Hilo

The city of Hilo serves as host to the headquarters of the Sugai Zaibatsu and many of its business entities (heavy industry, transport, construction, athletic teams, sporting goods, defense, finance, education, real estate, property management, agriculture etc.) are located in the city. Their central offices are located in a just over one hundred meter tall curved horseshoe appearing high rise in the Civic Center ward of Hilo, the Tsukinoko. The design of the tower is based on the idea of unity and infinity and at night the ring, which is actually a complete oval that continues underground, is reflected in the pond surrounding the building (accessed by a few pedestrian bridges), and looks like a full moon glow. The facade of the building is covered in layers of white aluminum rings and fine textured glass producing the illusion and drama of the building. Its designer Ma Yangsong stated that the shape is inspired by traditional bridges represented in ancient chinese paintings and the search for a harmonious relationship with nature, an important part of Nejiroan culture and tradition. The circular building reflected in the pond creates a surreal picture, a connection between the real and the spooky. Under the sunlight and the reflection of the water the curved shape of the building is crystal clear and when night falls the whole building glows. The soft light wraps around the water and the building and the result resembles the bright moon rising over the water, a classical and modern mixture through reflection. The public lobby is richly decorated with different types of jade and citrine inlays, and the ceiling is covered with glass lamps forming waves of more than twenty thousand crystals while the floor is paved with tigers eye stones. The shape of the building gives shade to all its balconies and promotes natural ventilation and the ultra-white glass allows natural light in all rooms eliminating the need for artificial lighting during the day which saves energy and creates a pleasant atmosphere.

The people of Hilo are vibrant, diverse, ambitious, restless, bold, pulsing with energy, cosmopolitan, driven, passionate, cultured, and talented. The city is in constant motion with a vibrant nightlife and has the most twenty eight hour dining establishments and shops on Nejiro. There is always something to see, there is always something to do. It is a city of towering skyscrapers, bustling tree lined sidewalks, and cavernous subways. Approximately six million tourists are attracted to the inspiring, imaginative, eclectic, and expressive city each year. The architecture of the city is generally ultra-modern and futuristic featuring glass and steel. Many buildings are covered in trees, shrubs, and greenery to add to the city's green footprint, to lower energy costs, and to assist clean air circulation and insulation. The city squares and plazas have hundreds of automated giant parasol lamps which unfold under the heat of the sun and protect from rain. The 25-m tall umbrella structures are made of advanced composites and highly durable fabrics decorated with oriental motifs. Most buildings in the city are net zero energy buildings (using solar, wind, geothermal, hydrocell and/or hydropower energy sources) towering in fantastical shapes (curvaceous, parametrical, geometric) of sustainable and green construction technologies. Property prices generally range from seven thousand to fifteen thousand ryu per square meter and the cost of living ranges from three thousand ryu (single) to seven thousand ryu (family of four) per month. Hilo has about 58% public green space, and shade canopies both engineered (e.g. latticework, pergolas) and natural (trees, grasses) providing shade, cooling, and community spaces to relax, exercise, and socialize. There are a sizable number of urban farms, public gardens and parks, as well as wildlife sanctuaries on the rooftops of large industrial and commercial buildings contributing to food security and the cooling and calming effect of green spaces.

The commerce city of Hilo was chartered and founded (est. 2790) by the Sugai Dai Ichizoku to aid in intercontinental and interstellar warehousing, distribution, and transport. The city serves as a central gathering point for the agricultural, consumer, and industrial goods of the enormous continent of Tairiku and the overall planet of Nejiro, to be collected before being trans-shipped to the Spaceport (near the capitol city of Yousai), to the Enclave and beyond. Hilo is in the business of logistics and transport and moves approximately three hundred million tonnes (close to four trillion ryu in trade) of cargo annually. Advantage Logistics (publicly traded 279.3 Ryu per share) is among Hilo's top companies and offers shipping services sending freight anywhere with a reliable fleet of experienced carriers that operate to ensure shipments travel swiftly, safely, and arrive at their destination on time. Their logistics team leverages various distribution methods including cross-docking, overland trucking, railways, air freight, intermodal transport, waterways, ocean transport, and space transport. Along with hazardous materials the company ships cargo containers, liquid and dry bulk materials, refrigerated goods, and makes freight shipments for the textile, oil and gas, retail, pharmaceutical, agricultural, and manufacturing industries from door to door, to and from waterway freight ports, ocean freight ports, spaceports, and aeroports, and through intermodal and trans-loading facilities, with twenty eight hour pick-up, just-in time delivery, and other global and interstellar options may be easily arranged. The private Dangfeng Hangyun {eastwind shipping} (owned by the Rhee Dai Ichizoku) has a significant presence in the city and provides global and interstellar freight (largely agriculture) transport by sea, air, land, and space. Also prominent in the city are the private global logistics and shipping company Matson (owned by the Kasai Koichizoku) and the private Joryoku-sen {evergreen shipping} (owned by the Drake Consortium) that handles global and stellar freight. Phoenix Industries, Horizon Tradeships, and Neptune Orient Lines of the Sankaku also have more than a minor presence in the city. Passengers are equally moved, mostly by rail - by the Rail Runner Express (public 88.8 Ryu per share) (with a road runner logo and mascot) a commuter and passenger rail line with both maglev and shinkansen services carrying thousands of passengers daily throughout the Hilo Metropolitan area, the Eastern Desert province, to the Hoshizora Chiku {starry sky district}, the Yushan {jade hills} and the Kuroi Oka {black hills} provinces; Ukabo Komo {floating clouds} (publicly traded 72.57 Ryu per share) an executive class shinkansen rail line that serves the Eastern Desert province plus the Yushan, Kuroi