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First Annual Galactic Swap Meet. (Early YE-43)

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The Fuji Corporation employee bowed to Igia before she pulled up the requested items.

"The 500 liters of freshwater is 500. The Large Hydrogen Cell is 700 KS, and the Environmental systems are 500 KS. All for a grand total of 1,700 KS." she finally said once it was all in front of her.

@RaWolfe
 
Igia slightly nods to the formal greeting and listens carefully towards the prices. They were somewhat on the high price for salvage equipment but in the end, it was useful for her to have. Take a deep breath as she crosses her arms "You have yourself a deal, transfer the supplies towards the Sunavi Corporation, I will have an arrangement for them to pick it up at the designated dock" Igia replied with a soft smile on her face "Do you have any humanitarian salvage that I can buy for you? I like to supply most of my goods to children orphaned or rebuilding efforts in severely hit cities by the Kuvexians"
 
All he knew about this job was that he couldn't mess it up. Not again. The set preparation team was busy fixing his outfit, applying makeup to his face, and arranging his hair just so. A mic was clipped to the back of his belt, the wireless headset attached to his ear and adjusted so. Hours before the staging Aaron skimmed over his script to keep it fresh in his mind, despite memorizing it throughout the week. If he blew this second chance, they wouldn't call him in the future. He wasn't going to speculate about an opportunity arising down the road. It was now or never again.
The final touches were out of the way and the camera team was setting up. The camera would be a mobile unit today, not stationary like it typically was. The goal of this report was to inform the public about the event, and highlight the importance the marketplace held in the cosmic affairs of the Yamatai Star System. In essence, the very existence of this trade market meant more than buying and selling wares. It was a mutuality expressed through the communal participation of planets, peoples, and interests. It was also an incredible testament to Yamatai's influence within their own galaxy.
It was time, and Hei-Beihu Jamai directed the set as he always did. Stern, stalwart, and unimpressed, low laying eyes bored holes into the Santô Hei, who was getting a second chance. If things panned out differently with the other reporter, it wouldn't be a question in his mind. Aaron Boxley would've been snubbed immediately after his last stunt. But now that they were in the situation they were in, Beihu was pulling his punches and letting this one ride it out. So what if Boxley-Hei had that 3% sustained viewership increase? It was only because he was a new face; people would forget he existed soon enough.

"Ready, Boxley?"

"Yes, Hei-Beihu!" The eagerness to please him was evident in Aaron's reply. It wouldn't convince Jamai just yet. The Separa'Shan called for his team to retreat behind the designated area and ready the news segment. With the countdown, Aaron settled into the center of the camera's view, took a deep breath, and waited for the countdown. From five, to four, to three, to two, and then one-

"Hello! This is Aaron Boxley with SANDRA News, reporting to you live from the Annual Galactic Swap Meet!" He took a slight step back, readying himself to turn away from the camera and begin walking once he reached that point in the script.

"Located in Port Xenn, this yearly gathering is home to the most diverse trading event in the galaxy. Here, buyers and sellers are exposed to a surprising number of things for sale!"
The script now demanded he turn and begin walking, which he did on cue. He wasn't meant to walk a great distance, only far enough that he would become immersed in the scene and mingle with it, to bring a visceral feeling to the report. He pointed at the items he mentioned as he spoke, mindful that he didn't invade the space of the traders in the process.

"It could be anything from spare parts, to embroidery, to- uh-!" Aaron froze, his eyes transfixed on a certain marketer's wares. Were those bodies? Boxley had no clue who was watching, but there was no need to expose them to the morbid side of the event, however normal it was. Even Beihu's eyes widened at the sight, but silently urged Aaron to keep going. Dead air was bad air!

"E'hm, yes, so-" the camera willingly panned away and followed the reporter as he separated himself from the booth, "The Annual Swap Meet is in full swing, and the Coordinators of the event are anticipating record numbers this year! Hopefully the turnout lives up to their expectations! I'm Aaron Boxley with SANDRA News; back to you in the station!"

Jamai signaled to cut the feed, and with the camera light turning off the report came to a close. Aaron would have a follow up report in due time, for those who tuned in later that day. But for now, he had the ability to step away and see things for himself. That was the most exciting part about being there for the young Santô Hei. But he wouldn't leave until his supervisor approved it. As the team put their film equipment up, Beihu turned to find a de-mic'd soldier watch the world going on behind him. A small sigh left the Jôtô Hei before he called him.

