hot air balloons high above fields of wildflowers and cacti. Hikers, climbers, rafters, and campers enjoy their beauty from below and a more intimate view of the arches, spires, balanced rocks, sandstone fins, natural bridges, windows and other eroded monoliths in the area. The visitors center includes an astronomy tower and a natural history museum chronicling and exploring the geological and wildlife history of the park. Bajos {charm, to persuade, to tempt} or Baja (colloquially) is the first city the Sugai Dai Ichizoku planned and the second they built. The city is about 330 sq. km, at an elevation of seven meters above sea level laid out as a star heptagon, it is approximately twenty-four kilometers from the sea (Pearl Bay). Baja is the epitome of laid back, calm, easygoing, and serene. The people are languid, relaxed and absolutely in no hurry. The city population is steady at about seventy-eight thousand but may jump to over a hundred thousand from tourists and visitors seasonally and during festivals. Baja is a magical, exuberant, colorful journey at any time of year, our art galleries and diverse visual arts span ancient traditional art to the most contemporary making it one of the largest and most important art markets on Nejiro. Bajos has an elected City Council from ten wards that appoints a city manager {Arjun Batra} for executive administrative duties and appoints a mayor {Jozef Han} as a spokesperson and for ceremonial duties. The city also has the Bajos Advisory Council a Trustee Board appointed by the Sugai Dai Ichizoku Hierarchy and the Baja Guildhall Syndic. The Bajos Constubulary are led by Chief Constable Amila Carnavon in all community police matters. Emergency services are provided by the Bajos Fire Rescue Service led by Chief Beni Sidjilmasa. The Baja Magistrate Court is led by the Honorable Judge Koen Koa, JD. The NPO Tower is led by Inspector Teofana Soldan who oversees the usual complement of Constables, a K9 unit, a resident unit of CIB agents, a strategic response unit, and a NPO Sea Patrol marine services river and canal patrol and pursuit unit. The Nejiro Fire brigade has assigned a Heavy Rescue and Towing unit with a search and rescue attachment to the area led by Fire Captain Almar Hafldason. The Baja Chronicle - 'the first the only' - is an independent daily broadsheet newspaper with an accompanying digital site and a wide distribution throughout the Eastern Desert province. It has been in business since the City Charter was officially drawn up and covered breaking ground for the city's construction. The Bajos Reporter is a daily digital newspaper reporting exclusively on Baja and its metro area. The city has a mediterranean type climate featuring very hot dry summers with average temperatures of 35 degrees Celsius and mild winters with light rainfall. Baja was chartered (2798) to take advantage of the nearby resources of limestone, chalk, silica, feldspar, quartz, pyrite, marble, clay, and salt while staying close to both the Pearl Bay coastal area and its beautiful soft white sand beaches and to the Waikato River {flowing water} for access to the canals and the sea. The mineral deposits originate in the local sandstone formations which frequently occur as spectacular cliffs, cuestas, domes, and bluffs rising from the desert floor. The wide range of colors exhibited by the sandstone reflect a long history of alteration by groundwater and other subsurface fluids over the eons. The different colors are caused by the presence of hematite, goethite, and limonite filling the pore spaces within the quartz sand comprising the sandstone. The iron in these strata originally arrived via the erosion of iron bearing silicate minerals. The precipitation of iron oxide also formed laminae, corrugated layers, and pipes of ironstone within the sandstone. Being harder and more resistant to erosion than the surrounding sandstone, the ironstone weathered out as ledges, walls, fins, flags, towers and other minor features which stick out and above the local landscape in unusual shapes layered in colors and fossils, all of which attracts tourists, hikers, and photographers from across the globe and stellar system. The Dako Unga {serpentine canal} (built as artificial tributaries of the Waikato {flowing water} and Kanawha Rivers {white rock}) makes its way through much of the Eastern Desert province with significant stops in Baja by the Nuska Eki {deity of fire and light railway station}, in Hilo by the Menrva Eki, by the Haken Eki {hegemony railway station} in Camp Haken, and by the Wahaten Eki {oasis railway station} in Madina. Baja has both a continental railway station Nuska Eki and a regional aeroport Thea Aerofield {wide shining goddess of sight and brilliance}. The city roadways are all wide avenues or boulevards, and the residential streets all have meridians with productive trees (olives, apricots, almonds, walnuts), local greenery and desert flowers, Baja allows only electric vehicles inside the city limits and there is a road station and a service plaza outside the city limits with warehouses, logistic and transport services and an inland port facility. The city maglev subway is connected to a system of stops that serves the 'metro' area, the beaches, and local resorts. Hogo Bei {protective bay} south and east of Baja and part of the metro area has three desalination plants that along with salt produce minerals, metals, and micro-proteins used in a variety of industrial compounds and processes. There is a dedicated high speed freight rail tunnel to Hilo that may also carry a few passenger coaches. Houses and buildings generally generate their own power via built-in solar cells and/or vertical wind turbines, and additional power to industrial processes in the area is provided via solar furnaces, solar farms, and wind farms. The major percentage of Baja's economy comes from its glass and ceramic factories (industrial, commercial, artisan) but mining, agriculture, textiles, and tourism also contribute. The city industry is well known and respected for its production of ceramic alloys and compounds as well as its inks, dyes, and paints. But Baja is renowned for their ceramic tiles and glass. Baja's most prominent business aside from their regular concerns is Anesidora {sender of gifts} that creates astounding lab grown hexagonal diamonds in shades of chocolate, blush, Azu, vert, and cereza; Baja Gardens is a cooperative of many urban farmers (from rooftop apiaries and gardens to vertical farms and pastures) that produces thousands of kilos of fresh food annually that ensures city food security (and hundreds of kilos of fresh food for export); Araneae creates robust security algorithms using unique spider web, lace, and knitting patterns expressed mathematically; Coin-assure is a digital bank created as a secure payment processor that expanded into donations, recurring donations and subscriptions, go-funds, crowdfunding, exclusive content, and standard consumer and commercial banking; Vanaja {forest born of the blue lotus} manufactures photovoltaic technology, solar energy storage, solar tiles for residential, commercial, and industrial roofs, space-worthy solar cell construction, and solar heating and cooling systems; Flare designs and manufactures electric passenger vehicles for street and off-road; Chatterbox a hyper secure and super encrypted chat program; Sandia Laboratories was founded to research complex systems in the physical, biological, economic, and political sciences and has expanded into a wide variety of research including computational biology, millennium mathematics, materials science, psychology, cognitive science, mechatronics, and micro-electrical systems and sponsors many internships and graduate student studies; Gotham Enterprises which creates and manufactures inexpensive and open patented medicines, farm equipment, repairable small power generation, renewable power generation, machine parts and components, tools, all-terrain vehicles, water treatment, bolstered and protected crops balanced to not overwrite their environment, street worthy and off-road vehicle kits of antique, vintage, and classic auto designs. Gotham Enterprises is a long standing company with an excellent reputation due to the fact that they make things that are tough and hardy and designed to last, they make things that are designed to survive with minimal and readily available parts and input, that they deal fairly, and that they value and offer sustainability the breadth of their coverage, their reputation for reliability stands them in good stead in the community. Baja evolved early in its existence as an art enclave due to the popularity of the arts within the Sugai whose Hierarchy, as well as that of Fukuda, were and still are extravagant patrons of the arts. An artist colony and an art commune soon developed as the city did. There are now many famous and infamous artists in residence at the Baja Arts Colony - potters, glass blowers, lace makers, and also wood workers, metal workers, dancers, photographers, and painters. Some of the best quality artist tools are crafted and manufactured in Baja from brushes to camera lenses. Baja's most prominent artistic enterprises are Baiyu {white jade} from which artisans and crafters produce exquisite translucent white jade bone China tableware. And Kutahya Balian from which artisans craft hand painted decorative ceramic and glass tiles in delft, iznik, azulejo, Islamic, talavera, zellij, Ming porcelain, kosiv, mosaic, lusterware, and the majolica styles; they also produce hand painted pottery and fine stoneware, murals and mosaics, decorated swimming pool and fountain tile liners, and custom tile designs. The Baja University of Fine Arts (Drawing and Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, History, Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage and Design, Traditional Crafts, Photography, Music, Dance, Performance Art, Language and Literature, Business Design, Fashion Design, Marketing Communications, Digital Media, Applied Science and Math, Advanced Manufacturing) is one of the best independent public schools on Nejiro and stands as a pillar of creativity and innovation. The school is acclaimed for its comprehensive curriculum and distinguished faculty attracting artists from around the globe and across the stellar system. From traditional techniques to contemporary explorations students undergo holistic artistic development and get excellent career opportunities after graduation. The city is located almost directly across Pearl Bay from Sugai Castle on the Sugoi Peninsula {wow, awesome, amazing} and was architecturally designed to have a beautiful presentation, to provide a spectacular panoramic view of the city from Sugai Castle on Taebaksan {great white mountain} (2744 masl tall), a dormant stratovolcano in the Baekdu-daegan {backbone mountain range} of the Sugoi Peninsula. The overall architectural style of Baja - what has developed 'locally' into the Baja style - is a mix of byzantine, sukiya-zukuri, baroque, Spanish mission, and mediterranean revival. Traditional urban houses and buildings are constructed with shared walls to minimize exposure to high exterior temperatures (summer highs may reach 43 degrees Celsius) and solid exterior walls are painted with lime to minimize the heating effects of the sun. The roofs frequently are terraces or tiled in the roman imbrex and tegula style. One of the most characteristic elements are the interior patios, takhtabush {a covered outdoor sitting area opening into a rear garden court designed to capture cross drafts in aid of night flushing}, and garden courtyards, even on industrial and civic buildings. Other elements include wrought iron gratings, azulejo tiles, and balconies, there are also many malqaf {wind catcher towers}. Most of the brick and stone buildings are either whitewashed, clad in white marble, or covered in tile mosaics and frescoes of numerous styles from portraiture to abstracts. Stained glass is also a popular medium used for windows, doors, street lanterns, public sculptures, and other decor with styles including bohemian, art deco, art noveau, Islamic floral and geometric patterns, calligraphy, Japanese aesthetics, luminist landscapes, mingei {Japanese folk arts and crafts}, medieval, romantic, and folk. Baja also has a profusion of gardens and parks both for the artistic view of nature as well as the cooling and calming effect of nature on a city. There is a strict limit placed to keep buildings at no more than thirty stories. Like other chartered cities Baja has an extensive 'underground' which was built first like sub-basements and then the city itself built over top it - there are utilidors, cisterns (that are also used in heating and cooling the city's buildings), yakchal {underground refrigeration structures and ice boxes}, qanats {underground irrigation system}, shabestan {public and private night rooms with lounge areas and fountain pools for night flushing and evaporative cooling}, storage areas, bunkers, disaster shelters, walipini greenhouses and solariums, and a maglev subway system carrying both freight and passengers. But there are also extensive pedestrian walkways and bicycle paths that reach every destination of the city, sizable public playing fields and parks, a profusion of roman style baths and sento, several Olympic sized indoor public pools and water parks, a great many lounge and siesta areas, and numerous cafes and pubs all used extensively especially during the heat of the day. Siesta is a firm tradition in the Eastern Desert, begun during the construction of Baja, observed during the midday hours between two and five, most people enjoy a long break from the hottest part of the day and pursue a long unhurried relaxing meal, perhaps a short nap or some leisure time. Siesta Lounges are an original Baja concept that have become a popular addition to the juice bar and coffee house crowds of the Eastern Desert and much of northern Tairiku, with comfy recliners, chaise and other loungers and ottomans suitable for naps that serve aquafresca, fresh fruit, tacos, churros, conchas {sweet bread}, horchata {rice and nut milk beverage}, pita, boba {bubble tea}, paletas {fruit ice pops}, and sopaipillas {stuffed fry bread}. The Baja metro area is sparse and spreads south and eastward into the Woy Woy Peninsula {much water, big lagoon}, there are two small seaports - the farthest one on the southern coast of the Woy Woy Peninsula where the Waikato River empties into the Sulu Sea {dynamic flowing water}, and the other in Hogo Bei, there are a few suburban villages, several guard-gated communities and resorts closer to the coast, almost a dozen fishing villages {like Mouse-hole a small village on the banks of the Waikato River east of Baja, a charming place of narrow streets and granite cottages huddled around a bend in the river that provides a natural working harbor for fishing boats and barges}, over a score of small villages that primarily work mines and quarries or farm, and one permanent combined paleontology, geology, and astronomy base field camp affiliated with Raissonne Daigaku - Hilo {reason university}, the Nejiro Natural History Museum and Planetarium - Yousai, Yabai Technology Institute - Hilo, Southeastern University - Hilo, Rose Polytechnic Institute - Hilo, STEM Polytechnic - Leyte, Quezon Institute of Science - Quezon, Imperial College Yousai, the SanGun Geoscience Society - Moro, and the Nejiro Guild Halls that all sponsor scientific field studies and expeditions throughout the Eastern Desert province. Madina {the city} is a town co-chartered by the Malik and Rizvi Koichizoku - who are mostly the ethnic descendants of Indo-European, Mongolian, Scythian, Khitai, Ainu, Persian, and Arabic immigrants brought to Nejiro by the Terran Alliance Navy (2217) as experts (scientist, technician, engineers, farmers, tradespeople, crafters) and colonists. Madina is located on the border shared by the two landholds of the Malik and Rizvi Koichizoku and was originally developed in support of the Badawi Bazaar {desert dweller marketplace} to which most of the local artists, artisans, and crafters still bring their goods. (weavers, herders, farmers, brewers, potters, bakers, glassblowers, metal workers and others) The Bazaar occurs for thirty-one days in a tent city outside the town during the dry season, most often November, for trade, markets, cultural events, reunions, matchmaking, and sport between the nomadic and town families of both Koichizoku and other nearby desert dwellers, traders, and visitors. Many of the open air markets are open to visitors and tourists where they may bargain for horses (of the Al Khamsa {the five foundation lines}), falcons and eagles, livestock, Lusterware (especially from Malik Alnaar which has a factory and warehouse outlet in town), ceramics and pottery, glass tableware and decor, jewelry of gold and precious stones, and a large selection of crafter and artisan wares from metal to wood work, tea and coffee, samovar and lamps, inks and dyes, herbs and spices, embroidered and beaded textiles, fresh produce and dairy, baked goods, weapons, beer and wine by the cask, street food, games and puzzles, looms, musical instruments, handmade paper and brushes, woven goods (rugs, apparel, tents, scarves), or they may watch storytellers and dancers. The Bazaar is often visited by representatives of Traders Trust, Chateau Mukhnari, the Circle G, Pola Cosmetics, Vecchio village truffle hunters, and others who set up stalls in the Bazaar on weekends. The Bazaar also serves as the origin of the Shahzada Endurance Test {son of shah} a five day four-hundred-kilometer race across the desert, and the Muhit Min Alnaar {ocean of fire} a one-thousand-kilometer cross country survival race conducted on horseback into the Kuroi Sabaku {black desert} - a true test of a horse's strength, stamina, resourcefulness, resilience, and courage. The finishers exhibit superbly healthy constitutions, incredible power, staunch spirit, strong legs, sure steps, and command incredibly high breeding values. The races attract horse enthusiasts from across the globe and several interstellar visitors. The Golden Eagle Festival is held the first week of October to celebrate their ethnic and cultural heritage, especially that of the hunters and their birds. Though they are most famous for hunting with the golden Eagles native to Nejiro, there are also goshawks, ravens, peregrines, saker falcons, and others. The festival is an adventurous cultural attraction for locals, tourists, foreign travelers, and photographers. It is not just a festivity but an ancient hunting tradition and unique heritage, it captivates visitors from across the globe by showcasing a wonderful falconry tradition with thrilling horse competitions and many other games, activities, and folk performances. Prizes are awarded to hunters for speed, agility, accuracy, and best traditional dress. There is an opening ceremony with a parade of hunters with their birds and horses followed by cultural and handicraft exhibitions, folk performances, and sport and games. The main attractions though are the hunters, riders and eagles dressed in full regalia mounted on groomed decorated horses. The entrants compete for such titles as Best Turned-Out Eagle and Hunter, Best Eagle at Hunting Prey, and Best Eagle at Locating its Hunter from a Distance. Other activities include traditional coin grabbing games, catching and snatching game decoys, Uriankhai archery, horse racing, dancing, and the highly entertaining Buzkashi - a melee tug of war on horseback over a goatskin with the riders attempting to get the goatskin into a goal. Prizes are also awarded to photographers for the best 'shots' taken during the festival in various categories. As the population grew, the festival tent town evolved and became a central location for members of the two Koichizoku to meet, and not just during markets and festivals, and permanent trading posts, an inn, a road station, coffee houses, bars and cafes began to pop up. Later the town began to serve as a central location to support needed resources such as a hospital, a library, utilities, factories, logistics and distribution services, as well as hospitality for a growing number of visitors and tourists. Madina was officially granted a charter in 2879. Now the town of more than thirty-five thousand is growing and there are several major businesses based here. The Badawi Group, the partnership and umbrella organization under which many of the businesses of the Malik and Rizvi Koichizoku operate has their headquarters here in Madina. Scorpio Small Arms (the Lightray energy gun) and Everlast (which manufactures the most durable, heavy duty, waterproof, shockproof, field rated performance laptops and tablets on Nejiro) have their factories here. Scrumptious Confections (public 131.79 Ryu per share) that manufactures candy and soda pop has their factory here. Sun and Wind Energy and Taqa Mutajadida {renewable energy} both have considerable assets in town for the service and manufacture of the parts and resources needed for their solar panels and wind turbines (which all include radio and satellite antennae and repeaters ensuring high fidelity communications) on energy farms placed throughout the Eastern Desert province. Soratobu-ba {flying horse} designs and manufactures small economical fast and fun to fly personal and family helicopters and fast comfortable reliable small business helicopters. They also design and manufacture mini vtol for up to six passengers with lift surfaces that fold into the vehicle upon landing. There are two railway stations - regional Wahatan Eki {oasis joy and divine harmony railway station} that serves the Eastern Desert province railways and local Madina Station that serves the Rizvi and Malik landholds. There is an inland port for the local waterways and canals, a regional aerofield Yatasil Matar {connect aerodrome}, and a sports complex Badawi Stadium that is designed to look like several tents erected together with valerium awnings, a retractable roof, and a retractable hybrid turf field for up to thirty thousand spectators. There is an NPO Tower with a complement of Constables and a resident unit of CIB agents led by Inspector Mackenzie Smythe, an NPO Wylde Ranger Tower led by Sgt. Azhaar Nazir, and a Nejiro Fire Brigade Wildland Firefighting unit with a search and rescue attachment led by Fire Captain Kay Gill stationed here whose services extend into the Kuroi Sabaku. Madina is regularly patrolled by the Malik militia, the Muhajimun Alshabh {ghost strikers} led by Commander Zain el-Jalair Malik and by the Rizvi militia the Albadw {nomads} led by Commander Tariq Haq el-Rizvi. The Mayor of Madina {Daniyyal Drake} is elected every six years. Madina's community police and emergency matters are handled by the local Sheriff's {Noah Stylowo} Department and its Deputies, and the local Firehouse and ambulance corps are led by Chief Edmundo Diaz. There is a Magistrate Court presided over by a Yubokumin Chiku {nomad district} Chihosaibansho {district court} judge - the Honorable Judge Tomeka Yeager JD, Meritous. The Yubokumin Chiku is presided over by Kazya Okamoto MP and its Chiku jimusho {district office} is in Madina. Hilo: Almost five million people reside in the city of Hilo {helix} in the Eastern Desert province. The city covers a total of one thousand square kilometers plus its extended metropolitan area sprawls over another ten thousand square kilometers with another million or so people in residence. The official flower insignia and icon of the city is the dandelion, it also features prominently in the seifu no koshiki insho {official government seal} of the city and its courts. The city is located in the Valle della Luna {moon valley} a broad hilly valley of blue-iron oak and chaparral woodlands, natural grassy desert wildflower meadows, and rushing rivers of more than sixteen thousand square kilometers. The valley is situated north of the Yami no yamayama {mountains of darkness} that are covered in dense shrubland that stretches for over five hundred kilometers from east to west made up of hard dark rocks such as granite and quartzite as well as slate and gneiss with heights up to thirteen hundred meters above sea level with a few dozen vast commercial olive and nut groves, citrus and fruit farms, and grape vineyards covering over a half a million hectares. There are some clay, marble, and limestone quarries near the major rivers. The valley and mountains serve as habitat to over a hundred species of birds such as hrafn, scrub jays, fish owls, grouse, and golden eagles, to over seventy species of mammals including idaina kemono, serow, iberlynx, fahad {painted cat}, obake okami {ghost wolf}, akashika {red deer}, spectral bats, tanuki, wild boar, ryukyu flying fox, muflon, horned andalusians, macaque, wildcats, xolotl, and antlered hare. There are also a wide diversity of freshwater fish, pollinating insects, salamander reptiles, and venomous snakes. The Yami no yamayama is also home to small bands of banditto {bandits, thieves, robbers, rogues. There are a score or so of NPO Wylde Ranger Towers and Sugai Yoroi Zensho-chi {outpost, fort} spread over the mountains, hills, and valley guarding and patrolling the area, There are also a few NDT {Nejiro Defense Troop} military oases {hidden supply caches and camouflaged logistical depots} and small fortifications in the Yami no yamayama and the Valle della Luna and their surrounds. Hilo has very hot, long dry summers and mild winters with moderate rainfall. The sky is clear with a good air quality index and very low pollutant levels (mostly from wildfires and dust storms). There is an average annual temperature of twenty-five degrees celsius during the day and thirteen degrees Celsius at night, with summer highs up to thirty-six degrees Celsius. Sporadic heat waves often break forty degrees Celsius for several days. There are about three thousand sunshine hours in Hilo annually, with July and August being the hottest months and many city dwellers take advantage of holidays and vacation time to travel somewhere cooler, 'nearby' Sakura Onsen, Hoshizora Shizen Hogo Kokuritsu Koen {starry sky nature preserve national park}, Hawks Bay, Stonehaven, the Blue Mountains, Mauna Kea, and Whistler are especially popular. Tourists from the cooler climbs of Nejiro and the stellar depths flock to the city at this time to bask in the warm sunshine. Hilo has around fifty rainy days per year, frequently torrential, accumulating as much as six hundred millimeters of precipitation annually. Snowfall is virtually unknown, but the occasional cold snap may drop temperatures to below negative five degrees Celsius. Fleet Week is the second week of August and is 'celebrated' across Nejiro; traditionally the DCA Marines {Draconis Combine Admiralty} arrive to bring their troops for training at MAWS {Marine Advanced Warfare Schools, a Phoenix Industries company} and the NDT {Nejiro Defense Troop} fleets dock their ships for refresh and replenishment, so there are generally loads of military personnel out carousing on leave through the city's attractions, amusements, and red-light wards. The Parade of Ships is a flotilla of naval vessels from the NDT Navy and the Sugai Keibi Hiko-tai {sea security squadrons}, also ships of the various Ichizoku naval fleets nearby, mayhap a few blue water or riverine vessels from the DCA, followed by a procession of civilian vessels at their spiffiest, that leads Fleet Week into Hilo making its way down the Kanawha River from the Sangosho Gulf to the military terminals in the Hilo Inland Port. The Parade is followed by a host of parties and events, both military and civilian throughout the city. There may be guided tours of ships {sometimes including aerospace ships and small craft} and military equipment, as well as military demonstrations and air shows. The Hilo Inland Port links both the inland waterways and the canal systems of the Eastern Desert province and of Nejiro. It is the largest inland port in the world transporting millions of containers a year (more than sixty-eight million in 3067) on inland waterways barges, sea-going river vessels, as well as deep sea freight and container ships. The port is a key node in Nejiro's multi-modal logistics network and enables the sustainable transport of consumer and industrial goods. More than fifty thousand ships make calls at the port annually. The public harbor facilities stretch across more than eighteen square kilometers and there are forty-two docks covering an area of more than four square kilometers with eighty kilometers of wharf. The logistics center site stretches across an additional three-square kilometer and employs more than forty-five thousand people. The deep-sea container facility is another six square kilometers with six berths, it comprises a semi-automated deep sea container terminal with twenty-five quay cranes, warehousing, distribution facilities, and ancillary logistics services. The cruise ship terminal facilitates the operations of several major cruise lines, it handles well over three million passengers and over seven million tonnes of cargo from more than one thousand ships docked per annum. The cruise terminal also offers a variety of tourist attractions such as dining, engineered shorelines and beaches, a boardwalk, excursions, and the Tower Explore landmark, a seven story building resembling a ships mast and sail under wind and includes a natural history museum telling the stories of the area (sunken ships and local legends) and offers education about the waterways and its habitats and the history of the port itself, it also offers fine views of the area from the observation deck at the top of the tower. The Hilo Inland Port additionally comprises over seventy independently owned terminals and port facilities directly employing over thirty thousand people. The Hilo Inland Port also handles more than fifty million tonnes of intra-port traffic, marking it the busiest inland waterway on Nejiro. Rail access to the port terminals is via a connection to the Port Loop on the Southend Line on a daily basis, and on site more than thirty kilometers of double track access accommodate trains up to thirty-five wagons long which are loaded/unloaded next to the port container handling areas by rail mounted gantry cranes. The city of Hilo serves as host to the headquarters of the Sugai Zaibatsu {wealthy clique, global conglomerate} {the corporate entity under which all the business of the Sugai Dai Ichizoku is conducted} and many of its business entities (heavy industry, transport, construction, athletic teams, sporting goods, defense, finance, education, real estate, property management, agriculture etc.) are located in the city. Their central offices are located in a just over one hundred meters tall, curved horseshoes appearing high rise in the Civic Center ward of Hilo, the Tsukinoko {arc of the moon. The design of the tower is based on the idea of unity and infinity and at night the ring, which is actually a complete oval that continues underground, is reflected in the pond surrounding the building (accessed by a few pedestrian bridges) and looks like a full moon glow. The facade of the building is covered in layers of white aluminum rings and fine textured glass producing the illusion and drama of the building. Its designer Ma Yangsong stated that the shape is inspired by traditional bridges represented in ancient Chinese paintings and the search for a harmonious relationship with nature, an important part of Nejiroan culture and tradition. The circular building reflected in the pond creates a surreal picture, a connection between the real and the spooky. Under the sunlight and the reflection of the water the curved shape of the building is crystal clear and when night falls the whole building glows. The soft light wraps around the water and the building, and the result resembles the bright moon rising over the water, a classical and modern mixture through reflection. The public lobby is richly decorated with different types of jade and citrine inlays, and the ceiling is covered with glass lamps forming waves of more than twenty thousand crystals while the floor is paved with tigers’ eye stones. The shape of the building gives shade to all its balconies and promotes natural ventilation, and the ultra-white glass allows natural light in all rooms, eliminating the need for artificial lighting during the day which saves energy and creates a pleasant atmosphere. The people of Hilo are vibrant, diverse, ambitious, restless, bold, pulsing with energy, cosmopolitan, driven, passionate, cultured, and talented. The city is in constant motion with a vibrant nightlife and has the most twenty-eight-hour dining establishments and shops on Nejiro. There is always something to see, there is always something to do. It is a city of towering skyscrapers, bustling tree lined sidewalks, and cavernous subways. Approximately six million tourists are attracted to the inspiring, imaginative, eclectic, and expressive city each year. The architecture of the city is generally ultra-modern and futuristic, featuring glass and steel. Many buildings are covered in trees, shrubs, and greenery to add to the city's green footprint, to lower energy costs, and to assist clean air circulation and insulation. The city squares and plazas have hundreds of automated giant parasol lamps which unfold under the heat of the sun and protect from rain. The 25-m tall umbrella structures are made of advanced composites and highly durable fabrics decorated with oriental motifs. Most buildings in the city are net zero energy buildings (using solar, wind, geothermal, hydrocell and/or hydropower energy sources) towering in fantastical shapes (curvaceous, parametrical, geometric) of sustainable and green construction technologies. Property prices generally range from seven thousand to fifteen thousand ryu per square meter and the cost-of-living ranges from three thousand ryu (single) to seven thousand ryu (family of four) per month. Hilo has about 58% public green space, and shade canopies both engineered (e.g. latticework, pergolas) and natural (trees, grasses) providing shade, cooling, and community spaces to relax, exercise, and socialize. There are a sizable number of urban farms, public gardens and parks, as well as wildlife sanctuaries on the rooftops of large industrial and commercial buildings contributing to food security and the cooling and calming effect of green spaces. The commerce city of Hilo was chartered and founded (est. 2790) by the Sugai Dai Ichizoku to aid in intercontinental and interstellar warehousing, distribution, and transport. The city serves as a central gathering point for the agricultural, consumer, and industrial goods of the enormous continent of Tairiku and the overall planet of Nejiro, to be collected before being trans-shipped to the Spaceport (near the capitol city of Yousai), to the Enclave and beyond. Hilo is in the business of logistics and transport and moves approximately three hundred million tonnes (close to four trillion ryu in trade) of cargo annually. Advantage Logistics (publicly traded 279.3 Ryu per share) is among Hilo's top companies and offers shipping services, sending freight anywhere with a reliable fleet of experienced carriers that operate to ensure shipments travel swiftly, safely, and arrive at their destination on time. Their logistics team leverages various distribution methods including cross-docking, overland trucking, railways, air freight, intermodal transport, waterways, ocean transport, and space transport. Along with hazardous materials the company ship’s cargo containers, liquid and dry bulk materials, refrigerated goods, and makes freight shipments for the textile, oil and gas, retail, pharmaceutical, agricultural, and manufacturing industries from door to door, to and from waterway freight ports, ocean freight ports, spaceports, and aeroports, and through intermodal and trans-loading facilities, with twenty eight hour pick-up, just-in time delivery, and other global and interstellar options may be easily arranged. The private Dangfeng Hangyun {Eastwind shipping} (owned by the Rhee Dai Ichizoku) has a significant presence in the city and provides global and interstellar freight (largely agriculture) transport by sea, air, land, and space. Also prominent in the city are the private global logistics and shipping company Matson (owned by the Kasai Koichizoku) and the private Joryoku-sen {evergreen shipping} (owned by the Drake Consortium) that handles global and stellar freight. Phoenix Industries, Horizon Tradeships, and Neptune Orient Lines of the Sankaku also have more than a minor presence in the city. Passengers are equally moved, mostly by rail - by the Rail Runner Express (public 88.8 Ryu per share) (with a road runner logo and mascot) a commuter and passenger rail line with both maglev and shinkansen services carrying thousands of passengers daily throughout the Hilo Metropolitan area, the Eastern Desert province, to the Hoshizora Chiku {starry sky district}, the Yushan {jade hills} and the Kuroi Oka {black hills} provinces; Ukabo Komo {floating clouds} (publicly traded 72.57 Ryu per share) an executive class shinkansen rail line that serves the Eastern Desert province plus the Yushan, Kuroi Oka, and Annettai Heiya {subropical plains} provinces; Kinki Sharyo {railroad vehicles} a private rail line that runs passengers and freight on a shinkansen system throughout the Sharquin Kiso Yama {eastern foundation backbone mountains}, the Southern Steppe, and the Kiso Mountains provinces with additional stops in Madina, Baja, and Hilo; Hikari no Sokudo Tetsudosen {ightspeed railways} (owned by the zakharovich Dai Ichizoku) offers economy and executive class shinkansen passenger and freight services on the continents of Tairiku and Shinrin and railways on many stellar bodies of the system; Nekehanga {mobiliy} (owned by the Palakiko Koichizoku of the Four Corners Zaibatsu) offers continental shinkansen passenger and freight services; Zheleznyye Dorogi {spirit railways} (owned by the Drake Consortium) has intercontinental and stellar railway services; Caledonian Railways (owned by the Sinclair Koichizoku) provides regional passenger services in the Kiso Mountains province and continental freight services across Tairiku; Heritage Railways (owned by the Vasilievna Koichizoku) runs a continental passenger service across Tairiku; Red Rabbit Rail (owned by the Yakovich Koichizoku of the Four Corners Zaibatsu) runs shinkansen passenger and freight services across Tairiku; The Golden Chariot (owned by the Zakharovich Dai Ichizoku) provides executive and luxury class intercontinental shinkansen passenger services; Via Rail (a Fenix Consortium Crown Corporation, a Phoenix Industries company) is the Nejiroan public railway and provides (tourist, commuter, shinkansen, passenger, freight) intercontinental and stellar railway services; and Trinity Railways (owned by the Sugai Zaibatsu) a subsidiary of Trinity Rail it operates maglev and shinkansen rail lines across the continent of Tairiku as well as intercontinental rail tunnels and railways on stellar domed cities, stations, and ports. Water taxis ferries, and passenger barges are also very popular modes of transport through the rivers and canals in Hilo and throughout its metropolitan area, and also across the vast and massive continent of Tairiku. The Hilo Canal System with its headquarters at the Hilo Inland Port links with the Dako Unga {serpentine canals}, the Ddraig Unga {dragon canals} (providing navigable waterway transport throughout the mountains, forests, and grasslands of the southern reaches of the continent of Tairiku), and the Reei Omorfa {flowing beautifully} canal system of the northern reaches of the continent of Tairiku. These channels provide transport for passengers and freight across most of the city of Hilo and its metropolitan area. Bicycling is also a very common mode of transport across the city and there are a number of bicycle (manual and electric) retail shops and rental companies (especially popular with tourists for ease of sightseeing), bicycle maintenance and repair shops, and bicycle accessory and safety equipment manufacturers operating in the city. Freight on Nejiro and in Hilo in particular is mostly shipped on barges, river junks, and inland marine freighters along a plentiful number of abundant rivers and canals, by freight ships and container ships by sea, but cargo transport by train, small craft, air, and truck convoy is also in use. Local dropship traffic (e.g. Mule class dropship, Cargo King class dropship, Jumbo class dropship, and the rarely planetside Aqueduct class dropship and Mammoth class dropship) is generally limited to bi-weekly or monthly trips, mostly from the Spaceport, to ensure full loads of cargo and fuel efficiency, except for the occasional specialty or express shipment which use mostly small craft and smaller dropship classes (e.g. Leopard-Cargo class dropship, Danais class dropship, Buccaneer class dropship, Czar class dropship, Princess-Cargo class dropship). The commerce city of Hilo was chartered and founded (est. 2790) by the Sugai Dai Ichizoku to aid in intercontinental and interstellar warehousing, transport, and distribution. The city serves as a central gathering point for the agriculture, consumer, and industrial goods, of the enormous continent of Tairiku and the overall planet of Nejiro, to be collected before being trans-shipped to the Spaceport (near the capitol city of Yousai), to the Enclave and beyond. Hilo is in the business of logistics and transport and moves approximately three hundred million tonnes (close to four trillion ryu in trade) of cargo annually. Freight, on Nejiro, and in Hilo in particular, is mostly shipped on barges, river junks, and inland marine freighters along a plentiful number of abundant rivers and canals, and by freight ships and container ships by sea, but cargo transport by train, air, small craft, and truck convoy is also in use. Local dropship traffic (e.g. Mule class dropship, Cargo King class dropship, Jumbo class dropship, and the rarely planetside Aqueduct class dropship and Mammoth class dropship) is generally limited to bi-weekly or monthly trips mostly from the Spaceport to ensure full loads of cargo and fuel efficiency, except for the occasional specialty or express shipments which use small craft and smaller dropship classes (e.g. Leopard-Cargo class dropship, Danais class dropship, Buccaneer class dropship, Czar class dropship, Princess-Cargo class dropship). Advantage Logistics (publicly traded 279.3 Ryu per share) is among Hilo's top companies and offers shipping services for sending freight anywhere with a reliable fleet of experienced carriers that operate to ensure shipments travel swiftly, safely, and arrive at their destination on time. Their logistics team leverages various distribution methods including cross-docking, overland trucking, railways air freight, inter-modal transport, waterways, ocean transport, and space transport; along with hazardous materials the company ship’s cargo containers, liquid and dry bulk materials, refrigerated goods, and makes freight shipments for the textile, chemical, oil and gas, retail, pharmaceutical, agricultural, and manufacturing industries from door to door, to and from aeroports, waterway ports, ocean ports, spaceports and intermodal and transloading facilities with twenty eight hour pickup, just in time delivery and other global and interstellar options may be easily arranged. The private Dangfeng Hangyun {Eastwind shipping} (owned by the Rhee Dai Ichizoku) has a significant presence in the city and provides global and interstellar freight (largely agriculture) transport by sea, air, land, and space. Also prominent in the city are the private global logistics and shipping company Matson (owned by the Kasai Koichizoku) and Joryoku-sen {evergreen shipping} (owned by the Drake Consortium) that handles global and stellar freight. Phoenix Mercantile, Horizon Tradeships, and Neptune Orient Lines of the Sankaku also have more than a minor presence in the city. Passengers are equally moved , mostly by rail - by the Rail Runner Express (public 88.8 Ryu per share) (with a road runner logo and mascot) a commuter and passenger rail system with both maglev and shinkansen lines carrying thousands of passengers daily throughout the Hilo metropolitan area, through the Eastern Desert province, and to the Hoshizora Chiku {starry sky district}, the Yushan {jade hills} and the Kuroi Oka {black hills} provinces; Ukabo Kumo {floating clouds} (publicly traded 72.57 Ryu per share) an executive class shinkansen rail system that serves the entire Eastern Desert province plus the Yushan, Kuroi Oka, and Annettai Heiya {subtropical plains} provinces; Kinki Sharyo {railroad vehicles} runs a shinkansen passenger and freight rail system throughout the Sharquin Kiso Yama {eastern foundation backbone mountains}, the Southern Steppe, and the Kiso Mountains provinces with additional stops in Madina, Baja, and Hilo; Hikari no Sokudo Tetsudosen {lightspeed railways} (owned by the Zakharovich Dai Ichizoku) offers economy and executive class shinkansen passenger and freight services across the continents of Tairiku and Shinrin and railways on many of the stellar bodies of the system; Nekehanga {mobility} (owned by the Palakiko Koichizoku of the Four Corners Zaibatsu) offers continental shinkansen passenger and freight services across Tairiku; Zheleznyye Dorogi {spirit railways} (owned by the Drake Consortium) offers intercontinental and stellar ralway services; Caledonian Railways (owned by the Sinclair Koichizoku) provides regional passengers and freight services in the Kiso Mountains province and continental freight services on Tairiku; Heritage Railways (owned by the Vasilievna Koichizoku) runs passenger services acrosss the continent of Tairiku; Red Rabbit Rail (owned by the Yakovich Koichizoku of the Four Corners Zaibatsu) runs skinkansen passenger and freight services across Tairiku; The Golden Chariot (owned by the Zakharovich Dai Ichizoku) provides executive and luxury class intercontinental shinkansen passenger services; Via Rail (a Fenix Consortium Crown Corporation company) the Nejiro public railway system provides (tourist, commuter, maglev, shinkansen, passenger,freight) intercontinental and stellar railway services; and Trinity Railways (owned by the Sugai Zaibatsu) operates maglev and shinkansen rail lines across Tairiku as well as intercontinental rail tunnels and railways on stellar domed cities, stations, and ports. Water taxis, ferries, and passenger barges are also very