Oka, and Annettai Heiya {subropical plains} provinces; Kinki Sharyo {railroad vehicles} a private rail line that runs passengers and freight on a shinkansen system throughout the Sharquin Kiso Yama {eastern foundation backbone mountains}, the Southern Steppe, and the Kiso Mountains provinces with additional stops in Madina, Baja, and Hilo; Hikari no Sokudo Tetsudosen {ightspeed railways} (owned by the Zakharovich Dai Ichizoku) offers economy and executive class shinkansen passenger and freight services on the continents of Tairiku and Shinrin and railways on many stellar bodies of the system; Nekehanga {mobiliy} (owned by the Palakiko Koichizoku of the Four Corners Zaibatsu) offers continental shinkansen passenger and freight services; Zheleznyye Dorogi {spirit railways} (owned by the Drake Consortium) has intercontinental and stellar railway services; Caledonian Railways (owned by the Sinclair Koichizoku) provides regional passenger services in the Kiso Mountains province and continental freight services across Tairiku; Heritage Railways (owned by the Vasilievna Koichizoku) runs a continental passenger service across Tairiku; Red Rabbit Rail (owned by the Yakovich Koichizoku of the Four Corners Zaibatsu) runs shinkansen passenger and freight services across Tairiku; The Golden Chariot (owned by the Zakharovich Dai Ichizoku) provides executive and luxury class intercontinental shinkansen passenger services; Via Rail (a Fenix Consortium Crown Corporation, a Phoenix Industries company) is the Nejiroan public railway and provides (tourist, commuter, shinkansen, passenger, freight) intercontinental and stellar railway services; and Trinity Railways (owned by the Sugai Zaibatsu) a subsidiary of Trinity Rail it operates maglev and shinkansen rail lines across the continent of Tairiku as well as intercontinental rail tunnels and railways on stellar domed cities, stations, and ports. Water taxis ferries, and passenger barges are also very popular modes of transport through the rivers and canals in Hilo and throughout its metropolitan area, and also across the vast and massive continent of Tairiku.
The Hilo Canal System with its headquarters at the Hilo Inland Port links with the Dako Unga {serpentine canals}, the Ddraig Unga {dragon canals} (providing navigable waterway transport throughout the mountains, forests, and grasslands of the southern reaches of the continent of Tairiku), and the Reei Omorfa {flowing beautifully} canal system of the northern reaches of the continent of Tairiku. These canals provide transport for passengers and freight across most of the city of Hilo and its metropolitan area. Bicycling is also a very common mode of transport across the city and there are a number of bicycle (manual and electric) retail shops and rental companies (especially popular with tourists for ease of sightseeing), bicycle maintenance and repair shops, and bicycle accessory and safety equipment manufacturers operating in the city.
Freight on Nejiro and in Hilo in particular is mostly shipped on barges, river junks, and inland marine freighters along a plentiful number of abundant rivers and canals, and by freight ships and container ships by sea, but cargo transport by train, small craft, air, and truck convoy is also in use. Local dropship traffic (e.g. Mule class dropship, Cargo King class dropship, Jumbo class dropship, and the rarely planetside Aqueduct class dropship and Mammoth class dropship) is generally limited to bi-weekly or monthly trips, mostly from the Spaceport, to ensure full loads of cargo and fuel efficiency, except for the occasional specialty or express shipment which use mostly small craft and smaller dropship classes (e.g. Leopard-Cargo class dropship, Danais class dropship, Buccaneer class dropship, Czar class dropship, Princess-Cargo class dropship).

The commerce city of Hilo was chartered and founded (est. 2790) by the Sugai Dai Ichizoku to aid in intercontinental and interstellar warehousing, transport, and distribution. The city serves as a central gathering point for the agriculture, consumer, and industrial goods, of the enormous continent of Tairiku and the overall planet of Nejiro, to be collected before being trans-shipped to the Spaceport (near the capitol city of Yousai), to the Enclave and beyond. Hilo is in the business of logistics and transport and moves approximately three hundred million tonnes (close to four trillion ryu in trade) of cargo annually. Freight , on Nejiro, and in Hilo in particular, is mostly shipped on barges, river junks, and inland marine freighters along a plentiful number of abundant rivers and canals, and by freight ships and container ships by sea, but cargo transport by train, air, small craft, and truck convoy is also in use. Local dropship traffic (e.g. Mule class dropship, Cargo King class dropship, Jumbo class dropship, and the rarely planetside Aqueduct class dropship and Mammoth class dropship) is generally limited to bi-weekly or monthly trips mostly from the Spaceport to ensure full loads of cargo and fuel efficiency, except for the occasional specialty or express shipments which use small craft and smaller dropship classes (e.g. Leopard-Cargo class dropship, Danais class dropship, Buccaneer class dropship, Czar class dropship, Princess-Cargo class dropship). Advantage Logistics (publicly traded 279.3 Ryu per share) is among Hilo's top companies and offers shipping services for sending freight anywhere with a reliable fleet of experienced carriers that operate to ensure shipments travel swiftly, safely, and arrive at their destination on time. Their logistics team leverages various distribution methods including cross-docking, overland trucking, railways air freight, inter-modal transport, waterways, ocean transport, and space transport; along with hazardous materials the company ships cargo containers, liquid and dry bulk materials, refrigerated goods, and makes freight shipments for the textile, chemical, oil and gas, retail, pharmaceutical, agricultural, and manufacturing industries from door to door, to and from aeroports, waterway ports, ocean ports, spaceports and intermodal and transloading facilities with twenty eight hour pickup, just in time delivery and other global and interstellar options may be easily arranged. The private Dangfeng Hangyun {eastwind shipping} (owned by the Rhee Dai Ichizoku) has a significant presence in the city and provides global and interstellar freight (largely agriculture) transport by sea, air, land, and space. Also prominent in the city are the private global logistics and shipping company Matson (owned by the Kasai Koichizoku) and Joryoku-sen {evergreen shipping} (owned by the Drake Consortium) that handles global and stellar freight. Phoenix Mercantile, Horizon Tradeships, and Neptune Orient Lines of the Sankaku also have more than a minor presence in the city.
