Registered Contract: SL-DC-06-01

Region:
Star League Administered System
System:
Yorii
Galactic Coordinates:
X: -8.08 Y: 21.39
Planet:
Yorii
Capital City:
Shenobi
Primary Operational Terrain:
Badlands
Primary Planetary Climate:
Oceanic
Contract Type:
Defensive Campaign
Contract Duration:
6 Months (90 Days in REAL TIME) non-negotiable
Employer:
Mitsuhide Holdings
Employer Contact:
Ambassador Tenkai Mitsuhide
Command Rights:
Liaison Assigned
Forces Recommended:
A Company Strength Detachment
Supporting Forces:
Corporate Security Forces, Neutral SLDF Garrison: 2nd Division under Major General Karl Carter
Enemy Forces:
Mercenaries
Supplement Contracts Offered:
A Major Raid
Bounty Per Word:
1,000 C-Bills
Minimum Bounty:
21,000 Word Transcript
Bonus Salvage Bounty Target:
66,000 Word Transcript
Bonus Salvage Category:
Type-C Salvage

PLANETARY DETAILS:
A large world of large oceans, diverse wildlife, and a few veins of mineral resources, the biggest obstacles to the colonization of Yorii were the planet's stronger-than-average gravity, its native, territorial wildlife, and the fact that its soils did not support the majority of Terran food crops.

None of these factors proved insurmountable to the early colonists, however, who simply learned to adapt and established thriving industrial and mining communities on three of Yorii's four island-continents. Heavy-metal deposits, some very deep below the planetary surface, and most accessible to off-shore drilling platforms, provided the basis of the planetary economy, while the few hybrid food crops that could be grown became the staples of the planet's mostly Asian population.

On the continent of Yokohama, where the dominant native life-form, the Yoriian tiger-raptor, was most populous, the colonists built high walls around their settlements and farmlands, and began a hunting initiative that brought the bold reptilian predators under control within a decade. In the days of the Star League, Yorii's capital city, Neo-Tokyo, set on the shore of the planet's largest continent, Shokaku, was a haven for commercial trade between the Draconis Combine and the Terran Hegemony, and a healthy portion of the city's population claimed dual citizenship in both realms.

During the Amaris crisis, the Usurper's troops used many of Yorii's larger cities and industrial complexes as battlefields when the SLDF came to liberate the planet, which ravaged the planet's economy and infrastructure, rendering millions homeless and millions more dead. Neo-Tokyo was left totally uninhabitable when the last of Amaris' holdouts deliberately sabotaged the fusion reactor that powered the city in an effort to distract the League troops while they made an escape attempt.

The Draconis Combine easily assimilated Yorii after the fall of the League, establishing the planet as a forward base for raids against the Lyran Commonwealth, Capellan Confederation, and Federated Suns. Despite numerous punitive raids and the ravages of the Succession Wars, Yorii gradually managed to reclaim some of its former prosperity.

Each of the four populated continents - Shokaku in the south, Yokohama to its northeast, Khesan and Xu-Lai in the north - now support a handful of major cities, with the new capital city of Shenobi on Yokohama.

Socio-Industrial Levels:
Technological Development
Advanced world with access to many new technologies; world hosts universities; good medical care available, though without benefit of bionics and other cutting-edge technologies; basic microelectronics industry.
Industrialization Level
Heavily industrialized world capable of manufacturing any and all complex output.
Raw Material Dependence
World/system produces all the raw materials needed and commonly exports large quantities of surplus.
Industrial Output
World has a wide industrial base that produces many different types of products and exports most of its output.
Agricultural Dependence
World is agriculturally poor and must import much of its food to supplement what is grown.

EMPLOYER SITUATION REPORT:
The situation on Yorii, to put it in bluntest of terms, has simply deteriorated. Since the world was ceded to the Star League under the Terran Security act tensions between its population the League government over unfair economic policies has escalated into full blown violence, resulting in mass demonstration, and in some cases, rioting, looting and acts of terrorism in the planet’s capital city of Shenobi. In response the Ministry of Trade has taken to hiring off world mercenaries to brutally suppress any dissent, local concerns soon followed suit and now a bloody turf war rages that has rivaled the scope of many historic Yakuza wars in Combine history.

Unfortunately in his zeal to fight for the rights of his home planet, Ambassador Mitsuhide Tenkai has the drawn the ire of the Ministry of Trade. Though unable to move against him directly for fear of rousing the Dragon’s anger, the Ministry has seen fit to single out his holding for harassment. ISF agents have uncovered a plot by the Ministry to launch punitive raids into Mitsuhide Holdings facilities in and around Shenobi using their pet thugs within the next half year in retaliation for the Ambassador’s vocal attacks on the Ministry. Given the number of mercenary commands, the ISF cannot predict who will undertake this foul deed or when exactly the attack will take place. To this end the Ambassador, acting in his capacity as CEO of Mitsuhide Holdings, is looking to hire able mercenaries to augment his current corporate security forces.

Please note the current contract: SL-RD-02-01

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
1) Defend Mitsuhide Holdings Industrial Park and any other corporate holdings that come under attack.
2) Do not antagonize local SLDF forces.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
1) If possible capture any attackers for interrogation.

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