popular modes of transport over the rivers and canals in Hilo and throughout its metropolitan area and also across the vast and massive Nejiroan continent of Tairiku. The Hilo Canal system with its headquarters at the Hilo Inland Port links with the Dako Unga {serpentine canals}, the Ddraig Unga {dragon canals} (providing navigable waterway transport throughout the mountains, forests, and grasslands of the southern reaches of the continent of Tairiku), and the Reei Omorfa {flowing beautifully - providing waterway transport throughout the grasslands, hills, and mountains of the northern Tairiku continent} canal systems, which provides transport for passengers and freight across most of the city of Hilo and its metropolitan area. Bicycling is also a very common mode of transport across the city and there are a number of bicycle (manual and electric) retail and rental shops (especially popular with tourists and visitors as they easily enable sightseeing). There are a number of bicycle maintenance and repair companies, and bicycle accessory and safety equipment manufacturers operating in the city. The location of the city of Hilo was decided upon because it is reasonably central, and it is where 'the rivers meet' ensuring easy transit along the rivers and canals throughout the Eastern Desert province and around the immense continent of Tairiku. The site was also chosen because of the nearby remains of a Terran Hegemony dropship and jumpship parts and component manufacture, transport, and distribution center, which still retains many of its buildings and facilities intact (dropship pads, railway station and tracks, canal port etc.) and was heavily in use during the construction of Hilo. The location now known as Camp Haken {hegemony} is the current military base of many of the individual mercenary units of the Chiji no Keibitai {Governor's Security Force, GSF} who occupy a small part of the facility. The Kanawha River {white rock] makes its way swiftly through the city with an average depth of thirty meters and widths of more than thirty-five meters in the vicinity of the city and its path moves straight across the city in a northerly direction, with a few detouring curves. It flows through many of the most important and central wards of the city including the Hilo Inland Port and then continues its journey north through the Hilo metropolitan area and the Valle della Luna then through the Eastern Desert south of the Akichi Erg {empty quarter shifting sand dunes} and into the Sangosho Gulf {coral}. Accompanying the river's route through the city is a greenway corridor that serves as a wildlife sanctuary and nature preserve that eases animal migration through the city. The Waikato River {flowing water} carves an irregular path through Hilo with depths over ten meters from the southwest to the northeast and then journeys east through Hilo's metropolitan area past Camp Haken and Baja to the Woy Woy Peninsula {much water, big lagoon} and into the Sulu Sea {flowing water currents}. The Quoile River {narrow} makes an almost straight path from west to east with depths of at least three meters and widths over fifteen meters across the southern industrial, transport, and warehouse wards of Hilo before continuing underground south-east across the Eastern Desert and into Pearl Bay. Hilo operates several hydropower plants in the locations where the rivers cross in the city. The Hilo Inland Port is located where the Quoile and the Kanawha Rivers cross amidst the southern wards of the city and includes docks for the Dako Unga (which provides waterway transport across the Eastern Desert province into the Sharqiun Kiso Yama and the Yushan provinces), and the Reei Omorfa canals (which provides waterway transport across the Kuroi Oka province and into the Eastern Desert, Yushan, and Annettai Heiya provinces). The go-shintai {symbolic physical objects believed to be 'the body of the kami'} of the kawa no kami {river gods} of the Kanawha, Quoile, and Waikato Rivers are enshrined in the honden {main hall} of the Kawa ga shizen hogo-ku to jinja ni deau basho {where the rivers meet nature reserve and shrine} (a 350-ha nature park and reserve of chaparral shrubland and a Shinto shrine built amidst wooded meditation gardens in the midst of the crossing of the Kanawha and Waikato Rivers between what is now the two Downtown Hilo wards). The shrine was founded by Delm Francesco Sugai almost a decade before the Ichizoku began the official chartering process for the city. It is now surrounded by a public park and wildlife sanctuary nature preserve. The shrine is the spiritual center of the city and hosts two major matsuri annually, one honoring the rivers in September Kawakami-sai, and one honoring the xolo dogs and xolotl in October Xolo Inumatsuri. The dogs were beloved of Delm Francesco Sugai and feature heavily in the stories and myths of Hilo and the Eastern Desert province. The city hosts a few other river crossings, the Kanawha and Waikato cross several times in the central wards of the city, and the Quoile and Waikato cross in several of the southern industrial, transport, and warehouse wards. The Dako Unga Inland Port is located in the most southeast ward of the city where the Waikato and Quoile Rivers cross. The Dako Unga has docks at many of the major intersections and important points of interest in Hilo. The Menrva Eki serves as the regional railway station for Hilo and the Eastern Desert province, and it has Dako Unga waterway links to southern Tairiku locations such as Stonehaven, Whistler, Kamloops, Moro, Port and others. The Dako Unga canal system also has waterway links to northern Tairiku locations such as Hilo of course, and Baja, Madina, Ayuhwasi {meadow}, Mount el-Leja {refuge}, Stargazer Wilderness Park, Achizu Kokuritsu Koen {arches national park}, Mouse-hole, Sakura Onsen, Anheru Taki {angel falls}, Hikari {light}, Tentai Mizumi {celestial lake}, Camp Haken, Sugai Castle, and Fune {boat}. The Reei Omorfa canal system has waterway links to northern Tairiku locations such as Bridges, the Akai Yoake Military Academy (with FLETC {field and law enforcement training centers and MAWS {Marine Advanced Warfare Schools, a Phoenix Industries company} campuses), the NDT (Nejiro Defense Troop) Minpei Toride {military citadel}, Lanikai, Quezon, Yousai, Neptune, the Enclave, the Spaceport, and the ComStar terrestrial HPG station. Hilo Station, a modern edifice located in the Civic Center ward, is the second busiest railway depot on Nejiro, after Leyte, with more than four hundred trains (largely electric but some hydrocell and diesel, and even some steam) arriving daily and serves most regional, continental, and intercontinental rail lines (major and minor tourist, passenger, commuter, rapid transit, military, freight, tram, light rail, monorail, maglev, and shinkansen rail lines across the immense continent of Tairiku), as well as the Hilo Subway System (which operates on a twenty eight hour schedule), and the Hilo Metropolitan Rail Network. The main station consists of sixteen island platforms serving thirty-two tracks raised above street level and the main concourse is below the platforms. The three maglev subway platforms serving six tracks are several stories underground with an additional concourse and moving walkways, lifts, and escalators to serve connecting passengers. The aeroport express access lines are located to the west of the main station and the freight terminal and railyards are located to the east of the main station with a number of companies operating a variety of maintenance, repair, and logistics facilities. (e.g. Meishan Freight {plum mountain} {Loingsigh Koichizoku}, Trinity Logistics {MacDiarmid Koichizoku}, Sorenson Logistics {Sorenson Koichizoku of the Four Corners Zaibatsu}, Stella Blu {Isobe Koichizoku of the Four Corners Zaibatsu}, Nekton Enterprises {Mahelona Koichizoku}, Sherpa air Service {Takayama Koichizoku}, Koun'na Unchin {lucky freight} {Phoenix Industries}, TransContainer Limited {Phoenix Industries}, Kvaerner Govan {finnic gaelic smiths town} {Ceallach Cooperative}, Horizon Tradeships {Drake Consortium}, Swift Transport {Drake Consortium}, Neptune Orient Lines {Zakharovich Dai Ichizoku}, Trinity Rail {Sugai Dai Ichizoku}, Phoenix Mercantile {Phoenix Industries} etc.) The whole complex is linked by an extensive underground network of pedestrian passageways, canals, and utilidors that merge with the surrounding industrial parks, commercial buildings, hospitality, and shopping centers. Be sure to greet Yontama, a sweet natured and photogenic calico feline who acts as the informal station master (complete with a properly sized hat and recordings of her meow plays when the doors of the station open), and as station mascot. She is a very popular guest on talk shows and morning news shows and has enjoyed guesting on scripted television soaps and dramas, and even movies. Many of the local kawaii rail coaches are painted and decorated in her likeness. Images of Yontama from badges and keychains to knickknacks and branded candy to hundreds of glossy photos and canvas prints fill the station's souvenir shop. The Hilo Eki Kon, a free public concert series sponsored by the Hilo City Council featuring some of the hottest names in music, takes place every weekend in July as part of the Founders Day celebration in Eki Plaza in front of the station. There are two regional aeroports in the city. Sweet Meadow Aerofield is located between the Kouri-gyo-ku {retail and market ward} and Shiku Choson {municipal ward - the city government ward} close to the Downtown Hilo wards, that mainly serves passenger airlines and private charters, recreational and competitive league pilots, and executive jets. Nikko Chiiki Hikojo {sunlight region aerofield} is located near Nachimban Gwangjang {compass square}, a service plaza near the western border of the city amidst several industrial parks and manufacturing wards that mainly serves cargo airlines. The intercontinental aeroport, the Hilo Centrair Aeroport is a first-class facility located between the Kanawha and Waikato Rivers among several southern manufacturing, transport, and warehouse wards of the city, that also accepts small craft and some local stellar dropship traffic. HCA is a bustling intercontinental hub with flights reaching every corner of the world and even some stellar destinations. It has five runways, five state-of-the-art terminals and cutting-edge facilities with a futuristic design, and several on site hotels. It is a perfect blend of luxury and budget friendly options. Inside you will find relaxing walking paths, an impressive rooftop garden offering serene escape for travelers, boutique shops, and a feast of food options. There are express rail lines, commuter lines, a subway station, and a canal dock located in Terminal C. The aeroport complex is a leader in sustainability with net zero emissions and a zero-carbon electrical plant. The aeroport handles more than ten million passengers yearly and accommodates the biggest birds in the sky. The aeroport also serves as host to a Nejiro Defense Troop Air Station {NDT Tai-i Nanette Medred, Hilo Air Company (12) conventional fighters with combat and surveillance drone support (max range 2800-km, combat range 1400-km, ceiling 15,000-m) plus cargo and transport flights as well as support equipment and personnel currently re-building towards a full Wing (36)}. The city's maglev subway, built as the second lowest level of Hilo's Underground, also serves above ground as part of the Hilo Metropolitan Rail Network. The underground navigable canals (which most of the city's commercial and industrial freight moves through), cisterns, yakchal {underground icehouse}, shabestan {night rooms}, server farms, and qanats {underground water supply system and irrigation} being in the lowest level of the Hilo Underground. The Hilo Underground (UnderHilo, 'underhill'), built as large 'islands' with connecting tunnels and bridges due to the rivers, also houses utilidors, pedestrian passageways, hydrocell plants {hydrogen fuel cell}, hydropower plants, NPO and NDT military bunkers and oases, Sugai Yoroi {armor} militia bunkers and oases, disaster shelters, storage, and several residential, commercial, retail, entertainment, red-light, university, agricultural, warehouse, and manufacturing wards. There are several tollways and major highways that converge in the city. Most major roadways on Tairiku come to, or pass through Hilo - 'all roads' etc.... The city's major roadways are wide shade tree lined flamboyantly designated boulevards with greenway corridors (with bicycle paths, native grasses and wildflowers, and productive trees) running from north to south and wide shade tree lined numbered avenues running from east to west. There are several large service plazas on the outskirts of the city, serving the lorry convoys and heavy freight transports traveling the roadways of the humongous continent of Tairiku, with logistic centers, railway and canal access. The city of Hilo is laid out simply in a large rectangle separated into fixed square wards that serve both as administrative electoral boundaries and as boundaries between commercial, industrial, residential, and government sectors of the city. The city Mayor, currently Mazie Hirono, (five-year election cycle by the citizens and residents) resides at Youya Shoen {grace manor} and works from City Hall in the Shiku Choson {municipal ward}. The mayor acts as chief executive of the City of Hilo and its Metropolitan area and is served by an elected (five year cycle) Hilo City Council with one Alder per ward, the Hilo Metropolitan Council with one elected (six year cycle) Alder per ward, the Hilo Guildhall Syndic, and the Hilo Advisory Council (a trustee board {Chaired by Matronaes Amalaa Sugai} that oversees three centuries of endowments, trusts, and investments created and designated for the health and welfare of the city of Hilo and its residents) with seats appointed by the Sugai Dai Ichizoku Hierarchy. Hilo is part of the Nikko Chiku {sunlight district} and the Chiku jimusho {district office} is in Hilo's Civic Center ward {district and province government ward} presided over by Keenan Izanagi, Commons House Member of Parliament (MP). The Eastern Desert province's Chihosaibansho {district courts} are led by the Honorable Judge Lucas Caderyn, JD, Meritous; and the Hilo Magistrate Court is led by the Honorable Judge Yutaka Minami, Meritous. The Draconis Combine Admiralty (DCA) has the headquarters for their locally deployed and training military and intelligence personnel in the Civic Center ward of the city, the complex also holds recruiting and consulate offices. The Hilo law enforcement and community police contracts are held by the Nejiro Peace Officers. {NPO Deputy Commissioner Haruko Abe, Eastern Desert province commands more than enough Constables to patrol the city of Hilo and its metropolitan area plus other urban and rural areas of the Eastern Desert province, several Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) major crimes units with forensic attachments, several resident units of CIB agents, K9 units, mounted units, waterway patrol and pursuit units, quick response forces, several strategic response units, NPO Sea Patrol marine services units, marine quick response forces, maritime river and canal patrol and pursuit units, an NPO Celestial Patrol unit assigned to the Hilo Centrair Aeroport, and dozens of NPO Wylde Ranger Towers plus other elements across the province.} The Hilo firefighting and emergency services contract are held by the Nejiro Fire Brigade. {Battalion Chief of Hilo Momo Wamuro commands the Hilo emergency call centers, the Firehouses of Hilo and its metropolitan area, the city and metropolitan paramedic ambulance corps, hazardous materials units, several heavy rescue and towing units, a few controlled burn units, air search and rescue units, urban search and rescue units, wildland search and rescue units, quite a few wildland firefighting units with search and rescue attachments, and a firefighter and paramedic training center.}. Militia defense of Hilo and its metropolitan area is provided by the Sugai Yoroi Militia {armor}. {Commanded by Sho-sa Tomoharu Sato and Tai-i Seojun Sugai leads the local Hilo Metro Command which patrols the city of Hilo, its metropolitan area and into the Yami no yamayama plus adjacent parts of the Eastern Desert with a battalion or so of infantry and armored cavalry units plus amphibious and river units and support; the Sugai Keibi Hiko-tai {sea security squadrons} Commander Cho-so Jimmu Izanagi commands the blue water defense fleets of support vessels, patrol boats, submarines, cutters, corvettes, frigates, cruisers, and carriers that operate in the Sangosho Gulf {coral}, Pearl Bay, the Eastern Sea, the Sulu Sea {dynamic flowing waters}, and the Samenoumi {shark ocean} and the Sugai Marine Services fleet of inland and coastal patrol, pursuit, rescue, and defense vessels of corvettes, cutters, patrol boats, motorboats, VTOLs, support vessels, and amphibious vehicles.} Military defense of Hilo, its metropolitan area and the wider Eastern Desert is provided by the Nejiro Defense Troop. {NDT Sho-sa Hwan Kim Eastern Desert Province Patrol Group, NDT Tai-i Telidja Klai Hilo City Patrol, NDT Tai-i Robin Drake Yami no yamayama Patrol, and NDT Tai-i Melantha Sharpe Hilo Metropolitan Patrol.}. At this time, manufacturing in Hilo and its metropolitan area focuses on smaller and more flexible production with high value and low volume goods, customized goods, advanced manufacturing, and repair of machinery and robotics (e.g. CNC machines, multidimensional and multi-compound printers, laser cutters etc). Prominent businesses in Hilo include: Taiyo Energy (publicly traded 126.23 Ryu per share) green energy utility (solar, wind, natural gas, geo-thermal, hydrocell, hydropower) that serves much of the northern Tairiku continent; BrightStar Energy (publicly traded 85.29 Ryu per share) has the largest solar farm on the planet and supplies about a quarter of the power to the industrial systems of the Eastern Desert province and a sizable percentage of the power to the Yushan {Jade Hills} province; Intuitive Surgical (publicly traded 538.37 Ryu per share) designs and manufactures remote control surgical systems; Titan (publicly traded 89.35 Ryu per share) manufactures cargo containers, container cranes and intermodal equipment, construction and military grade heavy trucks, heavy freight trucks, cargo and commercial trucks; Kambarka Engineering manufactures freight cars and rolling stock for maglev and shinkansen rail systems; Saisenten no nogyo {cutting edge agriculture} (public 143.9 Ryu per share) focuses on improving crop productivity, precision agriculture, and crop sustainability, nutrition and resource efficiency for stellar and planetary vertical, field, and ponic farms using the latest techniques integrating science (e.g. smart sensors, remote operated vehicles, drones, nanotech, biochemistry, plant breeding, data analysis, automated robots etc.) to optimize farming yields; Mister Robotto (publicly traded 155.50 Ryu per share) is a manufacturer of robots, industrial robots, exosuits, and industrial mechs; Kibarashi Eiga Kaisha {diversion film company} focuses its interests on films featuring an artistic vision that appeals to modern day young people with several divisions of live action and animation productions and other subsidiaries such as press, stage theatrical, interstellar distribution and streaming services, it has produced and distributed some of Nejiro's highest grossing films with more than eleven billion ryu in revenue; Madrigal Print Shop (publicly traded 53.26 Ryu per share) custom book binder and boutique vanity printers to independent authors, it prints illustrated children's books for several publishing houses, and also creates special edition prints of fiction and non-fiction books and papers that includes limited run boxed leather bound gilded editions with illustrations; Foxconn (public 67.27 Ryu per share) is an electronics contract manufacturer of specialty electronic components, printed circuit boards, and integrated circuits; Kyoi Kojo {marvel mill} (public 93.37 Ryu per share) a contract garment and textile factory complex; DLA Piper Law Offices a global and interstellar firm whose lawyers and solicitors practice corporate, civil, and criminal law; Zephyr-net is an intrasystem satellite communication network, an internet broadband communication network, and a digital media publisher; Phantom (publicly traded 22.62 Ryu per share) manufactures holoscreens and trid holographic communications tech, and broadcast and receiving equipment; Rozen (public 145.83 Ryu per share) manufactures custom industrial robots and industrial mechs; Sokuten {cartwheels} (public 45.67 Ryu per share) a grocery, department store, and home essential delivery service from hundreds of participating retailers and restaurants in the city of Hilo and its metropolitan area employing personal shoppers, drones, and drivers; Hood & Hyena (publicly traded 330.88 Ryu per share) creates digital cyber countermeasures, security algorithms, encryption cryptography, digital security architecture, and firewalls; Mahelona Glass (publicly traded 132.68 Ryu per share) {owned by the Mahelona Koichizoku} a factory industrial park in the Seizo {fabricate} manufacturing ward of the city and a Downtown Hilo office complex that manufactures industrial, commercial, factory, architectural, and optical glass; Kamares {arches} (publicly traded 97.8 Ryu per share) manufactures drones for combat, reconnaissance, surveillance, wildlife and agricultural surveys, and journalism {the Vespid is a palm sized drone weighing just over twenty eight grams constructed of a proprietary composite that minimizes weight without sacrificing durability with a rotor design and flight control software that may act as an autopilot with situational awareness and obstacle avoidance capabilities, a remote control microcopter that streams high resolution audio and ultra-low-light starlight optical and thermal digital images from three cameras and two directional microphones that may fly with GPS in up to 25 knot winds and remain airborne for over an hour as far as two kilometers from its base unit - a tablet with a pistol grip style controller and charging station with a total system weight of 1.3kg (5000 Ryu), and the Hrafn Vehicle Reconnaissance System an 80 kg box bolted onto the chassis of a ground vehicle that contains three camouflaged and stealthy drones with a variety of high resolution cameras, microphones, and chemsensors that can be launched and controlled entirely from the safety of the vehicles interior and recovered autonomously, each hrafn weighs 350 grams and may travel over six kilometers from its launch vehicle with an endurance of three hours (10,000 Ryu)}; Xandros manufactures superconducting electromagnetic systems for maglev vehicles; Bali-Toys Hilo manufactures the Linda's Laboratory line of modular science kits and experiments supported by interactive software and books, many of the sets may be combined for more complex projects and the company releases at least three new kits a month; Abyss Creations manufactures interactive customizable fully articulated robot sex dolls, prices begin at seventy five thousand ryu and interchangeable skins in every color and other accessories are available; Kannon architecture-engineer firm designs vaults, safe rooms, panic rooms, fortified rooms, ship citadels, shelters, bunkers, and other secure facilities; Kunlun is a boat builder that constructs kunlun po, Chuan ships, and river junks; Astra designs and manufactures executive jets and private executive VTOLs and helicopters; Comau manufactures exoskeletons for mining, for heavy lifting, as a walking assistive for the disabled, for medical rehabilitation and assistive limb replacement, as prosthetics, for construction, for firefighters and rescue workers, for robotic remote operation, to simulate light gravity and resist fatigue; Lightbox (publicly traded 115.34 Ryu per share) manufactures synthetic industrial diamonds for use with diamond edge machine tools, cutting and drilling tools, specialty abrasives, and high grade optical material for lasers and heat sinks. There is also a considerable variety of textile, finance, food and alcohol production, construction, resource production and refinement, boat building and boatyards, and vehicle production and repair as well as urban technology companies. Agriculture in the Hilo metropolitan area focuses on farming thyme and rosemary, flax, barley, emmer wheat, mavragani durum wheat, olive trees, apricot, peach, citrus and nut orchards, grape production, and pastures with sheep, goats, pigs, and poultry. Lettuces and greens, table fruit and vegetables are mostly produced in greenhouses and deep water ponic facilities that also yields fish and seafood as well as rabbits, tillandsia, and green, black, and herbal teas. Agricultural exports (over thirty billion ryu in trade) from Hilo and the Eastern Desert province include high quality figs, dates, honey, walnuts, apricots, wine, chickpeas, tomatoes, hot peppers, polenta, herbs and spices, peaches, almonds, bonito, aged ham, akamaguro {red tuna}, sardines, catfish, hake, carp, trout, salmon, wool, linen, olive oil, limoncello, orange juice, Greek yogurt, payoyo cheese, goat milk etc., but the most favored and requested is tormack - a native Nejiroan spiny green skinned gourd with deep purple flesh high in nutrients with preparation and taste quite similar to a potato. Cattle {criollo and idaina kemono} and dairy cows are also raised but are grazed in small numbers as premium stock. There is also fishing in the rivers and canals but that is mostly small artisan and traditional fisheries in support of local fresh food markets and restaurants. Sport fishing on the rivers and canals on the other hand is quite a draw for tourism. Hilo is home to several top ranked public and private schools. Raissonne Daigaku {reason university} has a College of Humanities, a College of Natural Science and Technology, a Medical College, a reserve officer training corps, Raissonne Prep with a junior officer training corps, Raissonne Daigaku Byoin {reason university hospital - holds the largest trauma center on the continent and trains military and civilian emergency services personnel} {Chancellor Aleks Rama, Academic Dean Tatiana Kumiko Yi, Dean of students Mikan Hinode, Board of Trustees Chair Matronaes Amalaa Sugai} The university was established with the Hilo City Charter and is publicly funded by the city and was endowed by the Sugai Dai Ichizoku, it is almost always ranked in the top ten (mostly the top five) of the best schools on Nejiro (vying with ivy league Quezon Institute of Science, Nagoya University, and Samar University). [i]Hilo City College[/i] is another school originating with the City Charter, on the Quoile riverfront near the Hilo Inland Port, is a top-notch tuition free day/boarding polytechnic and vocational school (for up to fifteen thousand students, there is a waiting list arranged by interview results, educational attainment, and extracurricular involvement) that accepts students as young as fourteen. The school is sponsored and additionally endowed by the Hilo Guild Syndic, it also offers a variety of adult education courses and a digital education center with courses accommodating pre-k through tertiary level academic and vocational education, and there are of course apprenticeships in many crafts and trades. The Yabai Technology Institute is an excellent private secondary through tertiary academic and research school owned by the Sugai Zaibatsu. The Rose Polytechnic Institute is an independent public vocational and applied science and math’s school sponsored by the Hilo City Council that has graduated some of the best technical specialists on Nejiro. Kosen Technological University {arc, arch} is an independent private school with one of the best mechatronic labs on the continent and graduates many talented industrial mech and robotics engineers. MacYwer Oyo Kagaku Daigakuin {school of applied sciences} is a private boarding secondary and tertiary level academic and vocational school with a research institute that graduates some of the finest engineers and field scientists in the stellar system, it is owned by the Zakharovich Dai Ichizoku and has additional campuses in SanGun Jukyo, Moro, Pluoton, Buda, and Leyte. Peony Gakko {king of flowers school} is a public school endowed and operated by the Peony Corp. that teaches traditional Japanese arts and crafts through academia and apprenticeships with several campuses on Nejiro and in the stellar system. Tie zhen xueyuan {anvil academy} is an independent private primary and secondary level day/boarding school with a top notch competitive athletics program, a junior reserve officer training corps, an innovative arts program, and with a superior academic course load and at least thirty percent of the student body are there on scholarships (half of that due to academic excellence, half due to a citywide public school lottery) in the Kuso-tekina {fanciful} residential ward of the city. Huginn & Muninn is an independent private day/boarding top rated academic school that covers from pre-k thru tertiary academic course loads located at the Bright Meadows manor house estate in the Nemora {woodland} ward of Hilo, a secure environment many of the city's most affluent local and interstellar residents send their children to, it has a highly competitive secondary a-level academic program with a wide ranging educational curriculum that prioritizes critical thinking, problem solving, and creative thought, its Meritus program is one the most celebrated in the province and the school has a large enrollment of digital academic student programs. Pine View School is an independent private co-ed boarding school with a fine heritage of providing students with an enriched challenging academic program in which excellence is nurtured and encouraged, it has been consistently recognized at the national level as one of Nejiro's top high schools and is an ivy league feeder school. Greendale High School has a stunning cone shaped library, a soaring lobby, a 43-m tower rising above a 950-seat theater and giant circular windows in the vocational public arts school for the visual and performing arts with an eclectic and imaginative course load that has inspired many of its students to be cinematographers, graphic artists, industrial designers, and metalsmiths in the heart of one of Hilo's more quirky and unusual suburban communities. Lady Tristian's Finishing School is an independent private boarding school that imparts a thorough social and sexual education to males and females over the age of eighteen to create the most elegantly refined, sophisticated and cultured society escorts and courtesans, and some of the most prominent and preeminent concubines in the stellar system. Madam Ko's Personal Protection Academy is an exclusive independent private school with a rigorous, extensive, and intensive study in martial arts, cordon bleu cooking and nutrition, emergency medicine, etiquette, diplomacy and negotiation, high speed vehicle pursuit and professional driving, personal security and information technology, close protection and marksmanship. The small number of successful elite and exceptional graduates, few in number but absolutely superlative in quality, receive a uniquely patterned blue diamond tattoo on their shoulder as a mark of their esteem, they are always in demand and coveted as security and close protection specialists. Southeastern University is a public research school privately owned by the Malik Koichizoku and the Badawi Group with a humanities college, a science and technology college, a business and law college, an agricultural college, an arts college, a virtual college, a reserve officer training corps, a vocational school, an experiential education center, the center for research experience for undergraduates, and competitive sports and intramural athletics located in Evansville a suburb in the Hilo metropolitan area. Fernando is the largest suburb in the Hilo metropolitan area located near Bell Creek among desert savanna, chaparral shrubland and riparian woodlands. Its economy is supported with movie ranches, adult video studios, commercial growers of table and wine grapes along with citrus and olives, television studios and broadcasters, music studios and publishers, bicycle manufacturers, hospitality and tourist companies, communications and aerospace technology companies. Tourism is also a great boon to the suburb's economy with the showpiece Fernando Eki {bold daring journey railway station} of photogenic mission revival architecture {a style very popular in the Hilo Valle Della Luna metropolitan area as well as neo-Moorish revival, mediterranean revival, bungalow, and Queenslander} with massive adobe walls covered in plaster and whitewash, low pitched roofs with wide eaves, red clay roof tiles, thick arches and piers, long exterior arcades, an enfilade of interior halls, interior and exterior courtyards, and baroque bell gables and towers; The Relic Museum which has collections of obsolete machines and vehicles, mechanical musical instruments, and antique furniture; the Starlight Bowl is a five thousand seat amphitheater most well-known for its Autumn Shakespeare Festival; Gryphon Park is a large municipal recreation park a wilderness of more than 170-ha of wild and rugged trails and campgrounds; Gryphon Observatory on Apollo Hill (378 masl) is an astronomy tower, a meterological observatory, a planetarium, and a public telescope; Nowadays is a nightclub with a sixteen thousand square meter indoor/outdoor space full of live DJs on multiple dance floors, live music, local food specialties (patatas bravas, pastrami burgers, kalguksu, pisto, pinot noir, bulgogi, albondigas, sourdough avocado toast, samgyetang, croqueta, hobakjuk, japchae, jamon iberico, mandu, strawberry wine), craft beer, sangria, the iconic Mister Sundays afternoon dance parties, and their massive backyard many have likened to music festival grounds; Miyawaki Botanical Forest a landscaped and manicured miniature forest park of endangered Terran tree species of blue oaks, bamboo-leaf oak, chestnut, nutmeg, magnolia, tabunoki {red bay} trees and other near extinct species that started in a vacant lot and has expanded to five hundred acres over the centuries; the old Sugai Yoroi Zensho-chi {outpost, fort} at ]Margalla Hills {serpent’s fort} and its 2-ha of lawns, meadows, and picnic grounds often used for large family gatherings and cultural fairs and festivals. There are quite a few community farms and gardens, public parks and recreation areas in the suburban town, and the residential neighborhoods feature lawns of native grasses, wildflowers, and herbs fed by a town wide underground copper lined drip irrigation system. Agriculture is an important part of Hilo's economy with farmwork, husbandry, fishing, and silviculture activities accounting for about three percent of the city's economy and another three and a half percent is generated by the agrofood industry and together produces nearly seventy billion ryu in revenue. Horu {the halls} is the central fresh food market of the city, the belly of Hilo bringing in foodstuffs from across the province, the continent, the globe, and the stellar system plus the Periphery and the Sphere. It houses hundreds of market stalls of local farm fresh fruit, flowers, herbs and spices, seeds and nuts, milled grains, honey and sugars, vegetables, fish and seafood, bread and baked goods, dairy and eggs, juices and fizzy drinks, handmade gelato and sorbet, tea and coffee purveyors, paleta and shave ice, meat and butchers, handmade oils, pasta and noodles, smoothie and milkshake creators, artisan condiments and sauces, wine and spirit merchants with tastings, global specialties, and interstellar delicacies, an always fresh tasting buffet and charcuteria, there is also a craft beer garden, chocolate and sweets, perfumes and skin care, crafts and handmade goods, scores of food stalls offering a wide range of cuisines from street hawkers to emerging chefs, and inner wholesale markets for professionals. Horu receives more than five million visitors a year and is a must-see destination. In addition to the wide variety of food it offers public cooking classes and demonstrations, public crafter classes and demonstrations, gardening and horticulture knowledge, and houses buskers, artists and street performers. Horu is located near the center of the city within sight of the Waikato River and sits at the borders between the Civic Center ward, the Downtown Hilo wards, and the Shiku Choson {municipal ward} in the Agora Nogyo {agriculture gathering place, plaza}. It is a circular structure of green textured glass and airy wrought iron topped by an undulating five-hundred-meter curvilinear canopy soaring twenty-four meters in height, covering several floor terraces of sheltered public space. The canopy consists of eighteen thousand scale like pieces of glass supported by a seven thousand tonne steel structure, a dense frame of slightly curving steel beams covered in gleaming golden lacquer which rest on a very deep latticework which cuts through the central axis of the building that brings plenty of natural light inside and controls temperature. The Horu market space covers more than 8.5 hectares of surface and underground space and includes a public park, ornamental and meditation gardens, a botanical garden, an urban wildlife preserve, a public swimming pool, performance spaces, restaurants and pubs, a food truck court, several buzzy destination restaurants {e.g. Gaucho Rodizio (cowboy turn) an asada churrascaria (Portuguese, Spanish, Brazilian style BBQ steakhouse) all you can eat rustic style ground fire roasted and grilled meats served by roaming 'cowboy' servers carrying skewers and swords of a wide variety of meats from wagyu beef to swordfish accompanied by a large buffet of traditional sides thru three levels of warm and contemporary yet timeless design with additional private and semi-private dining areas for special events owned by the Peony Corp.}, and the Tanpopo ryori gakko {dandelion cooking school}, the Kyanopi catering and event hall, a sento, a multiscreen cinema, cultural and worship centers, a public library branch, a music conservatory, a grotto shrine dedicated to Gaea, a textile market, a shopping mall, and an underground lorry service plaza that also caters to tourists and digital nomads, an underground canal dock which handles tonnes of goods daily, and a main tributary subway station of multiple lines converging in a transit center that connects the city and a great deal of the metropolitan area and some 750,000 people pass thru the station every day. The Hilo Welcome Center is located in the Civic Center ward. The complex's purpose is to be a central location where foreign diplomats and traders may schedule and hold meetings with local and foreign political, guild, and business representatives. The building complex (similar to a trade fair conference hall and events venue with more than four hundred thousand meters of hall areas and more than seventy thousand square meters of free space at its disposal), is located near a few markets, a number of government buildings, some consulates, several exclusive hotels, and the Civic Center Station. The Interstellar Congress Hall, the Hilo Welcome Center's most prominent building, is a prodigious multipurpose formal and stately conference center that can accommodate more than twenty thousand participants, it has an auditorium that holds up to five thousand and a four thousand person capacity council hall with interpretation and audio equipment for up to twelve languages; where trade delegates and diplomats attend functions and meetings, it is accessible to the city's subway and commuter rail system and has shuttle services to the city aeroports. The entire complex, of several buildings and facilities, is of ultramodern and sustainable design and completely self-sustaining with renewable solar and thermal energy sources. The Hilo Welcome Center, especially the Festhalle (the splendid neo baroque style arena has a rectangular layout superimposed by a cupola crowned rotunda over a symetrical quatrefoil shaped topped by a dome and lantern roof seventy meters in diameter and forty meters high constructed of glass and steel that has a variable grandstand system that seats up to eighty five thousand and a flexible multifunction field), also plays host to many notable trade shows, conferences, sporting events, business summits, exhibitions, concerts, theater, festivals, cultural events, and tournaments. The Ohiroba {grand square}, one of the largest in Hilo, contains tall gothic, neo-classical, and baroque stone facades of the city's elaborately crafted [i]Guildhalls[/i] that tower above you on all sides immediately taking you back millennia. The square is situated half in the Civic Center ward and half in the Shiku Choson {municipal ward} where Aureate Boulevard {shiny golden} and 3-ban machi {3rd avenue} cross. There are several underground tunnels, pedestrian passageways, underground parking areas and a subway station under the square, so vehicular traffic is not interupted as Ohiroba is for pedestrian traffic only. Through the adornments of gilded and painted statues, grand domes, arches, vaults, intricate mosaics, ornate decorative elements, and elaborately carved symbols related to their crafts, professions, and trades the influence of the guild houses is very evident today. The first building to catch your eye is the cathedral-esque masterpiece of neo-gothic sandstone the Hotel de Ville {town hall}, the Hilo Guildhall and the headquarters of Hilo's Guild Syndic. Its octagonal belfry spires tower over the geometric patterned cobblestone square with its fountains, greenery, food stalls, and umbrella covered outdoor dining areas. The spires are topped by bronze statues of a lion, an eagle, a dragon, and a nishikigoi in the four cardinal directions. As contrast the most modern building in the square, architecturally and stylistically speaking, is the glazer and glass guildhouse, an opaque and engraved textured glass building that reaches high to the coronal peaks of its steeply pitched roofs. The square holds many guilds (engineers, joiner, tanners, millwright, lift mechanic, steel-worker, smith, chef, baker, plumber, electrician, conductor, secretary, concierge, soldier, firefighter, constable, architect, lorry driver, heavy goods vehicle operator, storyteller, yujo, barger, dockworker, technician, teacher, doctor, lawyer, writer, machinist, tailor, pipefitter, weaver, drafter, brewer, seafarer, mason, welder etc.) with many more guildhouses spilling into the surrounding streets. The center of Ohiroba holds a bronze statue, a helical representation of the local star, by the artist Astrid Zydower, 'Our Star' (KH5467). The Nejiro Stock Exchange is Nejiro's principal securities and commodities market, it is the central edifice of the Hilo financial ward. A wonder of modern architecture with a distinctive aesthetic appeal that is an iconic Nejiroan building with its sleek glass facade and striking steel framework its architectural layout emphasizes transparency and connectivity, symbolizing openness and accessibility in financial markets. The Nejiro Stock Exchange building is surrounded by the principle banking and investment firms of Nejiro: the La Caixa Hilo savings bank {most citizens and residents of Hilo have an account} (an office of La Caixa {box} a global privately owned savings bank and financial services company {most citizens and residents of Nejiro have an account} owned by the Murashu-Rothschild family of the Akaite Zaibatsu {red shield global conglomerate} a holding company of banking and financial companies that also covers real estate, brokerages, mining, art, venture capital, private equity funds, wealth and asset management, technology, hospitality, vineyards, agribusiness, luxury commodities, and consumer products; with a sizable percentage of the bank's surplus invested in the province through a committee of the Eastern Desert Chiku MPs and the La Caixa Foundation; formed globally and endowed annually from La Caixa's surplus and controlled by a board composed of the individual province and stellar sector Chairs); the Hilo offices of the Nejiro Imperial Bank (the central bank of Nejiro) which houses a gold reserve and regulatory and enforcement departments as well as research and analysis departments {the 180-m skyscraper with ultra-high performance ferrocrete and glass facades with their complex geometry follows extremely high standards in terms of bomb safety and resistance to attack and theft, the tower sits on a cubicle podium constructed of ultra-high performance ferrocrete clad in locally quarried creme and chocolate marble that is organized around an inner courtyard which rises 40-m and is surrounded on all sides by offices separated by an interior glass curtain wall, overall the building conveys the core values at the heart of the institution solidity, stability, and sustainability}; the Chuujiko Bank {central commercial} building is the largest for profit bank on Nejiro owned and operated by the Koizumi Group, the jaw dropping prism shaped tower oozes power, prestige, and creativity soaring well over three hundred meters into the sky; the Su Tamago Shikin {nest egg fund} headquarters building is the Sugai Zaibatsu private banking and investment firm; the Vermillion Bird building with its striking red glass facade is the Phoenix Industries private investment firm; the Grass Ocean Credit Union building is a global/stellar credit union owned and operated by the Rhee Dai Ichizoku; Wonderful Life Savings and Loan is a global financial services and investment bank of the Four Corners Zaibatsu; the Nakazawa Trust building is a private wealth management and investment firm and the Flowing River Financial building is (publicly traded 108.5 Ryu per share) commercial bank both owned and operated by the Nakazawa Dai Ichizoku; the Tiger Funds building is a private investment firm of the Zakharovich Dai Ichizoku; the Mizuho Financial {golden ears of rice} building is a global/stellar consumer and corporate bank owned and operated by Peony Corp.; and the Drakon'yego Klada {dragon hoard} building is a private investment firm of the Drake Consortium. Residents of Hilo receive their news provided by several sources: the Hilo Herald (public 55.43 Ryu per share) {Matronaes Amalaa Sugai sits on the Board} a broadsheet daily