#13 by Carnifex

Many hunters, it seemed, were already feeling the pressure on bounties in Kusari. Some still believed it a simple quiet period in business and didn’t give it more thought. When Carnifex ‘explained’ the situation to them they began to think differently. As the numbers grew, the rumours spread; rumours of breaking away from the rest of the Hunters Guild, of conspiracies to make Deshima into a platform for SDN attacks into Kusari and subsequently the hottest contested station in the houses. The atmosphere on the station was slowly developing an edge to it that Carnifex felt he could use to his advantage. If a new organisation was to come about it would need its own identity and polarisation of the hunters in Kusari would do that. An organisation wouldn’t just need an identity; it needed policies and connections, money and man power.
Policy was easiest, necessity determined who would be targets and who wouldn’t be. If Blood Dragons or Outcasts were hunted by a Deshima Hunter then the Empire would have the last word. There was no such necessity with other houses, Deshima being inside Empire territory made it untouchable unless the SDN went to war with the entire house.
Connections. Well connections could be made. Being able to kill someone’s enemy could make as many friends as enemies.
Lastly, in the bounty business, the money and the manpower where the same thing. All of these pieces were falling into place.
The last piece was Deshima itself. The mammoth station, capital class docking capable and four bio-domes to top it off, was the cornerstone of Carnifex’s little rebellion. The means to secure it were now the focus of those at the core of his plans.