"Hei-Boxley!"

"Sir?"

"Be back in 2 hours time."

Aaron's face lit up with excitement, and he turned fully to give Beihu a salute. "Yes, Jôtô Hei!" Jamai waved off the salute, a subtle twinkle in the experienced superior's eye as the Santô Hei walked into the crowd and set his watch's timer. Aaron was a good kid, he just had to keep his emotions in check...
 
Setsuka lifted her camera after hearing there might be someone interested in buying the cadavers. She quickly took a picture of just the crate bypassing the need to ask permission for the photo before turning back to the girl handing her a card with the company's name and contact information. On the back she had scribbled her name and contact details. "If you would like you name included please send me a message with you name, as well as Photo 1."

Naoko knew she had a limmit on how much she was supposed to spend so she concidered for a moment before replying. "I will offer you 1500KS for the crate. I do not know the equipment that your looking for, but I am sure someone here would have that kind of thing." Smiling she looked to Auda. "Everything is fine. I didn't get to attend last year so this year I decide I was going to come see what this even is all about." Naoko lifted her arm letting Soru land on it patting his head before he took off again flying higher circling the small group keeping an eye on everything. Nikkusu started to become agitated at the number of people she did not know and made sure to send her feeling threw their connects conveying just as much.



Photo count: 2

@Wes @Andrew @Charaa
 
@KoreHytaria The blue-skinned woman considered the amount of money being offered. Her clients gave her money to be used to buy their additional requests, so she didn’t exactly need the money at the moment though 1500KS is a lot of money. However, seeing that the news was there, she decided she should quickly move on. “I accept,” she said to Naoko, and gently pushed the crate to her after she accepted the money.

Setsuka’s picture taking was noticed, but since she hadn’t taken her picture she’d be fine. Instead, she shook her head. “I shall think about it,” she said to the woman, though accepted the card. She thought that it might be best she does not give her name, after all, she didn’t exactly want to be associated with bodies or obscene technology. But she wanted a reputation that she’ll take care of everything but this might not work in her favor.
 
The event had started to liven up a bit, Auda nodded as the young Motoyoshi explained why she was there. The place seemed safe enough anyway. She let her start her transaction, and it took a few minutes for the situation at hand to register. Auda's crystal-blue eyes widened drastically, it dawned on her then, that Naoko was purchasing bodies. She seemed like a sweet girl, her pets all with her, and yet there she was front-line and center to purchase dead bodies. Auda's jaw dropped momentarily, and then she whispered quietly to Naoko, "Um. What are the bodies for?" she asked, the look of disbelief was unable to leave her face. Sure she had just purchased five crates of pornography herself over SYNC, but bodies were something different altogether.

In those few seconds, Auda noticed the reporter, the Geshrin male that was giving the awkward SANDRA update which had also noticed the bodies. Auda swallowed hard, hopefully, it was not going to end up on Katsuko's desk the next day, all exclusive featured footage of a Motoyoshi kid buying dead bodies.
 
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Setsuka smiled. "If not it is ok I can put Anonymous source. I doubt the company will mind." She then turned her attention back to the teal haired girl handing her a card with the same information. "If you would like you name included feel free to let me know which photo. Yours will be photo2."

Smiling Naoko transferred the money via SYNC. Hearing Auda's question and seeing the look on her face she couldn't help but laugh. "In my opinion it is better to test the parasites found on freshly discovered worlds with dead bodies rather than live ones. Don't you agree? I see you've made some purchases as well would you mind having those picked up and delivered to the YSS Mazu?" Naoko looked over at the fox girl then at the young man who had just given the update over SANDRA. "Looks like we have both civilian and military reporters at this event. Is there something planned that I didn't know about or do people just really like seeing what other people spend their money on lately?"


Photo count: 2


Purchases So Far:
  • Crate of dead bodys
 
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A gray-furred anthro with black hair arrived with a multimodal truck carrying an SSCC-XL. Hopping out, they asked, "Um, does any medical company need a container full of viral agents? I don't know these are for, but they seem dangeorus and I just want to get rid of them."