printed and digital moderate newspaper covering the city of Hilo and its metropolitan area with independent articles and editorials and additional weekend edition Society Page inserts (an outlet of the Nejiro News Corp.). Red Top is a widely read privately owned (Brown & Bell Limited) splashy, lurid, and sensational daily tabloid newspaper, a purveyor of titillation and shock focusing on the city of Hilo and its crime, celebrity scoops, sports, gossip, and political and society scandals. The Society Pages is an independent private globally distributed weekend magazine of Nejiroan arts and culture, style and fashion, stellar and global society and celebrity gossip, the foodie papers, hotspots, and interviews with photospreads in print and digital formats with social media connections owned and published by the Blethyn family. Hilo TV3 is a local moderate news channel (an outlet of the Sentinel Media Group of Phoenix Industries); Nejiro Hoso Kyokai (NHK) {Nejiro Public Broadcasting} (a Fenix Consortium Crown Corporation of the Sankaku and Phoenix Industries) a public broadcaster funded primarily by its viewers via a flat 55 Ryu annual fee (most citizens, residents, and businesses of Nejiro and the stellar system subscribe) it offers emergency and early warning reporting, local and interstellar news presented without opinion or editorial, scripted comedy and drama, entertainment, sports, children and educational programs, music, culture and arts programs, it operates three terrestrial television channels from Yousai, Leyte, and Hilo (NHK General, NHK Children's Television, and NHK Education and Documentary), three digital satellite television channels from Pluoton, Selene, and Buda also broadcasting across the stellar system, two ultra-high definition tri-d holo-television channels, and three radio networks; The Sentinel a daily print/digital imperial moderate broadsheet newspaper covering interstellar headlines and affairs and stellar and global news in depth (an outlet of the Sentinel Media Group); The Hilo Globe (publicly traded 54.93 Ryu per share) a green progressive family owned (Northciffe-Devi) daily print/digital broadsheet newspaper covering Hilo and its metropolitan area and the Eastern Desert province, also stellar and interstellar news from several regional bureaus and satellite offices publishing (with one of the largest journalism staffs on planet) articles, newsletters, turnovers, political positions, opinion pieces, editorials, investigative reports, reviews and a diverse variety of original and syndicated comic strips and columns (e.g. the Phoebe and Her Unicorn comic adventures, Kissing a slice of life romcom, Guardian a manhua xianxia {immortal hero fantasy}, Tagon's Toughs and the Sword of Inevitable Justice comedic space opera, the Silhouette Knights MechWarrior seinen manga, the Desport weekly column of interviews with star athletes and tips on technique, the well-known and influential journalist Mahmad Wang global and interstellar affairs and political commentary column; the Miss Manners advice on etiquette and culture column, the Lets Talk about Sex! advice and education column etc.), plus the Sunday Magazine as a forum for ideas with expanded article coverage, photographic layouts, serial novels, the book review, guest essays by well-known contributors, sports, business, advice, gossip, style, grammar and language (for the official and major languages spoken on Nejiro), poetry, puzzles, and the funny pages (comical storyteller content and comic strips) from its headquarters in the Downtown Hilo ward Kotoba-dzukai no tatsujin {wordsmith, master of language} building part of the 'Painted Buildings' tour it features iconic calligraphic headlines and quotes from the papers long history (est. 2837), the paper has the largest circulation and one of the largest paid subscription and advertiser lists on planet; Watchmen News Network (WNN) media and digital twenty-eight hour live moderate news channel covering interstellar headlines, and global and stellar news in depth (an outlet of the Sentinel Media Group). Heritage Broadcasting Company (HBC) produces and broadcasts public television and radio programming (an outlet of the Sentinel Media Group). Redstone News is a conservative twenty-eight hour global and interstellar digital news and radio channel with a focus on economic, business, political, and financial news (an outlet of the Koizumi Group). Ninki Kagaku {popular sciences} print/digital monthly magazine publishing awe inspiring science reporting and technology news with a social media forum which allows amateurs and enthusiasts to interact with professionals and academics to question, debate, and discuss science (an outlet of the Sugai Zaibatsu). Nejiro Live progressive digital/media twenty-eight-hour global news channel (owned by Stat). Financial Times the daily print broadsheet newspaper covers and analyzes interstellar financial markets, global financial markets, stellar financial markets, and corporate, political, media, technology, economic, marketing, money, and investing news from its headquarters in the Hilo financial ward at Horshoe Court Towers near the Southwark Bridge looking across the Waikato River to the Civic Center ward (an outlet of Voyager Media). MyNetworkTV (MyTV) digital and media broadcast network of scripted television with syndicated entertainment, licensed entertainment, sports, news shows, and original programming (an outlet of the Rohrs Koichizoku). Konshu {this week} weekly print/digital news magazine reporting investigational and in depth global, stellar, and interstellar news and affairs with additional weekly news story analysis and debate television, radio, and podcast broadcasts (an outlet of the Rosslyn Koichizoku); Market News daily standard print/digital newspaper focusing on global, stellar, and interstellar business and finance news and affairs published by Axel Springer. Nejiro Public Radio public twenty-eight-hour broadcasting of live and syndicated global and stellar news, sports, culture, and entertainment programs {it was endowed by the Parliament of Nejiro and operates via grants and donations, and dues and fees from more than one-thousand-member stations}. LOOK a global/stellar print/digital weekly magazine of photographs, photojournalism, and human-interest stories published by Searchlight. MustSee Travelogue print/digital/social media weekly magazine and weekly syndicated tv show covering Nejiroan travel, destinations, tourism, and hospitality (an outlet of Voyager Media). STEM monthly print/digital magazine/journal of global and stellar science news and education, and the very best in research across the sciences with articles that consistently rate among the most cited in the world published by the Discovery Society Trust (owned by the Orlov family) and associated with the Nejiro Society for the Advancement of the Sciences. The Military Press daily digital and weekly print newspaper covering global, stellar, and interstellar military, militia, private contractor, and mercenary forces news, information, and operations, also reporting on members and their communities (an outlet of the Sentinel Media Group). KZOO is a globally streaming pop radio station offering a wide variety of music and programming (an outlet of the Helekia Dai Ichizoku). Cahuenga Valley Television (CVTV) media/digital global sports and tabloid entertainment news network (an outlet of the Nakazawa Dai Ichizoku). The Mirror daily print/digital tabloid newspaper covering global and stellar sports, news, life and style, investigations, society and celebrity gossip, tv and film, theater, politics, and has Sunday inserts that cover interstellar affairs, industry, economics, travel, science and technology, arts and culture, pictorials, and business news aimed at working class readers (an outlet of the Nakazawa Dai Ichizoku). The Babbler daily digital and social media tabloid of global and stellar gossip, photos, celebrity and society gossip, classic and pop culture trade news, entertainment and media trade news, box office results and business analysis, music reviews, tv and movie reviews, fashion and style news, trending news and topics, politics, sports, travel, food, beauty columns and news (an outlet of the Nakazawa Dai Ichizoku). Zahiru {the hill} green progressive daily print/digital broadsheet newspaper covers capitol news {Yousai} especially from Parliament Hill and the Governors Palace, and global and stellar political facts and speculation published by Hermes Media. The Chronicle a regional print and digital broadsheet newspaper covering the Deccan Peninsula in the Annettai Heiya {subtropical plains} on Tairiku, the Spaceport, and the Enclave, plus global and interstellar headlines (an outlet of the Iona Koichizoku). Knights Chronicle daily print/digital moderate newspaper covering global news, capitol news, and the regional news of the Annettai Heiya province (an outlet of the Kusonoke Koichizoku). Holopuni News Network {to sail everywhere} digital news network and social media forum covering the oceans and islands of Nejiro (an outlet of the Mahelona Koichizoku). Parameters monthly magazine/journal of interstellar armed forces news covering warfare and operations, and the debate and analysis of historical and contemporary tactics, strategy, and leadership (an outlet of the Strategic Defense Institute of Phoenix Industries). Steam print/digital/social media monthly magazine of global and stellar news intersecting the arts and sciences published by the Steam Trust {endowed by the Sforza family} from offices in the Hilo theater ward. Spark News syndicated tv news show of story analysis, interviews, discussions and debates owned by Communications Unlimited. Nikko News Network {sunlight} a twenty-eight-hour scholarly and academic digital/media in depth regional news channel covering the news and affairs of the Nikko Chiku {district} and the Eastern Desert province (an outlet of News Corp.). Global Post daily print/digital tabloid newspaper of trending news and gossip (an outlet of Newsquest). Nejiro Today syndicated digital/media morning news show owned by Silver Media. More Things Horatio digital weekly news of the unusual and unique from factual global and interstellar sources syndicated by Kingdom Features Syndicate. Mecha Otaku globally available fan published digital magazine covering the science, technology, art, and applications of mechatronics and robotics (mecha, mechs, robots, drones, remote controlled and autonomous vehicles) plus a digital blog and social media forum {has a larger presence in Hilo with the coming of several Ichizoku and private mechs forces and Camp Haken being occupied by the GSF}. ComStar Associated Press News Services/INN daily digital/print interstellar newspaper and a twenty-eight-hour interstellar live and breaking news network (media/radio). MercNet digital interstellar database for mercenary units in search of employment and contract information (an outlet of the MRBC); plus, a wide variety of other digital media, radio, and locally printed newspapers, magazines, and journals through subscriptions or from Hilo's hundreds of newsstands. Some other not to be missed highlights of Hilo are: the Hilo Radio Mast the tallest structure in the city with a 500-m tower and a 700-m antenna spire, an aijiro {blue white} illuminated cylindrical lattice broadcast communications and public observation tower in the Aoba ward {fresh leaves, an upscale commercial and wealthy residential area with many corporate headquarters} offering panoramic views of the city (from three decks) and of the Valle Della Luna and the Yami no yamayama. Himitsu {secret} is a hidden speakeasy serving cocktails and spirits on the highest observation deck of the Hilo Radio Mast only after dark when the moons (Selene and Hinatea) are full and on New Year's Eve. Tochitawa {torch tower} the tallest skyscraper in the city (450-m) whose shape conveys the impression of a fire-lit torch fronted by the 'Bonfire of the Sun' public art installation (a 4.5 meter wide orange-yellow globe containing flickering lights emitting 70,000 lumens that combine to give visitors the impression of sitting in front of a bonfire or laying in a field basking in the sun's rays) on Yobun'na Plaza {extra} in front of the building surrounded by comfortable benches with soft hybrid turf to lie on and other greenery, the plaza shares space with the Hilo Globe skyscraper, Harappa Koen {open field park}, and Cover the city's largest newsstand that archives more than three thousand titles from gloss magazines to newspapers, journals, comics and manga, and novels {there are more than 1500 newsstands in the city}. The Tochitawa floors include a vertical garden atrium lobby designed to take in fresh air from the outside surrounded by trees and greenery, a two thousand seat events hall, a boutique museum covering the history of fire and torches through the ages, ballrooms and exhibition spaces, a fitness center and spa, a wellness center and clinic, a public indoor pool and diving center, an indoor public park and playground, artist studios and workshops, galleries, office space, residential spaces, the business offices of Tashikani {indeed} (a job search and resume archive with employment services offering immediate positions and training), Annabella (a private members only social club for the wealthy elite of Hilo with salons and sophisticated lounge areas, a coffee bar and tearoom, a yoga studio and a dojo, a fencing salle, overnight accommodations, two gourmet restaurants, three bars, and a nightclub), an eclectic food court overtaking an entire floor of the tower with many dining options from food stalls to small casual restaurants and cafes (Kkanbu Chicken, Wonderland Tea Party, Baozi he Jiaozi {bun and dumpling}, Karmelkorn, Greek Town, Koiji {love's pathway}, Mojo, Cosmic Buffet, Firebird Spirits Brewpub, BurgerQ, Wanton Wonton, Agartala {under the agar tree}, The Hammock Siesta Lounge, Sazon Hispania, Ramen Ichiraku, Pizzeria Luna Blu, Sangria Tapas, Umami Sushi & Grill, Spoonsticks, Ginger Seoul, Nautilus Pub, A Salt & Battery, Izakaya Stand Jump, Beet Eat, Banh mi Sandwich, Falafel Brothers etc.) with much of the floorspace covered in flowers and greenery the diners are free to relax on outdoor terraces shaded by palm trees with excellent views of the city or the indoor terraces have views of the vertical garden and the atrium lobby, the Avant nightclub where many of the most famous DJs play concerts throughout the year, King's Joy a three star upscale white cloth restaurant located near the top of the tower offering eclectic fusion gourmet cuisine and spectacular views of the city, Zhenzhu mu {mother of pearl} (a luxury hotel that offers only sumptuous deluxe suites and has one of the city's most impressive rooftop terrace gardens), an underground parking garage, a subway station, balcony apartments, and from its public observation deck you may see picturesque vistas of the city. Mosaic Stadium {a Sugai Zaibatsu company} a flexible one hundred thousand seat multiuse multilevel sports arena that was designed to resemble a moving roaring and smoking European fairytale dragon that actually 'spits fire' at entering spectators on important game days and other significant cultural events with three professional sides the Hilo Thunderbirds lacrosse club, the Hilo Drakes association football club, and the Hilo Blue Sparks basketball club. Kairo {circuit} isa motorsport loopy twin ring racetrack in the Soko Zeddo-ku {warehouse zed ward} capable of handling formula one, Indy, and stock professional and amateur events including derby's and industrial mech races (it hosts the Annual Charity Mech Dance Challenge graded and elimination rounds of freestyle and line dances and others like the hokey pokey, the macarena, the cha-cha slide, the Charleston, and the wobble every September sponsored by local corporations with their best mech pilots that funds children's education and medical foundations), the track also serves as a car park and popular meeting space for motor heads and gearheads to show off their stuff and talk shop as well as put up or shut up on the track, there is also a Lawson convenience store, a vending machine block, a newsstand, the Gearhead Coffee Bar and Izakaya Gears on the property, and there are pro-shops and mechanic shops nearby. Havoc is a converted warehouse in the Soko Chika Zeddo-ku {underground warehouse zed ward} in the Underground that has a ten-meter octagonal clear polycarbonate-Kevlar compound sealed cage with amateur competitors (mostly students and engineers) of weekly robot cage fights in various weight classes up to 136-kg (firearms and chemical weapons are forbidden); [b]Inn Cahoots[/b] is a Tudor style boutique hotel in the Kouri-gyo-ku {retail ward} near Sweet Meadow Aerofield with condo style suites and an event space venue, its lounge style bar Shenanigans is very popular with pilots of all stripes (air to mech). Nyla's Lanar is a Romanesque style domed building using glass and steel (instead of stone) adorned with stained glass frescoes and mosaics featuring scenes from Greek and roman mythology as well as the links between spiritual and physical cleanliness and elaborate geometric patterned marble floors over a modern hypocaust system, a popular hangout in the Downtown Hilo South ward during Siesta that features well-lit airy spaces under high vaulted ceilings and archways, a communal thermae with an enormous central bathing hall that has many connected temperature controlled swimming and wading pools featuring small rock waterfalls and grottos for ambience and privacy, there are decorative koi fish swimming freely in the pools and there are planters of ornamental and productive flora creating spaces where people may sit, talk, and relax. The Food is Culture museum is located on the second floor of the Empire Stores (complex of converted cargo warehouses {tea and coffee} in the Kouri-gyo-ku {retail ward} on the Kanawha riverfront with an inner courtyard park, an urban rooftop farm, restaurants, retail, market, office, and event spaces, the historic charm of the buildings are preserved with original architectural details like the iconic brick masonry, large arched windows and iron shuttered facade, schist stonewalling, coffee chutes and hoisting wheels), it brings the world of food and drink to life with exhibits you may taste, touch, and smell with storytelling, classes, and demonstrations providing information about healthy and sustainable eating habits and satisfying curiosity about where food comes from contributing to the preservation of ethnic cuisines and culinary arts and solutions to food challenges of the thirty first century. Crystal Tower the 350-m skyscraper in the center of a high rise complex owned by the Mahelona Koichizoku is a crystalline appearing tower with a frosted ribbed and slumped glass facade that forms waves giving the tower a slightly tufted appearance, parts of the building complex are covered in images of fractals and geode formations and other artistic and inspiring images demonstrating the virtues of their newest architectural glass product that has propagated across Nejiro. The “Painted Buildings' of the Downtown Hilo ward holds many of the city's most interesting skyscrapers, it is a two hour walking tour of the colorful high rise buildings and skyscrapers through the ward where buildings compete to be the prettiest, most beautiful, most kawaii, or inspiring with painted glass (stained glass, watercolor, oil, ink brush, fresco, mosaic, abstract, photo-real picture, or calligraphy) covering the glass facades with colored and textured (Mahelona Glass) patented architectural glass that is wind resistant and shatterproof. Muse Dream is a shopping arcade under a stained glass dome featuring fractals on the Kanawha riverfront in Downtown Hilo South that features more than three hundred high end luxury retailers, thirty five destination restaurants, and sixteen artist installations, the floors are a cosmic mashup of glittering metallic orbs and accents with wood paneled walls and parquet floors, its home to the Avenue of the Stars a riverfront walkway with panoramic views of the Downtown Hilo skyline, Meiryo-sei School of Jewelry Arts {clarity}, Aesthetic Cosmetology School, the Kube Kyoto style roaster and coffee bar, and a ten meter tall peacock shaped slide presides over an urban farm and butterfly garden. Arabica Cezve is an eminent Turk kahvesi sidewalk cafe, a hub for socializing and conversation found along the Starling Promenade in Downtown Hilo South on the Kanawha River near the Chowa Hodokyo {harmony pedestrian bridge} (a picture perfect wooden sori-bashi {moon bridge} with a double woven arch architecture), the cafe roasts, grinds and prepares its own blend of ultra fine Turkish coffee and serves it traditionally with luknam candy and chocolate or baklava in original and unique handcrafted fincun, its stage hosts crosstalk, theater, operatic arias, muscians, poets, philosophers, and storytellers. The Hoshiakari {starlight} owned by the Netael family is a classic formal supper club of elegant art deco architecture and plush art nouveaux interiors in the Underground Cerise red-light ward offers cocktails a complete supper menu and a supreme wine and spirits compilation with nightly performances from live bands (mostly swing, Latin and jazz) and crooners, cabaret and burlesque, comics and entertainers (acrobats, go-go dancers, production numbers, you solve it mystery theater, impersonators and drag queens, interactive dance parties and more), there are private gambling and karaoke rooms, two private event halls, an ample dance floor, and a piano lounge (the club offers ballroom and social dance classes in the early afternoons), reservations are recommended {the club is a 'known' front for the Marco Polo dark web storefront with access to fixers, hackers, thieves, smugglers, black market and underground auctions, goods, information and services, where society rubs elbows and hobnobs with the shadowy underworld}. Shiroi to {white pagoda} is a hundred meter tall Japanese style wooden white pagoda tower and Buddhist temple library and learning center in the university ward surrounded by sacred trees (bodhi, fig, upali, nigrodha, ashoka, sakura, pine, lotus, willow, simbulun, sala, parijata, rajayatana, acacia nilotica, banyan) and mandala gardens representing the eightfold path, and meditation and walking paths with an arama style monastery behind the sacred woods in Pairc Emerald. the [b]Salles des Armes[/b] is a fencing club, a member of the le Fleuret Guild, located in the university ward, the walls are lined with several styles of vintage swords, weapons, masks, armor, fencing gear, and fencing art with sword masters that teach French, Korean, Spanish, and Hungarian styles of classical fencing, jianshu {Chinese sword fighting}, and Japanese kenjutsu and kendo to students as young as seven, the masters frequently act as judges for earnest bare steel duels still commonly conducted over insults and conflicts (death is possible). Sugai Tower is part of the 'Painted Buildings' tour in Downtown Hilo, it is a 300-m round column glass and steel skyscraper, a multiuse office and residential tower holding some of the Sugai Zaibatsu businesses that features a wraparound 'oil painting' of a traditional Korean lantern festival at night. Hilo General is a five thousand bed public hospital part of the 'Painted Buildings' tour, its pearlized white glass facade 140-m tall tower with a 40-m high faceted garnet red cross and crescent emblem (built over a 100-m tall open terraced podium with greenery gardens, a koi pond and fountains) that is visible across most of the ward. The Wudu zhizhu medicus praetorium {five pillars healers hall} in the university ward has a wavy somewhat reflective opaque blue glass and copper facade that evokes water, fire, metal, and air in the pentagon shaped building that has round towers topped with copper tiled conical steel roofs at each of the points over a steel framed podium with a polished dark green granite facade that evokes earth, the eastern and western points of the main sixty meter tall building have helicopter and VTOL pads while the center has a rooftop greenhouse medicinal farm and tea garden, the exterior terraced levels have ornamental and herb gardens, it is a guild supported medical and teaching center that combines occidental clinical and diagnostic trauma medicine with traditional oriental medicine for humans, livestock, and pets and has practitioners and classes in nutrition, anatomy, clinical diagnostics, surgery, pharmaceuticals, herbal medicine, acupuncture, cupping and massage, qi healing and qigong, moxibustion, Tai chi, and tuina. The Spark Telecomm high rise complex (owned by the Koizumi Group) in the 'Painted Buildings' tour is covered in hundreds of individual emoji. Towers on the Park is a residential building on the edge of Downtown Hilo 'Painted Buildings' tour overlooking the Kawa ga shizen hogu-ku to jinja ni deau basho {where the rivers meet nature reserve and shrine}, it is an elliptical spiral building with each tier another color shade of the visible spectrum. The 820 S. Olive Street multiuse building in the Downtown Hilo 'Painted Buildings' tour is a triangular pyramid-like 400-m glass facade illuminated skyscraper with a wrap design of mandalas that shift color and shape with light and temperature changes that resembles a moving kaleidoscope. Dandelion an indoor amusement park in its own helical glass high rise in the Goraku ward {entertainment, amusement} of Hilo with sophisticated fairytale and mythology wish related theme rides and dark rides, indoor coasters, the dandy-lion carousel, go-karts, fairy meadow themed miniature golf, thrill rides, a nine story rope course, the giant fifty square meter jigsaw puzzle, the dance-dance revolution clubroom and tournament space, yosei no mori {fairy woods} a mix of artificial imagineered and natural woods is the place for hide and seek and other children's games and during the late evenings in October it becomes yurei no mori {haunted forest} the most popular 'haunted house' in the city, shipwreck cove has a small pirate ship with a plank and billowing black sails with climbing nets plus an artificial beach and wave pool with a real treasure hunt, Lego build rooms, escape rooms, an arcade, a midway, laser tag, paintball, a people sized climbing tube habitrail, the slime zone, an interactive XD theater, bicycle paths, a skate park, an obstacle park, the quest choose your own adventure, make believe stations, the foam cannonade, neon blacklight bowling, swings, slides, trampolines, numerous food stalls, plus three pubs, a juice bar, and a bakery café. 2 of 2 The Crystal Palace a stained glass and steel edifice resembling crystal geodes used for leisure socializing, concerts, exhibitions, charity events, and art shows in Sunshine Park an eighty five acre public park with majestic oaks, eucalyptus, aspen, cottonwood, maple, and Sakura woodlands, trails through desert wildflower meadows, playgrounds, pitches and courts, lush lawns, a life-sized 'wizards' chess set, a Roomba go board, a gazebo bandstand, and a covered picnic pavilion as well as the crystal water fountain Peaceful Harmony that uses harmonics to create music and beautiful sounds to relax to; The Hilo Public Library a Beaux-Arts style building featuring sculptural figures and architectural details depicting important personages and tools of scholarship and libraries, the arched grand entrance stairway as well as the indoor glass treaded grand helical staircase spotlights several pairs of guardian komainu {lion-dog} and shishi {stone lion} statues, it is the main branch of the city's public library system and its central research library that is attached to the [b]Civic Center Station[/b] the city's busiest commuter and subway station with distinctive neo-classical architecture and interiors with stone bas-relief zodiac sculptures and frescoes of constellation star maps covering the walls and ceilings, and marble mosaics covering the floors, both buildings were designed by Nikken Sekkei {Japanese diaspora design} a global architectural firm based in Hilo; Hilo City Hall a fine example of Beaux-Arts architecture clad in white marble that covers an entire city block in the Shiku Choson {municipal ward}, it has a colossal central hall for full City Council meetings and debates with a spectator gallery under a huge gilded dome with a spectacular interior rotunda expressing ideals of openness, accessibility, and transparency, there is an open atrium lobby, a press room, an auditorium/public meeting hall, the mayor's offices, an event hall, a formal dining hall and several bistros, a ballroom, an extensive collection of formal portraiture and antique furniture, a judicial chamber, city executive offices and meeting spaces, some city services offices, a communal market hall, and a public square for community gatherings and information dissemination, there is public and reserved below grade parking, and has its own subway station; the [b]Hilo Opera House[/b] an elegant modern building of undulating architecture and superb sonic clarity on the banks of the Waikato River in the Shiku Choson {municipal ward} across from City Hall; La Cafeteria is a public twenty eight hour dining hall located on the ground floor, below the lobby, of the City Services Building near to City Hall, Chuo Eki {center station}, and the central Chihosaibansho {district court} and Hilo Magistrate Court Houses in the Shiku Choson {municipal ward}, the eatery combines a cafeteria dining hall, a vending machine hall, an automat, coffee and tea services, a juice bar, a bakery, street food stalls, and an always fresh grand buffet with additional seating in the rear courtyard of the building, the building is one of the few stone high rises in the city and its ferro-crete and steel skeleton is clad in creme and brown marble with copper accents, the art deco building highlights its vertical emphasis with elongated lines and geometric shapes and details, it features a frieze bas-relief of dandelions and the main entrance is marked by a massive glass archway which lets natural light into the atrium lobby, visitors enjoy the opulent and decadent (especially for a public services building) interiors of birdcage lifts, lacquered surfaces, metal and gilt accents, jewel-toned high end upholstery surfaces, and polished wooden paneling and parquet floors; The 92nd Street YAA is a non-profit community center in a historic building among brick and stone row-houses and wooden machiya {Japanese design wooden townhouses that are both residences and businesses} off of Glory Boulevard in the Toyon {edible berry producing shrubs} residential ward on the Waikato riverfront on the east side of Hilo, of a variegated brick facade a fusion of venetian renaissance and Romanesque styles with extravagant and vivid terracotta decorations and Juliette ready balconies that won several awards for craft ship and design, bringing people together and providing exceptional groundbreaking programs for the performing and visual arts, literature and culture, adult and children's education, afterschool activities, family programming, talks on a huge range of topics, and health and fitness services and facilities, the amenities include the roundtable virtual classroom for lectures and lively discussions in history, art, literature, philosophy, and culture, a 1000-seat concert hall, a theater, a cinema auditorium, an intimate performance stage, a lounge act venue, two indoor pools, a splash zone pool with slides and springboards, a diving and scuba center, professional fitness and exercise equipment, three gymnasiums, a ballroom and banquet hall, a cafeteria, a delicatessen, a bakery, a mosque and a Shinto shrine (to Inari and Amaterasu), several 'novel' rooms of different ethnic cultures, a public library and archive, a fencing salle, a dojo, a sailing and riverine center, radio and television broadcast studios, a music recording studio, 175 classrooms for arts, vocational, and academic courses, a Turkish bath, an indoor running track, six indoor sport courts, an extensive variety of exercise classes and a wide variety of sports and athletics, a daycare and nursery school, a small press publisher, an inner courtyard with cricket and football pitches plus garden and lounge areas, a residence hall, a dormitory, an art gallery and heritage museum; The Urbain Apar'hotel several chateauesque with serviced apartments and resident suites in the Shogyo {commercial}, Downtown Hilo, and Civic Center wards catering to business and extended stay travelers with weekly and monthly rates, delivers hospitality that's both remarkable and accessible with spaces that inspire and delight that fulfills needs without sacrificing style all while delivering seamless personalized experiences, its amenities include twenty eight hour reception and concierge services, curated neighborhood guides, boutique bathroom amenities, EV charging stations in our valet parking center, shuttle service to aeroports and rail stations, an events center, a twenty eight hour on call wellness and security center, biometric security measures, a gymnasium and fitness center, an indoor pool and spa, a business center with a boardroom and conference rooms, laundrey services, and room service; The Downtown Night Market open air bazaar on the Kanawha riverfront is open from sunset to sunrise every day for leisurely strolling, shopping, and eating and is teeming with food stalls and kiosks of handcrafted and commercial goods; Red Jester Onsen Ryokan of traditional Japanese architecture of natural materials and elements built around a large inner courtyard with additional beautiful gardens and baths behind the structure for privacy at the edge of the Hiro {generous prosperous} residential ward with omotenashi {hospitality} the key element of the staffs performance for the guests sense of comfort and relaxation, there is a concierge, mineral rock filtered waters, indoor private soaking tubs and social baths, outdoor onsen in woodland surroundings, segregated and mixed baths, attentive bath attendants, masseurs, a gourmet chef preparing local multicourse seasonal specialties, a yukata and geta boutique, karaoke rooms, game rooms, shows, and shops; Yumeuri Land {glass dream space} (a Phoenix Industries company) a glass enclosed indoor water park and spa covering two city blocks in the Goraku ward with private skybox suites and cabanas, spa services, The Burger Shack cafe, The Sky Garden brasserie serving a fusion of spa and Korean cuisine, snack shops and juice bars, saunas and plunge pools, jetted hot tubs, mineral baths, water volleyball, water polo, swimming, diving, and lap pools, a two story tropical aquarium, Blast super soaker obstacle field, indoor water coasters, raft rides, rope swings and water slides, a splash pad playground, a lazy river, a surf pool, an enormous wave pool with its own beach, and an adults only clothing optional Romanesque bath house on the topmost level; Vesathai Fort (a Phoenix Industries company) is a gamers paradise in the Goraku ward of Hilo in a large building complex that resembles a miniature Hindu desert fort with everything from arcade games and pachinko to cards and dice, and console games and tabletop battles plus enough Mech simulator pods to play regiment on regiment, there is a casino, a Mahjong parlor, a sports bar with multiple screens showing multiple events and a life size tri-d holographic projection of the biggest games and events, a karaoke bar and suites, a concert hall, an e-stadium, and immersive virtual reality suites available by reservation only; The Waypoint Cybercafe has several locations in the city near busy rail stations, they offer secure high speed broadband and public internet access on the most cutting edge machinery available at quarterly hour rates, they also offer tea, coffee, fizzy drinks and energy drinks, baked goods, snacks, soups and sandwiches, as well as multiplayer gamer networks, a gaming shop, several tri-d holo-projection gaming tables, computer and smartphone repair services, video conference booths, a business hub, quiet study rooms, a card game player and tournament area, classes and workshops, events and activities, and game card and phone card sales; The ComStar Communication Tower is in the Shogyo {commerce} ward of Hilo, the white glass facade skyscraper of 300-m, that somewhat resembles their logo, the silver blue glass and steel sphere at the apex of the tower has a public observation deck, public gardens, and Alwhite a white linen kaiseiki-ryori restaurant, the tower houses public communication services with dozens of private and conference style booths (it is one C-bill per one millisecond of text only HPG transmission), a news bureau, a public lounge with a newsstand and multiple screens presenting news and information from INN and multiple interstellar sources, a history archive, financial offices, and banking services, the tower also leases space to quite a few businesses and shops, and there are dormitories and residences for the ComStar acolytes and adepts; The Skyline Ballroom formal dress supper club and dance hall has massive skylights offering especially good views of the night sky during the Kurai Sora Matsuri {dark skies festival} in November during the Leonid meteor showers, it also has floor to ceiling glass walls presenting glorious views of the city and the Kanawha River from the top of the Majestic Hotel & Casino designed in the art deco vintage Hollywood glam aesthetic of grandeur and sophistication on the shopping thoroughfare of the Ruby red-light ward of the city; The Devil's Playground reservation only adult only restaurant tavern and sex club with public and private playrooms, where the interior staff serves nude in all over red body paint of various designs located in the Ruju {rouge} red-light ward; Zepp Hilo {Zepp is a global brand of grandiose live houses that host interstellar tours and preeminent global and stellar acts} a live house, music archive, music hall and repository showcasing musical artifacts from across the Sphere and Periphery that seats over three thousand in a blue marble clad circular amphitheater with valerium in the university ward of the city; Sekai no eiga toshokan {world cinema library} the large elaborately decorated eclectic and exotic complex of movie palaces in the Goraku ward is host to three main theaters that embody three styles of movie palace, the classical style with its opulent and luxurious architecture reminiscent of ancient opera houses, the asymmetrical playful atmospheric style with a painted auditorium ceiling under a rounded dome that depicts a cerulean blue open starlit sky, and the bold exotic and glamorous art deco style theater with extravagant ethnocultural architectural elements, all the palaces have full stages and orchestra pits with generous backstage areas and dressing rooms, plus there is a drive-in, and a multiscreen cinema fronted by an irregular arched colonnade with a large barrel vault reception hall, the complex is centered by the archive, a parametric building of curved timber and glass that houses an enormous film library preserving digital and film cinema from Nejiro's founding and beyond, the venue hosts film festivals, events and award presentations, and shows first run, art house, classic, independent, and interstellar films, and blockbuster movies; Subarashi monogatari no sento {great story spire} a fantastical miniature spire (30-m) that is both reminiscent of a great tree and a fairy tale tower in the Daikan {great view} ward {a fashionable residential area with a relaxed atmosphere, a small pocket of calm in the bustling city}, that holds a storytelling venue with several types of stages and storyteller spaces, of special note is Mujigae {rainbow} the wraparound tri-d movie screen in a theater in the round (with the audience in the middle surrounding a small stage) filled with outsized bean bag chairs and projecting rotating immersive images (sometimes animated) of the illustrations of children's books accompanied by a live narrator (some of whom are celebrities and actors), there is also a large research library of fiction featuring fables, fairytales, folklore, legend and myth, and a huge bookshop and gift boutique; [b]Pier 39[/b] near the Hilo Inland Port is a tourist attraction with amusements and a boardwalk, a marina and yacht club, boutique museums, galleries, pubs and izakaya, coffee bars and tearooms, casual and fine dining, shops, a fish market, and has several obsolete sailing and powered ships on display and available to public tours; The Lao She Teahouse a global independent private chain of traditional Chinese style teahouses, named after the famous writer, not just a simple tea break serving tea and snacks, but they are venues for intellectual exchange, leisure and entertainment with crosstalk, operatic arias, musicians, and storytellers telling tales of history, mythology, and folklore {Weng Fengchang, Jasmine Nightingale, and Stiofan Murphy-Shigematsu are storytellers of prominence in the teahouses and numerous storyteller venues of Hilo} with welcoming courtyards and intricate layouts of elaborate latticework and finely carved wooden panels providing an ambient setting for patrons, in Hilo they reflect the city's cosmopolitan spirit providing a sophisticated blend of historical charm and modern comfort and amid the serenity of the teahouse patrons may partake in pastimes such as chess, poetry, calligraphy, philosophical debate and discussion, tea tastings, cultural exhibitions, and the cultivation and enjoyment of brewing and sipping tea {there are more than 700 tea houses of various ethnic, cultural, and tea serving styles in Hilo}; Project Art a community center in the Surry Hills, a working class residential neighborhood of the theater ward, that hosts arts and crafts projects and classes from volunteer resident teaching artists and crafters for adults and children, there is also an aquatic center, a fitness center, game rooms, a library, a multipurpose gymnasium, youth center, worship spaces, communal spaces, lounge and relaxation spaces, a cafe, a juice bar, and an urban farm designed around the building complex that seems to flow and weave through the sloping landscape like a river; Namida no niwa kinen bochi {Garden of Tears Memorial Cemetary} {most people on Nejiro are not buried after death, cremation and ash storage in a family shrine or mausoleum is standard, there are also a few cemeteries where the deceased is cremated then buried in a family grave with stone markers and wooden Buddhist grave markers (to prevent them from re-entering the mortal world), some choose to have their ashes spread over nature in its many forms or used to grow new life, some rural areas still use kofun} a terraced cemetery of flower beds, mausoleums, stone markers and lanterns, and a stand of stratosphere ironwood trees; Buki Industries {weapon} {foreign interstellar business, Hilo facilities manager Koyla Lavrenti, Nejiro CEO Arkady Borsakov} a large scale industrial park in the Seizo ward {fabricate} housing manufacturing (thermal energy plant, laser weapons, heat sinks, power amplifiers, support and personnel weapons), transport, warehousing, an urban farm (leasing space to Rooftop Magic Bee Farms), and office facilities of ferro-crete based buildings topped by rounded ribbed lantern-like translucent polycarbonate structures that also provide excess thermal energy to the city; The Museum of Art for Children at Heart a immersive hands-on interactive museum that focuses on the mechanics of creation, art theory, and history with art classes and demonstrations, crafts, workshops, sing-alongs, scavenger hunts, games, puzzles, story hours, creation galleries, play spaces, and special exhibitions; The Hyperion Hotel an art deco style exclusive luxury hotel (home of the somewhat infamous detective agency Enkeli Chosa {angel investigations}) located in the 400-m tall Hyperion Tower skyscraper in the Takami {the heights} area of the finance ward, evocative of a stratosphere ironwood tree with two popular lounge bars - the Solarium with a dwarf citrus garden patio and a cabana bar with a swimming pool in an upper public floor of the hotel with expansive views of the city, and the tower hosts a spacious lobby bar the King Cole a classic cocktail bar with an extensive list of wines and aged spirits, where visitors may take in the epitome of art deco architecture and decor in Hilo; Ageha {swallowtail butterfly} 'the spot' Hilo's most popular nightclub with several enormous dance floors including an outdoor black and white geometric dance floor under a pergola draped in string lights and a rooftop terrace cocktail bar, located on the Kanawha River in Downtown Hilo with dock space for patron yachts and sailboats; Poppy Sunset is a high end reservation only dinner spot from six to ten pm each day then it transforms into a top go to nightclub a place for celebrity glitterati, globetrotters, hospitality industry insiders, and affluent club-goers with a chic and glamorous Hollywood golden age ethos with a swanky vintage lounge, private rooms, an outdoor garden patio lounge, and ultra friendly white glove service staff offering delicacies such as hamachi crudo, lobster toast, wagyu sliders, pea hummus, chopped chicken salad dumplings, grilled prawns, and tableside craft cocktail service, with a state of the art kinetic ceiling covered in folding mirrored panels over the massive dance floor and as the energy builds the planes gradually unfold revealing a digital light show creating a dramatic reflective landscape in the late evening party space with speakers galore, two DJ booths, and bottle service; Blue Note Hilo is a live jazz club featuring the best performers in the genre and weekly jam sessions; Dokutsu {underground enclosure} an underground intimate live house {small non-smoker venues with space for dozens to thousands, generally standing room only, atmospheric often experimental live music clubs playing many music genres from jazz to folk to hogaku {home/country} to rock and pop that may serve food and spirits, there are about 300 in Hilo, shows generally start at around seven pm and feature four to seven bands with audiences there for the music}, the place to be to enjoy acoustic music and rock, pop, and folk located in the Hilo Underground university ward; Salda {live} is an alternate indie band live house with a wall to wall live digital projected painting of a giant opalescent moon dropping from the ceiling and a second floor balcony overlooking it all with tiny tables, the