"...the Heaven Forged Republic supports the right to self-determination of all interplanetary and interstellar city and station states. Recent years have been trying times for humanity across the stars. We must not abandon our principles of liberty and compassion, core traits that make us human."
Hundreds of light years away, plans had been set into motion. Just as the president of the HFR was announcing their new support of self-determination, the Magnetic Assembly was announcing the formation of the Atlantica Assembly which opened up membership to dozens of waiting space-colonies, all of which were voting to leave the American Union.
But not everyone was voting to join the Assembly.
In the Hawking System, Fuminsho station had just held their own vote. Quietly, the board of directors for the station had received rather large sums of money. In secret they had gotten together. Without informing the rest of the station they voted to go independent.
Suddenly the stalemate between the Neomni and Fudoramu Yakuza clans had come to an end.
The Fudoramu had new leadership.
They had guns.
And the local police were on their side.
The Neomni clan and the Magnetic Assembly suddenly found themselves hunted on the station. With the Magnetic Assembly’s own security confined to the docking bays at each end of the station. The neo-lit streets of the station were suddenly full of smoke and chaos.
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Fuminsho Station
Poppo Convenience Store
Just off the main thoroughfare
The lights of the store had been turned off as outside Cops and Yakuza were hunting down and beating other Yakuza who didn’t have police backup.
A store clerk was hiding under the counter, apparently unwilling to expose himself long enough to lock the doors or try and close the security shutter.
The group that had been following Exemplar Knowledge-bot had been split up. Schwoomy and Cletus had both ended up in this particular store.
The Neomni clan was also in the process of being split up by overwhelming force. It seemed that the blonde gunsmith and the bunny-like Yakuza assigned to keep control of her had also ended up in the same Convenience store.
Hundreds of light years away, plans had been set into motion. Just as the president of the HFR was announcing their new support of self-determination, the Magnetic Assembly was announcing the formation of the Atlantica Assembly which opened up membership to dozens of waiting space-colonies, all of which were voting to leave the American Union.
But not everyone was voting to join the Assembly.
In the Hawking System, Fuminsho station had just held their own vote. Quietly, the board of directors for the station had received rather large sums of money. In secret they had gotten together. Without informing the rest of the station they voted to go independent.
Suddenly the stalemate between the Neomni and Fudoramu Yakuza clans had come to an end.
The Fudoramu had new leadership.
They had guns.
And the local police were on their side.
The Neomni clan and the Magnetic Assembly suddenly found themselves hunted on the station. With the Magnetic Assembly’s own security confined to the docking bays at each end of the station. The neo-lit streets of the station were suddenly full of smoke and chaos.
—--------------
Fuminsho Station
Poppo Convenience Store
Just off the main thoroughfare
The lights of the store had been turned off as outside Cops and Yakuza were hunting down and beating other Yakuza who didn’t have police backup.
A store clerk was hiding under the counter, apparently unwilling to expose himself long enough to lock the doors or try and close the security shutter.
The group that had been following Exemplar Knowledge-bot had been split up. Schwoomy and Cletus had both ended up in this particular store.
The Neomni clan was also in the process of being split up by overwhelming force. It seemed that the blonde gunsmith and the bunny-like Yakuza assigned to keep control of her had also ended up in the same Convenience store.