OOC: Items available:
  • Shipment of male/female Formal Attire, 10 outfits (YE 42 Giveaway, TC: 69-63, IC: 4335-7995-124)
  • SSCC-XL containing Sulfur (YE 42 Giveaway, TC: 2-81, IC: 219-10344-83)
  • SSCC-XL containing viral agents (YE 42 Giveaway, TC: 17-95, IC: 1672-12217-111)
  • Plasma Compressor (YE 42 Giveaway, TC: 69-14, IC: 954-1863-75)
  • Elaborate golden desk lamp (YE 42 Giveaway, TC: 50-75, IC: 3807-9807-120)
 
A well dressed man wearing sunglasses walks up the individual with the viral agents. "You might want to talk to the Fuji Corporation representative. I hear their Zhuhai Medical Industries is always looking for such items. But don't tell them I sent you." He says, winking. He then makes his way back to looking at what others have, hands behind his back

Meanwhile...

"Related to this swap, we only have what our clients have sent us. But Fuji Corporation can help gather whatever you need for humanitarian aid, for a fee of course." The Fuji employee said. She hit herself internally for forgetting to say that to the person looking for maritime items.

@RaWolfe @Wes
 
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Hearing what the woman had to say, Igia nodded to her "Seems reasonable, the Sunavi Corporation is interested in seeking out a mutual deal in such efforts. I will let my company set up a communication line with Fuji Corporation to get things settled" Igia bows slightly in respect to the woman "Thank you for your time and information regarding my purchase and my request for additional supplies"

@demibear

Acquired Supplies
  • Freshwater, 500 Liter Tank
  • Large Hydrogen Cell
  • Environmental system components, including air cleaner
 
Auda shrugged, she could not help but think that Naoko was certainly a strange one, at least the young science officer was interesting. She was going to comment further, but she became distracted by the arrival of new goods. She examined the anthro behind the booth (@Wes) for a second and made her approach, she looked over the goods presented and gave a slight nod, "I'll take the sulfur and the viral agents," she announced. "Say, 30,000 KS for the lot?" she asked, she thought it was a good offer, she had no real idea what such goods would be worth.

Purchases So Far:
  • 7 tons of books
  • Barrel of Nepleslian Bourbon (YE 42 Salvage Giveaway, TC: 97-94, IC: 6556-14439-180)
  • Decorative/Ceremonial Swords (YE 42 Giveaway, TC: 37-84, IC: 3165-27105-117)
 
"Hell yes," Cassie smugly grinned making a :3 face and triumphantly raising a fist in the air like an anime character. "Oh, and if anyone asks you didn't get this stuff from me."

Cassie collected the cash and turned the items over to Auda.
 
Auda had the goods transferred to the ship she had just purchased, she offered a smile to the woman who she had made the buy. "Don't worry, none of it will ever be seen again. It will go to a special place," she said in a cryptic way, she couldn't help but finish the thought in her mind '...right up the Tange's ass.'. The two employees that Yuka had sent could take care of her purchases.

The electric blue-haired Minkan sighed as she looked around, unsure if she wanted to follow Naoko around or if it was near time to leave. She had paperwork to do, a need to chase the sweet flavor of bubble gum and get away from the hustle-bustle of the grind.

Purchases So Far:
  • 7 tons of books
  • Barrel of Nepleslian Bourbon (YE 42 Salvage Giveaway, TC: 97-94, IC: 6556-14439-180)
  • Decorative/Ceremonial Swords (YE 42 Giveaway, TC: 37-84, IC: 3165-27105-117)
  • SSCC-XL containing Sulfur (YE 42 Giveaway, TC: 2-81, IC: 219-10344-83)
  • SSCC-XL containing viral agents (YE 42 Giveaway, TC: 17-95, IC: 1672-12217-111)
 
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Though Mikael was having the Fuji Corporation acting as a middle man to sale his unwanted salvage, he decided to come to the swap in person. After all, he was on leave and on the planet at the time. Wearing a pair of tacticool edition Emrys Uno Sunglasses (totally not the cover sunglasses he is issued) and wearing a black trenchcoat over black Nepleslian pants, he wandered around looking for anything of interest. So far it was looking like a wash, though Kalena was looking hot to him.
 
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Deciding she'd spent enough time being ladylike and waiting the wide-hipped figure of Ms Remy Belmont defaulted to trying to flag down a Fuji Corporation representative with a wave of her arm and a hop, beckoning them over to the terminal she'd been sitting at for a little while now.