three hundred capacity music venue puts the music front and enter with a low key bar along the wall at stage right, the magnificent lighting reflected off the hanging moon means excellent live pics and the sound system is superb enough to keep up with the club's manifold attractions, a favorite local hangout in the Hiro residential ward {generous prosperous, a high class and high end serene residential area with a blend of urban living and peaceful sanctuary with many interstellar and former aerospace ship crew residents}; Ongaku-kissa {music cafe} is an idol band live house widely liked by cosplayers and anime and video game otaku in the university ward; Zher The Zoo {here} a dimly lit basement live house and nightclub in the theater ward accented with exposed brick archways and brick floors around the bar and a sprung hardwood floor in front of the stage, the grand piano set up on the stage puts out an eclectic mix of sounds from ska to alternative rock, the spacious cavern like den is excellent for dancing so most of the acts are high energy and it is a popular place for corps de ballet and chorus line performers to let off steam; The Budokan Concert Hall an octagonal building inspired by the Hall of Dreams on Terra and is known for its symphony orchestra performances, its summer idol bands, and its pop and rock concert series; Yoyogi Park a 100-ha landscaped public park for recreation and leisure with buskers and street performers, a great lawn for picnics and kiting, hanami and momijigari tree groves and gathering spaces, the [i]Adirondack Lounge[/i] with chairs and tables arranged outdoors under umbrellas around fire pits and chimineas with beer and cider stalls, a one thousand seat amphitheater, benches, trails, sport courts, playgrounds, and a statue garden in the Serana {tranquil, calm} residential ward of Hilo; The Akasaka Blitz Live House {red slope, an especially hilly commerce ward in the city} near Akasaka Eki with an eclectic mix of independent bands with edgy and interstellar rock bands, the club has a one-thousand-person capacity and an attached soundproofed izakaya showing live streams of the performances from booth jukebox monitors; The Continental Marquis Hotel with an enviable address in the theater ward of the city with an atrium lobby, terraces and balconies, an imposing twelve story podium with a sleek facade of laser etched kinetic metal panels depicting shuffling hanafuda {flower cards}, and holds retail space, office space, an indoor pool and fitness spa, digital and personal concierge services, meeting spaces, ballrooms, and more than one thousand guest rooms and suites plus the Marquess Brasserie, the Mark Casino, and the Marquis Theater which seats seven hundred and fifty patrons for dramatic stage plays to musical theater presentations; The De'esa Woodlands are in the softly rolling hills and foothills of the Yami no yamayama {mountains of darkness} west of the Valle della Luna {valley of the moon}. A multifunctional agrosylvopastural system used as a common pasture and forest. In this patchwork landscape dominated by cork oaks and holm oaks other species of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants also come together. These range from other oaks and strawberry trees to common myrtle, wood sage, thyme, rosemary, lavender, cistas, heather, gardenia, gorse, broom, and acacias. The space is shared between arable and forage crops and wild pastureland. There are also around a hundred species of aromatic, medicinal, fruiting shrubs, and honey plants, as well as nearly four hundred species of vertebrates. It is a region of feeding and rest for many species of migrating birds and several species of bats. The land belongs to the Sugai Dai Ichizoku and is managed by the Hilo Metropolitan Council with cooperation from local farmers, foresters, and ranchers. The Woodlands are primarily for grazing sheep, goats, cattle, and horses but the lands also produce wild game, mushrooms, honey, truffles, cork, firewood and charcoal, blackiber pigs {that are fed exclusively on acorns for fattening and then the meat is air dried at higher elevations to produce pata-negra and jamon iberico}, and dry land crops on a rotational basis. Humans are an integral and fundamental part of this ecosystem and intensive holistic sustainable management is needed to keep building soil health and to keep the overall system from naturally evolving into dense forest. Due to its unique mosaic-like landscape which integrates tree cover, open pastures, and scrubland it has a profound positive impact on local biodiversity. In the Woodlands oaks, beeches, and pine trees are managed to persist for about three hundred years. The cork oaks are harvested every nine to twelve years and the understory is cleared every seven to ten years to prevent takeover of the woodland by shrubs of the rock rose family {then sold as ornamental plants or to produce aromatic resin for the perfume industry}. The De'esa Woodlands cover nearly two hundred thousand hectares not including the Cabanero Kokuritsu Koen {friendly neighbor national park} (200 sq. km) that has an enourmous variety of plant species and old growth forests of blue oak, iron oak, foothill pines, buckeye chestnut, toyon, dogwood, and redbud. The Cabanero Kokuritsu Koen occupies the northwest corner of the Woodlands. It was donated by the Sugai Dai ichizoku as a national park to preserve its natural native environment and for public education and recreation. There are more than one hundred species of mammals, 147 species of birds, and sixty species of amphibians and reptiles (quail, beechy squirrels, pocket gopher, bobcats, coyote, deer, hopi rattlesnakes, otters, wild boar, iberlynx, black storks, black vultures, imperial eagles), and fossils from more than four hundred million years ago. The park is best visited in autumn when the leaves begin to burnish or in the spring as the fields adorn themselves in green. The park is divided into two clearly differentiated areas, the thicket which abounds with lush vegetation and oak trees where deer graze and birds such as swans and bustards make their habitat, the mountain range consists of craggy outcrops and rocks home to black vultures and imperial eagles and is a haven to iberlynx. Among the oaks are heather and rock rose which typify this unique scenery. Numerous streams and serpentine meandering rivers curve through the landscape with the occasional roaring torrents from rapids and waterfalls transforming the area into a captivating mosaic. Activities include white-water rafting, rock hunting, camping, hiking, riding, cycling, canoeing, full moon night hikes, wild edible feast tours, bird watching, scavenger hunts, spring wildflower pick-a-bunch, plus photography tours and hunting excursions. The park's Discovery Center runs live demonstrations and contains exhibits on everything from the park's ancient geology to its plant and wildlife denizens and hosts lectures and storytellers sharing the secrets of the park. There are several overlooks and viewpoints and an observatory for stargazers and astronomy lovers, the clear night sky here is a must see in the spring and summer as several important astronomical events occur. There are a half dozen Wylde Ranger towers in the De'esa Woodlands as well as two Nejiro Fire Brigade Wildland Firefighting stations and a Sugai Yoroi Zensho-chi {militia outpost}. The Rubi Cabaret is an adult only (25+) nightclub in Downtown Hilo UnderHilo that offers burlesque, cabaret, blue vaudeville, striptease performances and also storytellers of adult literature and erotica. The Nordic Elk in Downtown Hilo is a gastropub with delicious food, and offers more than thirty taps of locally brewed beer, fine wines, a homely environment and a relaxed atmosphere, the drinks menu includes a stellar range of local high quality craft beers and interstellar options, entertainment is one of the pubs specialties and you may enjoy live music in the basement, there are community puzzles and quizzes in the saloon bar, private banquet rooms and dining suites, and storytellers and comics on the main floor public bar and dining area, and if sports are your passion the upper floor has a number of holo and tri-d screens showing a wide range of sports and athletics from cricket to rugby and from ice hockey to motorcycle racing, and activities such as pool, table tennis, shuffleboard, darts, board games, and arcade games as well as a casino corner, there is a spacious outdoor terrace in the rear of the building and a front sidewalk patio with outdoor seating under the almond and jacaranda trees that line the street. The Drunken Dragon is a bar and restaurant of heavy wood and bright steel, a neighborhood hangout that sprawls across a converted warehouse in the Fabricar {manufacture} ward of Hilo, with a rooftop garden siesta lounge possessing clear views of the Waikato River, the Meriwick Wood and the animal migration pass, there are several wings inside including the common lounge, the saloon bar, the bottle and jug nook, the dance floor with a stage for live music and entertainers as well as a DJ booth, the dining room has grill side tables and a dim sum parlor and there are over a dozen private rooms available for meetings, social events, and romantic rendezvous. Kagayaku Chashitsu {radiant teahouse} tearoom has a glass water wall on the rear wall framed by teak and underneath it is a sizable koi pond with water lilies and lotus flowers, there are arched bamboo trellises with Persian roses trained around them that define seating areas, and wisteria in a rainbow of shades hanging from pergola that cover the ceiling, traditional horigotatsu floor seating, and floor to ceiling windows look to the west over the Valle Della Luna and the Yami no yamayama and overlooks the Waikato River as it makes it way through the city seen from the uppermost floor of Amira Tawa {princess towers} (a cluster of three glass cylindrical skyscrapers that resemble white minarets with the shortest having a gold lacquered balcony lantern at its zenith and the others have gold lacquered onion domes atop them, the towers notable tenants include Delta Records private recording and publishing company that handles many of Nejiro's most popular idol bands and pop music acts, the pop radio station Wamba {rock}, the Li & Fung supply chain management company, Skanska Construction a commercial property and infrastructure development company, the Bulova watch company Nejiro division, more than three hundred residential units and service facilities, the Spicy Horse Trader an import/export company that handles interstellar consumer and military goods, The Plot Bunny a combined interactive audience participation storyteller venue and writers cafe) in the Aoba {fresh leaves} commerce ward. Next to Amira Tawa is the Hikarinoto Mosque {tower of light} a congregational mosque and community center with a paradise garden as a center piece, it is constructed as a spiral ramp seventy eight meters high leading to a balcony lantern from which the call to prayer emits every Friday at midday, with a sickle moon and star over a lion and sun over an 'alam {imperial Mughal standard} gold finial at the top, the mosque is constructed with heptagonal, octagonal, and hexagonal bricks with cornice topped marble columns at the corners and the entrances of the community gathering/prayer space, the interior walls are painted with dark blue glass mosaics and stucco carvings representing rivers and water, as well as calligraphic quotes and prayers in Arabic, and the exterior walls are covered in white marble and semi-precious stone tile mosaics in floral and geometric designs. Lu songshi ta {turquoise tower} is a high rise in the Shangye {commerce} ward of Hilo whose facade is a standout engineered turquoise and copper accented 'marble' that is home to the Laughing Spirits winery restaurant and bar and its two stages host a stellar array of big name musicians, improv comics, and storytellers, the St. Mazie Bar and Supper Club where the bar features an oyster and raw bar, bourbon cocktails, and live music nightly (jazz, blues, flamenco, and americana), the garden room offers fine dining and a tasting menu with wine pairings, and the supper club serves upscale comfort food among reclaimed wood accents and tea lights while storytellers, improv comics, cabaret and burlesque perform, the Blue Sky Nursery and Florist full service garden center, the Painted Tree Boutiques with hundreds of shops full of fashion, home decor, and gifts, Lockable storage rentals and leases provides secure safe deposit boxes, document storage, climate controlled spaces for art, jewelry, wine and spirits, furniture, specialty vehicle storage, and general storage lockers, and Hachinosu {beehive honeycomb} a coworking venue offering private dining, assembly, banquet, office, meeting, team project, and conference spaces with acoustic and ballistic grade one way glass windows installed high overhead providing natural light and privacy, encrypted communications and technological amenities, and soundproofed with white noise generators, thick walls, and heavy doors, the security and staff are competent, subtle, and prioritize confidentiality and professionalism. Hakucho Gekijo {swan theater} is located in Hilo's theater ward seating up to 1150 on three tiers, the theater in the round and thrust stage with flexible staging hosts storytellers, comics, lectures, concerts, and dramatic and musical theater, it is one of the most popular storyteller venues in Hilo with weekend evening performances (geared towards adults) and Sunday matinee performances (geared towards children and families) usually selling out well in advance of show times. The Wander Inn Saloon situated in Hilo's Jejak {manufacture} ward hosts storytellers and folk singers nightly while serving a great fusion of English, Norden, and Japanese pub food and several locally brewed award-winning craft beers and ales as well as cider and mead and top shelf selections of vodka, schnapps, and sake. The Rikugien {garden of six principles} in the Shiku Choson {municipal ward} of Hilo near City Hall offers a spacious (87,800 square meters) public landscaped strolling garden with seasonal trees and flowers and multiple trails winding around the beautiful Edo-style gardens and pond through forest, hills, and open lawns that lead to a public teahouse, a Shinto shrine to Kuraokami {dark dragon of the water, mysterious dragon} cared for by the Arakida shake {priestly} family, and to an outdoor amphitheater where poets, storytellers, philosophers, and musicians. The Fukiage Chaya {high position tea shop} on a hill on the Rikugien garden grounds is at an excellent spot to take a break from walking and take in the atmosphere of the garden with beautiful views of the pond and surrounding flora you may enjoy green tea, amazake {sweet rice wine}, and jo-namagashi {high grade Japanese sweet in bird and flower shapes}, or fried maple leaves and candied Sakura blossoms seasonally, on red-clothed benches and tables on the terrace, from which you may view the pond in its entirety under oversized parasols or inside the traditional teahouse, the attached tea shop sells a variety of loose leaf tea blends (many imported from interstellar sources, from stellar greenhouses, and the best sencha tea leaves available from Nejiro), tea tins and jars as well as tea ware. The Hard Deck is a Spanish revival style building featuring large windows with panoramic views of the riverfront and with interiors emphasizing a mixed sailing ship and aviator decor, there is a u-shaped bar against the front wall entrance and a side bar near the south courtyard entrance with a cross deck pendant wire footrest from the NDT NS Zuikaku {auspicious crane} (the famous pirate hunter), arched glass doors with wrought iron hardware and embellishment lead to a fenced outdoor patio bar in the rear that serves yakitori {skewered grilled chicken in tare sauce} karage {deep fried marinated and coated chicken nuggets}, and korokke {minced meat, cheese, seafood and/or vegetale filled potato croquettes} as well as traditional bar food and snacks plus hundreds of local and interstellar brews, sake, and ciders, there are several speakeasy doors that lead to private rooms, siesta lounges, gambling parlors, and smoking rooms, there is a dance floor with a band stand and a karaoke system, the north entrance to the central courtyard contains memorial walls containing photographs, messages, and artifacts dedicated to the squadrons who have chosen the bar as their sanctuary, though it is a mostly a military aviator hangout located on the grounds of the Hilo Centrair aeroport near the Air Station industrial mech pikots and civilian aeropilots are welcome as well as locals and tourists, its two dining rooms serves a medley of fusion cuisine for breakfast, brunch, lunch, afternoon tea, and supper, the colorful tile mantels are lined with beer steins, patches, pictures and other memorabilia and historical artifacts (including hundreds of model aerocraft hanging from the ceiling beams) from the patrons of the bar that has hosted weddings, retirements, and squadron functions throughout its tenancy as well as Tailhook Association meetings. Raconteur is a private high speed lavish accommodation railway service for tourists and tour groups and often offers themed land cruises and off train excursions through diverse landscapes. The railway tours the continents of Tairiku and Shinrin, using deep sea tunnels to cross the Akai Umi from the cities of Port, Lanikai, and Quezon. The trains are capable of impressive speed but usually travels at a slower pace so that passengers may fully enjoy the passing scenery. One of its most popular routes is The Loop. The journey begins at Hilo Station then travels south through the narrow canyons and hanging bridges of the Yami no yamayama through Eucalyptus Hills past the tallest peak in the range Mulhacen-san (1379 masl), and past the glittery and mesmerizing Rio Verde {green river} jam packed with natural pools and waterfalls straight out of a fairy tale scene. Next the train ventures into the enormous mountains of the primarily untamed landscape of the interconnected ranges of the Sharquin Kiso Yama. Then its several hours to Madina where it makes a brief stop so the neo-Moorish delight of the Aljanib Almushriq Mahata {sunny side railway station} railway station may be admired, and the passengers have several hours to peruse the market halls, gallerias, and open-air bazaars. Travel continues for some hours to the Gorge of Visions on the Vaala Silta {river bridge} (a one-kilometer-high arch railway bridge) then moves through the Aoraki Yama {cloud piercer mountains}. The rail journey proceeds past magnificent views of the Anheru Taki {angel falls}. Nejiro's most impressive and famous waterfall, where the water crashes over the nine-hundred-meter-wide rock face of sheer cliffs from the white-waters of the Chukan Kawa {middle river} that falls at more than five hundred meters at more than two hundred thousand meters per second into the Tentai Mizumi {celestial lake} (the second largest freshwater lake on the planet). The train continues travel over Long He {dragon river}, an outlet of the Tentai Mizumi, (with its sinuous curves and striking shade of blue reflected from the sky the river is a symbol of benevolence, power, wisdom, and good luck). The train travels several hours south into the Sharquin Kiso Yama via the Kaikyo Tsuribashi {brilliant achievement suspension bridge} (the bridge is suspended one hundred meters over the river and covers six hundred meters over the water and spans more than two thousand three hundred meters), with splendid views of Morning Glory Lake in the east and glimpses of the Tentai Mizumi to the west. After you cross Long He there are beautiful views of the Hokori ni onmou tani {proud valley} meadows and woodlands, and the wildlife of the grasslands surrounding the river. The journey continues for some hours as the train travels further south into the Hoshizora Chiku {starry sky district} through the Chian Mountains {native grape vine} to a stop at the Chateau Mukhnari {oak grove} where passengers may enjoy a tour and sample the award-winning wines. The train then travels on to make a brief stop at the palatial Circle G Station in the Senotakai Matsutama {tall pine mountains} where passenger may admire several impressive art nouveau design public buildings or shop at the Market Hall. Passenger may also connect to the Hoshizora Scenic Railway and several other regional and continental railways. The train travels on through the high mountains and ancient forests of the Cascadia Range and through the Hoshizora no shizen hogo kokuritsu koen {starry sky nature preserve national park} after dark without most of its lights through the dark sky preserve so the whole of the cosmos may be clearly observed. The train then travels through the Sunlight Mountains and passes through Angelfire Canyon and by the Soladalur {sun valley} ski chalets before making an overnight stop at the Sakura Onsen resort village at the Hippocrene {the horses' fountain} (a five-star Pegasus Resorts accommodation) to enjoy the hot springs and the permanent matsuri. {This part of the journey takes approximately seventeen hours travel time plus several hours of stops and is especially popular during the sakura blossom front and momijigari.} The train then continues west for some hours into the Kiso Mountains province and tunnels through the glaciers and the high jagged snow capped peaks of the Alpenwylde where passengers may marvel at the frozen waterfalls, ice fields, and tunnels of ice for several hours until the train emerges to make an overnight stop at the ski resort city of Whistler. Travel then continues for some hours west across the Ceallach Highlands past rugged mountains, deep lochs, boggy moors, and ancient woodlands. Passengers may admire the picturesque views of the curtain walled fort of Ceallach Castle {which is not open to the general public} as the train journeys on to the ancient town of Stonehaven {Nejiro's oldest settlement - est. 2222} for an overnight stop. Next the train heads north some hours past Hawks Bay into the Yushan {jade hills} province along the Akazuna {red sand} beaches parallel to the Akai Sunahama Coastal Parkway {red sand shore} with awesome sunset views over the Akai Umi {red ocean} and the convergence of sky and wave are visible from the west side of the train, and grand sweeping vistas of the green grasslands are on display on the east side. Some hours later there is a two-night stop in the alluring and dazzling, the thrilling opulent and sensational, the somewhat flamboyant yet sophisticated resort city of Lanikai {beautiful beach}. From there the train continues along the coastline levees through the Kame no kora-wan hogo-ku {turtle shell bay sanctuary} mangrove forest and onto stops at the garden villas and artisan and fishing villages of the southern shores of the Cote d'Azur on the Azure Gulf amongst the Mistral Heights and the Esterel Massif {steep rock mountain} where the train stops for another two nights to allow exploration of the nearby cliffside villages and beaches south of the Annettai Heiya {subtropical plains} province. From there the train travels many hours east across the Yushan's undulating green grasslands passing wild herds of horses, horned andalusians, deer, idaina kemono, antelope, and aknata. Perhaps sighting a kuru of novasaurs or hanten no aru neko {spotted cats} on the hunt. Travel continues over the Osman Bridge (a 2860-meter triple span suspension bridge) at a narrow point of the Yoshino-gawa. The journey continues for some hours southeast through the Eastern Desert province across the rocky basalt desert past the salt lakes and extinct volcano cones of the Kuroi Sabaku {black desert} until an overnight stop at el-Leja {the refuge} for tours of the winery and the wool and textile market. Then the journey continues as the train skirts through the gravel plains and towering reddish orange sand dunes at the southern edge of the Akichi Erg {empty quarter shifting sand dunes} and past the Liwa Wildlife Oasis {banner} where you may spot oryx, striped hyena, or perhaps a caracal, a pustnnyy volk {desert wolf} or even a bearded vulture among the date palm and ironwood trees as travel continues past Liwa Lake on elevated rail lines. The train moves south for several hours into the greener softly rolling hills of the Valle della Luna for an overnight stop at a quaint rail station in Villajoyosa {joyful town}. A fishing and tourist village on Marabella Lake with rows of colorful houses to admire, and the Mulawan Sanbashi {colorful pier} has an outdoor bazaar and a kaleidoscopic fish market whose docks and charter boats offer anglers a chance to try their hand in the cool deep lake for black bass, zandia, pike, catfish, and carp; there are also several cozy and charming minshuku near the pebble beaches of the scenic lake. The train then continues for some hours across the valley into Hilo where it comes to a halt at Hilo Station. The entire journey takes several days and train passengers may enjoy accommodations including richly designed chair cars, lush sleeping coaches with personalized service, and elegant dining coaches with delicacies and fresh gourmet food sourced along the route. There are bar cars, a library car, a smoking car with a humidor, and cafe and snack cars with wifi and newspapers. There are glass dome coaches with viewing platforms, adult play spaces, gambling and gaming coaches, an arcade, a gym, a souvenir shop, ping pong and billiards, a theater car that also hosts live game shows, a cinema car, an escape room, a dance club, and childrens' playgrounds. The Explorer Lounge is a social hub of the train, a piano bar with panoramic windows perfect for taking in the passing scenery, where passengers may enjoy drinks and swap stories with fellow travelers. The most popular places on the train to congregate are the beautifully crafted lounge cars decked out in posh comfortable seating arrangements with skylights and panoramic windows offering sweeping views of the passing landscapes and passengers may partake freely of the wine and sparkling water, cheese and fruit boards, and charcuterie circulated by the stewards while storytellers spin tales of local myth and legend and recount anecdotes from places the train is traveling. The Aegis Arms Industrial Park Plant 7 (500 ha) is a recently jointly chartered complex (by the Saganami Dai Ichizoku and the Tikhonovich Dai ichizoku), located southeast of the resort city of Lanikai {beautiful beach} in the Yushan province {jade hills} and north of the Sumass Prairie. The industrial park is part of the Hisui Chiku {jade district} led by Nihal Surya MP, the Chiku jimusho is in the village of Farley. The Hisui Chiku is directly adjacent to the Kyousoku Chiku {relaxation, relief district} in which the resort city of Lanikai resides. Lanikai is approximately ten hours away from the industrial park via shinkansen {bullet train}, about five hours away by air, just under two days (44 hours) via road, about an hour away by small craft, and just under eleven days by barge (308 hours). Goods and passengers from the Plant 7 industrial park may reach Hilo in approximately thirty hours travel time via shinkansen that crosses the Yoshino-gawa through the Seikan {fearless determination} tunnel (a fifty four kilometer dual gauge railway tunnel which lies about one hundred meters below the riverbed), about fifteen hours away by air, just over four days by road (133 hours), about three hours via small craft, and about thirty three days by barge (923 hours). The subtropical geography and climate is closer to a savanna with slightly undulating hills, flatlands, ample rivers and lakes, tall green grasses, wildflowers, woodlands, forest, and a great diversity of life - birds, insects, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians. There are very warm summers (twenty-eight degrees Celsius) with abundant rains, and a very mild winter dry season (ten degrees celsius). The area also experiences severe storms, droughts, tornadoes, lightning, wildfires, and floods. The industrial park was built near Wolfpond Cove a small lake that is an outlet of the Gatiworth Run River (which is naturally deep enough for barges) and cuts through much of the industrial park before heading west to the sea. The Yushan Yunhe is a system of canals and locks which connect the man-made canals and the natural rivers and lakes of the province for easy distribution of goods and services throughout the province and the continent. The industrial park was built in partnership of Aegis Arms (Saganami Dai Ichizoku Phoenix Industries) with the Southern Cross Motor Group (Tikhonovich Dai Ichizoku Drake Consortium) and manufactures the Demolisher Heavy Tank, Partisan Heavy Tank, and Heavy LRM Carrier. The Southern Cross Motor Group manufactures military and civilian grade heavy trucks and transports (semi-trucks, tractor trailers, containers, flatbed trucks, tow trucks, road train trucks, support vehicles, tankers, construction vehicles, emergency and law enforcement vehicles, buses and recreational vehicles, delivery and utility trucks etc). The complex is protected by Aegis Arms Security (Phoenix Industries), Southern Cross Security (Drake Consortium), the Saganami Guard and Saganami Household Security (Saganami Militia), the Varangian Guard (Tikhonovich Militia) and Viking Security (Drake Consortium). It is also semi-regularly patrolled by the Koa Warriors (Helekia Militia); and occasionally patrolled by The Greys (Carson Militia) and more than occasionally by the Hohoemu Kitsune {smiling foxes} (Takayama Militia). The complex holds contracts with the NPO for law enforcement and there is an NPO Tower with a resident unit and a forensics attachment, an NPO Sea Patrol unit has attachments on the canals, the lake, and the river; there is an NPO Wylde Ranger Tower, there is also a unit of the Nejiro Fire Brigade Wildland Firefighters with a search and rescue attachment. The local Magistrate Court still in the beginning organizational stages, is part of the Hisui Chiku Chihosaibansho {district court}. Like its sister facilities the complex consists of fortified camouflage architecture and has incorporated bunkers, disaster shelters, weapon emplacements, and escape routes to help safeguard the hundreds of workers, technicians, support staff, and professionals employed at the industrial park. The complex is still somewhat under construction but is already producing vehicles. The major factories and employee dormitories have been completed, but component and accessory factories, testing grounds, research and development facilities, as well as a service plaza, apartments, waysides, residential villages, and employee amenities like the Sheriff's Office, the red-light zone, community services, educational and cultural facilities, leisure facilities, shops, and entertainment are still being constructed and contracted. The complex has a railroad station, a canal port, a river port, a small aerostrip, private and public rail lines and roadways (with wildlife overpasses), and solar, wind, water, and geothermal power stations. Local highways (with wildlife overpasses) sponsored by the Hisui Chiku connect the industrial park to tollways from Yousai, the Starport, the Minpei Toride {NDT Military Citadel}, Hilo, and Leyte, and there are several rail lines connecting the industrial park to Lanikai, Bridges, Leyte, Port, Hilo, Quezon, Yousai, Minpei Toride, and the Starport. The complex also holds a few independent industrial companies - steel mills, a jadeite mine, a shale, kaolin, and bentonite mine, a glass factory, textile mills, a ceramics factory, and several component manufacturers. Aegis Arms Plant Number 1 Makers of Tokugawa Heavy Tank, Skulker Wheeled Scout Tank, Hetzer Wheeled Assault Gun, Light SRM Carrier, Striker Light Tank, Packrat LRPV (ICE) Aegis Arms Plant Number 2 Makers of Pegasus Scout Hover Tank, Plainsman Medium Hover Tank, Saladin Assault Tank, Saracen Medium Hover Tank, Saladin Medium Hover Tank, Harasser Missile Platform, Gladius Medium Hover Tank, Sand Devil II Scout Tank, Aegis Arms Plant Number 3 Makers of Scorpion Light Tank, Galleon Light Tank, Vedette Medium Tank, Bulldog Medium Tank, Heavy LRM Carrier, Pike Support Vehicle, LRM Carrier, SRM Carrier Located: West of Mauna Kea Aegis Arms Plant Number 5 (Southern Cross Motors Group) Makers of Heavy and Light Armored Personal Carriers Located: Southwest of Baja Aegis Arms Plant Number 6 (Ember Aviation / Sabah Nejeu) Makers of Ferret Light Scout VTOL, Warrior Attack Helicopters, SOAR VTOL Located: West of Quezon Aegis Arms Plant Number 7 (Southern Cross Motors Group) Makers of Demolisher Heavy Tank, Partisan Heavy Tank Camp Haken This is an old Terran Alliance base that has been on Nijero before most of the current Ichizoku even gave this world a look at. It is east of the City of Hilo and acts as the main base for GSF operations. It is large and now houses The Ironborn, Hands of the Goddess, Loyalty Forsaken and Valkyries of Hanakotoba units. Camp Kaki This base was built by unknown people. It is located east of Ceallach just on the edge of the Kiso Mountains. It is manned by Road’s Warriors. Camp Kurawa This base is located deep in the Kiso Mountains well north of Zakharovich Fortress. This base was built for the GSF and is home to Kiah’s Hammers. Camp Maru This base was built for the GSF and is located south the city of Yousai. It is home to The Eagle’s Tears. Ichizoku Ceallach: Colors: lavender and slate blue Kamon: five-pointed snowflake Delm: Kylen Ceallach Matrona: Jenna Ceallach Founder: MP Johel Jacob Ceallach Founder: MP Maelann Ceallach Spokesperson: Riordan 'Rory' Malone Militia: Teulu {chief's personal retinue} Commander Elijah Jernigan Truen Laoch {brave warriors} Commander Bryan Cynbel Rhyfelwry Mor {sea warriors} Commander Gwydion Llyr Gwasanaeth Coedwigaeth {forestry service} Commander Fiona Sinsir Associate Families: Braden, Llyr, Gwalch, Rhys, Jernigan, Cadeyrn, Cynbel, Malone, Donnchad Major Territorial Holdings: Ceallach Castle (1294 sq. km in the Kiso Mountains west of the Tone-gawa), Ceallach Highlands (5000 sq. km in the Kiso Mountains), Whistler, Stonehaven Corporate Holdings: Ceallach Cooperative Cernunnos Grazing – sheep, deer, goats, elk, alpaca for wool, leather and meat Blizzard – outerwear, active wear, and outdoor sports gear Black Diamond Equipment – ski and snowboard products Powder Hounds Ski Resort – 159 km of marked ski runs, ski school, six restaurants, snow garden for children, the Zapatilla a slope 2400 m above sea level; a steep, difficult, expert ski run with a 900-m vertical drop, 41 km of cross-country trails Monteith Aquaculture – salmon and trout Monteith Guided Salmon and Trout Fishing North Star Ski Resort – 102 km of marked ski runs, elevation 944 m – 2320 m, indoor and outdoor onsen, pool, spa, bars, restaurants, clubs, Victorian style resort hotel Kvaerner Govan – inland and blue sea, commercial, leisure and military shipbuilding, marine engineering, freight services, warehousing Highland Windmills – wind, hydro and solar power farms energy utility TomCar – anywhere and back all terrain modular vehicles with autonomous capabilities in ICE, hybrid or electric versions for consumer, emergency, commercial, law enforcement and military applications Skye Weavers – factory and craft boutiques, textiles, yarns, thread, needles, looms Home Farms – barley, cotton, wheat, oats, rye, potatoes, berries, dairy, goats, pigs, poultry, rapeseed, hops, vegetables Moorcroft – fine art pottery, peacock garden fine china, indigo geometric porcelain dinnerware, coetir {woodland} stoneware dinnerware, bakeware and kitchenware Ceinwen Crystal {blessed and beautiful} – bar and tableware, stemware, dinnerware, bakeware, decorations, lighting, jewelry, gifts, fine art, furniture, mirrors Ironstone – mines, quarries, building materials, ceramics, bone china and stoneware, tiger iron and opal jewelry Eribe Knitwear – sweaters, wool and cotton apparel Clachan Wood – furniture and cabinet crafters Loch Shiel Brewery – cask ales and filtered seasonal beers Hazelburn Distillery – single malt whiskey Black Isle Bronze – foundry and casting fabricator, aluminum, steel, bronze, cast iron Soapworks – fine soaps and green cleaning products for household and personal use Fiddlers Bid Luthier – crafters of fine violins, violas, cellos, and guitars Llafn Cryf {strong blade} – hand forged claidheamh mor swords, basket hilt broad swords, biodag, sgian dubh, halberds, axes Drylliau {firearms} – firearms from handguns to field guns, ammunition, bombs, missiles, grenades, mines, rockets and launch systems, drones Kohler and Campbell – handcrafted award-winning piano, woodwind, and pipe makers Thornbridge Saw Mills – lumber, building supplies, floor coverings Calluna Honey – heather honey products, beer, mead, dyes, herbals, medicines, ornamental heather Maviston Christmas Tree Farm Horween Leather – highest quality luxury leather goods, apparel, handbags, luggage, footwear, briefcases, accessories, holsters, sporting goods, bondage gear, jewelry, furniture covers, horse gear, instrument cases Caithness Stone Industries – sandstone, limestone, slate, granite Epona Stud Farm – Andalusians, Arabian, Appaloosa and Australian Stock horses Ichizoku Fukuda: Colors: deep blue and fuchsia Kamon: peony blossom Delm: Jun Fukuda Matrona: Blossom Fukuda Founder: MP Coen Fukuda Founder: MP Haruo Fukuda Spokesperson: Jesaray Ono Militia: Fukuda Defense Force Commander Zevlin Akaza Kawa Gado {river guard} Commander Tison Niiya Associate Families: Chinen, Akaza, Kiyeh, Matsui, Niiya, Bosco, Harada, Caito, Mondadori, Ono, Utada, Wada, Toraya Major Territorial Holdings: Fukuda-jo (2071 sq. Km on the banks of the Tone-gawa in the foothills of the Kiso Mts.), Kamloops, Mauna Kea, Noboribetsu Corporate Holdings: Peony Corp Piastrelle {tiles} - ceramic tiles and brick, paving stones, glass tile and blocks Shuseki Kairo {integrated circuit} - electronic chip manufacture Morning Moon Chashitsu – formal tea house chain Tata Motors – commercial vehicles, heavy trucks, super heavy trucks, military vehicles Kikuichi Knife {chrysanthemum straight line} - hand hammered hard and soft carbon folded kitchen cutlery, knives, swords and accessories Shirukumosu {silk moth} - domesticated samia cynthia silk worms produce eri silk for commercial and industrial use Sant'Antioco – bysuss production, dyeing and weaving for apparel and home goods Toraya Confectionery – a maker of wagashi {japanese sweets} White Oak Joryusho {distillery} - whiskey, saki, vodka, shochu Nairiku no Zoshensho {inland shipyard} - inland marine shipyard; commercial, leisure, law enforcement, safety and military vessels; passenger and freight transport Koun'na Suiden {lucky rice field} - rice growers and packers Injigo H2O {indigo} - artesian mineral water in indigo blue glass bottles Natone – all-natural skincare, hair care and cosmetics Habugaden {herb garden} - three, 25 sq. Meter indoor farms producing fruit, vegetables, herbs, spices and pharmaceutical plants Mizuho Financial {golden ears of rice} – AUM 32 billion Ryu, consumer bank, corporate bank, investment, wealth management, financial analysis, private equity, credit cards, hedge funds, money transfers, cash cards; with branches and offices on planet and the Izar Cluster Harajuku Kimono – retaining the original shape with modern bold prints and patterns Wakako Harada - hand woven and embroidered kimono, custom and couture kimono Noboribetsu – means a cloudy river tinged with white; located in Shikotsu Toya National Park northeast of Mauna Kea. The name refers to large sulfur deposits in the area. One of the best known and most commercially developed hot springs areas, it is basically a one street village with onsen, hotels, spas, chasitsu {tea houses}, and ryokan on both sides. At the end of the street is The Woodlands, a 650-seat theater and performing arts center, a popular tour stop for Broadway plays and musicals, symphonies and ballet troupes. The source of the villages’ hot spring water is the 'Jigokudani' {hell valley}. Jigokudani is a steaming lunar like valley, at an elevation of 850 meters, which produces 10,000 tons of hot spring water a day from crevices in the ground and hills. It is surrounded by steep cliffs and formidably cold and hostile forests and is buried in snow four months of the year. The valley is only accessible through a narrow two-kilometer footpath through the forest. It is famous for a large population of wild macaques that winter in the valley. From Jigokudani, visitors can walk to nearby Oyunuma, which is a thermal lake producing large clouds of steam and color changes from the minerals. Ijen Sulfur Mining Nazo {riddle} - produces puzzles, coloring books, book accessories, book ends, labels, book plates and bookmarks Kado-shiki Insatsu {movable type printing} - books, magazines, journals, paperback and hardcover books Brushpainter – producer of traditional and modern calligraphy tools and supplies; pens, pencils, paints, markers, chalk, crayons, ink Shibori Textiles – dyeing cloth with unique designs by binding, stitching, folding, twisting or compressing the fabric; highly refined for cotton and silk for apparel, drapery and household goods Katazome Textiles – hand stenciled and dyed fabrics for apparel, drapery and household goods; cotton, linen, wool, hemp, rayon and silk Indigo Dye – fabrication of natural dyes from plant fibers Jitensha Kyoyu {bicycle sharing} - electric and manual bicycle rentals in recreational parks and cities Hasunohana-ya {lotus flower house} - private, members only formal sex education of submissives and dominants in three levels of education taken in three-month sessions; the first session you apply for and then are invited to join if accepted, the others are by invitation only; the house runs clubs in every major city and has three private resorts Nejiro Natural History Museum and Planetarium Gobosei Gakko {five-pointed star school} - private boarding school on a sprawling estate with divisions for kindergarten through graduate school Black Magic – manufacture of home appliances and home electronics Softbank – wireless telecommunication services and technology, makers of tablets and smartphones, software design and development Ichizoku Helekia: Colors: kingfisher green and aquamarine blue Kamon: big wave at the bottom, dragon above on right, and shark on left in the wave Delm: Cadoc Helekia Matrona: Saichi Helekia Founder MP: Hokulani Helekia Founder MP: Keanu Helekia Spokesperson: Aurora Helekia Militia: Mo'o Squadrons {water dragon} Commander Moana Borzoi Mokuluu Kaua {submarine warfare} Commander Cris Takigawa Koa Warriors {brave, bold, fearless} Commander Kane Kalani Papai'awa Kiai {ceremonial guard} Commander Kaimana Kale {the ceremonial guard wear feathered cloaks and decorated 'gourd' helmets, armed with spears, double sided daggers, glass blades, shark tooth weapons, strangulation and trip cords} Associate Families: Alliaura, Coiro, Drago, Fabbro, Kalani, Kawai, Mahi'ai, Mahoe, Kane, Kamealoha, Alana, Borzoi Major Territorial Holdings: Lanikai, Helekia Palace (2 sq. Km on Vanuatu), Kasai Isles Archipelago Corporate Holdings: Aloha Coffee Amai he Kalana {sweet plantations} – sweet potatoes, pigs, chickens, coconut, onions, cattle, cacao, coffee, sandalwood, sugar cane, pineapple, olives, ginger, banana, grapes, macadamia, honey, flowers, seed cultivation, nursery stock, hemp, cannabis, rice, wheat, barley, papaya, mango, noni, taro, indigo, watercress, kai choy, yams Lua Dojo – martial art school teaches bone breaking, punching, kicking, wrestling, pressure points and strangulation; only available to Koa and Mo'o cadets and warriors Iaholio'enehana {rubber tech} – rubber tires; design and manufacture of machinery, molds and tooling for the rubber industry; rubber mixing and compounding; design and manufacture of finished rubber and steel products, including a wide range of rubber tracks, over the tire tracks and solid cushion tires; rubber plantations Manoa Chocolate {solid thickness} – 60-85% cacao bars and blocks; chocolate tea, brewing chocolate; flavored bars honey, sea salt, ghost pepper, coffee and lavender; a bean to bar factory, tasting room and retail space, tours available Sea Jets – ferry service between the Kasai Isles KZOO – pop radio station with news and comedy Velvet Ice – homemade ice cream, mochi ice cream, ice cream novelties, ice cream cake, sorbet, gelato Vintage Cave Bakery – using shirakami-kodama yeast produces goods with gorgeous fragrance, a slight sweetness, moist palate and fine dough Shirokiya {house of white wood} – upscale department store chain, works hard to provide a quiet and relaxing environment for customers Light Net – wireless phone and internet service across the Kasai Isles Kakigon – shave ice and snow ice stands Volcano Winery – a full complement of wines and spirits made from malaysian white orchid grapes, japanese ruby roman grapes, jabuticaba grapes and witch finger grapes, bottled in obsidian glass bottles Ala Moana Center {path to the sea} – large open-air shopping mall with 310 stores, restaurants and services, anchored by Iseten, Shirokiya, Yutakana and Mitsukoshi; Centerstage, a public amphitheater with live music and performances; koi pond and gardens; Makai Market farm stands and food vendors; festival and event square; guardian spirit sanctuary; children's play area Saeko Dive {serene} – a complete line of superior diving equipment Fresh Island Fish Market Kumiai Fishing Fleet 'Ohana Airlines – intercontinental flights Tan'ni {simply} – jams, jellies, juices, candies Coiro Ceramic – industrial ceramics, consumer ceramic tiles Kaya Textiles – gauze, hemp, dyed and patterned mosquito netting IslandAir – air bus and helicopter transportation between Kasai Isles Kui Lei – lei makers Pulelehua {butterfly) – sunglasses, flip flops, sandals, jewelry, watches Nani Batik {beautiful} – batik kimono, yukata, aloha shirts, caftans, loungewear, dresses, sarongs, baby slings, scarves, spa robes and slippers, shirts, trousers, shorts, blouses Malu Koa PMC {shadow warrior} – invisible protection details, infiltration, sabotage Firewire Surfboards – quality and custom carbon fiber, resin, hemp surf and wave boards Koloa Surf {duck} – wetsuits, surf apparel, beach apparel, swimwear, rash guards, board shorts, surf gear Obsidian Blade – glass combat knives, glass cutlery; glass drinkware, tableware, bakeware, décor Mano Mokuluu {shark submarine} – submarine and underwater vehicles shipyard for consumer, research, rescue