Passengers are equally moved , mostly by rail - by the Rail Runner Express (public 88.8 Ryu per share) (with a road runner logo and mascot) a commuter and passenger rail system with both maglev and shinkansen lines carrying thousands of passengers daily throughout the Hilo metropolitan area, through the Eastern Desert province, and to the Hoshizora Chiku {starry sky district}, the Yushan {jade hills} and the Kuroi Oka {black hills} provinces; Ukabo Kumo {floating clouds} (publicly traded 72.57 Ryu per share) an executive class shinkansen rail system that serves the entire Eastern Desert province plus the Yushan, Kuroi Oka, and Annettai Heiya {subtropical plains} provinces; Kinki Sharyo {railroad vehicles} runs a shinkansen passenger and freight rail system throughout the Sharquin Kiso Yama {eastern foundation backbone mountains}, the Southern Steppe, and the Kiso Mountains provinces with additional stops in Madina, Baja, and Hilo; Hikari no Sokudo Tetsudosen {lightspeed railways} (owned by the Zakharovich Dai Ichizoku) offers economy and executive class shinkansen passenger and freight services across the continents of Tairiku and Shinrin and railways on many of the stellar bodies of the system; Nekehanga {mobility} (owned by the Palakiko Koichizoku of the Four Corners Zaibatsu) offers continental shinkansen passenger and freight services across Tairiku; Zheleznyye Dorogi {spirit railways} (owned by the Drake Consortium) offers intercontinental and stellar ralway services; Caledonian Railways (owned by the Sinclair Koichizoku) provides regional passengers and freight services in the Kiso Mountains province and continental freight services on Tairiku; Heritage Railways (owned by the Vasilievna Koichizoku) runs passenger services acrosss the continent of Tairiku; Red Rabbit Rail (owned by the Yakovich Koichizoku of the Four Corners Zaibatsu) runs skinkansen passenger and freight services across Tairiku; The Golden Chariot (owned by the Zakharovich Dai Ichizoku) provides executive and luxury class intercontinental shinkansen passenger services; Via Rail (a Fenix Consortium Crown Corporation company) the Nejiro public railway system provides (tourist, commuter, maglev, shinkansen, passenger,freight) intercontinental and stellar railway services; and Trinity Railways (owned by the Sugai Zaibatsu) operates maglev and shinkansen rail lines across Tairiku as well as intercontinental rail tunnels and railways on stellar domed cities, stations, and ports. Water taxis, ferries, and passenger barges are also very popular modes of transport over the rivers and canals in Hilo and throughout its metropolitan area and also across the vast and massive Nejiroan continent of Tairiku. The Hilo Canal system with its headquarters at the Hilo Inland Port links with the Dako Unga {serpentine canals}, the Ddraig Unga {dragon canals} (providing navigable waterway transport throughout the mountains, forests, and grasslands of the southern reaches of the continent of Tairiku), and the Reei Omorfa {flowing beautifully - providing waterway transport throughout the grasslands, hills, and mountains of the northern Tairiku continent} canal systems, which provides transport for passengers and freight across most of the city of Hilo and its metropolitan area. Bicycling is also a very common mode of transport across the city and there are a number of bicycle (manual and electric) retail and rental shops (especially popular with tourists and visitors as they easily enable sightseeing). There are a number of bicycle maintenance and repair companies, and bicycle accessory and safety equipment manufacturers operating in the city.

The location of of the city of Hilo was decided upon because it is reasonably central and it is where 'the rivers meet' ensuring easy transit along the rivers and canals throughout the Eastern Desert province and around the immense continent of Tairiku. The site was also chosen because of the nearby remains of a Terran Hegemony dropship and jumpship parts and component manufacture, transport, and distribution center, which still retains many of its buildings and facilities intact (dropship pads, railway station and tracks, canal port etc.) and was heavily in use during the construction of Hilo. The location now known as Camp Haken {hegemony} is the current military base of many of the individual mercenary units of the Chiji no Keibitai {Governor's Security Force, GSF} who occupy a small part of the facility.
