#4 by Carnifex

Carnifex, having managed to find a new Barracuda FAF on Planet New Tokyo, was now sticking solely to the core system. Kusari was slowly becoming a scene of total chaos. Since the apparent death of the Emperor the economy had bomb shelled and remaining sections of the military had started to disagree with each other about what should be done to halt the advance of the Dragons. There was probably a power struggle of some sort going on behind the scenes but what concerned Carni most was that people were starting to stop paying him. A lot of civilians were just getting away from the approaching front lines mostly in the direction of Shikoku. Some ships had even tried to make their way into Liberty as refugees but there were rumours starting to abound that some were disappearing without leaving wreckage or record of their passage through Kepler or Galileo. People pointed to the rise of the CTP since the end of the war, but pirates normally leave wreckage so Carnifex didn’t put much stock in that.

However no matter what was going on in the crumbling state or on its “southern” borders it wasn’t the problem of the BHG. Not for much longer anyway, the way the war was going soon the BHG would start openly taking jobs against what was soon to become a rebel element in a new Kusari state. As Carnifex patroled past the dark side of Kitadake toward the Hokkaido Jump Gate he wandered how much dirty laundry Kusari had and how much of it he might be able to turn into money.