and military use Naga Pelangi {rainbow dragon} - pinas builders; two masted junk rigged schooners Aqua Hotels and Resorts – hotels, boutique hotels, resorts, and spas located in Lanikai, Sakura Onsen, Kasai Isles, Norse Eyja, Hyako no Shimajima, Whistler, Siniy, Hilo, Yousai, Quezon, Yakan, The Enclave Thales Alenia Space – engaged in the design, integration, testing building and implementation of satellites, and science stations for navigation, telecommunication, meteorology, environmental control, defense, scientific missions, planetary and solar observation, builds lasers, railguns Alliaura Shipyards – blue sea construction of military, commercial, cruise ships, leisure vessel design, construction, repair, logistics and maintenance Alliaura Yachts – sale of sailing yachts, motor yachts and catamarans Alliaura Charter – rentals, leases and charters, with and without crew Alliaura Yacht Club Pueo Drones {owl} – engineering, design, construction, repair and maintenance of drones for military, law enforcement, government, tourism, search and rescue, journalism and leisure Quicksilver Pro Surf Circuit – surfing tournaments across Nejiro Mongoose Motorcycle – motorcycles, personal watercraft, scooters, and all - terrain vehicles Artesano Zapata – artisan cobblers, custom and couture footwear Ana'ole Ukulele {without equal} – acoustic and electric custom ukulele Plumeria Gunsmiths – rifles; hunting, sport, law enforcement, military E Hoole {reverse} – artistic collectible aloha shirts, dresses, sarongs Ichizoku Nakazawa: Colors: crimson and violet Kamon: outspread butterfly Delm: Isao Nakazawa Matrona: Nariko Nakazawa Founder MP: Aina Nakazawa Founder MP: Osamu Nakazawa Spokesperson: Lark Witherspoon Militia: Ashigaru {infantry} Commander Aquil Najima Sho-Kantai {small fleet} Commander Dove Kyameron Associate Families: Hanabusa, Akigama, Najima, Fukai, Sasaki, Tachibana, Yoshida, Kyameron Major Territorial Holdings: Nakazawa Castle (2071 sq. Km on the Narrows Peninsula), Port Corporate Holdings: Nakazawa Marine Technology – naval architecture, marine engineering, ship design, ship building (military and commercial), ship operations, sea exploration, hydrodynamics, navigation, underwater technology, marine protection Rakuten {optimistic} - e-commerce PikaPika {shiny} – tablets and smartphones Haguruma {gears} – fine watches and dive watches Creative Sparks – video game designers Ichijinsha – manga comics, novels, anime magazines digital and print publisher Cousteau Society – marine research and exploration, academic Journal published monthly Setsuzoku {connections} – digital and print advertising, public relations, research Mukankeina Kanren-sei {the irrelevant relevant} - advertising firm, branding and identity, consumer insights, design, digital, marketing, market research, media planning and buying, public relations, relationship marketing Agile Media – data processing and analysis Tsukiji Fish Market – auctions, retail, wholesale, subway station, freight lines, shops, restaurants, fruit and vegetable stands, low temperature market Port Aquarium – experience, conserve, research Cinema Rise – multi seat, multiscreen, multi - media movie theaters The Workshop – sets, backgrounds, effects, costumes and props for movie and theater production Thistle Design – digital effects and animation The Fall Guy – stunt company The Rursus Barn {local pig} – pig farm, pets, leather, meat Flowing River Financial – commercial, consumer, investment Painting Needles – tattoo artists Salon Cinema – posh boutique movie theaters Shockwave – movie distributors Modern Film Association – movie studios, live action and animation Blue Fin Robotics – undersea robotics and vehicles Aqua Lung – dive equipment Kawaminami Shipyards – builds and repairs - fishing vessels, cargo vessels, marine research vessels, leisure vessels, safety vessels, transport, logistics, shipping, leisure, safety Watashitachi {we chat} – social platform Imaban Shipbuilding – inland and deep-sea leisure, commercial and military vessels Gyosen Fleet {fishing boat} – fishing vessels and sea factories Beats – recording label, personal and studio audio equipment Hanabusa Trucks – military trucks, APC’s – wheeled, tracked, hover and commercial passenger trucks and SUV's Farasha School of Performing Arts {butterfly} - middle school thru university students with academic, music, dance, drama and art courses, admissions are highly competitive and limited to 100 students annually for a total class size of 1000 Ichizoku Saganami: Clan colors: midnight blue and dark grey Kamon: phoenix rising from flames Motto 'Hi ni yotte tanzo sa reta' {forged by fire}, renascendo flamma {reborn through flame}, renatus igne {reborn through fire} Delm: Chiji / Sho-sho Meiyo Saganami Spouse Jack Nakatomi Matrona: Chiyo Saganami Matrona’s heir: Kimiko Saganami Founder MP: Takeru Saganami Founder MP: Midori Saganami Spokesperson: Noah Karasu Military Liaison: Jack Nakatomi Militia: Orca Fleet Commander Sho-sa Danyel Tsaplin Saganami Household Guard Commander Chu-sa Taylor Byrde Saganami Household Security Commander Hideki Saganami Saganami Ceremonial Guard Commander Sho-sa Shizuka Fukuro {The ceremonial guard wear traditional samurai armor and weapons made with modern materials} Devil Dogs PMC Commander Tai-sa Sebastian Taka Suzaku Guard Commander Sho-sa Barnaby Nelson (Meiyo's personal guard contingent, retired and nonactive members of the DCA who followed her to Nejiro after her father's death) Associate Families: Corvus, Karasu, Fukuro, Taka, Musashi, Washi, Kestrel, Byrde, Kusanagi, Branwen Major Territorial Holdings: Saganami Shiro (2589 sq. Km northwest of Yousai), Hyako no Shimajima, Bridges, Majuro, Tokage Hozon Shimasa, Governors Palace (73,000 sq. M center of Yousai) Corporate Holdings: Phoenix Industries Vermillion Bird Associates – hedge fund, AUM 87 trillion for the Saganami Ichizoku and select clients Phoenix Mercantile – interstellar dry goods and sundries, biennial catalog after Nejiro Trade Show, cargo and passenger service to the Draconis Combine, Izar Cluster, Outworlds Alliance, and the Periphery Devil Dogs PMC Marine Advanced Warfighting Schools Akai Yoake Military Academy Artisan Ironwood Aegis Arms Vertical Farms Vital Agriculture Taiyo Energy Vulcan Arms Sentinel Media Group Sakura Onsen Yuzen Zome Kimono Tamahagane Bladesmith Beau Monde Fashion Bennu Jewels Akoya Kuroshinju {black pearls} - jewelry; retrieval (farmed and wild), processing, design and creation Starwood Resorts – five-star hotels and resorts in all major cities and a few 'private' islands, a cruise ship and two sailing yachts Strategic Defense Institute – nonprofit military and security policy research, analysis, recommendation and advisory body consisting of civilian researchers, uniformed military and professional support staff divided into three components; the Department of Research; the War College, which provides graduate level instruction to senior military officers and civilians in research, leadership, strategy and joint service cooperation through Command School, Strategic Studies and the Advanced Leadership and Tactics Course, upon completion on campus or long distance study, graduates are granted either a Master of Military Arts and Sciences degree or a Master in Strategic Studies; Graduate studies are also available; The Military Press which publishes papers and reports developed by the Institute and Parameters a monthly referred journal providing a forum for the expression of mature thought on the art and science of warfare, security affairs, military history, leadership, ethics and other topics of current interest to the Institute. Aozora Mines - on and off planet producers of amber, silver, tungsten, opals, diamonds, sapphires, jade, rare earths, iron ore, gold, copper, aluminum, nickel, palladium, silicon, cobalt, uranium, zinc, manganese, chromium, coal, lithium Founders Institute – research and analysis of historical government policy, law and procedures from Terran history onward, from here the ten-year project, the Founders Agreement was researched, developed and finalized, anthropologists and archeologists still regularly bring back information and artifacts for the library and it still acts as an advisory council to Government; Comparative Political Studies Journal, a peer reviewed academic journal is published quarterly. Natsu Metals {summer} – quality processed rolled, plates and shapes of carbon steel, stainless steel, aluminum, and red metals, manufactured metal components and expert engineering services Kinzoku Geijutsu {metal art} – decorative metal railings, fences, screens, furniture, décor, art Sugureta Zairyo {superior materials} – cement, concrete, copper alloy products, cemented carbide products, sintered parts, high performance alloys, high energy materials, nuclear fusion energy plants, electronic components, polysilicon, plastics, chemicals, recycling Fenix Consortium – crown corporation holding company, held by Saganami family; Via Rail, Life Lift, Nejiro Postal Service, Nejiro Peace Officers, Nejiro Fire Brigade, Ryokinsho, Red Cross, Public Library, The Mint, Yousai University, Crown Communications, Nejiro General, Metro Mass Transit, Port Authority, Nejiro Kuko, Public Broadcasting, Crown Lands Management, Nejiro Water and Power etc. Ichizoku Sugai: Colors: vermillion and grey green Kamon: a triad of koi fish Motto: 'Mirai o Miru' {look to the future} Delm: Keiji Sugai Matrona: Amalaa Sugai Founder MP: Rina Sugai Founder MP: Narimi Sugai Spokesperson: Tsuya Zane Militia: Keibi Hiko-tai {sea security squadron} Commander Cho-so Jimmu Izanagi Sugai Yoroi {armor} Commander Sho-sa Tomoharu Sato Associate Families: Ikeda, Minami, Sato, Tanaka, Abe, Katou, Izanagi Major Territorial Holdings: Sugai Castle (2017 sq. Km on the Pearl Harbor peninsula), Hilo, Baja, Silverbridge Corporate Holdings: Sugai Zaibatsu Homebuilders – private houses, residential communities Shin no Shiyo {true specs} – bdu's, tactical gear, work and dress uniforms for emergency, medical, military and law enforcement personnel Hilo Drakes association football Hilo Thunderbirds lacrosse Hilo Blue Sparks basketball Hilo Fire rugby Hilo Cyclones lacrosse Baja Owls association football Baja Thrashers basketball Baja Vultures rugby Baja Rattlers lacrosse Baja Devils field hockey Mosaic Stadium Birds Nest Arena – sports and entertainment stadium in Baja, looks like a giant nest Petit Mall Vending Company – machine production, service and supply Tsu no Yoso Sakagura {three elements sake brewery} – sake brewery Senzai Properties {a thousand mountains} – commercial, residential, industrial, agricultural land and property management, sale, leases, rentals Ramen Ichiraku – ramen stand chain Ember Aviation – mission systems for air and ground operations; commercial, military, executive, agricultural aircraft builders Kami no Oji {prince of paper} – pulp, rayon, paper products, paper publication, adhesive paper, imaging media, stationary, container board, household paper, condenser film, thermal printing, specialty paper, waste material recycling, green energy Kawa Marine Group {river} – inland marine and coastal shipbuilding for commercial, leisure, law enforcement, emergency and military; repair, engineering, logistics, passenger and freight services Kagiya Steel Works {in praise of fireworks} – iron and steel products, pressure containers, hydraulic equipment Inazuma {lightning bolt} – rechargeable batteries, electric commercial (trucks and delivery vans) and passenger vehicles (sports cars, sedans, trucks SUV's), generators, recharge stations Ryobi – diecasting, printing equipment, power tools, builders' hardware, lawn and garden equipment Canawa Quarry – clay, china clay, slate Dreamstone Quarries – sandstone, limestone, marble, alabaster, granite Baden Aniline and Soda Factory – resins, chemicals, plastics, coatings Sashiko Textiles – indigo dyed cotton fiber fabrics from deep blue to deep black with contrasting white patterns utilitarian textiles with dramatic colorful embroidery Gosei Ho – synthetic textiles, executive armor, military and law enforcement personnel armor, sports gear Serafu Armoury {seraphim} – autocannons, gauss rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers, missile systems, and munitions for vehicles and personnel Trinity Rail – manufacture of rail cars, rail parts and railways; passenger and freight rail lines Shorai no Sutairu Kenchiku {future style architecture} – architectural design, engineering, research firm Sugai Construction – buildings, infrastructure, industrial Uruchimai Fields {ordinary rice} – producing koshihikari, mochigome, yamada nishiki and sasanishiki rice Bizen Osafune {top Japanese sword school} – combat blade forgers of exceptional quality Future Technology Systems – delivers a broad range of services and solutions including intelligence analysis, cyber operations, IT, systems development, systems integration and operations, and maintenance to enable military and law enforcement to identify, process, manage and defeat kinetic, non-kinetic and cyber threats – research, design, development and production of electronic combat systems; flight and mission control for avionics and space; simulations and synthetic environments; weapon systems and munitions; artillery; airborne surveillance and identification systems; signals intelligence; sensor systems for situational awareness and targeting solutions; navigation and imaging systems; information superiority through end to end systems that direct, process and disseminate an uninterrupted flow of information; ballistic materials for helmets, body armor, vehicle seating and load carrying equipment; optical display and targeting; data management; autonomous systems, Demon UAV, Taranis drone fighter; cybersecurity products, support services both defensive and offensive; defense electronics; builds naval vessels, combat vehicles, military aircraft Su Tamago Shikin {nest egg fund} - mutual funds, hedge fund, public and private equity investor, AUM 1.67 trillion for Sugai Ichizoku and select clients Blue Bird Turquoise – tons of sky-blue stone, some with complementary brown or black veins in a spider web pattern are mined each year outside of Baja Ichizoku Tikhonovich: Colors: black and dark green Kamon: eight scaled kikko plates arranged in an octagonal shape Motto: 'The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb' Delm: Jahan Tikhonovich Matrona: Nadzieja Tikhonovich Founder MP: Samyon Tikhonovich Founder MP: Yulian Tikhonovich Spokesperson: Danya Tikhonovich Militia: Varangian Guard Commander Eduard Tikhonovich Morskiye Eskadril'i {naval squadrons} Commander Larisa Nadezhda Merchant Marines Commander Malia Blom Beregovaya Okhrana {coast guard} Commander Viktor Kimura Associate Families: Bjork, Blom, Engberg, Hagebak, Jensen, Ruud, Nadezhda, Pasternak, Utkin, Alekseev, Fyodorov, Inoue, Kimura, Bellomo Major Territorial Holdings: Tikhonovich Fortress (2017 sq.km, west of Leyte), Leyte Corporate Holdings: Drake Consortium Drakon'yego Klada {dragon hoard} - hedge fund AUM 3.85 trillion for Tikhonovich Ichizoku and select clients Tikhonovich Estate Farms – sheep, pigs, poultry, rice, potatoes, thoroughbreds, grains, orchards, forestry, dairy, produce Wassail – apples and apple products; white and black hard cider, sweet sparkling cider, unfiltered apple juice, vinegar, butter, sauces, sparkling and flat wines, applejack, apple brandy, mixed fruit beverages Southern Cross Motor Group - tractor trailers, military vehicles, combat vehicles, tankers, construction vehicles, emergency and law enforcement vehicles, buses and recreational vehicles, delivery trucks, utility trucks Optical Systems – laser systems (sensors, targeting, radar, communications, lidar), laser weapons (laser, ppc, pulse) for vehicles, holographic weapon sights, infantry and small arms, telescopes, binoculars, night vision systems, combat camera systems, industrial lasers, scientific laser systems, optoelectronics, heat sinks, heat energy converters Viking Raider PMC Viking Security – private investigation, corporate and residential security, close protection, corporate and law enforcement training, cybersecurity Zavody Drakon {dragon sun mills} - quartz millstone producer of 400 different milled grain products, diverse whole grain foods, baking mixes, beans, seeds, nuts, meals, granola, dried fruit, nutrition boosters Horizon Line Tradeships – interstellar freight transportation to the Izar Cluster and Draconis Combine Sunflower Farms – crop production and preparation of ornamental, seed, meal, flour, milk, industrial applications, oils, butters, lubricants, soaps, detergents, biofuel source Drakon Mining Interests – research, exploration and retrieval of ferrous and nonferrous metals, gemstones, salt and chalk Strekoza Plastics {dragonfly} - processing, design, development and manufacture of epoxies and elastomers, consumer plastics and medical plastics Vanguard – warehousing, logistics and distribution services Sunshine Roofs – photovoltaic roof shingles and electric storage and power systems for residential, commercial and government use Strongwell – manufacture of metal and/or composite structural plates and shapes for commercial and military use, and composite armor fabrication for military specifications Dream Lifter Aviation – design, engineering and manufacture of military and commercial cargo aircraft, air freighters, and passenger vehicles Swift Transport – freight transport by truck Makuhari Messe {location, trade fair} – convention center and exhibition halls in Leyte Saryk Atov Ctakah {hawks island glass} - supplier of custom glass fabrications for professionals in the aerospace, technology, industrial, architectural and lighting industries Polyarnaya Zvezda Recycling {north star} - zero landfill waste management for commercial, residential and government facilities PetroChem – fossil, biofuel and green energy exploration, retrieval, research, infrastructure, production of industrial chemicals and energy utility Damon Shipyards – inland and blue sea producers of dredging equipment, floating drydocks, offshore vessels, pontoons, tugs and workboats, navy vessels, patrol boats, interceptor and rigid hulls, sea and river cruising vessels, cargo vessels and tankers, fishing boats and sea factories, yachts, ballast water treatment, repair and conversion, research and development, marine architecture and engineering Zheleznyye Dorogi {spirit railways} - manufacture tracks, engines, cars, maintains and repairs track, cars, engines, operates rail lines and stations Omoi Buki {heavy arms} - artillery, combat vehicles, field guns, autocannons, machine guns, rockets, missiles, launchers, munitions, mines, grenades, handguns, rifles, shotguns; targeting, sighting and navigation systems JoJo Industrial – manufacture shipping containers, special containers, interstellar needs containers, specialty and custom containers and shipping solutions Joryoku-sen {evergreen shipping} - container, freight and cargo shipping by sea, air, rail, truck Yasugi Metals – steel and high-performance materials production for military, industrial and aeronautics, research and development Hachikakukei {octagon} - machine tool builders, precision equipment manufacturing Denshi o Ugokasu {moving electrons} - semiconductor devices, integrated circuits, electronic components (active and passive), heat sinks, fans, computer cooling systems Nucleo Prisma {prism core} - concrete, cement and ferrocrete plant for wet and dry mixes of pervious concrete, nanocrete, microbial concrete, polymer concrete BuildBeast – megaproject construction, hazardous environment infrastructure, infrastructure, architectural design, engineering Honeyscape – large scale gardens and landscape design, construction and maintenance for estates, commercial projects, residential projects, cities, parks Maserati – licensed luxury vehicle manufacturer of the full line of sporting luxury, executive saloons, grand tourers, crossover SUV's and convertible cars; luxury sports and style cast in exclusive cars, mission statement to build ultra – luxury performance automobiles with timeless Italian style, accommodating bespoke interiors, and effortless, signature sounding power Aerospaziale della Galassia {galaxy aerospace} - The design, engineering, construction and maintenance of executive jets, passenger airliners, and combat aircraft; air transport for heads of state and government officials, ultra-long-range executive jets accommodating up to 18 passengers and 4 crew with four distinct living areas, airborne early warning, medical evacuation and care, high atmosphere research, intelligence and surveillance, air to air and air to ground combat aircraft. We offer cutting edge flight and ground control systems; PlaneView – information from the Flight Management System and primary flight display are presented on multiple large format screens that allow pilots to select and view information where and how they want from the enhanced vision system that includes low light, infrared, and three-dimensional color images of terrain, obstacles and runways; Intelligence by Wire – fly by wire combined with a network that collects and distributes data from various systems and makes that available to other systems, the networks advanced infrastructure lines the airframe with technology that significantly reduced cables and parts, adds more redundancy and lightens the airframe. Field and Airborne Support Team - our airborne support program that transports tools, parts, and technicians via air, train or van to aircraft under warranty. We offer secure communications, broadband networking, and antenna technologies, including field and mobile radio, and satellite communications. We are delivering the Nejiro Militia secure mobile communications network WIN-T, providing secure tactical voice and data communication to soldiers anywhere on the battlefield. Cyber security solutions and products, for more than 45 years we have developed information assurance technologies integral to defending critical systems and information. We defend networks against dynamic threats by developing, deploying, and sustaining encryption products, systems, and services. We design, build, deploy, and support intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions, including signals and information collection, processing and distribution systems, and imagery sensors. We deliver multi-intelligence ground systems and large-scale high-performance data, and signals processing, our high reliability long life sensors and payloads are designed to perform in the most extreme environments, including space payloads and undersea sensors and power systems. Our ordnance and tactical systems provide an extensive range of weapons systems needed at all levels of strategic and tactical operations. For ground forces we manufacture heavy machine guns and grenade launchers. We provide weapons for shipboard applications, airborne platforms and fighter aircraft, including high speed Gatling guns for all fixed wing military aircraft. Our munitions portfolio covers the full breadth of naval, air, and ground forces applications across all calibers and weapon platforms. Flyer Tactical Vehicles are highly mobile, fully modular, internal and external air transport compliant, military grade, mission ready vehicles. Built for speed, mobility, and maneuverability in all weather conditions. The Flyer vehicle allows operators to access previously denied terrain in demanding environments. The vehicles can be reconfigured to support multiple crew and mission profiles, from three to nine operators with full payload and mission profile kits. The Flyer can attain a maximum speed of 136kph and has a cruising range of 725km at 64kph on flat ground. The Flyer has a turning radius of 5.48m, while the maximum gradient and dynamic side slopes are 60% and 40% respectively. The vehicle can cross a vertical step of 35cm and can ford a depth of 76cm without preparation. The vehicle is equipped with a ring mount weapon system providing 360-degree coverage for the 12.7mm heavy machine gun, or 40mm automatic grenade launcher from the turret mounted over the center of the vehicle and the swivel stations armed with either 5.56mm or 7.62mm machine guns on each of the four door frames. The Flyer can be reconfigured for rescue and personnel recovery with a five-patient litter, reconnaissance, command and control, cargo resupply with a payload of 1360kg, communication, light strike assault vehicle or as a C4ISR (Sensor, UAV, SOWT, RSTA) variant. The Flyer is equipped with B6 ballistic protection. The Flyer has a curb weight of 2041kg. GAU-19/B .50 caliber Gatling gun is a lighter, more efficient mechanical design, with the same reliability and target saturation as the well-known GAU-19/A. At 48.1 kg, (106lbs) the externally powered, three barreled and has a rate of fire of 1300 rounds per minute. The Hydra-70 family of unguided rockets offers several warhead configurations. Quick Change Barrel Kits allow the operator to quickly change the barrel of the standard M2 Heavy Barrel weapon to one that has a fixed headspace and timing, eliminating the need to manually calibrate the weapon after barrel changes. We designed the original system and we are the sole producer. Ichizoku Zakharovich: Colors: orange, white and sky blue Kamon: tiger seen through bamboo Delm: Kazimir Zakharovich Matrona: Esfir Zakharovich Founder MP: Mirabelle Zakharovich Founder MP: Evgeni Zakharovich Spokesperson: Arkadi Hisakawa Militia: The Kylfings {norse or rus fighting forces} Commander Khadija Volkov Associate Families: Nagi, Karimi, Saab, Nejem, Lagunov, Volkov, Zima, Medred, Orlov, Voromin, Hisakawa, Moto Major Territorial Holdings: Zakharovich Fortress (2071 sq.km in the lowlands of the Kiso Mountains), Moro Corporate Holdings: Yutakana {opulent} – luxury department store chain, unparalleled customer service, impeccable presentation of apparel, accessories, outerwear, seasonal, gourmet food, restaurants, household goods, toys, stationery, jewelry, gadgets, entertainment, cosmetics, fragrances, salons, rooftop gardens, elevator girls to operate the elevators, answer questions and provide relevant information Istseleniye {healing experience} – full service and emergency health care chain Vrednaya Yeda Nebo {junk food heaven} – manufactures ice cream, candy, chips, cookies, snacks, donuts, cakes, pies, soda, chocolates, pastries, crackers, chewing gum, mints Neptune Orient Lines – interstellar passenger service to the Izar Cluster and the Draconis Combine Sabah Nejem Aviation {morning star} – manufactures passenger helicopters and military VTOL's Velosiped Arenda {bicycle rental} – electric and manual bicycle rentals, free access to members with smartcard; hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly rates available, operated in larger towns and cities Evelo Electric Bicycles – sport, utility, comfort, performance, and folding styles, accessories, maintenance, automatic or manual transmissions, service from authorized shops Hikari no Sokudo Tetsudosen {light speed rail line} – high speed rail and maglev passenger service Zima Furrier {winter} – fur and leather apparel, outerwear, footwear, bags and accessories, salons, storage Pink Cabs – helicopter, taxi and limousine and driver service in major cities, the spaceport and enclave, all vehicles in shades of pink from pastel to fuchsia Wonderland Amusement Park Hime Cruises {princess} – ocean and river cruises Sunshine City, Yousai – a complex of several interconnected high-rise buildings (above ground is the Sunshine City Skyway – several pedestrian walkways that connects the buildings through the upper floors and The Basement that runs underneath the whole complex and has several entrances to each building, two levels of parking and access to Higashi Station on the level below); The Prince a 4-star hotel (Fountain Plaza, Alpa Shopping Center, Bekari Café and Nisshoku Restaurant); Sunshine 60 building housing office suites, clinics, Sky Restaurants (two floors of elite, luxury dining establishments) and the Sky Circus Observatory (an open air sky deck with a panoramic view of the city, The Bullet Flight, InfiniteScape, Light Fountain, Sky Swing and the Cloud Cafe); The Mart houses the Alta Market, Nikko Indoor Theme Park, Exhibition Hall A, Conference Rooms, offices, The Sakura Room, Go Game Salon, Rooftop Aquarium, and the Manten Planetarium; the Bunka Kaikan building houses the Shirokiya Department Store, Exhibition Halls B – D, Metro Bus Terminal, Sunshine Theater, Meeting Rooms, the Special Hall, Ancient Orient Museum and the Music Palace Star Flyer – passenger intercontinental airline Four Seasons Hotels – five-star luxury elegance with locations in all major cities and tourist locations Kumo Soko {cloud warehouse} – cloud computing, server farms, supercomputers Kinesis – bicycle manufacturer of aluminum and carbon fiber, parts and accessories Zoyo Catalog {gifting} – humorous to luxury gifting options, gift presentation, gift wrapping, gifting etiquette and symbolism explanations Bitva Gotova {battle ready} – ballistic and optical firearms (handguns, flechette, rifles, shotguns, lasers, machine guns, gauss), ballistic and optical weapon systems (autocannon, laser, ppc, gauss), military vehicles, combat vehicles, military aviation, military armor, munitions The Golden Chariot – executive and luxury passenger high speed railways Tiger Funds – AUM 536 billion for Zakharovich Ichizoku and select clients, mutual funds, private equity, public equity, hedge funds, investment, research and analysis Blitskrig {blitz} – krav maga dojos Krasivaya Solnechnaya Akademiya {beautiful sun academy} - private boarding school, tuition 130,000 Ryu annually, kindergarten through high school, graduate with bachelor degree in the arts or sciences and mastery of Japanese, English and one other language of the students choice, class sizes of ten or less with individual learning pathways and group projects; a demanding education of multiple intelligences developing talents in the academic, sporting, artistic, lingual, cultural and community service programs with a focus on a philosophical mindset, creative problem solving and critical thinking, 75 acre campus for 500 students, the luxurious amenities include private suites for the students and faculty, 8 laboratories, 60 classrooms, a computer controlled greenhouse, 50 meter indoor and outdoor pools with diving apparatus, tennis courts, football pitches, riding school with dressage area, nautical center, alpine ski slopes, skating and hockey rinks, Beau Soleil Botanical Gardens, infirmaries, golf course, Buddhist and Shinto shrines, The Twilight Ballroom, an open air theater, auditorium, media center, The Great Sun Library, rugby pitch, gymnasiums, dojos, ranges (archery and firearms), three dining rooms and two cafeterias, The Epicure where a formal dinner is conducted Monday thru Thursday for the entire student body and faculty, clubhouses, iron road rock climbing routes, bowling alley, La Rousey Concert Hall, summer camp; 98% of the student body continues on to college or university Aston Martin – licensed to produce the entire line of Aston Martin luxury sports cars and tourers Purple Passion Salon – refined, glamorous, upmarket couture and custom erotic emporium offers supplies, toys, art, bondage gear, jewelry, lingerie, books, gifts, scents, oils; velvet, silk, leather and latex apparel, evening and weekend salons and classes Gieves and Hawke – men’s bespoke tailoring (suits, shirts, pocket squares and ties) outerwear and footwear (socks, shoes and boots) business and casual clothing, and uniforms; men's jewelry, wallets, belts, travel gear, and umbrellas Mayfair – women's bespoke tailoring (lingerie, dresses, suits, blouses) outerwear and footwear (stockings, tights, shoes, sandals, boots) for business, casual, and uniforms; jewelry, hats, scarves, scents, travel gear, and umbrellas Koichizoku Carson: Colors: red, white Kamon: six hexagons arranged as a flower Delm: Jenna Carson Matrona: Daisy Breckenridge Carson Founders MP: Lily Ainsley-Carson Spokesperson: Parker Carson-Graeme Militia: The Greys Militia Commander: Iwan Rhys-Corwen Associate Families: Ainsley, Breckenridge, Kago, Coutts, Darrow, Graeme, Askr Territory: [map 1] (650 sq. km) landhold is northeast of Lanikai, plus 1268 sq. km of property surrounding the landhold, plus commercial properties in Yousai, Lanikai, Quezon, Hilo, Yakan, Bridges, Sakura Onsen, Whistler, Port, Leyte; residential properties on the Cote d’Azur Agriculture: Hilltop Groves- commercial and ornamental flowers and trees, olive and nut groves; forsythia lilacs, jasmine, ash trees, pine nuts, almonds, pistachios, hazelnuts Corporate Holdings: Carson’s – upscale department stores Athena Oils – luxury brand olive oil; food, cosmetic, skin care Floro – olives, olive oil; grocery store retail brand Wonderful Nuts – bulk and prepackaged, prepared nuts and nut butters; retail brand and wholesale Vanguard – modular off-road vehicles for recreation, commercial, search and rescue, law enforcement, and military (combat and support) markets; offers parts supply and repair services Beluga Air – cargo aircraft for commercial and military market U-Clean – motorized and self-serve car washes Kodo & Podo – electronics and computer engineering making hardware and software for sensors, detectors, countermeasures, targeting, navigation, communications, active camouflage, fire control, guidance, and imaging systems for military and law enforcement products: Nomu {dense fog} electronic countermeasures suite, Zhijue {intuition, perception} sensor suite, Chirp secure tactical communications, Ping tracking and targeting system suite Universal Robotics – industrial and agricultural robots, exosuits, industrial and agricultural mechs, infantry armor, tactical gear, equipment, and tools Bamber Kitchen – wood kitchen utensils, tools, and accessories Bored?! Game Café – family friendly atmosphere with hundreds of board games, card games and puzzles to play, also serves food and drink, locations in most cities Challenge Arena – has several escape rooms, three different outdoor challenge/obstacle courses, indoor trampoline park, indoor nerf, laser, and airsoft fields, indoor ninja warrior style obstacle courses located in Lanikai Koichizoku Chikamatsu: Colors: blue, violet Kamon: pine, bamboo, and plum branches entwined together Motto: steadfastness, perseverance, and resilience Delm: Kinji Chikamatsu Matrona: Sumi Chikamatsu-Fujimoto Spouse (deceased): Loren Fujimoto Concubine: Ryuzaki Haruko Founders MP: Aoi Kita Chikamatsu Spokesperson: Yuzu Shibatomi Militia: The Boom Patrol Militia Commander: Hideyori Shimizu Chikamatsu Associate Families: Akiyama, Fujimoto, Himura, Watsuki, Kita, Kamiya, Sagara, Shimizu, Saito, Myojin, Takani Territory: [map 2] (650 sq. km) landhold west of Beru including Mount Imeon in Kocha Valley, adjacent plots (1500 sq. km) west of landhold, (1500 sq. km) south of landhold, two small islands northwest of Kasai Isles – Rebun, and Rishiri, the island of Weyr southeast of Norse Eyja Agriculture: Three Friends of Winter – (300 sq. km) bamboo, evergreen pine, and plum groves Amber Mountain – maple groves; syrup, wood, fried maple leaves, tourism Beru Bamboo Forest – (130 sq. km, 16 sq. km open to public) – about thirty minutes southwest of Beru by train, the pedestrian trails between Tenryuji Temple (Buddhist) and Nonomiya Shrine (Shinto) are open to the publ Corporate Holdings: Chikamatsu Paper – paper and lumber mills producing exceptional paper, packaging, wood products, lumber, building materials, biomaterials, chemicals, consumer products, and recycling Skate Palais – located in Beru, seven rinks under one roof supporting recreational and professional ice and roller skating Kamiya Kasshin-ryu – kenjutsu dojo Beira {queen of winter} – winter apparel for exploration, climbing, sport, and athletics; footwear, equipment, accessories Orica – commercial, agricultural, and military explosives, detonator systems, demolitions, and blasting systems, demolition services, mining chemicals Snow Beer Take Biru {bamboo beer} Celestial Stone – mines Mt. Imeon and surroundings in Kocha Valley, produces lapis lazuli, gold, copper, iron, spinel, zoisite, blue green emeralds, ruby garnets, pink rubies, and dimension marbles; the mines produce 878,003 ounces of gold annually; gold is currently worth about 639 Ryu an ounce on Nejiro Hollyburn Mountain Ski Resort Association Football Club Yama Tengu {mountain demons}, Beru Midnight Rollers Derby Team, Beru Rockets Ice Hockey Club, Beru Tatsu {dragon} – anti-personnel mines, anti- vehicle mines, military grade demolition systems, APC’s, military VTOL’s, military grade trucks, field guns, rockets, missiles, launchers, rifles, shotguns, knives, vehicle armor, personnel armor; sales offices located in Beru, industrial park located on Weyr Wicked PMC – stellar and planetary exploration and survey, surveillance, reconnaissance, sabotage, espionage, objective raids, protection details, convoy escort Tsumetokiba {claws and fangs} – traditional hand forged tamahagane and blue mokume gane {wood grain metal} blade smiths who produce daisho, katana, wakizashi, tanto, yari, naginata, nagamaki, tachi, uchigatana, nodachi, odachi, kodachi, yajiri, kogatana, tessen, kacchu Mokuzai Kogei-hin {wood crafts} – furniture, cabinets, housewares, art, tree houses, elevated houses, accessories, stationary Butterfly Consignment – thrift stores FotoShoot – photography studio that specializes in boudoir photos and glamour sho Kinder Boutique – full range of baby and children’s clothing and toy stores Stella’s Garage – detailing, repairs, body work, and paint for cars, trucks, motorcycles We Deliver – regional delivery service from food to firewood and everything in between Village Books – brick and mortar bookstore chain, with café, and gift shops The Swimming Hole – indoor and outdoor competition level pools offer diving meets, racing meets, training, lessons, exercise classes, laps, pro shops, recreation pools have slides, diving boards and platforms, rope swings, pool toys and games, lifeguards, snack shops, locker rooms – locations worldwide Icelantic Skis – insane graphics and jaw dropping design these handmade skis have a boutique feel without the added cost, their performance is undeniable, pure, and fun. The signature risers at tip and tail combined with the camber allows for float in the deep and great edge control with fluidity from turn to turn Atomic – Olympic quality performance skis are made to impress, with skis, packages, boots, poles, bags, and performance and technical athletic apparel Counting Crows Nursery & Florist – full-service nursery, garden shop, and gift center providing superior plants and flowers, gardening tools and accessories, and professional advice Chikushi {bamboo paper} – manufactures bamboo paper products: stationery, consumer paper goods, record player needles, roofing, umbrellas, bed linens and fabrics, beehives, cooking products, cutting boards, darts, arrows, stakes, wooden swords, slingshots, staffs, flooring, pc hardware, bicycle frames, turbine blades, charcoal, skateboards, bioplastics, composites, musical instruments, matches Koichizoku Conchobhar {konxovar}: Colors: green, blue Kamon: irish wolfhound celtic knot Delm: Ffransis ‘Frankie’ Thyra Conchobhar Consorts: Kenzo Kusanagi and Patryk Lykawka Matrona: Poppy Conchobhar Founders MP: Heath Callahan Conchobhar Spokesperson: Viola Ormond Militia: Aoiri {shepherds} Militia Commander: Oliver Rowan Associate Families: Callahan, Curran, Chou, Cassidy, Clery, Collins Territory: [map 3] (650 sq. km) landhold in the lowlands of the Kiso Mountains southwest of Stonehaven, plus (1300 sq. km) property surrounding landhold including Cozy Harbor on the Akazuna Coast Agriculture: artisanal fishing Barrow Farms – a cooperative of organic and free range family farms producing peat, barley, rye, hemp, flax, oats, wheat, potatoes, strawberries, sheep, alpaca, dairy cows, poultry, pigs, seasonal vegetables, fruits, and nuts, has several contracts with several restaurants and caterers in Stonehaven, Whistler, and Lanikai, has branded dairy products, egg and poultry products, pork products, and produce, also operates several farm stands and a flour mill Corporate Holdings: Caoirigh {sheep} – leather and wool apparel, accessories, and handbags Conchobhar Law Group – full service commercial law firm with offices in major cities, spaceports, and the Enclave Stems – stainless steel flatware, serving ware, cooking utensils, kitchen and dining accessories, chopstick sets Conchobhar Kennels – breeding and training of herding, pastoral, and livestock guardian dogs, primarily collies and terriers Vroom – electric and hybrid scooters, motorcycles, electric bicycles, mopeds, ATV’s for recreation, personal transport, and racing Cu Faol {wolfhound} – breeders of hunting and guardian dogs Salann {salt} – desalination plants producing salt and other elements Interlace – wool, and linen textiles; knitwear and lace featuring celtic knot patterns Ciorcle {circle} – whiskey distillery; pot still, cask strength and blended whiskeys Association Football Club Shamrocks, Stonehave Cozy Harbor Marina Cozy Harbor Boatyard – recreational and fishing boats; build, repair, maintenance Koichizoku Dubhghaill {doogle, black river, dark stranger}: Colors: yellow, purple Kamon: folded ribbons Delm: Siomon Dubhghaill Spouse: Matilda Zhao Dubhghaill Matrona: Jude Merriweather Founders MP: Cecilia Remington Spokesperson: Isadore Macginnis Dub Militia: Watchmen Militia Commander: Quinn Flanagan Associate Families: Boyle, Burke, Amano, Flanagan, Abe, Kelly, Macginnis, Doyle Territory: [map 18] (650 sq. km) landhold near the northernmost coast of Tairiku, plus (6500 sq. km) property on the northernmost coast of Tairiku adjacent to the landhold Agriculture: Sage Hill Growers – figs, olives, citrus, persimmon, pomegranate, mulberry, mahogany, ebony, teak, cypress, tea, coffee, cacao Mangal Preserve – mangrove forest (122 sq. km) and tidal wetlands Corporate Holdings: Vista Outdoor – makes firearms, knives, hunting equipment and gear, camping equipment and gear, outdoor athletic equipment Brew Crew – loose, and bagged blends of tea, coffee, cocoa boxed in decorative collectible tins, digital store, subscription clubs Bouclier Bespoke – executive armor Angel Armor – puncture proof, breathable, flexible, temperature resistant armor, uniforms, and work gear for law enforcement, fire fighters, search and rescue, emergency medical, and military personnel Dyneema – ultra high molecular weight synthetic fibers for commercial and industrial use as fibers, adhesives, puncture proof fabrics and materials, rope, chain, fishing lines, nets, armor, containers Dynamic Mobility ‘DynaMo’ – logistics, warehousing, distribution, shipping for military, retail and commercial markets over air, land, and sea Saffron – fine porcelain tableware, teaware, ornaments and décor The Joinery – designs, builds, repairs custom wood furniture, cabinets, and accessories for retail and commercial markets Special Military School – education and training of infantry, cavalry, engineers, technicians, and officer candidates for law enforcement, militias, and private contractors Advantage Outfitters – retail and digital stores for hunting, shooting, fishing, boating, camping, auto and atv - equipment, gear, footwear, and clothing – indoor and outdoor home décor and gifts Koichizoku Hamada {seashore, beach}: Colors: grey, purple Kamon: five floating raptor feathers; eagle, hawk, falcon, raven, owl Delm: Kristoffer Hamada Matrona: Ceridwen Hamada Founders MP: Kristoffer Hamada Militia: Tsuki Junkai {moon patrol} Militia Commander: Cosmo Hamada-Zhao Associate Families: Zhao, Honda, Kawano, Imai, Miyazaki, Cormaq Territory: [map 30] (650 sq. km) landhold located west of Marena on the coast of Koiru-ryu {dragon coil} Hanto, plus 250 sq. km of property to the south of the landhold, plus 250 sq. km on the coast of the island of Fia in the Three Sisters chain Agriculture: Dragon Tor – salmon, trout, shellfish, salt harvest, cedar, cypress, wheat, pigs, sheep, goats, elk, deer, rice, hemp, tea, japanese maple, hickory, bamboo, somei yoshino sakura {nearly pure white blooms edged with pink}, fuyuzakura {winter sakura}, yaezakura {large pink blossoms}, shidarezakura [weeping cherries}; offers accommodations, photo safari, fishing tours, and seasonal hunting Cloud Park – a 5 sq. km public park in Marena featuring several different varieties of sakura and maple trees, a large tourist draw during Hanami {flower viewing} and Momijigari {red leaf hunting} Corporate Holdings: Framework – design, engineering and implementation of large building projects, roads, bridges, tunnels, canals, public buildings, high rises, schools, industrial parks etc. Haya Otoya {clockwise, outwards; anticlockwise, inwards} – traditional, glass, aluminum, and carbon fiber yumi {bow}, ya {arrow}, yazutsu and yebira {quiver}, uniforms and gear, also operates kyudo {martial art of archery} dojos Maki-ito {winding thread} – makes blankets, rugs, window panels, tapestries and knitwear from wool and hemp Divine Rhythm Repertory Company – classical Japanese and Chinese dance and music touring company, school and theater located in Marena Starfish Association Football Club, Marena Starfish Seaside Resorts Starfish Marina Starfish Yacht Club Trajectory – guidance, navigation, control and imaging systems, and software for military and civilian markets Peregrine – naval weapon systems, lasers, munitions, research and development Hamada Ships – shipyard designing, engineering, building and repairing military combat vessels, naval weapons systems, military and commercial cargo ships, research ships, emergency response ships, submarines, cruise ships, pleasure yachts, commercial passenger ships, and tugs, located on the island of Fia Mind Sport – maker of games of strategy, tactics, and chance – chess, shogi, go, paisho, mahjong etc., boards, cards, and apps Battle Chess – animatronic, VR, and/ or CG chess pieces fight over spaces Battle Chess Evolution – adds advantages, edges, traps, field effects and algorithms that help determine the winner of spaces by calculating data such as previous movements, predicted movements, time of movement, pieces captured etc. Traps – target shooting ranges for firearms and bows; up to 1000 meters and include traps, helices, standard targets, pop up targets, obstacles, shoot houses, safety and training courses, armory and gear, pro shops Eyrie – real estate and property management firm with 2.8 million square meters across the world Realtek – consumer electronics and