Ships sail from the eastern coast of Namiyo once more as ban is lifted
Nannaras X
October 27th YC 120
The Myrskytuuli Regiment has lifted the ban preventing ships from sailing from the eastern coast.
This decision was made after a notable dip in Hoiyori’s food stocks was detected and a abundance of reports about brawls and theft in the over crowded docks along the eastern coast of Namiyo. The chokehold this ban had on fishermen activity would’ve sooner or later became costly and bring into question if the Regiment is over zealous with it’s protections. The ban was initially put in place after several fishing boats began vanishing at sea with all hands onboard. The causes behind these disappearances ended up being a massive drone with makeshift tentacles. A “Sea-Monster” that has been recently dubbed “Keiso” by local sailors. The Myrskytuuli Regiment had avoided giving the machine a name out of principle, but have tapped out and officially adopted the nickname conjured up for the sake of clarity in reports on the ongoing hunt for it.
It’s been at least two weeks since Regiment dropship pilots encountered Keiso for the first time. Since then there has been no sight or sound of the metallic behemoth. The hunt for Keiso has been delegated into the hands of a drone hunting unit in the Regiment called “De-bug", an outfit that has all the necessary resources it needs to remove any and all drone entities that threaten the property and people of the Zaibatsu. Despite the resources, De-bug’s efforts have turned up fruitless. The hunt will go on, but traffic off the eastern coast will begin flowing again while the situation is being closely monitored.
Involved with this development is Viokoro Velan sparking back up the discussion about stripping the Myrskytuuli Regiment’s responsibility of law enforcement and creating a separate entity with more sensitive training to become the official police force of the Zaibatsu. When Viokoro originally brought up the subject about stripping the responsibility of law enforcement from the Regiment, the talks were to be postponed until the investigation behind the missing boats concluded. However she argues the investigation was closed as soon as the matter was handed off to De-bug, a division that has only been seen in military operations and have not shown any involvement with law enforcement since being formed. Viokoro’s eagerness to get the subject back into discussion comes from the recent story about the arrest of the smuggler that’s been moving soda products into Hoiyori. Viokoro highlights how Regiment personnel in the chase opened fire on a fleeing non-violent criminal in a highly populated area with fully automatic firearms. She calls this a “Textbook example of excessive force”
With the next meeting of CORE module representatives right around the corner as October comes to a close, this subject will undoubtedly be brought up and may very well be decided on in that meeting. Not seemingly to eager to join in the debate however is Lucrative Excavations CEO Monden Searbier who was recently responsible for an embarrassing venture in the Lirsuatton system. This, happening after Monden was quoted by ZANIE to be determined to “Hold the Patriarch’s feet to the fire.” regarding this.
More news related to the eastern coast of Namiyo Is the clean sweep of the surrounding islands in legal vicinity of Namiyo. The Myskytuuli Regiment began combing the islands for any caches left by the soda smuggler mentioned previously. Given how the smuggler had access to a boat on the eastern coast indicated that he was bringing in goods from the eastern coast. Either though one of the islands, or from the Ishukone owned landmass of X-ZFA12. The Regiment has reported that the smuggler appears to have no ties to any organization and was operating independently, thus the idea of Ishukone being behind the smuggling is ludicrous. Though it does highlight a problem of supplies coming in from an area that’s outside their jurisdiction. A problem that is smaller in comparison to the grander issue responsible for this - the planetary customs office in orbit of Namnaras X belongs to the Capsuleer alliance “Salt Farmers”,. If this customs office ended up in control of the Zaibatsu, it would be much easier to get containment on smuggling operations across the plant. Obtaining the office on the other hand is a goal out of reach for the Zaibatsu due to a dangerously low presence in space. With the structure also in the hands of Capsuleers, the Regiment would have to look into enlisting more Capsuleers to take it over. Currently however, there exists an ongoing debate about the hypocrisy of the Zaibatsu having two Capsuleers already in service despite promoting values that go against the use of cybernetics. The Zaibatsu will have to first address this controversy before expanding ranks. A task, that looks to last for the foreseeable future.
ZANIE will be on guard for any new development