"Excuse me? Hi, yes," she began almost immediately, putting on a somewhat obviously forced grin as Remy tried her best to not talk through her teeth.

"The listing for ninety covert ops pistols, are they all still accounted for? if so how much do you want for them?" the green-haired human proposed, pushing the peak of her funky city baseball cap up with a flick of her thumb before the lass tilted her head at the attendant.

@demibear
 
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The Fuji Corporation seemed to have only one representative allotted to the area, as the same woman as before made her appearance. She bows to Remy in embarrassment. "My apology, I did not see you there." she says, eyeing a Nepleslian looking man in a black stylish trenchcoat walking by. "Security, there is a suspicious man roaming around. Forwarding details to you." she mumbles to herself.

"Now, 90 Covert Ops Pistols..." she says looking through the list in the old-fashioned analog way. "Ah! Here they are, the customer wishes to sell them in only blocks of 10. Likely afraid they will end up in the wrong hands. They are 400 KS a piece, so a total of 4,000 KS."

Mikael overhearing them, makes his way over to the pair and stands a respectable distance away. "I'll take 10 covert pistols please. Though your customer doesn't have much to worry about. The Reds used them as their standard issued weapon." he says, causing the representative to blink.

@SirSkully
 
Remy had been giving the representative a few understanding nods and was about to speak further when the shady-looking Mikael showed up, causing the green-haired woman to cock her head at the guy who dressed like the dictionary definition of a spook.

"Excuse me, tall dark and handsome, but the lady and I were speaking so if you could just wait a moment please then that would be much appreciated. Thank you," Remy smirked before turning back to the attendant, clearing her throat briefly before continuing.

"I can understand that though I would really like to get my hands on as many as possible... say, how does this sound," she spoke, cocking one wide hip to the side and resting her weight thoughtfully on that tree-trunk of a leg as the spooky Mikael behind her got a chance to see the toned muscles moving beneath the black material of her leggings.

"In addition to the initial ten pistols you offered are there any you have in the remainder that might have a few scratches or other eyesores? I'd be happy to take them off your hand for full price instead of having someone else lowball you for what is a purely superficial little thing... how does that sound?" Remy proposed, arms folded under the faint swell of her chest as she stood there with a triumphant glimmer behind her emerald-lensed aviators, the shapely woman standing just an inch or two shorter than Mikael as she worked her trade.

@demibear
 
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Mikael just simply nodded and waited his turn. Mikael just took in the sight that is Remy for the time being, crossing his arms. The representative just ignored the spook for the time being as she focused on Remy's request. "Let me check to see if any clients outside of these listings have anything that meets your request. One moment..." she said before blanking out for a few moments as she accessed their databases in Tatiana.

After a minute or so, she smiled at Remy. "Yes, we have a seller on Rufusland that is wishing to offload 75 worn covert pistols. Would you be interested in those?"

@SirSkully
 
Auda finished up her purchase and took a look around, she was disappointed with the selection. No one was selling the things that Katsuko had requested, hopefully somewhere along the way she would find boats or other nautical related items. It was all secondary now though, the missions were about to start and she was going to be consumed. Auda walked back up to Naoko, "Hey, did you find everything you were looking for? I sure didn't..." she said, in a disappointed tone.

Her ears twitched slightly, as she overheard the conversation between Remy and the Fuji Corporation representative, it didn't seem all that interesting after a minute so she kept her focus on Naoko. "Hopefully next year I will have something to sell here. Did you make arrangements for the transport of your purchases or should I call it in?" she asked, at least she could do something in service of her Motoyoshi benefactors today in lieu of Katsuko's other request.

@KoreHytaria
 
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Naoko smiled seeing Auda approaching her. "Well honestly I came here just to have a look around. I have never been to anything like this and thought it could be fun. I am happy with my purchase though." She placed a hand on the crate. "If you wouldn't mind having it delivered to the dock I am still waiting for them to outfit my lab on the Mazu. I don't think they will be done before the battle starts so all of my equipment is there." She took a look around them, there really wasn't much here that would be of use to her. "Are you hungry? Taro taught me to make Salmon Nigiri and I can't wait to make it again."

The other side of the field


Setsuka had just starting walking snapping a few pictures here and there of peoples goods passing out her cards. She was curious if she was going to run into the man who had made the broadcast. Other people in her occupation were the only people she felt comfortable around.
 
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