media stores, also offer repairs, upgrades, classes Mindful Yoga - offers over fifty classes per week in a variety of styles and levels as well as mat pilates, barre classes, reiki and massage therapy, plus a full service yoga boutique and smoothie café April Fresh Cleaning Service – green cleaning business, residential and commercial, franchises Sunset Patio – wicker, rattan, aluminum, teak outdoor furniture makers Mayu Waste Management {cocoon} – sanitation services, recycling, biowaste energy production, dumpsters, junk and bulk removal Superior Food Trucks – designs and fabricates one of a kind custom mobile kitchen, and mobile businesses for experiential marketing as well as stage and concert production, delivers trucks worldwide Alpha – electric passenger vehicles, and sports and race cars Anzende Yoku {safe and well} – property and casualty insurance, life insurance Mogul – movie and television production studios Arendonk Iji Suru Soshite Enjinia {eagle hill maintain and engineer} – metal mechanical engineering group that produces ironworks, machinery for steel plants, industrial heat recovery equipment, boilers, shunting locomotives, equipment for steel coil treatment, hot dip and electro galvanizing lines, rolling mills, reheating furnaces, heat recovery steam generators and boilers, high temperature solar receivers, molten salt boilers for thermo-solar power plants, turrets, low weight modular turrets, 90 mm guns, 105 mm guns, 120 mm gun, APC’s, water and waste treatment, sewage sludge recycling for bioenergy and compost, industrial filtration and ventilation, the production, storage, and distribution of green hydrogen, research, development, and production of batteries and energy storage, does maintenance, refurbishment, and repair of equipment, also conceives, develops, integrates, deploys, and supports onboard and training simulators, and simulations for combat vehicles Sunseeker – luxury performance motor yacht brand Silver Screen Cinemas – movie theater and cinema salon chain Carmike Theaters – drive-in theater chain Koichizoku Hayashi {woods, forest}: Colors: evergreen, green Kamon: pine needles Delm: Jehan Hayashi Matrona: Merddith R. Hayashi Founders MP: Meyrick Merediz Spokesperson: Valla Diablo Militia: Fukushu PMC {revenge} Militia Commander: Mitchell Camaron Associate Families: Kodo, Sakai, Hara, Kaneko, Sakamoto Territory: [map 10] (650 sq. km) landhold is southeast of Leaf, plus 13000 sq. km of adjacent property Agriculture: The Greenhart – sustainable forestry and tree plantations; grows mushrooms, deer, elk, natural dye materials, greenheart, yew, willow, aspen, cottonwood, birch, alder, oak, ash, madrone, prunus, rosaceae, spruce, hemlock, maple, dogwood, pine, fir, larch, cedar, juniper, cypress tree varieties Somateria – sustainable eider duck farm for down, from colonies on Cuddy Lakes Corporate Holdings: Greenhart Group – ‘always growing’ Plum Creek Timber Company Plum Creek Sawmill Plum Creek Construction – residential homes, communities, condominiums, and apartment buildings Plum Creek Carpentry – finish carpentry, custom cabinets, furniture, storage, instruments, deco and art pieces; runs a carpentry school from apprentice to master in all aspects of the craft, traditional and modern Plum Creek Bioenergy – produces electricity from waste biomass Plum Creek Produce – sells packaged plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots, almonds, ornamental foliage Plum Creek Basketball Club Green Zen – organic cannabis growers and dispensaries Midori no Kyusai {green relief} – organic pharmaceutical lab, organic plant pain relief, remedies, compounds, homeopathic medicinals, research and development Onshitsu {greenhouse} – hydroponics, aeroponics grow houses for medicinal plants and herbs Miyadaiku {traditional school of Japanese carpentry} – constructs shrines and temples Alchemy Boulder – mines the asteroid belts for diorite, magnetite, titanium. iron, and ironsand Fukushu PMC {revenge} – responsible for the security and safety of the landhold and Greenhart Group property and resources; they also conduct objective raids, pirate hunting, and bounty hunting, mostly off world Subetenoiro {all colors} – makes natural dyes and pigments for textiles, art supplies, and commercial use Tsumetai {cold, cold-hearted} – makes APC’s and combat vehicles Attaccante {striker} (changed cosmetics but Striker L15 variant under the hood) Anfibio {amphibious} (changed cosmetics but wet striker under the hood) Totsugeki {assault fire} (changed cosmetics but Sturmfeur 3018 under the hood) Bakemono {goblin} (changed cosmetics but Goblin standard, LRM, and mg variants under the hood) Hagane Smithcraft {edge metal} – makes blades – combat, commercial, medical, and industrial; firearms, armor, tools, hardware, utensils, cookware, cast iron cookware and ironworks, decorative fences; runs school teaching smithing from apprentice to master in all aspects of the craft, traditional and modern Precision Industry – electronics manufacturing, engineering, electronic components, electrical products for information and communications equipment and systems, internet-based solutions, power systems, household appliances, industrial infrastructure systems, one of the largest vendors of semiconductors, and personal computers on planet Wadjet {eye of horus, egyptian sky god} – satellite technology and development, GPS monitoring, location, and tracking services; tracking, sensor, and camera technology and development Midori Terebi {green tv} – streaming media service includes television, movies, games, digital manga, sports Acme Building – formulates, manufactures, distributes and sells clay bricks, concrete block, cut limestone, architectural coatings, large block cast steel striking tool Happy Feet – premium quality flooring services covers installation, custom design, refinishing, sealing and polishing Plum Creek Flooring – quality flooring: hardwood, laminate, bamboo, vinyl plank, tile, cork, waterproof, distressed, butcher block, molding, accessories, and tools; retail and wholesale chain Star Home Furnishing Mart – retail stores selling furniture, electronics, home appliances, mattresses, bedding and window treatments Forest River – retail store that sells, RV’s, ATV’s, cargo trailers, utility trailers, pontoon boats, buses Koichizoku Hohki: Colors: peach, violet Kamon: yanagi {willow tree} Delm: Persephone Hohki Matrona: Meishi Hohki Founders MP: Eddie Green Spokesperson: Jazmin Kichida Hayashi Militia: Otome no Ryoken {Persephone’s Hounds, hounds of the maiden} Militia Commander: Sergio Jackson Associate Families: Rin, Kichida, Hathaway, Kobayashi, Samasha, Nagi Territory: [map 22] (650 sq. km) landhold on the Yoshino-gawa riverfront southwest of Bridges, owns property in Leyte, Bridges, Port, Siniy, Majuro, owns Yagishiri {an island landing fishes}, a small, forested island north of the Gunju-hin island chain, owns Aiiro Hinansho {deep blue haven} an island several kilometers off the coast of the Cote d’Azur used by the ichizoku for residences and recreation Agriculture: Willow Woods – grows willows, yew, indigo, hemp, flax, cotton, silkworms, and spinna tree orchards (large silvery grey trunk trees with canopies of drooping branches with very dark green leaves that produces thousands of 3-4 mm sweet dark red berries at the end of summer that are edible, and used for carmine and red cosmos color dye) Corporate Holdings: Bridges Technical and Vocational Institute – high school and college level education center teaching business, finance, hospitality, tourism, construction, engineering, visual arts, information technology, skilled trades and crafts, applied science, natural science courses and training Chibi Baby – wide variety of baby care items and baby products including the baby K’tan (double loop design baby sling carrier) and Bum Genius washable cloth diapers and waterproof covers in a large variety of colors and prints Prosperina Textiles – animal, plant, mineral, and synthetic textiles for retail, commercial, and industrial purposes Angelic Pretty – fashion house producing Lolita fashion apparel and accessories Alice & the Pirates – fashion house of gothic Lolita apparel and accessories Mondain – fashion house featuring the masculine counterpart to Lolita apparel Salix – fashion house of trendy off the rack apparel for men, women and children Niji Light {rainbow} – crystal and stained-glass lights and chandeliers, stain glass windows, tiles, and mosaics Red Willow – mobile app, and web development, software development, video game development, publisher Kussetsu {refraction} – gemstone, glass, and crystal jewelry design, decorative glass, glass and crystal art Agesanders Arsenal – firearms, field guns, support weapons, (ballistic, laser, flechette) rockets, grenades, launch systems, munitions, explosives, power packs, blades, crossbows, batons, clubs, APC’s, amphibious combat vehicles Pluto Heavy Industries – designs and constructs corvettes, frigates, patrol boats, command boats, barges, tugs, riverboats, APC’s, amphibious combat vehicles, and VTOL’s; salvage and repair, engineering projects, commercial aircraft, naval weapon systems, munitions, research and development Flight Safety – supplies high technology flight training to aircraft operators in the fields of military, governmental, corporate, regional, and mainline flying, the company employs more than 1800 instructors and offers more than 400 individual courses for 135 aircraft types using more than 320 flight simulators Karmelkorn – worldwide restaurant chain offering fast food, soft serve ice cream, dairy desserts, beverages, blended fruit drinks, popcorn, and other snack foods Party!Party! – direct marketing company for party supplies, party items, novelty items, candy, and small toys Bridges Courier-Express – digital and print local and regional newspaper with morning, evening, and Sunday editions Cotton Cornucopia – clothing manufacturer makes underwear, lingerie, t-shirts, hoodies, jackets, sweatpants, shorts, casual wear, sportswear, performance athletic clothes, major league sports uniforms Home Services – residential real estate brokerage, mortgage loans, title and closing services, home warranties, property and casualty insurance Total Quality – distributor specialist of passive, interconnect, and electromechanical components, product line includes resistors, capacitors, connectors, wire and cable, identification products, application tools, and electromechanical devices Samasha Company – provides wholesale distribution and logistics services to discount retailers, convenience stores, quick-service restaurants, drug stores and movie theater complexes Hathaway Automotive – auto dealership group Willow Homes – makes modular homes, storage trailers, chassis, intermodal piggyback trailers, domestic containers Hathaway Investments – holding company, portfolio of stocks, equities and investments Spring Professional – human resources provider, temporary staffing, career transition and talent development, business process outsourcing, consulting Koichizoku Iona {yona, jonah, dove}: Colors: slate, cocoa Kamon: tribal horse with feathered hocks running Delm: Aonghus Iona Matrona: Sion Padrig Iona Founders MP: Conor Rowe Iona Spokesperson: Nessa Wray Iona Militia: Iona Dragoons PMC Militia Commander: Kegan Iona-Hughes Associate Families: Thorburn, Wray, Svenson, Solberg, Rowe, Hughes, Saitome, Zhang, Yen Territory: [map 9] (650 sq. km) landhold near the eastern coast of the Deccan Peninsula, plus 1500 sq. km surrounding the landhold, including 156 km of coastline and beaches Agriculture: Ahimsa Haven – wild harvest and domestic silkworm sericulture for raw silk varieties including mulberry, tensan, tasar, eri, ahimsa and muga silks; butterfly and moth sanctuary; spider silk production; public tour Vanner Farm – breeds and trains Gypsy horses for draught, equestrian sport, parade, and recreational riding Corporate Holdings: Wealthcare – AUM 3 billion Ryu, finance software, financial services, money managers, financial advisors LiveOps – flexible, dispersed remote call centers with multiple contact points, contracted to industries that include direct response, finance, healthcare, insurance, retail, technology, communications, utilities, travel, and hospitality Summerlande Academy – private girls boarding school for up to three hundred students Colthill School – private boys boarding school for up to three hundred students Vardo Caravan – highly decorated, intricately carved, eminently functional motorhomes, campers, trailers, skoolies, and truck conversions Youghal Lace – hand made and manufactured linen, and silk lace, well known for their snowflake doilies, each individual pattern unique to itself Entangled Publishing House – romance, science fiction, fantasy, and speculative literature genres, print and digital editions of books and periodicals Wing Chun Kai – martial arts association and school teaching a martial art focused on sustained rapid counterattacks, assault until opponent is out and down, a philosophy of minimum effort for maximum impact Columba – stone quarry with unique translucent green marble of serpentine and limestone Iona Gendarme: serves as internal security, force protection, monitoring, community policing and law enforcement for the ichizoku and also contracts out to other villages and towns Iona Dragoons PMC – three brigade combat teams, infantry, stryker and armored; the brigades rotate mostly off world short term contracts so there is always at least a brigade on world, the remaining brigade(s) provides military defense of the ichizoku and its resources Neptune Township – 9.7 km of beaches, piers, boardwalks, gazebos, shops, gated communities, restaurants, pubs, Aquatica Water Park, Playland Arcade and Amusements, Hippodrome Carousel, Flying Trapeze School, Kyojin {colossus} Ferris Wheel, Kaleidoscope Cirque, children’s programs, helicopter tours, Neptune Aquarium, resorts hotels, nude beaches, surfing competitions, seaside cottages for rent, full service marina, Neptune Yacht Club, and The Field House (fifteen stories plus grounds) which houses a four tier golf driving range, batting cages, indoor hockey and ice rinks, 40 lane bowling alley, miniature golf, indoor and outdoor football pitches, basketball courts, gymnastics, laser tag, food courts, private lounges, daycare, preschool, social and corporate event spaces, event management, pro shops, sundecks, spa, catering, fitness club, Olympic-size swimming and diving pools, boxing ring, rock wall, and more than 180 weekly classes Sundog Ale – brews red ale, Irish red ale, and India pale ale Aosdana {people of the arts} – silversmiths and jewelers creating Celtic and contemporary jewelry inspired by nature and the Book of Kells illuminations Workhorse – manufacture and distribution of liquid hydrogen as a power source; manufacture of hydrogen engines, generators, fuel cells and power packs; provides back up power for industrial, commercial, medical, and residential sites GenFuel - refueling and recharging stations for residential and commercial traffic; provides material handling, infrastructure, fuels, recharge stations, customer service for the chain and franchises Wonderland Tea House and Patisserie – chain Chaton Fidele – public house and inn chain The Chronicle – print and digital newspaper covering world, stellar, and interstellar news, daily and weekend editions Kells College – private liberal arts college featuring library science, literature, journalism, creative writing, literary and visual arts, campus located in Neptune Township Canteen Vending – places, stocks, and services vending machines in schools, offices, supermarkets, stations, trains, streetside in worldwide, and stellar locations, and offers franchises Hoi Jishin Jido Hanbaiki {compass vending machines} – manufactures vending machines in several different styles Integrated Cleaning Management – retail, leisure, health club, hotel, and commercial cleaning firm Koichizoku Isobe {beach, seashore, seaweed}: Colors: turquoise, cobalt Kamon: swimming sea turtle Delm: Kaito Isobe Consort: Milo West Concubine: Arcadia Belle Matrona: Manami Isobe Founders MP: Josef Isobe-Shirazi Spokesperson: Yeong Isamu Militia: Yari no Sentan {tip of the spear} Militia Commander: Gareth Jezza Associate Families: Shirazi, Karimi, Acciai, Fujie, Asahina, Aquino, Lazzari, Amaterasu Territory: [map 5] (650 sq. km) landhold on the Kamchatka Peninsula, three adjacent plots to the south, east, and west of 220 sq. km each, one quarter of Civitas, the town shared between the neighboring landholds of Palakiko, Sorenson, and Yakovich Agriculture: Isobe Greens – seaweed and kelp farming, salt harvet Isobe Fishery – shrimp, prawn, lobster, clams, scallops, mussels, oysters, eel, octopus, squid, crab, sea urchins, oyster, maguro {tuna}, tai {sea breem}, aquaculture and wild catch Isobe Shell Company – fresh and saltwater pearl farms, pearl divers Corporate Holdings: Four Corners Zaibatsu – the umbrella under which the partnership of the Isobe, Palakiko, Sorenson, and Yakovich Ichizoku operates Civitas Defensor {city defender} – professional militia and security umbrella unit over the Four Corners Zaibatsu and partnered ichizoku militias: Commander Aegle Isobe-Amaterasu Stella Blu – planetary to interstellar shipping company via trucks, barges, cargo ships, aircraft, small craft and dropships Sento Kyujo {combat salvage} – planetary to interstellar combat salvage, salvage, retrieval, recycle, repurpose, parts and repair, towing, and rescue Neoterikos Lance – firearms, support weapons, field guns, autocannons Hogosuru {protect} – superlight compound personnel armor, vehicle armor, reconnaissance and combat drones, military support and combat vehicles, superlight solar power systems for camping and military field ops Hagane Ishi {iron will} – integrated steelworks Glow – designer brand of mother of pearl, cultured, and freshwater pearl jewelry Wonderful Life Savings and Loan – worldwide financial services and investment bank, 13.3 billion Ryu AUM Arrowhead Range Mines – planetary and stellar mining iron ore, salts, metallurgical coal, copper, gold, turquoise, aquamarine, citrine, tanzanite, moonstone, opal, jade, rose quartz, garnet, amethyst, onyx SeaShores – marine and stellar mobile landing platforms, floating bases, floating docks and piers Kichona {precious} – designer jewelry brand and boutique stores Mistborn Glass – murano and venetian glass works producing glass sculpture, art objects, glassware, bakeware, crystal, lighting, jewelry, mirrors, chef tools, surgical tools, daggers, knives, sexual aides, tableware, beads, tiles, lamps; school teaching the arts from apprentice to mastery Kamenokora {turtle shell} – manufactures small craft: escorts, close patrol craft, shuttles, landing craft, dropshuttles, tugs; mining mechs, exosuits, space suits, hazardous condition suits Civitas Fresh Market – sprawling across five acres the indoor glass roofed two story emporium houses a plethora of vendors: farmers market, fish market, butchers, bakers, candy makers, closed container wine, beer, and liquor vendors, spices, food vendors, flowers and nursery plants, medicinal herbs, cafes- many with balcony or terrace seating for people watching or wonderful views of the park and Castle Fairehope, gift shops, artisans, craftsmen, seasonal items; open seven days from four am to six am for chefs and wholesalers, from eight am to eight pm for consumers, located in Storybook Park - 930 lush hectares of lagoons, gardens, meadows, hedge mazes, forests of majestic live oaks many more than a century old, trails, fountains, bridges, boulders and sculptures for climbing, horse drawn carriages, food vendors, a three hundred acre zoo, a boat house, two castles (Castle Fairehope and Swan Castle) both with great halls, pavilions, solars and gardens for events and weddings, Llyn Logres {Arthur’s realm, the lake of the lady} a twenty two acre body of water with an average depth of thirteen meters, the Couterie Forest is sixty acres of untouched woodland, wildlife, and waterways, Storyland is a whimsical kids park with life size animatronic and clockwork storybook exhibits from ten cultures, Carousel Gardens an amusement park of thrill rides that houses three different working carousels and several antique display pieces, The Art Deco Botanical Gardens, and the Beaux-Arts Museum of Art Music Emporia – one of Nejiro’s major music retailers, it has been a destination for musicians all over the world for over forty years, what started as a guitar center has evolved over the years to become a renowned worldwide dealer of music gear at unbeatable prices. We take pride in our personalized customer service as well as our friendly, knowledgeable sales team. We are home to one of the largest lesson programs, providing music lessons and group performance classes to students of all ages and skill levels. We offer expert on site repairs for acoustic, and electric instruments. We are also one of the most popular band instrument rental locations, serving thousands of customers every year. Sign up for our newsletter The Downbeat to learn about our events, new arrivals and best deals. U~innokohi {viennese coffee} – our coffee houses entice with a wide variety of coffee drinks, interstellar papers, light meals, confectionary and pastry creations, painted ceilings, decorated vaults, magnificent arcades and pillars, large lamps and chandeliers, marble tabletops, sofas, upholstered thonet style chairs, newspaper tables, and interior design details in the style of Historicism, where every guest may sit for hours to talk, write, play cards, debate the latest political developments, and above all consume an unlimited number of newspapers and journals, enjoy the piano music played in the evenings, and our social events like literary readings, there is free wifi and café links to yet more digital newspapers and journals, sit comfortably at our umbrella covered sidewalk or terrace tables; take all the time you want in our living room down the street, relax with a cup of coffee and read the paper paper, Vienna-style in a cafe Koichizoku Kapula {prayers}: Colors: pink, purple Kamon: twin dolphins Delm: Hualani Kapula Matrona: Lukia Wehilani Kapula Founders MP: Hana Hiu Kapula Spokesperson: Ihupani Kalani Militia: Wild Sentries Militia Commander: Lee Momo Associate Families: Ahulani, Hiu, Kai, Momo, Wehilani, Kamaka, Keahi Territory: [map 28] (650 sq. km) landhold south of the Akashi Yama {redstone mountains}, east of Yakan on Shinrin, plus three adjacent properties to the north, east, and west 225 sq. km each Agriculture: Kaho Gohan {perfume rice} - farms heirloom rice varieties, forbidden, jasmine, wehani, kalijiri Amai {sweet} – watermelons, mangoes, pineapple, yubari, amalfi lemon Aqua Star – coastal and deep-sea fishing, fish market, frozen, dried, salted, pickled and canned seafood brand Kalua {to cook in an underground oven} – hog and poultry farm, branded pork and poultry products Koa Grove – apiary, tree and cannabis plantation, koa, ulu, wiliwili, kukui Kahua Kalani {base of the heavens} – 35,000 ha park, nature reserve, trails, camping, campgrounds, tours, located west of the landhold on ichizoku property Corporate Holdings: Beneteau – designs, constructs, and engineering of racing and cruising sail boats, sailing yachts, junk rigs, motorboats, power boats, jets skis, dinghy Kapula Candle – handmade, hand painted beeswax candles Tidewater – designs, constructs, and engineering of sport and commercial deep sea, coastal, and river fishing boats, patrol boats Ho Tekko – metal works, metal fabrication, salvage, recycling Wanderer – design and construct electric and hybrid motorcycles, minibus, scooters, beetles, ATV’s, surf wagons Maaji – sarongs, yukata, beach apparel, surf apparel, swimwear, accessories Wavestorm – designs and builds surfing equipment, surf coaches, pro shop Hokulea {the star which travels} – traditional Hawaiian single and multihull canoe makers, also navigational devices, sails, ropes, nets, traps, hooks, fishing line, spears; school from apprentice to mastery teaching traditional wayfinding Na Mea Kaua {things of war} – spears, swords, knives-made with steel and tooth, spear guns Harmony – cannabis dispensaries Namiko Marina and Yacht Club {wave child} Moana Surf Resort – steps from a friendly lineup at one of the most consistent surf spots on the planet. Nestled in an exclusive hideaway and privileged location. A place with spectacular sunsets and great surf year-round, we regularly have waves in excess of six meters. We offer boutique accommodations, and expert surf coaching, with every detail of your comfort and rest in mind. We host and sponsor the annual Merrie Monarch Festival and Hula Competition and the Mavericks, and Quicksilver pro surf competitions. Mahealani Gated Community {heavenly moonlight} – located on a small peninsula on the southernmost point of the island, properties have stunning views of the extinct volcano Suiko Miyama {water tiger seamount} which rises almost one thousand meters asl in Seishin Bei {spirit bay} a few kilometers off the coast, there are incredible views of the pink sand coastline, and panoramic ocean vistas, it is a very accessible neighborhood with an understated atmosphere-surfers and active people of all ages are drawn to this area for some of the best waves, running routes, and hiking trails on the island Centerscale Automation – documenting the correct measurements takes functional apparatuses that are both precise and accurate, so you know without a doubt what you are documenting is factual. In industries that deal with weight, a poorly manufactured or uncalibrated scale can shift the balance, causing issues for everything from freight costs to dietary needs. Our clients receive high quality commercial and industrial scales from a certified and registered scale agency. From the food industry to medicine, scales are an important part of day-to-day operations. Knowing the precise weight of a product, system, or animal is directly related to how they are graded, analyzed, and priced. This company’s precision instruments, coupled with our certified technicians, will provide accurate weight measurements for your business. We also provide quality services for our instruments including consultation, calibration, repairs, installation, and rentals. Whether you need a digital hanging scale for your luggage or a pallet weight scale for your backroom loading and unloading contact us today for your weighing needs. Progressive Plastics – from brochure and card displays to retail cases and smartphone holders, select a company with the experience and know how to create exactly what you need. We offer custom acrylic fabrication that is second to none, with more than thirty years of industry experience, our exceptional craftsmanship will give your valuables the showcase they deserve. Whether you need creative display cases, raffle drums, or plastic molding work, Progressive Plastics uses industry leading products to ensure our products and techniques are of the highest quality. In addition, we give our products an extra edge with a wide selection of quality finishes including flame polishing, die-cutting, custom lettering and vinyl printing. The sky’s the limit when you trust your acrylic fabrication needs with our experts at Progressive Plastics. Kings Robe – menswear, accessories, footwear, outerwear, lifestyle favorites and more – curated from the best Nejiro brands, custom tailoring upon request, and bespoke clothing available with appointment La Bonne Vie Hotel – Perched picturesquely on Varkala Cliffs, a ten-minute walk from the beach, this straightforward hotel is a nine minute walk from the Living World Aquarium, and is just a few kilometers along the cliff walk from The Block Shopping Arcade. The relaxed single or double occupancy suites offers individual temperature controls, free secure wifi, flat-screen tv’s and electronic centers, minifridges with complimentary stock, stained glass table lamps with chargers, comfortable king size beds behind french doors, wardrobe armoire with each bed set, coffee and tea bar, bath with bidet, rain shower, spa tub, with complimentary toiletries, lounging and dining areas, a secretary desk set and torchiere, bright murals painted on the walls, and spectacular ocean views on your personal lanai. There is a complimentary hot breakfast buffet, lobby lounge, business center, concierge, fitness center, outdoor courtyard pool and Tiki Bar, the Amasia restaurant with a full sushi bar, a robata for grilled items cooked on leaves, and pupus-small plates intended to be shared-like dungeness crab chawanmushi and kurobuta char siu baby back ribs, also on premises is the White Wolf Patisserie serving an everchanging selection of japanese breads and sweets, french cakes and pastries, an espresso, turkish, cold brew, drip and nitro coffee menu, craft cocktails, black, green and herbal teas, bubble tea, masala chai, and russian tea. The gift shop features an exclusive line of La Bonne Vie products-from luxurious beach towels to its one-of-a-kind stuffed animal. Legacy Art Stone – carved or engraved cemetery memorials, stone monuments with family monsho {heraldry}, gravestones, stone pagoda, stone lanterns Sherwood Arborists – from trimming and pruning to protecting from disease it takes an experienced, professional tree service to properly care for native trees. The staff has over forty years’ experience and the industries most advanced equipment and know how to complete any task from tree removal to lot clearing, landscape installations, and routine maintenance Varkala Wireless – your one stop shops for all things prepaid phone and SIM cards, from top-of-the-line smart phones to basic talking and texting, phone rentals, prepaid phone cards, accessories Vivial – provides website creation services, website hosting, digital and social media marketing, local search solutions, local print directories Ariki Court Reporting {nobility} – court transcription services: depositions, private trials, court trials, hearings, meetings, audio playback, and interpreted depositions ChargeItSpot – newsstands with kawaii {cute} temptations, local and interstellar newspapers and periodicals, greeting cards, postcards, stationary, paperbacks, manga, beverages, candy, smokes, snacks, egg sandwiches, and free and secure device charging for customers Teihaku {anchor} – business and entrepreneurship consultants who specialize in creative rights, are at the core of modern technology and media monitoring their growth in order to inform on our legal methods-all to give you excellent advice that will last for years to come, offers security and business advice to innovative, creative, and emerging businesses in the arts, entertainment, digital media, tech and design industries Hokaniwanai {like no other} – our products begin as custom works of art, our talented artisans sketch colorful, inspired scenes that are later applied to hand-painted leather handbags, footwear, apparel, outerwear, and other accessories for the perfect combination of wear ability and art Saikonokori {the best ice} – makes ice shaving machines and snow cone machines Slippa – makes unisex (eva sole with air foam and shock absorbing cushioning with non-slip non-marking outsoles) flip flops, wooden geta, and zori for beach, trail, and casual wear, bottoms are printed with tie dye, graphic, or painted designs, also makes plain or printed tabi socks Fuelman – vehicle fueling and charging stations located in urban and suburban areas, fuel delivery for regional, rural, commercial, and industrial clients, a trusted provider of wholesale petroleum, propane, liquid gas, and lubricating oils, and they take pride in customer satisfaction for every job, all drivers are expertly trained to handle the contents they deliver, and will assist with the unloading and set-up of all your deliveries Soleil Luna – full-service beauty salon and dayspa experts in cuts, colors, locs, updos, makeup, manicure, pedicure, waxing, massages, facials, body treatments and organic skin care, popular packages include Maui Zen, Stress Solution, Crazy for Coconut, the Ulta Lux, and four handed massages Pakaloha Swim {let love reign} – your go to spot for top-of-the-line surfing bikinis, bikini separates-Brazilian to boy shorts, tankinis, one piece swimsuits, surf suits, rash guards, sarongs, flip flops, sunglasses Koichizoku Kusonoki {ideal figure of a warrior}: Colors: amber, fuchsia Kamon: dragon tortoise {ambition, wisdom, valiancy, perseverance, steadfastness, stability} Delm: Kurako Kusonoke Matrona: Maisie Kusonoke Founders MP: Zachary Song Concubine: Dagon Kennedy Spokesperson: Noah Date Kusonoke Militia: Kishi-dan {the knights} Militia Commander: Thea Park Associate Families: Date, Harada, Chevalier, Hosokawa, Ridder, Matsudaira, Nene Territory: [map 17] (650 sq. km) landhold near northern coast of Tairiku, plus 300 sq. km industrial park, and 300 sq. km nature preserve on properties south of the landhold Agriculture: Forest Gardens – groves of olives, figs, citrus, grapes, mulberry, pomegranate, medronheiro, apricots, loquat, quince, carob, almond, dates, mushrooms, goats Indigo Harvest – dyers knotweed, Japanese indigo, Indigofera for dyes, stains, and pigments Amber Waves – a farming and ranching cooperative, and food brand with independent farmers producing everything from alfalfa to zucchini Yosei Ringu {fairy ring} – edible and medicinal mushrooms Seiiki Shizen Hogo-ku {sanctuary nature preserve} – foraging, hiking, raw camping, photo safaris, home to Haru Taki {springing falls} where the water springs out of the mountain through a wall of greenery covered stone into the Harunokawa {springing river} at multiple points without any water body above it, it is 63 meters high and 139 meters wide, the water is very cold and safe to drink Corporate Holdings: Ai-zome – indigo dyed cotton and linen textiles, shibori and tie-dyed textiles Green Matters Natural Dyes – manufacture natural dyes, pigments, colorants, stains, reagents, mordants, research and development Sunstar – laser: firearms, support weapons, vehicle weapons; power packs, heat sinks, amplifiers Saisentan {cutting edge} – robots, microrobots, industrial robots, medical robots, exosuits, industrial mechs, agricultural mechs, mining mechs, prosthetics, cutting edge robotics research and development Pioneer Agroscience – crop science, experimental farming, seed development, seed library, crop protection, organic chemistry, environmental controls for greenhouses and ‘ponics systems Sunset Beach Resorts Friendly Fresh Grocers – chain Mighty Helpful Hardware Store – chain Bubbles – cane syrup sweetened, natural flavor, carbonated soda pop beverages in glass bottles Rise – ready to drink canned coffee and tea beverages, warming and cold Zentai {totality} – social media platform Kihei {cavalry} – constructs military combat vehicles, military support vehicles, parts, maintenance, repair Hassha {firing, catapult, shooting} – autocannons, munitions, field guns, missile systems, support weapons, targeting and fire control systems Torikizoku {chicken aristocracy} – famous izakaya {to stay, sake shop, informal bar that serves alcoholic drinks and snacks} chain specializing in making yakitori grilled chicken sticks and is known for setting everything on the menu at 3 Ryu, that price holds for drinks as well Beauxvais – manufactures original art deco, medieval fantasy, and chinoiserie style tapestries, screens, upholstery, rugs, also makes handwoven carpets, does tapestry repair and restoration, and creates tapestry replicas Pagoda Tower – hotel chain with affordable accommodations Knight Broadband – provides full-service communications to clients in the Annettai Heiya {subtropical plains} region Castle Medical Center – a primary healthcare facility, provides inpatient, outpatient, and home-based healthcare services and programs Knight Service PMC – consisting of three armored cavalry combat teams with tanks and mechanized infantry, a combat aviation team with special operations infantry, and one detachment of ceremonial horse cavalry, it accepts reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition and/or elimination, military security, advance guard, flank screening, rear guard, and economy of force missions with the MRBC and are recognizable with their black Stetson hats with spur and yellow rose hatbands Tatsugame Institute {dragon turtle} – private coeducational college preparatory school for grades preschool to twelve with an approximate enrollment of fifteen hundred students, it is considered one of Nejiro’s most dynamic and forward-thinking schools Turtle Bay Resort – all-inclusive experiential resort has hula lessons, chopper tours, snorkel with sea turtles, pedal through the jungle, equestrian excursions, hit the links, play with ponies, surf with pups, go with a pro – let a local watermen be your host for the day sharing what its truly like living and playing on the north shore, fly to an exclusive landing along the majestic Ko’olau Range {windward, what remains of an extinct volcano} and have a picnic paired with a spectacular view, guided kayak and outrigger canoe tours, night golf, drives and drinks, enjoy our cultural center with stories, song, music, and dance, segway tours, swim with sharks, play with dolphins, fishing and cruising charters, whale and sea dragon watching tours, breathtaking beaches, lounge by the pool in private cabanas or dash down the waterslides, dive off the rock waterfalls, unwind in a spa tub, scuba lessons, surf lessons, spa packages, golf tours, winery tours, guest rooms that optimize health, vitality, relaxation, and well being with the best ocean views on the shore Functional Ingredients – food processing, vitamins, nutritional supplements, botanical extracts Serendipity – a periodical publisher that promotes creative and lateral thinking through popular style art, media, science, and news magazines The Knights Association Football Club The Lancers Polo Club Tourney – a Middle Age Faire and Tournament Park featuring amateur and professional jousts (lance, javelin, spear, sword, darts), mock battles, hippika gymnasia (horse exercises developed by roman legions to improve skills, build morale and impress dignitaries and conquered peoples), melee, quintain, pas d’armes, sword fights, tent pegging, archery, the alae {complex cavalry manoeuvers} – full of costumes, drama, symbolism, and exhibitions of Courtly Love. There is also gambling and sport - draughts, chess, dice games, card games, hazard, fox and geese, and backgammon, wrestling, bocce, colf (golf), shinty (field hockey), stoolball (cricket), skittles (bowling), folk-football, foot races, real tennis, handball, and badminton. Don’t miss the parties, award ceremonies, and parades, or the vendors hawking food, alcohol and handcrafted wares. Open Thursday thru Sunday from April 1 to October 31, and for Yuletide Celebrations in December and January. Shirokiya {village walk} – originally developed as a themed food hall for the Ridder Industrial Park {knight} but has become a popular destination for tourists and business travelers, the theme in the image of mozen-machi, a town built adjacent to shrines and temples with the Guardian Spirits Sanctuary at its core, the main operation concept is omotenashi no kokoro - the japanese philosophy of hospitality. From cooking performances to Ennichi {festival days} events, Shirokiya will give a feeling of nostalgia and excitement to people of all ages. The Guardian Spirit Sanctuary is composed of stone sculptures of eight different buddhas and the twelve animal signs of the Japanese Zodiac to bring luck to everyone; Keiki Corner {baby, child, the little one} has over 300 Gachapon {hand crank toy capsule, lottery like minigame} which features a wide array of capsule toy selections, some exclusive to Shirokiya, many starting at one Ryu, it also has toy stores and children’s boutiques, a one hundred fifty square meter playground, family lounges, two daycare centers, an arcade, family events and candy making demonstrations, a public children’s library and reading area, interactive learning stations, a splash fountain, a koi pond where kids can feed the fish, and Artz a free to use facility where kids of all ages may play under the supervision of art teachers with crayons, Legos, modeling clay, paints, markers, craft supplies, pencils, papers, and canvas; Bunbogu Nihon {stationery japan} sells quality stationery, art supplies, MyDeco custom original notebooks, Sanrio products, and office supplies, there are also traditional ink painting and calligraphy demonstrations and classes; the Shirokiya Stage has events, live performances, live music, and entertainment; Yataimura {small street food stall village, peddlers village, food court} has food kiosks serving bentos, okazu, onigiri, sushi, soba, udon, yakitori, takoyaki, okonomiyaki, curry, tempura, tacos, Korean BBQ, pizza, fruit and cream topped pancakes or waffles, filled crepes, a variety of ethnic street foods, ice cream, shaved ice, and sweets, there is also a small collection of fast food chains, and several large dining areas with communal water and sink areas, live cooking performances and lessons, retail kiosks selling a variety of goods, and several pottery and kitchen tool stores; the Biagaden {beer garden} located on the roof under a glass dome with both an open air park, and a Bavarian style festzelte {beer tent} has several service counters serving beers and other draft selections, also wine, sake, and shochu, there are also three bars and several liquor stores, the entrance to the Biagaden is prohibited for those under the legal drinking age enforced by bouncers at all the entrances; The Gourmet Square has eight restaurants and eight specialty bistros featuring steak, burgers, katsu, sukiyaki, nabe, Indian cuisine, French cuisine, nigiri/chirashi sushi, yakiniku, Italian cuisine, Chinese cuisine, and ethnic cuisine, there are also butchers, bakers, fishmongers, confectioners, artisan cheese shops, chocolatiers, farm stands, and food orientated boutiques; Ramen Plaza has the biggest and best gathering of delicious ramen shops on Nejiro; Kissaten Shukaisho {coffee shop hall} has chain and independent coffee shops that also serve sweets, sandwiches, soups, salads, and pasta dishes, there are also tea shops, newsstands, smoke shops and smoking rooms, manga shops, book shops, and quiet nooks with fountains and greenery to relax Koichizoku Loingsigh {lindsay}: Colors: charcoal, dark plum Kamon: branch of plum blossoms in bloom Delm: Nicola Loingsigh Spouse: Fujio Matsuda-Loingsigh Matrona: Aemilia Loingsigh Founders MP: Ken Loingsigh Courtesan: Sabrina Beauchane Spokesperson: Rikiya Yasuoke Militia: Sreangain {sentinels} Militia Commander: Marcus Tulio Tanaka Associate Families: Artur, Dalamera, Fiala, Map, Marascal, Mealoid, Rossi, Riva, Neri, Kizaki Territory: [map 20] (650 sq. km) landhold on the western lowlands of the Western Kiso Mountains on the Hawks Bay coast Agriculture: Cinque Terres {five lands} – distillery and winery from berries, apricots, grapes, plums, cherries, roses; also produces dried fruit, ornamental flowers, preserves, pickles Corporate Holdings: Ornua {new gold} – branded dairy factories from dairy farm cooperative Meishan Freight {plum mountain} – cargo and freight transportation via ground, water, air, stellar, interstellar vehicles Branta PMC {black goose} – private security, security consulting, intelligence analysis, operational and intelligence support, bodyguards for executives, politicians, and dignitaries, military escorts, risk analysis, reconnaissance and surveillance, security training, cybersecurity, logistics specialists, investigators, technicians, firefighters, paramedics Gweled Intelligence {to see} – open-source investigation and analysis for corporate and personal clients, private investigations, security consultants Umeyama Kobutsu {plum mountain minerals} stellar rare earths, carbon, diamonds mining; planetary mining for copper, zinc, obsidian, aluminum, nickel, gold, lead, mercury Ishi no Shukaku {stone harvest} – dimension stone quarries granite, alabaster, travertine, quartz Centigon Security Group PMC – makes armored vehicle, infantry and vehicle armor, APC ‘s, pursuit vehicle; secure warehousing, logistics, transportation; private security, armed escorts, secure data centers, cyber security Cammille Bloc – chocolate company Purple Twilight – comic books and graphic novels, manga, and fanzine publisher Zlinavion – trainer aircraft, military (combat and support) and civilian VTOL’s, military and civilian cargo aircraft, sport and aerobatic aircraft, maintenance and repair, flight school, aerial photography Koichizoku MacDiarmid {mcdermot}: Colors: black, golden Kamon: tribal tortoise Delm: Peader MacDiarmid Courtesan: Belle Otero Matrona: Diedre MacDiarmid Founders MP: Lysagh Griffith MacDiarmid Spokesperson: Malachi Watt-MacDiarmid Militia: Caomhnoiri {guardians} Militia Commander: Riordan Sato Associate Families: Griffith, Maddox, Ishiguro, Cadwallader, Banes, Watt Territory: [map 21] (650 sq. km) landhold on Yoshino-gawa riverfront north of Bridges, plus 150 sq. km of Yoshino-gawa riverfront property north of Bridges, plus 150 sq. km of Yoshino-gawa riverfront property across the river Agriculture: Rainbow Tears – cultured freshwater pearls; jewelry design and creation; mussels, shellfish food grade and fertilizer Rogue Ales – farm to table brewery; brews beer, ale, spirits, cider, soda; coopers their own barrels; brewhouse with music venue in Bridges Corporate Holdings: Garden Reach Engineering – designs and builds drones for law enforcement, military, commercial, experimental, media and hobby markets; designs and builds remote operated vehicles for law enforcement, military, commercial and search and rescue markets Emerald Bay Marina Azario Esplanade – riverfront gated community Clean Harbors – waste collection services, dumpster rentals, universal recycling and processing, water treatment, junk removal, biomass energy, composting, mulch and fertilizer Sunseeker River Cruises Lucky Star - manufactures high quality, performance and professional grade pool cues and shafts, billiards cases and accessories; custom Wildfire cues with advanced 3D rotational wood carving with your own personalized artwork paired with a matching case; also sponsors tournaments and billiard events Stardust – design, build, engineer river boats, barges: residential and commercial, patrol boats, tugs, houseboats, cruise liners, runabouts, ferries, fishing vessels at standard, custom, or luxury levels, parts, repair, upgrade, maintenance Trinity Logistics – warehouse, logistics, distribution, freight transportation over ground, air, and sea Steelhead – freshwater seafood restaurant in Bridges, features salmon, trout, and bass Queen Coho – two-star seafood restaurant in Bridges Strategic Marine – river patrol boats, and amphibious vessels for law enforcement and military; weapon systems, electronics systems, communication systems, parts, repair and maintenance Koichizoku McAllister: Colors; red, blue Kamon: Pitts Special Delm: Rikard McAllister Matrona: Judi McAllister Founders MP: Caelen McAllister-Ness Spokesperson: Elijah Knight Militia: Aces Militia Commander: Luka McAllister-Wallis Associate Families: Wallis, Urquhart, Starrett, Ramsey, Sudo, Ness, Serafin, Guaire, MacLagain Territory: [map 16] (650 sq. km) landhold is northwest of Quezon on the coast of Tairiku, plus 1000 sq. km between Quezon and the landhold Agriculture: Citrus Grove – all varieties of citrus, and companion crops of legumes, marigolds, petunias, yarrow, dill, fennel, lemon balm, pepper spices, spinach, parsley, tansey, ducks, rabbits, chickens, apiary Corporate Holdings: Cascade Aeroport – privately owned and managed airport between McAllister landhold and Quezon Cascade Air Industries – integrated manufacturer of precision machined components, mechanical assemblies, precision sheet metal assemblies, and electronic enclosures; our portfolio includes landing gear, arresting gear, air to air refueling systems, tubes and ducts, aero structures, flight turbine components, ground power turbine components, ground support equipment, electronic cables, harnesses, chassis’, actuators, complex machined fittings, cylinders, drag beams, drag braces, flight controls, flight safety critical components, thrust struts; design services include deep hole drilling, gun drilling, trepanning, and hydraulic testing and assembly Cascaidigh Aeraspais – combat and support aircraft, commercial aircraft, VTOL’s, sport aircraft, pleasure aircraft, gliders, shuttles, landing craft, dropshuttles Free Sky – parachutes, parasails, skydiving equipment, paragliders, hot air balloons, airships, base jumping equipment, bungee equipment, zip line equipment, classes Skyflash – winged jetpacks, energy cells, power packs McAllister Air Circus Danza Nell’aria {dance upon the air} – aerobatic aircraft, experimental aircraft, VTOL’s, sport aircraft, bush planes, maintenance and repair services Mosaic – ‘everything under the stars’, digital media, shop from home digital warehouse, retail, and grocery department Thunder in the Valley – vintage, antique, and historic airshow Albatross Satellite – providing satellite communications, infrastructure, and services with our fleet of satellites, uplink facilities, and state of the art fiber networks Albatross provides a full range of advanced communication services for enterprise, government, media broadcast, and mobility market Koichizoku Malik: Colors: blue, orange Kamon: three falcon feathers Delm: Safar el-Malik Spouse: Sherine Nadezhda el-Malik Spouse: Yasmin Minami el- Malik Spouse: Eva Watt el-Malik Spouse Alya Himura el-Malik Matrona: Zuhra Malik Consort: Dmitri Verenich Courtesan: Borys Alagna Founders MP: Nahla el-Zafar-Malik Spokesperson: Philipa Soo Militia: Muhajimun Alshabh {ghost strikers} Militia Commander: Zain el-Jalair-Malik Associate Families: Jalair, Burakgazi, Kartal, Upash, Tilki, Uzun, Karga, Bardak, Zafar Territory: [map 11] (650 sq. km) landhold in the northern foothills of the Eastern Kiso Mountains in the Eastern Desert, plus the surrounding 2600 sq. km Agriculture: goats, sheep, fruit and nut orchards, apiary, ornamental and aromatic flowers; seasonal agriculture: wheat, barley, lentils, tomato, onion, okra, cucumber, squash, pumpkin, melon, chard, thyme, sage, chamomile, fennel, mint, hibiscus, cardamom, tea Huk Al-Akh Mews {hawk brother} – falconry, breeding and training of falcons, hawks, owls, and eagles Swift Elegance – breeding, training, and boarding of the five foundation families of Arabian horses for furusiyya, (horsemanship and martial exercise) sport, and pleasure Corporate Holdings: Badawi Group {desert dweller} – the umbrella under which the economic and financial partnership of the Malik and Rizvi ichizoku operates Sunduq Alkunaz {treasure box} – planetary and stellar mining and mineral extraction, mainly petroleum, quartz, garnet, turquoise, obsidian, salts, pink halite, wulfenite, opal, cobalt, aluminum, feldspar, limestone, basalt, silica, gold (415,000 ounces per annum), silver, zinc, copper Taqa Mutajadida {renewable energy} – solar and wind power plants, generators, energy storage, power packs Malik Alnaar {fire king} – lusterware cookware, bakeware, glassware, tableware Al Khamsa {the five, signifies purity of blood line} – breeding, training, and boarding of foundation and ancestral element purebred Arabian horses for sport Ruwaya {to quench a thirst, storytelling} – a fine-jewelry line that speaks to the rich heritage of Arabic lore, scripts, and geometric motifs Almaeiz Alsaghir {little goat} – goat milk based dairy products, hygiene, skincare, cosmetics, and cleansers Badawi Bazaar – for thirty one days during the dry season the nomadic and town families of the Rizvi and Malik Ichizoku gather in a tent city outside of Madina (a town sharing the border of both ichizoku) for trade, cultural events, reunions, matchmaking, and sport with many of the open air markets available to tourists during the weekend, the site is also the start and end point of both the Shahzada Endurance Test {son of shah} – a five day cross country horse race of 400 km, and the Muhit Min Alnaar {ocean of fire} a 1000 km cross country survival race conducted on horseback, a true test of a horses strength, stamina, resourcefulness, resilience, and courage, the finishers exhibit superbly healthy constitutions, incredible power, staunch spirit, strong legs and sure steps Almarai {the pasture} – food and beverage processing, manufacture, and distribution making dairy products, juices, baby food and formulas, poultry products, baked goods, jams and preserves, dried fruit and nuts, meat products, canned coffee and tea, candies Badawi Trust – AUM 6.8 billion Ryu Minimus – manufacturer and digital store of individually packaged items, including travel size toiletries, individual personal care, individual household products, individual food servings, premade food and craft kits, specialty food individual sized, baby care kits, family and outdoor first aid kits, military care packages Caracal – manufacturer of firearms and scimitars Almaza Brewery {diamond} Anabasis PMC {the ten thousand, military advance} – made of several brigade combat teams the unit mostly accepts off world, interstellar contracts, member in good standing of the MRBC, preliminary training and education takes place on the landhold and at MAWs Mughamarat Al’iidraj Aldhdhatii {self-insertion adventures, choose your own adventure} – designs and makes virtual reality gear and games from first person shooters to mmorpg’s and mmorts’s Nsajun Alsahra’ {desert weavers} – rugs, blankets, tents, apparel, and accessories from sheep and goat fibers, especially mohair and cashmere Southeastern Mutual – 125 billion Ryu AUM, financial planning, financial advisors, investment, insurance, business advisors, wealth management Southeastern University – co-ed undergraduate to PHD programs for as many as twenty thousand students, liberal arts college, science and technology college, arts college, vocational schools, sports and athletics, very high research activity and is home to the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research, and it supports 1500 research laboratories, has co-op programs with prominent corporations around the world, beautiful 97 ha campus in Evansville a suburb of Hilo, the campus includes libraries, museums, theaters, temples, radio stations, television station, and media studios, the university has an eleven billion Ryu endowment managed by a board of trustees Koichizoku Masachika: Colors: green, lavender Kamon: dragonfly in flight Delm: Kamil Masachika Courtesan: Kae Sacco Concubine: Noemie Hirano Matrona: Bethany Masachika Courtesan: Beck Yeoung-Su Concubine: Katya Eason Founder MP: Kanon Wada Masachika Courtesan: Arild Sugawara Spokesperson: Kaiti Ryuzoji Masachika Militia: Rokkan Security {sixth sense, keen intuition} Militia Commander: Vin Ryuzoji Masachika Associate Families: Yanagisawa, Devin, Wada, Molchalin, Tosuka, Morozov, Sanada, Baharin, Zorkin, Ryuzoji Territory: [map 29] (650 sq. km) landhold northwest of Yousai, plus 100 sq. km nature reserve south of landhold Agriculture: rice, tea, soybeans, peanuts, yuzu, pumpkins, amaranth, beans, peas, cypress Corporate Holdings: Standing Stone Lake Park – so named for the boulders left as evidence of an ancient glaciers passage, the lake is thirty five kilometers long and nineteen kilometers wide with an average depth of three hundred meters and a max depth of five hundred meters, it is known for the clarity of its waters and the panorama of the surrounding landscape, the park is a 100 sq. km nature reserve with botanical gardens, parklands, festivals, campgrounds, ryokan, onsen, hiking, boating/marina, birding, biking, fishing, horseback riding, swimming pools, waterpark, professional golf course/club, picnic areas, pavilions, meeting rooms, event venues (including Iwa Shiro {rock castle} a european gothic fantasy style castle with halls, salons, gardens, and lawns that run to the lake shore from the forest hilltop of the castle are available for weddings and other events), rock climbing, summer camp, year-round youth programs, organized athletics and sports, gated communities, train station Sawara – historic village education center; a working transport hub for rice and other agriculture shipments into Yousai. The historic center lies along a stroll worthy canal, lined by faithfully reproduced Edo period traditional residences, merchant shops, warehouses, tea houses, restaurants, distilleries and breweries, sento {public bath house}, temples, shrines, and ryokan. Public and private tours of the town are available through the Edo Jidai Museum {Edo period} located on the outskirts of Sawara with the train station. Sightseeing cruises are offered by several flat bottom boat tour companies. The town is also well known for the Sawara Matsuri, a night festival lit by lanterns, where elaborate floats ridden by giant dolls, crafted in the likeness of mythological Japanese warriors and folk tales’ parades along the streets and canal accompanied by musicians and dancers performing over forty melodic festival chants and dances at the approach of autumn in October, a few of the floats may be seen year-round at the Edo Jidai Museum Vorquism Rao – a meditative branch of a lost martial art, to help one gain a sense of one’s self and the world around them, consists of eleven different katas of more than sixty four slow and methodical forms, the schools also teach yoga, tai chi, meditative dance, qigong, and zen walking Rokkan Security {sixth sense, keen intuition} – patrols, armed patrols, monitoring, peace officers, and guard services for communities, industrial parks, schools, corporations, public buildings, and event venues Rokkan Detective Agency – investigations, intelligence gathering and analysis, background checks, physical security and monitoring, bodyguard services Vipertek – non-lethal weapons, tasers, stun weapons, mace, pepper gel, air pistols with steel bb’s, sonic weapons, tactical pens, personal safety alarms, high lumen flashlights, tranq weapons; the Yusha {hero} is a heavy duty dual shot barrel, that is compact, easy to conceal, carry and store with a class two laser sight and high lumen stun light, it fires your choice of projectile – pepper based ball projectiles that release a cloud of microscopic pepper irritants on contact or pepper gel spray that has a narrow cone of effect, powered by rechargeable power packs and nitrogen canisters with two shots per interchangeable cartridge, optional sonic attachment with crackling, snapping sounds to frighten away wildlife is available Dragonfly VTOL – military support and combat VTOL’s, commercial VTOL’s, commercial rotary and fixed wing aircraft, commercial, law enforcement, and military drones Nomad – designs and builds recreational vehicles, mobile homes, trailer homes, tour buses, coaches, survival vehicles, tiny homes, off road vehicles, motorcycles, tow packages, trailers Yuzukami Sake August Moon Shochu Sangaria Chuhai – ‘shochu highball’ made from shochu {burned liquor, a 25% ABV distilled beverage made from rice, barley, sweet potatoes, barley, buckwheat, or brown sugar with a nutty or earthy flavor} and flavored seltzer water packaged in cans, or shochu and fruit juice topped with soda water over ice, served at izakayas {casual bar that also serves snacks} as a cocktail Orion Beer Byways – scenic overlooks, waysides, road stations and service plaza chains, located mostly on recreational highways and roads Bookland – brick and mortar worldwide bookstore chain with café, gifts, stationery, a digital store, and subscription services Rasen {spiral} – secure multi-channel, multi-level encrypted law enforcement, military, and government communication networks; countermeasure systems, targeting systems, and navigation systems Airashi Bento-bako {adorable lunchbox} – makes bento boxes, furoshiki {wrapping cloths}, accessories, kitchen tools, tableware Bento Monogatari Café {lunchbox story} – themed maid cafes serving elaborately arranged and decorated, theme and character bento meals, meals also sold in subscription service, and at specialty shops Zakhvat Vikhyra {vortex capture} – manufactures wind turbines, vertical access wind turbines, gravity base wind turbines, parts and service, research and development Koichizoku Palakiko {the warrior}: Colors: silver grey, red Kamon: osprey feather with wave markings Delm: Kaikene Palakiko Matrona: Kelani Palakiko Founders MP: Makanui Inoke Spokesperson: Qiana Awana Militia: Pandions {osprey} Militia Commander: Helina Nohealani Concubine: Niklas Magee Concubine: Wayne Damion Associate Families: Akamu, Hakulani, Honua, Kamala, Loe, Nakiri Territory: [map 6] (650 sq. km) landhold on the Kamchatka Peninsula of Tairiku, plus an additional 650 sq. km west of the landhold, and one quarter of the town of Civitas which shares borders with the Isobe, Sorenson, and Yakovich Ichizoku Agriculture: Muraskino Tahata {purple fields} – purple sweet potato, burdock, lotus root, asparagus, wasabi, daikong, scallion, bulb onion, ginger, carrot, lettuce, cabbage Corporate Holdings: Four Corners Zaibatsu Sokudo Aviation {velocity} – designs, engineers and builds commercial aircraft, cargo aircraft, military combat and support aircraft, small craft, missile systems, autocannons, machine guns, autonomous aircraft, drones, phantom works, the Aeto {eagle} aerospace fighter [changed cosmetics but an EGL-R6 under the hood], simulators, satellites, engineering modification and maintenance Air Sokudo – transcontinental commercial airline legacy carrier, and private charter jet service Sokudo Outlook – trains pilots, flight controllers, technicians, flight attendants, ground crew for commercial airlines and private charter services Four Corners Aeroport – intercontinental and interstellar airport located west of Civitas Stitch! – seamstress and alteration services chain, franchise Verus {actual, true, real} – military electronic systems - sensors, communications, imaging, targeting, navigation, simulations; simulators, tactical gear, uniforms Yashoku Ramen {midnight snack} – factory produces several varieties of instant ramen Yokoso Real Estate {welcome} – development of high-rise apartment building and condominium projects, sales, management, maintenance Nekehanga {mobility} – transcontinental high-speed passenger and freight railroads, inner city and metropolitan monorail, maglev, skytrain, aerial trams, and elevated railways, passenger and cargo services Stream – data centers, cloud computing, server farms Haruka Toku Travels {far away} – luggage, travel bags, trunks, travel gear, and accessories Totsuki Saryo Ryori Gakuen {Totsuki Tea Ceremony and Culinary Academy} – an extremely competitive school with a wide range of culinary, and food processing studies, of which only a handful of students graduate, students are encouraged to develop their own style and push it to the maximum limits. Students who make it to graduation are masters of their craft, usually less than one percent of the freshman class make it to graduation and are the most skilled and sought after chefs in the world. Of particular interest is a competition called a Shokugeki, {food war} a formal intense cooking duel where students stake their pride and future as chefs to settle debates and other issues, where victory means that all conditions set are immediately carried out and the conditions and results of these battles are absolute. Also of interest is the Moon Banquet Festival, an annual school festival where students set up food booths individually or in groups in various campus locations to demonstrate their cooking to customers over a period of five days, it is a huge event that attracts more than five thousand visitors a day. Among these customers are many foreign and domestic VIP’s who are accommodated on campus or the nearby Totsuki Resort. Like most major Totsuki events, this event whittles down the number of students by expelling those who fail, in this case students who suffer a loss of income at the end of the event. Defiance Flour – mills specializing in non-wheat flours Civitas Institute of Technology – university courses in engineering, technology, applied sciences, natural sciences, math, research, and vocational training Risen Energy – manufactures premium quality and performance solar power systems, solar farms, solar utility Monolithic Dome Homes {one stone} – when it comes to homes we do not believe in one size or style, your Monolithic Dome Home can be everything you need and everything you want in the home of your dreams. It can be small and cozy or spacious and luxurious; one storied or multistoried; at ground level, totally underground, or earth bermed, on beaches, even underwater; built in virtually any location and environment. Our domes can be designed to fit any architectural need: homes, cabins, churches, schools, gymnasiums, arenas, stadiums, bulk storages, landlord dwellings, man caves, pubs and various other privately or publicly owned facility types. Flexibility is the key behind our designs and the interior of your Monolithic Dome Home can be partitioned into rooms or areas that can include just about anything-indoor swimming pool or sauna, game or exercise room, theater, separate apartment, office, home-based business, home-based school etc. Because a monolithic dome home is so well built and insulated, your home will be energy efficient, disaster proof (they have a proven ability to survive tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, fire, termites, and most manmade disasters) be virtually maintenance free, have durable longevity that will stand the test of time, are a green healthy environment, are EMP safe, and cost efficient. We have also developed the technology for Monolithic Ecoshells, usually not insulated, they make superior workshops, garages, storage sheds etc. Mille Disc {millennium} – makes backup discs and writers to last a thousand years from patented lab grown ‘crystals’ that are the only product to survive the Ministry of Defense Warfare Center Weapons Division stress tests, the inorganic ‘rock-like’ data layer is the feature that sets them apart Koichizoku Rizvi: Colors: yellow, green Kamon: three baby goats Delm: Yousef Rizvi Matrona: Samira Rizvi Founders MP: Tufayl Siddiqui el-Rizvi Spokesperson: Baqir Atiya el-Mofty Militia: Albadw {nomads} Militia Commander: Tariq Haq el-Rizvi Associate Families: Siddiqui, Usmani, Solongo, Liao, Yelu, Batzorig, Saeed, Haq, Jalali, Borjigin Territory: [map 12] (650 sq. km) landhold in the northern foothills of the eastern Kiso Mountains in the Eastern Desert, plus the surrounding 2600 sq. km of property, plus the southern adjacent 750 sq. km of property in the Seiyo Kiso Mountains {western backbone} The ichizoku is for the most part nomadic. They are herders, hunters, fishers, and gatherers. The Mongolian, Khitai, and Arabic descendants still hunt with eagles, and have the finest Arabian horses on the planet. They often make excursions into the mountains for mineral resources the ichizoku hold the rights to, also for hunting and grazing lands. The ichizoku contains many artisans and craftsmen from weavers to metal workers, most of these wares are sold through shops in Madina or the Badawi Group. There are also many digital workers; everything from day traders to video game designers; who can work from anywhere they have satellite or cell reception, which is plentiful due to the numerous antennae as additions to wind towers and solar arrays throughout the region. Agriculture: sheep, goats, eagles, horses, grapes, dates, figs, anise, pistachios, walnuts, olives, almonds, pomegranate, garlic, chickpeas, rice, muskmelon, pine nuts, apricots Corporate Holdings: Badawi Group Pasha Dried Fruit and Nuts – harvests and prepared packaged products are sold wholesale and retail through a digital store Everlast – the most durable, heavy duty, waterproof, shockproof, shatterproof performance laptops and tablets available, has built in satellite reception with additional boosters available, made for outdoor enthusiasts and popular with construction, survey, and mining companies, remote employees and academics in wilderness areas, and military and law enforcement personnel, factory located in Madina Scorpio Small Arms – ballistic and flechette firearms, energy weapons, support weapons, munitions, custom and bespoke weapons, crossbows and bolts, accessories, repair parts, maintenance parts and tools, factory in Madina, sales offices in Hilo Funun Jamila {beautiful arts} – trading post and café in Madina, sells glassware, stick loom weaving, tents, metal flutes and pipes, culinary tools, pottery, embroidered and beaded textiles, woodcraft, jewelry, embellished metal work, coffee and tea accouterments, incense burners, samovar, writing instruments, clothing and accessories, and other goods produced by the artists and craftsmen of the ichizoku; the café serves tea, coffee, traditional foods, spices, dairy products, baked goods Nickel Arcade – digital gamer studio that publishes mobile video games Dancing Camel Microbrewery Chateau Nakad Arak Cryptic – digital cryptographic code makers and code breakers Divine Fire Mineral Resources – pegmatite, silver, copper, gold, serpentine, benitoite, clay, silica, copper, quartz, feldspar, mica, rare earths, basalt, beryl, aquamarine, ruby, sapphire, emeralds, topaz, tourmaline, garnet, alumina, zinc, tungsten, iron ore, geodes, aggregates Digital Blackboard – digital and remote education school serving students around the world from prekindergarten through high school, combines both a comprehensive and engaging online curriculum with teacher led classes, lectures, and tutoring, a non-profit enterprise that provides all registered students with any needed supplies including stationery, books, laptops, tablets, and headsets The Watercooler Social Club – social media platform with chat rooms and share spaces, a social group that arranges and coordinates social assemblies and activities, outdoor excursions, athletics, and volunteer outings to promote human interaction among remote office workers and digital nomads Stargazer Desert Tours – incredible landscapes, unparalleled stargazing, mind blowing sunrises and sunsets, and some of the most fascinating, resilient wildlife on the planet, we run photo, fossil and rock hound, or hunting safaris with your choice of horseback or jeep tours available from weekend outings to month long excursions in the Kuroi Sabaku {black desert} which feature picturesque volcanic mountains that appear blanketed with black char, hot springs and salt lakes create dreamlike natural spas, Cloud Peak provides challenging hikes that yield one breathtaking view after another Golden Eagle Festival – to celebrate their heritage and compete to catch small animals such as foxes and hares, showing off the skills of both hunters and birds. Though they are most famous for hunting with golden eagles, there are also goshawks, peregrines, saker falcons and more. Held during the first week of October the festival is a cultural and adventurous attraction for locals, foreign travelers, and photographers. It is not just a festivity, but also an ancient hunting tradition and unique heritage. The festival captivates visitors from all over the world by showcasing a wonderful falconry tradition, thrilling horse competitions and many interesting activities, games, and folk performances. Prizes are awarded for speed, agility, and accuracy, as well as for best traditional dress. There is an opening ceremony, a parade, cultural exhibitions and handcrafts, followed by sporting activities and competitions. Dressed in full eagle hunting regalia and mounted on groomed decorated horses, the entrants compete for awards like Best Turned Out Eagle and Owner, Best Eagle at Hunting Prey, and Best Eagle at Locating Its Owner from a Distance. Other activities include traditional coin grabbing games, and catching and snatching game decoys, Uriankhai archery, horse racing, and the highly entertaining Bushkashi – goatskin tug of war on horseback Sun and Wind – energy utility Koichizoku Rogers: Colors: grey, magenta pink, white Kamon: apple blossoms surrounding a stag with fourteen points Delm: Steffan Rogers Matrona: Marjorie Morita Rogers Founders MP: Emilie Evreaux Rogers Spokesperson: Alistair Dunkeld Rogers Militia: Lucky Stars Militia Commander: Riley macAlpin Rogers Associate Families: Evreaux, macAlpin, Dunkeld, Sverre, Hatano, Annandale, Juniper, Morita, Barnes, Falsworth, Jones, Hatsu, Dernier, Sawyer, Pinkerton, Parker Territory: [map 14] (650 sq. km) landhold on Normaundie Hanto, plus another 875 sq. km of surrounding property, plus 1038 sq. km in the East Kiso Mountains near Genso Mizumi, the ichizoku ie is Mont Michel on the coast of Normaundie Hanto Agriculture: Pale Horse Farm – Henson, Boulonnais, Camargue, Lusitano, Percheron, Frizian, Andalusians, and Horned Andalusians [native horse breed marked with whorls and horns] horses bred and trained to be strongly built, compact, elegant, nimble, and graceful for driving, dressage, endurance events, equestrian events, polo, horseball, cavalry sports, also for stock, draught, and pleasure riding Verger Au Coin du Feu {fireside orchard} - apiary, apple orchards - pink lady, fuji, honey crisp, granny smith, ambrosia, spartan, juliet, opal, milo kastorias, manzanna di girona, firiki pillou, shaanxi ping guo, kinsei, orin, black diamond, sekai ichi; wood, ornamental and perfume flowers Luna de Miel {honeymoon} – honey and honey products, food, skincare, cosmetics, royal jelly, beeswax, venom for medical and cosmetic uses Diamont Noir {black diamond} – truffle orchard – beech, oak, birch, hazel, several varieties of truffles and mushrooms, deer, wild boar Corporate Holdings: Realta {star} – cybersecurity design, and software design studios, publisher Gneithe {facets} – manufactures synthetic diamonds, uses natural and synthetic industrial grade diamonds to manufacture diamond and diamond edge machine tools, cutting tools, drilling tools, abrasives, optical material for lasers, heat sinks for lasers and transistors, semiconductors, diamond anvil cells for materials science experiments and measurements, supplies gemstone grade synthetics to the jewel trade Luna de Miel Mead Rosea Stella Cidre Metal Hurlant PMC {howling metal} – mechanized infantry, armour, and special operations teams operate mostly off world as pirate hunters, bounty hunters, objective raids, risk management, surveillance, reconnaissance, retrieval, rescues, salvage Blackstarr & Frost – luxury jewelry and watch retailer Corundum Couture – couture and custom jewelry designers Apple Luscious – wholesale and retail fresh apples, juices and apple products Modra {blue} – contraceptives, lubricants, sex toys, adult films and media, sexy wear, jewelry, shibari ropes and sashes, tutorials Silver Bear Mine – located in the Kiso Mts. in the Gin Kuma Han’i, {silver bear range} it produces gemstone quality and industrial grade diamonds, also has stellar interests that mine silver, copper, aluminum, iron, carbon, platinum, titanium Diamond Security – provides heavy security for all the ichizoku assets and resources, also has many private, corporate, and government clients in which we work closely with clients throughout Nejiro and beyond to provide layered security systems, identity verification and protection, cybersecurity officers and systems, security audits, security guards, security officers, patrols, risk management, emergency service officers, safety officers, emergency management preparedness and support services, nationally recognized training courses in industrial skills and safety, we enjoy strong partnerships with the Government and private registered training organizations and offer the following training courses: safety, firefighting, HAZMAT, SAR, vertical rescue, confined space rescue, first aid, and field medicine Equinox – makes laptops, tablets, smartphones, digital storage, home electronics, personal entertainment, home security equipment TriStar – advertising, public relations, marketing, translation services Trade Zone – mercantile: import/export company that trades all over the Inner Sphere and Periphery from interstellar Traders who deal directly with artisans, craftsmen, and companies, with warehouses and offices at the spaceport and The Enclave, also storefronts in all cities, storefronts have constantly changing inventory of retail goods, many at discount prices, storefronts are DBA Kouna’na Mitsukeru {lucky find} Trefoil and Harp Arts School – boarding high school and university teaching aesthetics, visual arts, design, graphic arts, decorative arts, architecture, dance, music, theater, traditional irish and celtic arts, art history, art philosophy Yosei no Shiro {fairy castle} – resort hotel with casino and spa on the shores of Turtle Lake in the Gin Kuma Han’i, a modernized reproduction of the Alcazar Segovia castle, there are lifts for winter skiing and summer hiking, boating, beaching, golfing, multilevel indoor and outdoor pools, bars, restaurants, shops, riding trails, strolling gardens, sumptuous rooms, lounging nooks, formal dinner dances, balls, friendly attentive staff, beautiful art and architecture, and other amenities keeping with the subtle fairy tale theme of the resort Bairin Breac {speckled loaf} – bakery chain serving authentic Irish recipes: scones, shortbread, porter cakes, apple cakes, potato candy, bread pudding, sweet or savory hand pies and mini pies, chocolate stout cake, soda bread, brown bread, barm brack, beer bread, potato rolls, baked custards, fools, meringue shells, stout floats, seaweed sourdough bread, sourdough breads LoliLoli – fashion house producing lolita style apparel and accessories with modern prints, also produces trendy shibuya street fashion Cotton Patch Embroidery and Graphics – custom screen printed and embroidered T-shirts, polos, jerseys, caps, tote bags, and many other specialty garments and items, promotional products, tech accessories, outdoor items, school spirit, holiday gifting, work wear and uniforms, office supplies, wellness essentials, sustainable products, stickers and magnets, signs and banners, preprinted novelty shirts Omega Bicycle Shop – sales and rentals of manual bicycles, e-bikes, and scooters, safety equipment, accessories, classes, clubs, teams, classes, tools, parts, repairs, operates several bicycle parking and storage facilities, operates bikesharing systems Koichizoku Rohrs: Colors: green, red (herringbone tartan pattern) Kamon: six lit candles in a hexagon Motto: chowa, kozo, zandaka {harmony, structure, balance} Delm: Jude Brett Rohrs Matrona: Skylar Ross-Rohrs Founders MP: Sidney Hawkins Spokesperson: Alexis Watts Militia: Stingers Militia Commander: Kai Atkinson Ross-Rohrs Associate Families: Kendrick, Llewellyn, Kanbe, Morgan, Brett, Mackay, Ross, Khitan, Macquarie, Kakyo, Macrath, Dizon, Zheung, Xiangshi Territory: [map 27] (650 sq. km) landhold northeast of Yousai Agriculture: rice, oats, pears, barley, hops, beans, alpaca, pig, deer, chicken, ducks, geese, rabbits, poplar, susuki {miscanthus} biofuel Myrtale Apiary and Horticulture Magnifera – mango and cashew groves Corporate Holdings: Khaldaron – secure, encrypted internet, communications, and IT services for business Aria Gran Hotel – casino, spa, luxury resort with skyline views of the lake, forests, river, and hills, yukaku {pleasure quarters}, Zodiac theme park and water park, guest charging privileges and purchase delivery at all venues, Kuroshio Oceanarium {black current}, Club Ukiyo {floating, fleeting or transient world} (host & hostess club), Moe Maid Café {cuteness concept}, Yozora Rooftop Lounge {night sky}, villas, tree top lofts, theaters, event venues, 15000 square meter gaming atrium, private gambling suites, rooftop playground and waterfall pool with night time dive-in movies, [two versions one for adults (21 plus), one for kids] kid and teen friendly cabanas, remote office services and executive assistants, meeting rooms, personal concierges, sportsbooks, marina, yacht club, golf course, polo grounds, indoor and outdoor pools, cabanas, shops, bars, restaurants, dance clubs; first location is on the landhold between Aria Lake and the Blanchefleur River (a tributary of the Yoshino-gawa that runs to Subarashi Bei, it is big enough for freighter traffic up to 60,000 DWT), second location is seaside in Lanikai with Kaizoku! {pirates} theme park and water park, third location is seaside outside Yakan with Beach Party theme park featuring ocean slides, ten-meter cliff diving, rope swings into the ocean and bonfire beach parties, fourth location is at Sakura Onsen with Omatsuri {festivals} theme park and indoor water park, minus the marina and yacht club, all locations sit on 1500 ha of property Hourglass PMC – intelligence gathering, investigations, analysts, programmers, and kunoichi assets engage in mostly off world corporate contracts through The Enclave – infiltration, espionage, sabotage, surveillance, reconnaissance, retrieval Private Sector Intelligence - corporate security, private investigations, risk management, intelligence analyses Estoile {wavy six-pointed star} – ‘the rock shop’, astrogeology survey and exploration, also a peer reviewed scientific journal annual Keisei {castle toppler} – joy houses with kagema {male sex worker}, yugo {woman of pleasure}, and male and female oiran {courtesans} Helix – twenty-eight hour medical urgent and emergency care clinics for veterinary and human patients, includes ambulance services Karyukai Ochaya {flower and willow teahouse} – geisha {art person: trained in music, singing, dancing, hostessing, and flirtatious conversation} entertainment venue Squeaky Wheel Media – public relations, advertising, marketing Tanglewood Baskets – reed baskets, tatami mats, and home goods MyNetworkTV – broadcast station, news, syndicated entertainment, licensed entertainment, original programming, MyTV channel eleven Beeautiful – honey and beeswax products: food, candles, candy, cosmetics, wax, paint, clay, grease, crayons, polish, lubricant, skin care, waterproofing Metals and Engineering - ‘Metec’, refineries, firearms, munitions, blades, field guns, agricultural machinery, exosuits, industrial mechs and robots, commercial trucks, military support trucks, cars Select Staffing – employment agency Skirmish Paintball Park – multiple indoor and outdoor venues for paintball, airsoft, lazer tag for players ten years and up, has park referees and safety monitors, team tournaments, team clinics, private lessons, glow in the dark paintball, multiday scenario games, speedball fields, escape games, target shooting, recreational play, season passes, exclusive battles and theme events, social and business events, rentals, pro shop, food stands, picnic areas and pavilions, campgrounds for overnight events, videography, music and sound fx available for private events, located minutes away from Aria Lake Dazzling Parties – event planning and event management services for fairs, parades, weddings, anniversaries, reunions, birthdays, conferences, meetings, graduations, product launches, rallies, rituals, fashion shows, memorials, civic events, trade shows, conventions Purple Heart Originals – government issue ammo boxes refurbished by wounded veterans to be waterproof, fireproof, and airtight, then are powder coated and uv digital prints designed by our wounded warriors are added to make unique gifts appropriate for any military personnel, first responder, corporate recognition award, wedding party remembrance, or add even more style by filling them with candy or baked goods, how about gourmet and specialty items, a zombie survival kit, or shooters maintenance or accessory kit, also available are foam liners for drinks, hobby kits, art kits, weapons, etc., great for holding knitting supplies, blade sharpening and maintenance tools, or even lunchbox accouterments, for the ultimate experience design your own, pick colors, full color images for top, back, and front, even add text and embossing, all boxes come with a paracord wrapped handle and felt topped rubber pads on the bottom to protect surfaces starting at 39 Ryu Tilted Glass – brick and mortar and digital liquor store ships worldwide from a large variety of local and imported alcoholic beverages, wines, spirits, beer, craft beer, microbrews, and artisanal liquors, has a tasting bar with an ever changing assortment, sells wine accessories, cocktail accessories, glassware, decanters, brewing kits, cocktail mixers, bar guides and recipe books, build your own six pack or twelve pack or case, gift sets or baskets, tutorials Koichizoku Rosslyn: Colors: orange, yellow Kamon: field of daffodil flowers Delm: Hazel Rosslyn Matrona: Amiyah Rosslyn-Faulkner Founders MP: Michal Bekke Rosslyn Spokesperson: Skylar Moon Militia: The Protectors Militia Commander: Jeremy Jewell-Rosslyn Associate Families: Bekke, Blackbourne, Faulkner, Jewell, Moon, Verheyen, Verbeke, DeWilde, Kubo, Ozono, Shiratori Territory: [map 26] (650 sq. km) landhold north of Yousai Agriculture: Glasshouse Arboretum – hydroponic multilevel greenhouses growing hundreds of varieties of fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, edible flowers, spices, and herbs, experimental farming techniques, crop science studies, agriculture classes and community programs, community garden, wholesale and farm stands Daffodil Gardens – horticulture farm, ornamental flowers, landscaping plants, perfumery, wholesale, retail Terroir {complete natural environment} – plum, pear, apple orchard groves, growing over two hundred varieties Corporate Holdings: Leann Fraoch Brewery {heather ale} – ancient all grain beer recipes Terroir Calvados – apple, pear brandy, cognac, cider, umeshu {plum wine} Confetti – printing, publishing, lithography, graphic design Narcissi – designer fragrance and parfum brand Konshu {this week} – weekly news magazine reporting on planetary, stellar, and interstellar news, available in print and digital editions, weekly television, radio show and podcast Night Owl - twenty-eight-hour convenience store chain Maxi Zoo Pet Supply – chain Koiji {loves pathway} – romantic restaurant chain with cozy tables and small dance floors and bandstands featuring singers performing torch songs and romantic ballads, serving tasting menus, canapés, fondue, cheese and wine, tapas, dim sum, petit fours, truffles, madeleines, macaron Butterfly Koi – dragon carp and nishikigoi farm, fish and pond supplies, professional pond design, pond construction and maintenance, aquarium tanks, supplies and maintenance for 2271 liter tanks and larger Daffodil Trust – manages the ichizoku, and its memberships finances, seven billion Ryu AUM, worldwide financial services, wealth management Jackpot – makes mechanical, electronic, and digital pachinko, and slot machines Koun’nomamori {lucky charm} – pachinko parlors Suisen Gakko {daffodil school} – private uniformed day school and boarding elementary through middle school providing a thorough STEM and liberal arts education, with a focus on building skills in math, coding, and languages for up to three hundred students, located on the landhold Canopy PMC – risk management, access control, cash management, armored vehicle services, secure transport, information technology security solutions, identity verification and protection, guards, patrols, protection services, dog teams: guardian, rescue, detection, and combat, force protection, quick reaction forces, search and rescue, convoy escorts, security monitoring, patrol, and response for residential communities, commercial locations, and public buildings, corporate security, emergency response services, field medics, secures sporting, business, and recreational event venues, investigations, surveillance, recognizable anaranjado {spanish orange} vehicles and logos Praline Ballotin – Belgian style chocolatiers Cruach Fior {real steel} – residential and commercial gardening and landscaping tools, construction tools, cleaning tools, hand tools, outfitter, work wear, protective gear, accessories, robotic mowers, power packs, parts and service Wyld Monkees – CG, stop motion, and animation studios, makes special fx, video game sequences, commercials, television series, movies Optica – optical lenses, telescopes, binoculars, magnifying lenses, microscopes, miniature cameras, wildlife cameras, mirrorless cameras, point and shoot cameras, DSLR cameras, smartphone cameras, medium format cameras, film cameras, several varieties of film, film development chemicals, paper, and machines, photo and video editing software, instant cameras, digital cine cameras, movie cameras, broadcast cameras, action cameras, 360 degree cameras, security cameras, time lapse cameras, rugged cameras, a wide variety of photo lenses, printers, pointers, medical lasers, hologram emitters, laser light show systems, optics research and development, optical engineering, optical communication and storage equipment, lidar equipment, lasers for industrial, commercial, and military uses; wholesale and retail eyeglasses and contact lenses BioPharma – biological medical products: drugs, vaccines, blood, blood components, allergenics, somatic cells, gene therapies, tissues, recombinant therapeutic proteins, living medicines, cell therapy, transgenic organisms, research and development Khar Irves Koniyak {black panther cognac} – ugni blanc grape variety brandy distillery, aged for at least six years, bottled in black cornucopia flask (750 ml) glass bottles embossed with a crouching panther across the side of the bottle Captiva Containers – engineering and manufacturing mass production and custom glass bottles Cutting Edge Ag – engineers and manufactures precision agriculture equipment; monitoring and cloud solutions; mechanical products; control systems; soil testing and analysis systems; irrigation, fertilization, and pest control delivery systems; combines and tools; wear and replacement parts; repair, upgrade, and set up services; consultations; training Longmont Maglev – manufactures high speed magnetic levitation train cars, evacuated tubes, and tracks Witricity – engineers and manufactures wireless electricity hubs, for devices, residences, communities, industrial parks Koichizoku Sakamura: Colors: surgical green, surgical blue Kamon: kanji for healer {iya su} Delm: Claire Sakamura Matrona: Milo Ferdinand Sakamura Founders MP: Violet Mononobe Sakamura Militia: Guardians Militia Commander: Zoe Fuha Sakamura Associate Families: Genji, Heishi, Mononobe, Fuha, Kinunui, Otomo, Fujiwara, Chiba, Hoshino, Katou, Nishi, Sugimoto, Wakatsuki Territory: [map 15] (650 sq. km) landhold southeast of the city of Samar on the Shinrin continent, own pieces of property throughout the stellar system, and worldwide Agriculture: Sakamura Herbaria – specimen record, seed bank, and seed library of all collected flora of the stellar system for agricultural, medical, and botanical studies Sakamura Physic – gardens, greenhouses, farms and gardens growing stellar system medicinal plants for use, and botanical and pharmacological study Sakamura Kumo Yagi {spider goat} – dna modified goats with golden orb spiders are milked, the silk protein is extracted, and the milk is processed into the usual products, the protein is used to make fibers that are then used to make incredibly tough body armour, fishing line, artificial ligaments and tendons, also the wool the goats produce is also incredibly durable and is used to make surgical threads, and other medical textiles such as linens, scrubs, drapes, and gowns Sakamura Vertical – vertical and ‘ponic farms producing crops and livestock Corporate Holdings: Sakamura Pharmacopoeia – stellar and interstellar versions of a scientific annual journal recording the directions for identifying and properly using natural medicinal compounds with medical preparations, uses, dosages, and antidotes, and a reference for biopharmaceutical drug specifications Sakamura Biotechnology – genomics, recombinant gene techniques, applied immunology, pharmaceutical therapies, diagnostic tests, hybridization, genetic engineering, molecular biology, biochemistry, microbiology, bioengineering, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering Sakamura Medical School – private school teaching and training in all the medical and life sciences, also conducts research, and has a teaching hospital, located in Samar Unity Hospitals – state of the art hospitals with exceptional care and clinical excellence that are nonprofit and charitable, located in metropolitan areas and cities across the world, with a few stellar locations Sakamura Iryo Senta {medical center} – private hospitals with cutting edge and experimental treatment centers Sakamura Laboratories – biological, and medical identification, and diagnostic testing centers, clinical trials, medical research and development, pharmaceutical research and development, secure laboratories, biochemistry Sakamura Apothecaria – holistic health centers and dispensaries Sakamura Apothecary – pharmacy chain that also sells candy and snacks, bento, books and periodicals, cosmetics, skin care, vitamins and supplements, contraceptives, hygiene, first aid products, and over the