The Kanawha River {white rock makes its way swiftly through the city with an average depth of thirty meters and widths of more than thirty five meters in the vicinity of the city and its path moves straight across the city in a northerly direction, with a few detouring curves. It flows through many of the most important and central wards of the city including the Hilo Inland Port and then continues its journey north through the Hilo metropolitan area and the Valle della Luna then through the Eastern Desert south of the Akichi Erg {empty quarter shifting sand dunes} and into the Sangosho Gulf {coral}. Accompanying the river's route through the city is a greenway corridor that serves as a wildlife sanctuary and nature preserve that eases animal migration through the city. The Waikato River {flowing water} carves an irregular path through Hilo with depths over ten meters from the southwest to the northeast and then journeys east through Hilo's metropolitan area past Camp Haken and Baja to the Woy Woy Peninsula {much water, big lagoon} and into the Sulu Sea {flowing water currents}. The Quoile River {narrow} makes an almost straight path from west to east with depths of at least three meters and widths over fifteen meters across the southern industrial, transport, and warehouse wards of Hilo before continuing underground south-east across the Eastern Desert and into Pearl Bay. Hilo operates several hydropower plants in the locations where the rivers cross in the city. The Hilo Inland Port is located where the Quoile and the Kanawha Rivers cross amidst the southern wards of the city and includes docks for the Dako Unga (which provides waterway transport across the Eastern Desert province into the Sharqiun Kiso Yama and the Yushan provinces), and the Reei Omorfa canals (which provides waterway transport across the Kuroi Oka province and into the Eastern Desert, Yushan, and Annettai Heiya provinces).
The go-shintai {symbolic physical objects believed to be 'the body of the kami'} of the kawa no kami {river gods} of the Kanawha, Quoile, and Waikato Rivers are enshrined in the honden {main hall} of the Kawa ga shizen hogo-ku to jinja ni deau basho {where the rivers meet nature reserve and shrine} (a 350-ha nature park and reserve of chaparral shrubland and a Shinto shrine built amidst wooded meditation gardens in the midst of the crossing of the Kanawha and Waikato Rivers between what is now the two Downtown Hilo wards). The shrine was founded by Delm Francesco Sugai almost a decade before the Ichizoku began the official chartering process for the city. It is now surrounded by a public park and wildlife sanctuary nature preserve. The shrine is the spiritual center of the city and hosts two major matsuri annually, one honoring the rivers in September Kawakami-sai, and one honoring the xolo dogs and xolotl in October Xolo Inumatsuri. The dogs were beloved of Delm Francesco Sugai and feature heavily in the stories and myths of Hilo and the Eastern Desert province. The city hosts a few other river crossings, the Kanawha and Waikato cross several times in the central wards of the city, and the Quoile and Waikato cross in several of the southern industrial, transport, and warehouse wards. The Dako Unga Inland Port is located in the most southeast ward of the city where the Waikato and Quoile Rivers cross. The Dako Unga has docks at many of the major intersections and important points of interest in Hilo. The Menrva Eki serves as the regional railway station for Hilo and the Eastern Desert province and it has Dako Unga waterway links to southern Tairiku locations such as Stonehaven, Whistler, Kamloops, Moro, Port and others. The Dako Unga canal system also has waterway links to northern Tairiku locations such as Hilo of course, and Baja, Madina, Ayuhwasi {meadow}, Mount el-Leja {refuge}, Stargazer Wilderness Park, Achizu Kokuritsu Koen {arches national park}, Mouse-hole, Sakura Onsen, Anheru Taki {angel falls}, Hikari {light}, Tentai Mizumi {celestial lake}, Camp Haken, Sugai Castle, and Fune {boat}. The Reei Omorfa canal system has waterway links to northern Tairiku locations such as Bridges, the Akai Yoake Military Academy (with FLETC {field and law enforcement training centers and MAWS {Marine Advanced Warfare Schools, a Phoenix Industries company} War College campuses), the NDT (Nejiro Defense Troop) Minpei Toride {military citadel}, Lanikai, Quezon, Yousai, Neptune, the Enclave, the Spaceport, and the ComStar terrestrial HPG station.

There are two regional aeroports in the city.

The city's maglev subway, built as the second lowest level of Hilo's Underground, also serves above ground as part of the Hilo Metropolitan Rail Network. The underground navigable canals (which most of the city's commercial and industrial freight moves through), cisterns, yakchal {underground icehouse}, shabestan {night rooms}, server farms, and qanats {underground water supply system and irrigation} being in the lowest level of the Hilo Underground. The Hilo Underground (UnderHilo, 'underhill'), built as large 'islands' with connecting tunnels and bridges due to the rivers, also houses utilidors, pedestrian passageways, hydrocell plants {hydrogen fuel cell}, hydropower plants, NPO and NDT military bunkers and oases, Sugai Yoroi {armor} militia bunkers and oases, disaster shelters, storage, and several residential, commercial, retail, entertainment, red-light, university, agricultural, warehouse, and manufacturing wards. There are several tollways and major highways that converge in the city. Most major roadways on Tairiku come to, or pass through Hilo - 'all roads' etc.... The city's major roadways are wide shade tree lined flamboyantly designated boulevards with greenway corridors (with bicycle paths, native grasses and wildflowers, and productive trees) running from north to south and wide shade tree lined numbered avenues running from east to west. There are several large service plazas on the outskirts of the city, serving the lorry convoys and heavy freight transports traveling the roadways of the humongous continent of Tairiku, with logistic centers, railway and canal access.

