>>6038963 | >>6039014 | >>6039043 | >>6039132 | >>6039592 | >>6039620Laying naked in silk, the worms that have produced it - dead for a century, Tomiko rummages the summary files, looking for useful information and exploitative weaknesses...
<span class="mu-i">Emeline Keiko</span> is at the zenith of a spectacular career and most of the Council of Zwölf, the twelve noble founders of Neu Tokyo (one of them being Tomiko's grandfather) have been especially pleased with her achievements. Rising the prestige of the city in all affairs has been of paramount importance in the last decade, as the more prestigious you are - the more you can get away with. And Neu Tokyo has gotten away with a lot. No rival city state has been left standing in a radius of a thousand miles, all of them have either recognized Tokyo as supreme or have perished. The only one still standing tall in the vicinity is Novyi Formossa, the metropolis covering an island known as Taiwan before the Impact. Conflict was inevitable and relations soured even before Neu Tokyo detonated a neutron bomb in the center of Vlad-i-Vostok, Formossa's kin city. Now all conflict is done by proxy as both metropolises are afraid of mutual destruction, until Emeline and her research came to break the stalemate. The implications of her space leaping tech might be used for the teleportation of not only ships but material of any kind large enough to hold an entombed pathfinder, the High Gate (the council of Novyi Formossa) fears.
However they aren't the only one afraid. Some rich patriotic Neu Tokyoites have been distraught by Emeline's rise to prominence. Even though she is native to the city, her female lover, Sharleez Shiba, isn't and comes from a place named <span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-r">Proper Gehenna</span></span>, an isolationist city located somewhere alongside the Red Sea. Neu Tokyo's satellites have never been able to pick it's exact location leading some to speculate that it's scientists have developed a cloaking device strong enough to cover a city, others believe that the whole city has the capability to move locations. In any case at least one rumor seems to be certainly true, Gehenna and it's primary cult - <span class="mu-i">Baal's Chosen</span> have been targeting the biggest brains around the world in attempt to recruit them. Emeline is protected by most of the Council of Twelve and is currently in the downtown Stellar Research Center building. Several platoons of heavy duty veterans are keeping her safe until her underground space shuttle is ready to take off in 24 hours. Those in power seem to think she will be safe in the Neu Tokyo lunar Space Station. Her lover will be accompanying her.
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