counter wellness products Sakamura Wellness Centers – day spa, meditation center, fitness center, acupuncture, acupressure, massage therapy, nutritionists, chiropractors, therapists Arcane Moon – cannabis and hemp dispensaries Sakamura Rescue PMC – accepts planetary, stellar, and interstellar contracts for MASH units, parajumpers and pararescue units, combat rescue units, search and rescue units, emergency management services, paramedic and ambulance services, sea and space hospital ship services, offers training in field and emergency medicine in partnership with MAWs, Akai Yoake Military Academy, Raissonne University Hospital Hilo, and Sakamura Medical School Sakamura Foundation – offers medical and life science research and educational grants Sakamura Instruments – surgical tools, medical instruments, diagnostic and imaging equipment, medical equipment and machinery, physical therapy equipment and machinery Sakamura Engineering – makes modular all terrain search and rescue vehicles, search and rescue equipment and tools, Mobile Medical Ambulance and Surgery Vehicles ‘Okibo’ {massive} [local hybrid ICE and power cell versions of a MASH vehicle], several classes of hospital ships, custom refits of dropships and small craft as hospital ships and ambulances, ambulances and medical transport vehicles and aircraft Sakamura Biomechanical – prosthetics, orthotics, cybernetics, bionics, research and development Sakamura Weavers – medical textiles for wound care and hygiene, compression and protective garments, medical linens, medical scrubs and apparel, medical dressings, surgical threads, biomedical textiles, diapers and wipes, durable and flexible field apparel for emergency services, combat medics, paramedics, field medics, and rescue workers Sakamura Assure – private and supplemental health insurance Mindstrong – mental health digital platform that offers qualified users access to on demand mental health professionals and services Sakamura Telemedicine – a digital healthcare system that is secure and flexible to untether the patient to provide anywhere care, beyond the hospital to clinical offices, virtual care sites, remote patient monitoring, and into patient homes for diagnosis and treatment then augmenting that care with powerful, proactive artificial intelligence that compliments the expertise of care givers Kokkyonakiishidan {doctors without borders} – ‘medical care where it’s needed most’ an independent, neutral, and impartial charitable foundation that supports and provides lifesaving and humanitarian care for those devastated by poverty, emergencies, epidemics, natural disasters, and violence, operates both stellar and interstellar projects, conducts medical research, publishes academic, news, financial reports and journals Koichizoku Shiba {brushwood}: Colors: dark red, brown Kamon: red brushwood Delm: Shigeharu Shiba Matrona: Alyce Yamato Shiba Founders MP: Erasmo Reis Takeda Spokesperson: Poliane Arruda Fraga Militia: Inu no Senshi {dog warriors} Militia Commander: Saito Sukekazu Associate Families: Hata, Yagyu, Tenson, Ryukyuan, Yamato, Cheung, Liu, Young, Huang, Teo, Woo, Kuwahara Territory: [map 25] (650 sq. km) landhold on the prairie of the Southern Steppe equidistant between Kamloops, Port, and Marena, plus 1300 sq. km north of the landhold, and 1300 sq. km south of the landhold Agriculture: Re Fang {hot house} – year-round production of aquaponics raised ornamental flowers, produce, spices, herbs, medicinal plants, koi, goldfish, crayfish, carp, tilapia, trout, jade perch Camellia Acres – tea plantation Shui Xian Hua {water goddess flower} – tazetta, narcissus, and daffodil fields for essential oils, ornamental gardens, cut flowers, symbol associated with spring, wealth, and good fortune, white narcissi are associated with death and are planted on graves and tombs Ancient Grains – vertical and traditional organic farms growing wheat, barley, sorghum, millet, oats, rye, teff, heritage blue maize, wild rice, durum, oriental wheat Mishima Wagyu – high-quality grass-fed beef stock, runs about thirty thousand head of several Wagyu cattle breeds, and Painted Mustang herds for ranch work, rodeo, and pleasure riding Mulberry Farms – mulberry tree groves, sericulture Tengai Shiba {the end of the sky} – breeders of shiba inu, hokkaido, shikoku, akita, and kishu hunting and family dogs, training Corporate Holdings: Firestone Mines – diversified stellar mining company: copper, gold, iron ore, coal, aluminum, salts, precious metals, base metals, rare earths, industrial minerals, gemstones, refineries, quarries for dimension stones Xifang Mingxing {western star} – engineers and manufactures mining equipment, mining tools, mining machinery, exosuits, mining mechs, small craft and tugs outfitted for stellar mining and prospecting Granite Creek Guest Ranch – along with all the usual amenities and outdoor activities, guests may also participate in genuine horse drives, roping classes, gymkhanas {games on horseback}, and gold panning, also sleigh rides and snowmobiling in the winter, hosts corporate retreats and social events Starchilde – record label produces, manufactures, publishes, distributes, promotes and markets music recordings and videos for pop artists, country artists, radio dramas, movie soundtracks, anime soundtracks, video game soundtracks, and voice acting Zandaniji Silk – textile mills of high-quality fine silk fabrics, threads, yarns Accademia delle Arti Culinarie – cooking and baking school, campuses on the landhold, Port, Kamloops, and Marena Baile Folklorico – fusion of hispanic folkdance and ballet worldwide touring company based in Port at the Teatro di Bellezza {theater of beauty} Western Star Motor Company – hybrid commercial truck designer and manufacturer of highway and off-road vehicles, including box trucks; semitrailers; heavy equipment for terrestrial mining, construction, and agriculture; travel trailers; camper shells; taxies; coupe utility; passenger, utility, and technical pickups; military trucks and support vehicles; APC’s; non-standard tactical vehicles Millefleur – couture fashion house of lolita, gothic lolita, and steampunk styles, and modern kimono and yukata styles, with sales and design offices on the landhold, factories in Kamloops, a flagship store in Bridges, boutiques in Kamloops, Hilo, Yousai, Lanikai, Sakura Onsen, Yakan, Port, and Quezon Rever {dream} - modern haute couture {high fashion, high sewing, high dressmaking- exclusive custom fitted clothing} and ready to wear fashion house of women’s and men’s fashions, fragrances, skin care, cosmetics, maison, handbags, sunglasses, accessories, footwear, watches, and gifts at the apex of elegance and impeccable taste that are functional and flattering, sales and design offices on landhold, factories on landhold, Marena, and Kamloops, flagship store in Bridges, boutiques in Kamloops, Hilo, Yousai, Lanikai, Yakan, Sakura Onsen, Port, Quezon, and Marena Red Moon House – luxury pleasure houses (club membership and a la carte rates) with fine dining and spirits, libraries, billiards, card rooms, smoking rooms, spa services, reception rooms for lively debate and discourse, sumptuous accommodations, music rooms, poetry readings, tea ceremonies, fine entertainment provided by geisha and taikomochi {male geisha, jester}, talented and discreet carnal pleasures provided by both male and female sex workers, courtesan services are available to our most discerning and sophisticated clientele, the houses are located worldwide in metropolitan areas and in all major cities, several central rural locations, also in the domed city of Port Fortuna on the Jovian moon of Hebe, and the domed city of Pluoton of the Jovian moon of the same name Grand Bazar Hypermarket – expansive retail facilities carrying a wide range of products under one roof including full supermarket, department store merchandise, office supplies, home improvement merchandise, manga stands, internet cafes, beauty salons, restaurants, and dollar store merchandise located in suburbs and central rural locations worldwide Market Fresh – customizable subscription meal kit delivery service with easy-to-follow recipes and high quality straight from the farm ingredients, also available are pre-portioned parfaits, overnight oats, soups, homemade ice cream, smoothies, or grain harvest bowls Haretahi {sunny day} – hammocks, parachute camping hammocks, mosquito netting, hammock swings, swings, hammock and swing stands Shiba Industries – manufactures atelier quality acoustic equipment and products with continuing technological innovations – cable and wireless: headphones, headsets, earphones, ear buds, microphones, receivers, connecters, plugs, speakers, cables Monkey Business - literary periodical journal publishes contemporary fiction works both old and new from local and interstellar writers, full color graphic art, manga, translations SHIBAbot – slack hosted interface for business analytics which is capable of fetching, aggregating, visualizing data and finding useful insights based on simple natural language conversations to make data more accessible to company decision makers Koichizoku Sinclair: Colors: white, orange Kamon: daisy flower chain surrounding a Kirin Motto: Clarus {pure, clear, bright, renowned, illustrious} Delm: Marsaili Sinclair-Synklar Matrona: Solomon Sinclair Founders MP: Haralt Molyneux Sinclair Spokesperson: Benneit Taafe Sinclair Militia: Deamhans {demon, devil, fiend, divine power} Militia Commander: Peadar GilleChriost Associate Families: Molyneaux, FitzSimons, Tobin, Reamon, Taafe, Synklar, Asahi, Komori Territory: [map 4] (650 sq. km) landhold west of Stonehaven in the Kiso Mountain lowlands near the Akazuna coastline Agriculture: fishing, charter fishing Cathedral Forest – growing forest of banked timbers grown for the future, popular with hikers and campers Synklar Farms – farming cooperative growing organic oats, rye, wild rice, barley, durum, peas, soy, goats, pigs, alpaca, yak, sheep, apple and stone fruit orchards, peanuts, tree nuts, root vegetables Yorokobi no Shukaku {joy harvest} – aquaponics and hydroponic garden vegetables, greens, herbs, beans, berries, tomatoes, peppers, garlic, onion, cloves, cinnamon, turmeric, wasabi, togarashi {chilies}, shoga {ginger}, shiso {perilla leaves}, negi {scallions}, mitsuba, karashi {mustard}, goma {sesame}, daikon radish, nasu {eggplant}, kabocha {squash}, lotus root, mizuna, kinoko {mushrooms}, yuzu {citrus fruit}, salmon, trout, tilapia, bass, shrimp, prawns, bluegill, sturgeon, barramundi Kuria de Akarui {clear and bright} – hand harvested sea salt Corporate Holdings: Ciara {black, mountain range} – makes antique and cut crystal glassware and stemware, crystal tableware, jewelry, gifts, art Gensai Arann {fisherman sweaters} – lanolin and lambs wool signature sweaters, socks, hats, gloves, mittens, scarfs Vigor Automotive – commercial and medium duty vehicles, delivery trucks, firefighting vehicles, ambulances, heavy duty trucks, buses, coaches, power trains, components, parts, tractors, haulers, cranes, construction vehicles and equipment, military support vehicles, passenger cars and trucks Immortelle – upscale natural cosmetics, fragrances, skin care, health and beauty brand, using ancient traditional Provence methods with italian starflower, lavender, rosemary, shea butter, and almonds The Devils Playground – reservation only restaurant with bar, club, and exhibition spaces for adults twenty-five and older, has public and private playrooms, interior staff painted in all over red body paint designs, locations in Lanikai, Hilo, Whistle Knights Inn – upscale motel chain with locations near most tourist areas, and also at Road Stations and Service Plazas worldwide Yume Shokuji {dream meals} - Division One contains our test kitchens and makes tasty, nutritionally balanced meals ready to eat from soup to nuts for military personnel in regular, kosher, vegetarian, and allergen free varieties, there is a wide variety of meals made with fish, poultry, egg, pork, tofu, and lean red meat, each meal contains a protein rich entrée, two vegetable dishes, a rice or potato dish, whole grain baked goods, a soup or noodle cup, fruit, a dessert dish, and beverage choices of green, and black tea bags, matcha, finely powdered coffee, finely powdered cocoa, finely powdered electrolyte drink, and finely powdered milk, the meals also include spice, honey, and sauce packets, water pills, snack items such as nuts, trail mix, dips (bean, salsa, guacamole, ranch style, nut) and whole grain crackers, or chips, candy, chocolate, instant ramen, oatmeal or porridge cups Division Two makes tasty, nutritionally balanced frozen food meals for individuals and families that contain one protein, one fast carbohydrate, one slow carbohydrate, one dessert, and one whole grain baked good; breakfast, lunch, or dinner meals available tailored for children or adults, also available are family style casseroles, and sweet, or savory pies. Division Three makes trail mixes, and separate mix and match dehydrated or ready to eat food packets for camping, meal bars, snack bars. Trodai Threalmhu {warrior equip} – tactical gear, equipment, and tools, personal armor, uniforms, bdu’s, camping and survival gear, travel gear, clothing, footwear, knives FitzSimons Armory – personal, and vehicle ballistic firearms, energy weapons Pure Sight – imaging systems, targeting systems, fire control systems, sensors, optics, maintenance and repair equipment, accessories, scopes, rangefinders, binoculars, telescopes, magnifying glass, lenses Clear Vision – prescription eyewear, sunglasses, contacts, goggles, safety eyewear, marine masks and eyewear, face shields, surgical correction, bionic and cybernetic eyes Grace Note – business and residential suite hotel chain Camp Everfree – located close to the Akazuna Coast {red sand}, actually three sleepaway summer camps for children and teens – a traditional camp, a performing arts camp, and a science and nature camp- around Lake Chozame {sturgeon} [11.7 sq. km and 16 meters deep] and surrounded by the Lakewoods Forest, all the campgrounds are located around the lake, the campers socialize and compete with each other, the camp is within hiking and boating distance of the beaches, and the lake flows into the Jamboree River which has up to class three whitewater rapids and empties into Hawks Bay Seppun {kiss} – professional matchmaking services, background checks, dating and relationship coaching Papillon {butterfly} – gallery and exhibition hall for artists and artisans- locations on the landhold, Stonehaven, Whistler, Lanikai, Yousai, Uchusen Kichi {spaceport}, Port Fortuna Starfire Design – jewelry designs of sterling silver and gemstone, glass, wood, and ceramic beads Koichizoku Sorenson: Colors: brown, silver Kamon: gyrfalcon in mantle Delm: Hugo Sorenson Matrona: Ellora Sorenson-Hakulani Spouse: Adam Hakulani Founders MP: Reed Sorenson Spokesperson: Rinji Holst Sorenson Militia: Longwings Militia Commander: Katja Sorenson Rask Associate Families: Bergfalk, Holst, Landvik, Mardh, Rask, Rurik, Anchikar, Nitai, Sapporo, Toya Territory: [map 7] (650 sq. km) landhold on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Sredinnay Range, plus one quarter of the town of Civitas located at the center of the borders of the neighbor ichizoku of Palakiko, Yakovich, and Isobe, plus 1650 sq. km of property to the north of the landhold Agriculture: Rurik Falconry Nitai Timber {forest} – tree plantations, bamboo, hemp Sky Greens – hydrocell powered aeroponics and hydroponic multilevel rotating greenhouses producing produce, biogas from methane digesters, and ducks, rabbits, chickens, and goats Corporate Holdings: Four Corners Zaibatsu Sorenson Shooting Club – pro shop, onsite gun dealer, rentals, licensing, safety and instruction courses, indoor and outdoor ranges for firearms and archery, shoothouses, sharpshooting ranges, virtual simulators, league competitions, locations in Civitas, Hilo, Leyte, and the landhold Helical – munitions, autocannons, missile systems, lasers, heat sinks, amplifiers, APC’s, VTOLs, combat vehicles Sorenson Airships – engineering and construction of law enforcement, military, and civilian airships for cargo, passenger, and surveillance duties Blue Star Line – planetary, stellar, and interstellar passenger, and cargo lines; taxis, trains, buses, ferries, small craft, and dropships Sorenson Logistics – commercial and industrial ground and air freight, distribution, warehouses, commercial and industrial moving company Sreddinay Institute – studies mountain geology, volcanoes, and earthquakes Convo VRS – video relay services with interpreters for the deaf, translation services, and interpreters for foreign language visitors, closed captioning service Sorenson Lumber – building supplies, tools, lumber, custom mill work stores Sorenson Insurance – general and professional liability, health, workers compensation, vehicle, life, disability, travel, rental, pension, device, warranty, supplemental, property, and casualty Aqua Saltare {water jump} – naturally carbonated mineral water with a high concentration of sodium bicarbonate, calcium, chloride, magnesium, sulfate, and potassium ions sold by the liter and half liter in glass bottles from natural wells in the Sredinnay Range Sorenson Spark – software design studio and publisher, known for video encoding tools, compression and decompression tools, encryption tools Stern Accounting – bookkeeping services, payroll services, business analysis Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation – DNA and genealogical research institute, expert family tree record search Sorenson Builders – architectural firm and construction company that builds residential, commercial, industrial, and infrastructure projects worldwide The Flight Handball Club Longwings Air Display Team Civitas Flyers Association Football Club Sorenson Shipyards – makes water and stellar craft from dinghies to dropshuttles, marine engineering and construction, stellar engineering and construction, aerospace and aircraft engineering and construction Sorenson & Sorenson - consumer healthcare company: women’s health care products and services, skin health products, wellness products, over the counter medication, baby care products, self-care products, essential health products, medical devices, orthopaedics, surgery tools, interventional solutions, vision and eye care products, pharmaceutical products WebToonz – streaming digital service: cartoons, anime, comics, webcomics, manga, manhwa online or download our app Mirage - engineers and manufacturers of mass-produced holographic projectors The Sorenson Foundation – funds and bestows grants for anthropological and sociological research and education, publishes quarterly peer reviewed academic journal Whim Wham – amusement park of the latest and greatest thrill rides and rollercoasters located on the landhold near the Akazuna Coast Digital Life – online immersive multiplayer video gaming platform with chat rooms, and group video calls Gryphon Rock – guarded, gated communities with custom built 200 square meter to 2000 sq. m houses with up to five acre lots, townhomes, and apartment complexes. Amenities include a private clubhouse, golf course, driving range, an equestrian center, fitness center, community pool and spa, parks, sports courts and fields, private airstrip, and a private boutique mall with shops, movie theater, restaurants and pubs. Fees include landscaping services, sanitation, water, handyman services, home maintenance, and common home and appliance repairs. Utilities are generated by geothermal and solar systems with battery and hydrocell generator backups. Nathekse {night witches} – three squadrons of aerospace fighters that operate in the stellar system contracted with mostly escort or overwatch duties, sometimes as back up to law enforcement or military actions Koichizoku Starfall [probationary]: Colors: red, gold, blue, green Kamon: Asian dragon clutching a Norse Hammer on a green field Delm: [Kommandant {major}] Kiah Lorrian Rosen Franks Starfall Consort: {Tai-i} Bully Rhoads Matrona: Jessica Franks Founders MP: Jarred Franks Spokesperson: Keith Gould Franks Militia: Militia Commander: Ranmara Ikeda Associate Families: Roads, Okiro, Marsden, Horn, Kalu, Ziegler, Haas, Madaki, Walker, Milne, Marjani Territory: [map 35] (650 sq. km) landhold on the westernmost shores of Morning Glory Lake in the Seiyo Kiso Mountains {western foundation} east of Sakura Onsen Agriculture: Corporate Holdings: Kiah’s Hammers PMC Road’s Warriors PMC Crazy Bunny Trucking: heavy trucking company half owner. Heimdalol’s Forge: Battlemech Actuator maintenance kits half owner Ratchet Repair: Combat Vehicle Repair Kōri to hi no kinzoku (Ice and Fire Metals) Finishing and Storage site Koichizoku Takayama: Colors: indigo, violet Kamon: flax blooms Delm: Ryuzaki Takayama Matrona: Hainoko Takayama Founders MP: Sosa Mifune Seiwa Takayama Courtesan: Farah Cho Spokesperson: Jo Yuritama Militia: Hohoemu Kitsune {smiling fox} Militia Commander: Garri Seriev Concubine: Kanin Momiji Associate Families: Hashiji, Soga, Seiwa, Sark, Tachibana, Kikuchi Territory: [map 24] (650 sq. km) landhold southeast of Lanikai, plus 650 sq. km of property on the Akazuna Coast south of Lanikai, plus 650 sq. km of property surrounding the landhold Agriculture: Xhanadu Llane – goats, rabbits, alpaca, sheep, cotton, flax, hemp, indigo, bamboo for fibers, dyes, meat, and dairy Curry Way – specialty hot pepper crops, grows curry spices and herbs, packages curry and Indian spice blend Margarita Nacre – wild and cultured pearls; mussels, clams, and oysters Hanashobu – Japanese purple iris for use as ornamental flowers, orris root flavor and color, perfumery, and water purification – roots planted in a substrate in reed beds and as agricultural borders consume nutrient pollutants such as agricultural runoff Corporate Holdings: Tsunooka Minerals {seven hills} – mines uranium, from the Seven Hills on the landhold, also has stellar mining sites for rare earths, phosphates, radioactives, and other elements, and seawater uranium extraction, reprocessing Tsunooka Energy – fast breeder nuclear reactor plants that produce 500 MWe Pynx Oratorium – musical services, lecture halls, popular assemblies, philosophical discourse, classes, public interviews, and conversations, stage works, media presentations, town hall meetings, all events available digitally to members Aeon – department store chain; also owns and operates shopping malls, convenience stores, supermarkets, specialty stores Koffee Kult – barista coffee bars Zenko Hogosuru {good fox protection} – marine, ground, and stellar convoy armed escort services Kitsune Kaminari {fox lightning} – ballistic and flechette firearms, field guns, gauss weapons Saisho no Sokuji {first meal} – twenty-eight hour diners Gossamer – fine classic and trendy apparel, and accessories, handbags, shoes Kagayaki Akademi {shine, radiance} – private day and boarding uniformed co-ed pre-k to high school education, college prepatory and vocational training Wild Cotton Textiles & Dyes Blue Blue Denim Co. – fashion jeans, work wear, travel bags, handbags, casual apparel and accessories, leisure and business suits, kimono, yukata, hakama Reizu {rays} – traveling by truck convoy or train a rolling casino and entertainment company that provides gambling and entertainment to suburban, rural, and isolated areas, convoys have routes on all three continents and several cruise ship lines, convoys have themed casinos and stages that provides all the experiences of a brick and mortar casino resort, when the Compania stops they set up a tent city in a similar or complimentary theme to the convoy, themes include western saloon, regency clubs and ballrooms, dance club, circus, pirates, art deco, hollywood glamour, asian mythology, knights, ocean boardwalks, tiki bar, riverboats, stars at night, and a host of other imaginary or real experiences, convoys may stay in a location anywhere from a week to a month, the company has its own armed security and bouncers but does occasionally hire PMC’s or PSC’s depending on route and location, the convoy does not carry much cash but requires patrons to use their debit cards to purchase collectible glass, clay composite, or enameled metal rfid tokens to gamble and purchase goods and services any unused tokens and winnings are debited back to the patrons bank account Heroes Field Stadia – a hundred thousand seat capacity solar powered stadium and parade field located on ichizoku property south of Lanikai on Kaneohe Bay, it features retractable seating and moveable fields for multiple uses, it hosts The Ichizoku Martial Olympiad every six years during the summer, martial and athletic competitions take place in and around the stadium between the ichizoku militias for bragging rights, and some trophies and prizes, it includes field maneuvers including naval warfare, and amphibious exercises that take place in and around the bay, and various views are projected on the stadium screens live, the stadium includes a memorial for fallen Nejiro heroes and a museum highlighting Nejiro’s martial history, between these events the stadium is used for concerts, theater in the round, and outdoor sports and athletics including modern gladiatorial style games and horse races, it is home to the Kyubi {nine tail} Association Football Club, Lanikai Takayama Heavy Industries – engineering, metallurgical workshop and testing, electronics, electronic equipment, aerospace components, automotive components, air conditioners, forklift trucks, hydraulic equipment, machine tools, missiles, power generation equipment, printing machines, ships, aircraft, railway systems, space vehicles and small craft Arcadia Bioscience – gmo’s, seeds, fertilizer, plant food, nutritional oils, horticultural and turf material, pherome based pest control Assure Lock – combination touchscreen dead bolt locks with multiple unique pins and privacy mode, works with automation and security networks Crescent Moon Furniture – signature piece is a curved side double wide rocking recliner in various upholstery materials and patterns Frontier Trucks – off road all-wheel drive commercial and passenger trucks: pickup, jeeps, suv’s, vans, box, technical; also makes semi-trucks, tractor-trailers, flatbeds, rv’s, coaches, heavy haulers, sanitation, rescue, tow Petit Tresor – makes jewelry boxes, hope chests, toy boxes Hasu {lotus} – hand painted leather handbags, attaché, travel bags, accessories Road Rescue – heavy vehicle rescue and recovery towing company, salvage Koichizoku Tomori {friendship, friends until forgotten by death, memory until death} Colors: saffron, woad, olive Kamon: athene noctua owl Delm: Toyozo Tomori Matrona: Hideki Tomori Founders MP: Kaoru Tomori Spokesperson: Lark ibnChausen Militia: Tomori Chuton-chi {garrison} Militia Commander: Yoshi Washizu Tomori Associate Families: Silla, Washizu, Tanaka, Miura, Rokkaku, Bahur, Bekhit, Pallas Territory: [map 13] (650 sq. km) landhold southwest of Quezon, plus 1950 sq. km of property from the coast then inland into the Hinode Oka {sunrise hills} Agriculture: Fishing Blue Haze Farms – peaches, plums, citrus, olives, almonds, cashews, macadamia, woad, rubber trees, coconut, mango, papaya, pomegranate, sweet potato, queensland blue pumpkins, luffa, sweet leaf, banana, sugar cane, cocoa, coffee, tea, ducks, rabbits, chickens, geese, boar, goats Corporate Holdings: Aerostar – aerobatic and aviation sport aircraft, parachutes, gliders, military VTOL’s, military jets, bush planes, air taxis, air bus, air freighter, uav freighter, light jets, ultra long-range jets, business jets, parts, repair and maintenance services, Air Display Team Second Measure – using geospatial data sourcing, image processing, machine learning, large databases, and statistical analytics to perform big data analytics and forecast results Illumio – digital education platform with more than forty million study materials, and courses for students from pre-k to university, also vocational, adult learning, and professional training classes Cloud Bees – secure cloud services, and data protection Ergane {industrious} – high school day school for vocational education and training of artisans and craftsmen, campuses on the landhold and in Quezon Sound Hound – machine learning audio fonts for voice enabled AI technology, real time audio translations with captioning services, audio streaming service Plume – secure wifi delivery platform Signifyd – fraud protection services for business and personal clients Arachne’s Web – makers of fine stringed instruments Wing – on demand drone delivery service, with partnerships with several digital stores, drones may carry up to fourteen kilograms and travel at speeds up to one hundred thirteen kilometers per hour Sumi Inks {already, India inks} – makes printing, calligraphy, art, and tattoo inks Tomori Kenjutsu Ryu – dojo teaching kendo, and unarmed martial arts Parthenos Strategic – firearms, energy weapons, non-lethal weapons, crossbows, missile systems, detection tests and devices, armor, munitions, explosives, small detection and device manipulation robots, remote operated vehicles, armed and armored drones, defense systems, security systems, research and development Mame no Suhai {bean worship} – grows, buys and roasts coffee and chocolate beans, makes food and beverages Glaux {little owl} – cross platform app development, web services, web development, software development, video game development, publishers, development support, and lifecycle management Athena Project – space built stellar satellites for gps location tracking and monitoring, also camera and sensors for science and exploration, and stellar communications, stellar and ocean navigation systems Windriders – fishing, cargo, sport, and pleasure sailing vessels, specializing in craft with easy transitions from river to sea Quezon Institute of Science ‘QIS’ - mission to expand human knowledge and benefit society through research integrated with education, we investigate the most challenging, fundamental problems in science and technology in a singularly collegial, interdisciplinary atmosphere, while educating outstanding students to become creative members of society – there are six academic divisions; Biology and Biological Engineering; Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Engineering and Applied Science; Geology and Planetary Sciences; Humanities and Social Sciences; Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy – first year students are required to board on campus in the House System, of which there are ten, designed and built with the assistance of the student body in differing styles as graduate class projects, on a 50 ha campus on the western border of the city near the coastline – extracurricular activities include ROTC, athletics from diving to association football, with beloved beaver mascot (natures engineer) Kastor {to excel, to shine}, a capella groups, competitive cheerleading, surfing, sailing, rowing, kendo, orchestra, competitive marching band, performance glee clubs, theater and film arts – not to be missed events include: Ditch Day, the seniors ditch school leaving behind elaborately designed puzzles and traps at the doors of their room, then dare the underclassmen to enter, this has evolved to the point where seniors spend months designing mechanical, electrical, and software obstacles that are stacked and/or combined with other seniors projects to confound the underclassman; finals week features Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyrie played at top volume across the campus at seven am every morning; the long standing rivalry with Nagoya University on the east side of Quezon has resulted in a vicious Prank War against each other, now with an official yearly contest to outdo each other that takes place in and around a shared facility in downtown Quezon during fall break that includes staged illusions, flash mob performances, candid camera style setups, objects in unusual places, hacked systems for visual and audio ‘art’ purposes, and of course the march of the robots or sometimes battles or performance pieces, all covered by the local media stations – sights to be seen: The Athenaeum {a building dedicated to Athena goddess of wisdom, where poets, philosophers, scholars, and orators gather to read and discuss their work} a mediterranean revival style building furnished with antiques and embellished with hand painted vaulted ceilings and arches, polished wood paneled walls, hand forged sconces, bronze and crystal chandeliers, rich brocade tapestries, ornate Corinthian columns, and lush landscaping, housing the QIS Faculty Club and private social club with membership available for QIS graduate students, and individuals who hold teaching, research, or administrative jobs at QIS, the NASA (Nejiro Air & Space Agency) Propulsion Labs and QIS affiliated facilities, has private entrances and parking for members, it includes a variety of premier restaurants and dining options, a private hotel with several named suites such as The Einstein, The Kearny-Fuchida, The Da Vinci, The Banzai, The Archimedes, there are several libraries, lounges, salons, tennis courts, a golf course, an indoor olympic pool, an outdoor waterfall pool complex with fire features and cabanas, social and corporate event venues, ballrooms and reception halls, and a breathtaking and romantic wedding venue; The Garden of Teaching Virtues are the most beautiful gardens in Quezon and are open for public tours, they consist of the traditional eight landscapes and eight borders, they are known for their originality, and the pond in the shape of the character kokoro or shin {heart} QIS affiliated programs and facilities: Observatory Galilei - NASA (Nejiro Air & Space Agency) stellar telescope system National Science Foundation, offers funds and grants for government supported fundamental science, math, and engineering research and education Surya {the sun}, NASA solar observatory orbiting Kiiro no Hoshi 5467 NASA Propulsion Labs Nejiro Geological Survey Founders Library Eruburasu Submillimeter Observatory, on Mt. Eruburasu largest peak in the Kiso Mountains with a distinct profile Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory Nekokobu Marine Laboratory {cat cove}, on the coast north of Quezon, includes research vessels Nanoscience Institute Institute for Space Studies Einstein Papers Project - collects, translates and publishes the scholarly and academic works of humanities most important scientists digitally and on paper Infrared Processing and Analysis Center Cosmic Vision Space Telescope, a multi optic and multi sensor telescope system, orbits at the boundaries of the stellar system Joint Center for Translational Medicine, experimental research into clinical application, partnered with the Quezon School of Medicine, Quezon General, Nagoya University, Sakamura Medical School, Sakamura Iryo Senta, Sakamura Laboratories, and Raissonne University Hospital Office of Technology, protects and manages the intellectual property developed by faculty, students, and researchers, it handles the licensing and transfer of technology to the commercial sector, QIS holds 1893 patents SURF, summer undergraduate research fellowships Project Vista, a yearly joint project with the Nejiro Defense Corp, the DCA (when available) and various ichizoku military forces to improve the relationship between tactical air support, tactical naval support (sea and stellar), and ground troops ArtCenter College of Design, a liberal, visual, and performing arts university with a 15 ha campus directly south of the QIS campus Koichizoku Vasilievna {royal}: Colors: yellow, brown Kamon: tribal style bear on all fours with a roar Delm: Timofey Zhenka Vasilievna Matrona: Siyanko Nyusha Chayka Vasilievna Founders MP: Yabloneva Yulinka Filippovna Spokesperson: Kuristyn Ivan ‘Vanya’ Alesnarovich Militia: Medved Okhrannik {bear guard} Militia Commander: Zeferino Irisarri Associate Families: Isaev, Shvets, Chayka, Kohut, Antonov, Gruene Territory: [map 23] (650 sq. km) landhold southeast of Kamloops, plus 3000 sq. km of surrounding property partially kept as a nature reserve and wildlife park – Spirit Bear Wildlife Park, plus the 300 sq. km island of Boyepripasy {ammunition}, part of the Gunju-hin {munitions} Island chain, the Armour Industrial Park is there, plus 300 sq. km in the Boreal Forests of the Kiso Mountains near the Tone-gawa Agriculture: Monte Creek Ranch – grass fed cattle ranch, running several different breeds and types of cattle and Quarter Horses for ranch, rodeo, equestrian sports, and pleasure riding Spirit Bear Wildlife Park – the ten thousand ha park has both grassland, hills, and forest environments around the Gash River, has a children’s zoo and education center, runs small photo safaris, has limited big game hunting seasons, campgrounds, hiking trails, gold panning excursions, rock hunting, fossil hunting, the Huntian Lodge {to chase game} a safari style accommodation elevated on stilts, so migration is not disturbed, and built across two levels overlooking a busy Gash River watering hole on the grasslands Prairie Farms – co-op grows organic spring and winter wheat, barley, onions, garden vegetables, yak, water buffalo, and dairy cows from over 900 producers, sells wholesale and operates farm stand Golden Fleece – rabbit for fur and meat from a native lagomorph similar to angora but larger and with fur in shades of yellow and brown Oruza {rice} – grows many varieties of rice with hydroponics and aquaponics Corporate Holdings: Coolhaus – super premium ice cream brand Meadow Gold – complete dairy line brand, including dehydrated, and canned Sweet Grass – produces old world style handcrafted and artisanal cheeses Big Toy Playground – the ultimate playground for teens and grown-ups, we provide you with an extreme heavy equipment adventure, where you get to drive a Backhoe or Skid Steer, instructors provide personalized guidance the whole time, a typical session lasts ninety minutes with you at the controls, we encourage you to play in the dirt with our big toys, drive, dig, scoop, dump, play some our games like backhoe basketball, feel the power of controlling eighteen thousand kilograms of steel, for ages fourteen and up, open seasonally from April to October Dreamscape Guest Ranch Sun Peaks – ski and snowboard spa resort hotels Highland Valley – mines salts, copper, gold, molybdenum, pyrotechnic elements Sagewood Winery Heritage Railway – designs, constructs, maintains, and manages regional and continental railways, subways, and tram services Talking Rock Golf Club – has both public and private heathland and championship courses, hosts the PGA World Tour Open annually in June, part of the Rolex Series golf tournament Heritage Cartage – moving company, logistics company, and shipping company via ground, river, sea, air, and space Iron Road Brewery Dartz Motorz – makes combat vehicles - especially hover, military support vehicles, heavy equipment, pursuit vehicles, strategic response vehicles and equipment, emergency management vehicles and equipment Black Spear – staffs, spears, knives, swords, rifles, APC’s, strategic response and special operations units, emergency task force units, security systems, investigation and surveillance gear, testing equipment Game Crafters – web design studio crafted games are then printed as board games, customized playing cards, or collectible card games Spark – social media platform Ironclad – athletic pads and protective gear, personal and executive armor, first responder armor, military personnel armor, vehicle armor, small craft armor Gruene Hall – dance hall with bar and live swing, rockabilly, bluegrass, and country music, has locations across the Southern Steppe Zastava {outpost} – firearms, field guns, infantry weapons, anti-aircraft weapons, missiles, rockets, grenades, launchers, autocannons, explosives, detonators, munitions, tactical gear and accessories Cheez Grillerz – casual dining establishments that feature grilled cheese sandwiches in a host of choices, accompanied by freshly made soups, salads, pickles, dipping sauces, and sweet or classic potato fries Spectacle Pyrotechny – manufactures commercial grade fireworks, and fireworks for wholesale and retail [anyone over fourteen may buy and use handheld fireworks, anything bigger, such as rockets, needs operator certificates or pyrotechnician licenses for each grade], designs and operates displays for stage and film, public displays, shows, festivals, competitions and celebrations across the world Horologium {instrument for telling the hour} –makes watches, wall clocks, and grandfather clocks that are mechanical works of art, they combine precision micromechanics with aesthetically pleasing high-jewelry masterworks which are embellished with artistic enamel artwork and micro automata on the dials, this luxury watch brand is known for producing elegantly designed complexly engineered masterpieces Nalada {mood} – synthetic modacrylic manufacturer – low-density flame-retardant fibers and textiles - manufactures yarn, felt and nonwoven fabrics, fleece fabrics, faux fur fabrics, wigs, stuffed toys, paint roller covers and industrial fabrics, filters, personal protective equipment, draperies, outdoor fabrics Koichizoku Yakovich {following after} Colors: red, pink Kamon: moon rabbit Delm: Chayton Yakovich Matrona: Aditya Wolff Yakovich Founders MP: Desiree ‘Dezi’ Nguyen Spokesperson: Suzu Maeda Militia: Storozhey {watchmen} Militia Commander: James Kubera Associate Families: Bolkvadze, Anker, Ffransis, Vang, Wolff, Chaykovsky, deLapin, Tsukimi Territory: [map 8] (650 sq. km) landhold on the Kamchatka Peninsula, plus one quarter of Civitas a town shared with the borders of the Sorenson, Palakiko, and Isobe Ichizoku, plus 1200 sq. km to the east, north and south of the landhold Agriculture: Arcadia – cooperative farming grows tobacco, red clover, wheat, oats, barley, rice, rye, hops, maize, cannabis, hemp, bamboo, peanuts, yak, goats, pigs, dairy cows, water buffalo, chickens, pheasant Volga Zakaznik {sanctuary} – a 50000 ha nature reserve to preserve the biological diversity of a large contiguous forest in the Volga river region Wolff Creek Ranch – 1000 ha ranch in the forested mountains with cattle, elk, deer, sheep, and horses; it also run the Wolff Creek Guest Ranch which offers trail riding, hiking, bird watching, rafting, pack trips, wagon rides, jeep or motorbike tours, shooting sports, outdoor movie nights, dark sky stargazing, zip lines, tennis courts, indoor/outdoor natural stone waterfall pool, yoga, onsen and spa amenities, hunting excursions, fishing, glamping, rodeo and equestrian sports, five star cuisine, cooking classes, access to the Emerald Vale Golf Club and the Aiken Polo Club Crimson Star Meadows – grows saffron, ginseng, lavender, goji berries, bamboo, banana, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, currants, mulberry, elderberry, cranberry for food, fragrance, and dyes in fields, and vertical farms The Warren – wine and table grapes, winery, rabbits Corporate Holdings: Four Corners Zaibatsu Loukas Lagoons – builds unique luxury water and fire features including free standing grottos, lagoon pools, waterfall pools, stone pools, spas, wrap pools, roman baths, gardens, water rooms, outdoor living spaces, landscaping Natural Wonders – building stone, slabs, and tiles, retail and wholesale Coldspring Quarries – mines quarries throughout the region and some stellar sites for granite, limestone, marble, travertine, quartz, sandstone, slate, and aggregates, also silicates Stahlaz {standing firm} – planetary and stellar mines producing iron, carbon, manganese, nickel, chromium, molybdenum, boron, titanium, vanadium, tungsten, cobalt, niobium, phosphorous, sulfur, silicon, nitrogen, copper, gold Quindozum Fab – integrated device manufacturer, makes silicon wafers, integrated circuits, microchips, semiconductors, automated semiconductor chip foundries Yuneec – electric aircraft, multicopters, hobby drones and rc aircraft, racers, commercial aerial drones, aerial photography drones, surveillance drones for fire and rescue, law enforcement, security, and coast guards, armed reconnaissance drones for military use, advanced educational robots, high precision multispectral image drones for environmental, and agricultural monitoring, crop protection drones, software, accessories, parts and service Wondershare – social platform Usagi Mediation {rabbit} – dispute resolution, contract negotiation, policy making, diplomacy, and dispute prevention and resolution confidential services Red Rabbit Rail – high speed passenger and freight services that cover the continent of Tairiku No-Usagi {wild rabbit} – rolling stock and rail design and manufacture Stahlaz Metal – integrated steel works, forged, and milled steel products, titanium products, electro-magnetic products, chemicals, VIM-VAR steels, welding robots and systems, ironworks, recycling, industrial furnaces Cashmere Popcorn – gourmet popcorn with flavored, dipped, and spiced varieties Ad Fabulas {the stories} – handmade premium cigars and cigarillos of whole leaf tobacco packaged in canisters of twelve, humidors of twenty-four or thirty six, or tins of fifty Aimmune – clinical stage biopharma developing desensitization treatments for allergens Verkada – autonomous, leading edge, high clarity, surveillance cameras with facial recognition, and secure cloud-based data storage Swift Transit – charter air services from bush planes to executive jets Aficionado Quilts – handmade quilts in patchwork, crazy, art, star, sashiko, kantha, and block design styles Gruppa Storozhey {watchmen group} – commercial, residential, and military security systems manufacture, installation, and maintenance; security monitoring and patrols for residential, commercial, military, and industrial clients; armed guards; commercial and military surveillance equipment manufacture; commercial and military countermeasure equipment manufacture; armored car and truck manufacture; armored car services; secure global transportation, logistics and inventory management; secure vaults and bonded warehouses, cash management and processing; payment services Yojimbo {bodyguard} – close protection specialist services for private clients as well as government officials, celebrities, parliamentary and diplomatic ministers, protection of corporate and government buildings, residential protection for visiting dignitaries, corporate, and private clients, counter reconnaissance at events, diplomatic functions, and key sites, searching and access control, counter terrorism activities with police, law enforcement, and militia units