The city of Hilo is laid out simply in a large rectangle separated into fixed square wards that serve both as administrative electoral boundaries and as boundaries between commercial, industrial, residential, and government sectors of the city. The city Mayor, currently Mazie Hirono, (five year election cycle by the citizens and residents) resides at Youya Shoen {grace manor} and works from City Hall in the Shiku Choson {municipal ward}. The mayor acts as chief executive of the City of Hilo and its Metropolitan area and is served by an elected (five year cycle) Hilo City Council with one Alder per ward, the Hilo Metropolitan Council with one elected (six year cycle) Alder per ward, the Hilo Guildhall Syndic, and the Hilo Advisory Council (a trustee board {Chaired by Matronaes Amalaa Sugai} that oversees three centuries of endowments, trusts, and investments created and designated for the health and welfare of the city of Hilo and its residents) with seats appointed by the Sugai Dai Ichizoku Hierarchy. Hilo is part of the Nikko Chiku {sunlight district} and the Chiku jimusho {district office} is in Hilo's Civic Center ward {district and province government ward} presided over by Keenan Izanagi, Commons House Member of Parliament (MP). The Eastern Desert province's Chihosaibansho {district courts} are led by the Honorable Judge Lucas Caderyn, JD, Meritous; and the Hilo Magistrate Court is led by the Honorable Judge Yutaka Minami, Meritous.
The Draconis Combine Admiralty (DCA) has the headquarters for their locally deployed and training military and intelligence personnel in the Civic Center ward of the city, the complex also holds recruiting and consulate offices.
The Hilo law enforcement and community police contracts are held by the Nejiro Peace Officers. {NPO Deputy Commissioner Haruko Abe, Eastern Desert province commands more than enough Constables to patrol the city of Hilo and its metropolitan area plus other urban and rural areas of the Eastern Desert province, several Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) major crimes units with forensic attachments, several resident units of CIB agents, K9 units, mounted units, waterway patrol and pursuit units, quick response forces, several strategic response units, NPO Sea Patrol marine services units, marine quick response forces, maritime river and canal patrol and pursuit units, an NPO Celestial Patrol unit assigned to the Hilo Centrair Aeroport, and dozens of NPO Wylde Ranger Towers plus other elements across the province.} The Hilo firefighting and emergency services contract are held by the Nejiro Fire Brigade. {Battalion Chief of Hilo Momo Wamuro commands the Hilo emergency call centers, the Firehouses of Hilo and its metropolitan area, the city and metropolitan paramedic ambulance corps, hazardous materials units, several heavy rescue and towing units, a few controlled burn units, air search and rescue units, urban search and rescue units, wildland search and rescue units, quite a few wildland firefighting units with search and rescue attachments, and a firefighter and paramedic training center.}
Militia defense of Hilo and its metropolitan area is provided by the Sugai Yoroi Militia {armor}. {Commanded by Sho-sa Tomoharu Sato and Tai-i Seojun Sugai leads the local Hilo Metro Command which patrols the city of Hilo, its metropolitan area and into the Yami no yamayama plus adjacent parts of the Eastern Desert with a battalion or so of infantry and armoured cavalry units plus amphibious and river units and support; the Sugai Keibi Hiko-tai {sea security squadrons} Commander Cho-so Jimmu Izanagi commands the blue water defense fleets of support vessels, patrol boats, submarines, cutters, corvettes, frigates, cruisers, and carriers that operate in the Sangosho Gulf {coral}, Pearl Bay, the Eastern Sea, the Sulu Sea {dynamic flowing waters}, and the Samenoumi {shark ocean} and the Sugai Marine Services fleet of inland and coastal patrol, pursuit, rescue, and defense vessels of corvettes, cutters, patrol boats, motorboats, vtols, support vessels, and amphibious vehicles.} Military defense of Hilo, its metropolitan area and the wider Eastern Desert is provided by the Nejiro Defense Troop. {NDT Sho-sa Hwan Kim Eastern Desert Province Patrol Group, NDT Tai-i Telidja Klai Hilo City Patrol, NDT Tai-i Robin Drake Yami no yamayama Patrol, and NDT Tai-i Melantha Sharpe Hilo Metropolitan Patrol.}

At this time, manufacturing in Hilo and its metropolitan area focuses on smaller and more flexible production with high value and low volume goods, customized goods, advanced manufacturing, and repair of machinery and robotics (e.g. CNC machines, multidimensional and multi-compound printers, laser cutters etc). Prominent businesses in Hilo include: Taiyo Energy (publicly traded 126.23 Ryu per share) green energy utility (solar, wind, natural gas, geo-thermal, hydrocell, hydropower) that serves much of the northern Tairiku continent; BrightStar Energy (publicly traded 85.29 Ryu per share) has the largest solar farm on the planet and supplies about a quarter of the power to the industrial systems of the Eastern Desert province and a sizable percentage of the power to the Yushan {jade hills} province; Intuitive Surgical (publicly traded 538.37 Ryu per share) designs and manufactures remote control surgical systems; Titan (publicly traded 89.35 Ryu per share) manufactures cargo containers, container cranes and intermodal equipment, construction and military grade heavy trucks, heavy freight trucks, cargo and commercial trucks; Kambarka Engineering manufactures freight cars and rolling stock for maglev and shinkansen rail systems; Saisenten no nogyo {cuting edge agriculture} (public 143.9 Ryu per share) focuses on improving crop productivity, precision agriculture, and crop sustainability, nutrition and resource efficiency for stellar and planetary vertical, field, and ponic farms using the latest techniques integrating science (e.g. smart sensors, remote operated vehicles, drones, nanotech, biochemistry, plant breeding, data analysis, automated robots etc.) to optimize farming yields; Mister Robotto (publicly traded 155.50 Ryu per share) is a manufacturer of robots, industrial robots, exosuits, and industrial mechs; Kibarashi Eiga Kaisha {diversion film company} focuses its interests on films featuring an artistic vision that appeals to modern day young people with several divisions of live action and animation productions and other subsidiaries such as press, stage theatrical, interstellar distribution and streaming services, it has produced and distributed some of Nejiro's highest grossing films with more than eleven billion ryu in revenue; Madrigal Print Shop (publicly traded 53.26 Ryu per share) custom book binder and boutique vanity printers to independent authors, it prints illustrated children's books for several publishing houses, and also creates special edition prints of fiction and non-fiction books and papers that includes limited run boxed leather bound gilded editions with illustrations; Foxconn (public 67.27 Ryu per share) is an electronics contract manufacturer of specialty electronic components, printed circuit boards, and integrated circuits; Kyoi Kojo {marvel mill} (public 93.37 Ryu per share) a contract garment and textile factory complex; DLA Piper Law Offices a global and interstellar firm whose lawyers and solicitors practice corporate, civil, and criminal law; Zephyr-net is an intrasystem satellite communication network, an internet broadband communication network, and a digital media publisher; Phantom (publicly traded 22.62 Ryu per share) manufactures holoscreens and trid holographic communications tech, and broadcast and receiving equipment; Rozen (public 145.83 Ryu per share) manufactures custom industrial robots and industrial mechs; Sokuten {cartwheels} (public 45.67 Ryu per share) a grocery, department store, and home essential delivery service from hundreds of participating retailers and restaurants in the city of Hilo and its metropolitan area employing personal shoppers, drones, and drivers; Hood & Hyena (publicly traded 330.88 Ryu per share) creates digital cyber countermeasures, security algorithms, encryption cryptography, digital security architecture, and firewalls; Mahelona Glass (publicly traded 132.68 Ryu per shareowned by the Mahelona Koichizoku} a factory industrial park in the Seizo {fabricate} manufacturing ward of the city and a Downtown Hilo office complex that manufactures industrial, commercial, factory, architectural, and optical glass; Kamares {arches} (publicly traded 97.8 Ryu per share) manufactures drones for combat, reconnaissance, surveillance, wildlife and agricultural surveys, and journalism {the Vespid is a palm sized drone weighing just over twenty eight grams constructed of a proprietary composite that minimizes weight without sacrificing durability with a rotor design and flight control software that may act as an autopilot with situational awareness and obstacle avoidance capabilities, a remote control microcopter that streams high resolution audio and ultra low-light starlight optical and thermal digital images from three cameras and two directional microphones that may fly with gps in up to 25 knot winds and remain airborne for over an hour as far as two kilometers from its base unit - a tablet with a pistol grip style controller and charging station with a total system weight of 1.3kg (5000 Ryu), and the Hrafn Vehicle Reconnaissance System an 80 kg box bolted onto the chassis of a ground vehicle that contains three camouflaged and stealthy drones with a variety of high resolution cameras, microphones, and chemsensors that can be launched and controlled entirely from the safety of the vehicles interior and recovered autonomously, each hrafn weighs 350 grams and may travel over six kilometers from its launch vehicle with an endurance of three hours (10,000 Ryu)}; Xandros manufactures superconducting electromagnetic systems for maglev vehicles; Bali-Toys Hilo manufactures the Linda's Laboratory line of modular science kits and experiments supported by interactive software and books, many of the sets may be combined for more complex projects and the company releases at least three new kits a month; Abyss Creations manufactures interactive customizable fully articulated robot sex dolls, prices begin at seventy five thousand ryu and interchangeable skins in every color and other accessories are available; Kannon architecture-engineer firm designs vaults, safe rooms, panic rooms, fortified rooms, ship citadels, shelters, bunkers, and other secure facilities; Kunlun is a boat builder that constructs kunlun po, chuan ships, and river junks; Astra designs and manufactures executive jets and private executive vtols and helicopters; Comau manufactures exoskeletons for mining, for heavy lifting, as a walking assistive for the disabled, for medical rehabilitation and assistive limb replacement, as prosthetics, for construction, for firefighters and rescue workers, for robotic remote operation, to simulate light gravity and resist fatigue; Lightbox (publicly traded 115.34 Ryu per share) manufactures synthetic industrial diamonds for use with diamond edge machine tools, cutting and drilling tools, specialty abrasives, and high grade optical material for lasers and heat sinks. There is also a considerable variety of textile, finance, food and alcohol production, construction, resource production and refinement, boat building and boatyards, and vehicle production and repair as well as urban technology companies.

Agriculture in the Hilo metropolitan area focuses on farming thyme and rosemary, flax, barley, emmer wheat, mavragani durum wheat, olive trees, apricot, peach, citrus and nut orchards, grape production, and pastures with sheep, goats, pigs, and poultry. Lettuces and greens, table fruit and vegetables are mostly produced in greenhouses and deep water ponic facilities that also yields fish and seafood as well as rabbits, tillandsia, and green, black, and herbal teas. Agricultural exports (over thirty billion ryu in trade) from Hilo and the Eastern Desert province include high quality figs, dates, honey, walnuts, apricots, wine, chickpeas, tomatoes, hot peppers, polenta, herbs and spices, peaches, almonds, bonito, aged ham, akamaguro {red tuna}, sardines, catfish, hake, carp, trout, salmon, wool, linen, olive oil, limoncello, orange juice, greek yogurt, payoyo cheese, goat milk etc., but the most favored and requested is tormack - a native Nejiroan spiny green skinned gourd with deep purple flesh high in nutrients with preparation and taste quite similar to a potato. Cattle {criollo and idaina kemono} and dairy cows are also raised but are grazed in small numbers as premium stock. There is also fishing in the rivers and canals but that is mostly small artisan and traditional fisheries in support of local fresh food markets and restaurants. Sport fishing on the rivers and canals on the other hand is quite a draw for tourism.

Hilo is home to several top ranked public and private schools. Raissonne Daigaku {reason university} has a College of Humanities, a College of Natural Science and Technology, a Medical College, a reserve officer training corps, Raissonne Prep with a junior officer training corps, Raissonne Daigaku Byoin {reason university hospital - holds the largest trauma center on the continent and trains military and civilian emergency services personnel} {Chancellor Aleks Rama, Academic Dean Tatiana Kumiko Yi, Dean of students Mikan Hinode, Board of Trustees Chair Matronaes Amalaa Sugai} The university was established with the Hilo City Charter and is publicly funded by the city and was endowed by the Sugai Dai Ichizoku, it is almost always ranked in the top ten (mostly the top five) of the best schools on Nejiro (vying with ivy league Quezon Institute of Science, Nagoya University, and Samar University). Hilo City College is another school originating with the City Charter, on the Quoile riverfront near the Hilo Inland Port, is a top notch tuition free day/boarding polytechnic and vocational school (for up to fifteen thousand students, there is a waiting list arranged by interview results, educational attainmenment, and extracurricular involvement) that accepts students as young as fourteen. The school is sponsored and additionally endowed by the Hilo Guild Syndic, it also offers a variety of adult education courses and a digital education center with courses accommodating pre-k thru tertiary level academic and vocational education, and there are of course apprenticeships in many crafts and trades. The Yabai Technology Institute is an excellent private secondary thru tertiary academic and research school owned by the Sugai Zaibatsu. The Rose Polytechnic Institute is an independent public vocational and applied science and maths school sponsored by the Hilo City Council that has graduated some of the best technical specialists on Nejiro. Kosen Technological University {arc, arch} is an independent private school with one of the best mechatronic labs on the continent and graduates many talented industrial mech and robotics engineers. MacYwer Oyo Kagaku Daigakuin {school of applied sciences} is a private boarding secondary and tertiary level academic and vocational school with a research institute that graduates some of the finest engineers and field scientists in the stellar system, it is owned by the Zakharovich Dai Ichizoku and has additional campuses in SanGun Jukyo, Moro, Pluoton, Buda, and Leyte. Peony Gakko {king of flowers school} is a public school endowed and operated by the Peony Corp. that teaches traditional japanese arts and crafts through academia and apprenticeships with several campuses on Nejiro and in the stellar system. Tie zhen xueyuan {anvil academy} is an independent private primary and seconary level day/boarding school with a top notch competitive athletics program, a junior reserve officer training corps, an innovative arts program, and with a superior academic course load and at least thirty percent of the student body are there on scholarships (half of that due to academic excellence, half due to a citywide public school lottery) in the Kuso-tekina {fanciful} residential ward of the city. Huginn & Muninn is an independent private day/boarding top rated academic school that covers from pre-k thru tertiary academic course loads located at the Bright Meadows manor house estate in the Nemora {woodland} ward of Hilo, a secure environment many of the city's most affluent local and interstellar residents send their children to, it has a highly competitive secondary a-level academic program with a wide ranging educational curriculum that prioritizes critical thinking, problem solving, and creative thought, its Meritous program is one the most celebrated in the province and the school has a large enrollment of digital academic student programs. Pine View School is an independent private co-ed boarding school with a fine heritage of providing students with an enriched challenging academic program in which excellence is nurtured and encouraged, it has been consistently recognized at the national level as one of Nejiro's top high schools and is an ivy league feeder school. Greendale High School has a stunning cone shaped library, a soaring lobby, a 43-m tower rising above a 950-seat theater and giant circular windows in the vocational public arts school for the visual and performing arts with an eclectic and imaginative course load that has inspired many of its students to be cinematographers, graphic artists, industrial designers, and metalsmiths in the heart of one of Hilo's more quirky and unusual suburban communities. Lady Tristian's Finishing School is an independent private boarding school that imparts a thorough social and sexual education to males and females over the age of eighteen to create the most elegantly refined, sophisticated and cultured society escorts and courtesans, and some of the most prominent and preeminent concubines in the stellar system. Madam Ko's Personal Protection Academy is an exclusive independent private school with a rigorous, extensive, and intensive study in martial arts, cordon bleu cooking and nutrition, emergency medicine, etiquette, diplomacy and negotiation, high speed vehicle pursuit and professional driving, personal security and information technology, close protection and marksmanship. The small number of successful elite and exceptional graduates, few in number but absolutely superlative in quality, receive a uniquely patterned blue diamond tattoo on their shoulder as a mark of their esteem, they are always in demand and coveted as security and close protection specialists. Southeastern University is a public research school privately owned by the Malik Koichizoku and the Badawi Group with a humanities college, a science and technology college, a business and law college, an agricultural college, an arts college, a virtual college, a reserve officer training corps, a vocational school, an experiential education center, the center for research experience for undergraduates, and competitive sports and intramural athletics located in Evansville a suburb in the Hilo metropolitan area.

Fernando is the largest suburb in the Hilo metropolitan area located near Bell Creek among desert savanna, chaparral shrubland and riparian woodlands. Its economy is supported with movie ranches, adult video studios, commercial growers of table and wine grapes along with citrus and olives, television studios and broadcasters, music studios and publishers, bicycle manufacturers, hospitality and tourist companies, communications and aerospace technology companies. Tourism is also a great boon to the suburb's economy with the showpiece Fernando Eki {bold daring journey railway station} of photogenic mission revival architecture {a style very popular in the Hilo Valle della Luna metropolitan area as well as neo-moorish revival, mediterranean revival, bungalow, and queenslander} with massive adobe walls covered in plaster and whitewash, low pitched roofs with wide eaves, red clay roof tiles, thick arches and piers, long exterior arcades, an enfilade of interior halls, interior and exterior courtyards, and baroque bell gables and towers; The Relic Museum which has collections of obsolete machines and vehicles, mechanical musical instruments, and antique furniture; the Starlight Bowl is a five thousand seat amphitheater most well known for its Autumn Shakespeare Festival; Gryphon Park is a large municipal recreation park a wilderness of more than 170-ha of wild and rugged trails and campgrounds; Gryphon Observatory on Apollo Hill (378 masl) is an astronomy tower, a meterological observatory, a planetarium, and a public telescope; Nowadays is a nightclub with a sixteen thousand square meter indoor/outdoor space full of live DJs on multiple dance floors, live music, local food specialties (patatas bravas, pastrami burgers, kalguksu, pisto, pinot noir, bulgogi, albondigas, sourdough avocado toast, samgyetang, croqueta, hobakjuk, japchae, jamon iberico, mandu, strawberry wine), craft beer, sangria, the iconic Mister Sundays afternoon dance parties, and their massive backyard many have likened to music fesival grounds; Miyawaki Botanical Forest a landscaped and manicured miniature forest park of endangered Terran tree species of blue oaks, bamboo-leaf oak, chestnut, nutmeg, magnolia, tabunoki {red bay} trees and other near extinct species that started in a vacant lot and has expanded to five hundred acres over the centuries; the old Sugai Yoroi Zensho-chi {outpost, fort} at Margalla Hills {sepents fort} and its 2-ha of lawns, meadows, and picnic grounds often used for large family gatherings and cultural fairs and festivals. There are quite a few community farms and gardens, public parks and recreation areas in the suburban town, and the residential neighborhoods feature lawns of native grasses, wildflowers, and herbs fed by a town wide underground copper lined drip irrigation system.

Agriculture is an important part of Hilo's economy with farmwork, husbandry, fishing, and silviculture activities accounting for about three percent of the city's economy and another three and a half percent is generated by the agrofood industry and together produces nearly seventy billion ryu in revenue. Horu {the halls} is the central fresh food market of the city, the belly of Hilo bringing in foodstuffs from across the province, the continent, the globe, and the stellar system plus the Periphery and the Sphere. It houses hundreds of market stalls of local farm fresh fruit, flowers, herbs and spices, seeds and nuts, milled grains, honey and sugars, vegetables, fish and seafood, bread and baked goods, dairy and eggs, juices and fizzy drinks, handmade gelato and sorbet, tea and coffee purveyors, paleta and shave ice, meat and butchers, handmade oils, pasta and noodles, smoothie and milkshake creators, artisan condiments and sauces, wine and spirit merchants with tastings, global specialties, and interstellar delicacies, an always fresh tasting buffet and charcuteria, there is also a craft beer garden, chocolate and sweets, perfumes and skin care, crafts and handmade goods, scores of food stalls offering a wide range of cuisines from street hawkers to emerging chefs, and inner wholesale markets for professionals. Horu receives more than five million visitors a year and is a must-see destination. In addition to the wide variety of food it offers public cooking classes and demonstrations, public crafter classes and demonstrations, gardening and horticulture knowledge, and houses buskers, artists and street performers. Horu is located near the center of the city within sight of the Waikato River and sits at the borders between the Civic Center ward, the Downtown Hilo wards, and the Shiku Choson {municipal ward} in the Agora Nogyo {agriculture gathering place, plaza}. It is a circular structure of green textured glass and airy wrought iron topped by an undulating five hundred meter curvilinear canopy soaring twenty four meters in height, covering several floor terraces of sheltered public space. The canopy consists of eighteen thousand scale like pieces of glass supported by a seven thousand tonne steel structure, a dense frame of slightly curving steel beams covered in gleaming golden lacquer which rest on a very deep latticework which cuts through the central axis of the building that brings plenty of natural light inside and controls temperature. The Horu market space covers more than 8.5 hectares of surface and underground space and includes a public park, ornamental and meditation gardens, a botanical garden, an urban wildlife preserve, a public swimming pool, performance spaces, restaurants and pubs, a food truck court, several buzzy destination restaurants {e.g. Gaucho Rodizio (cowboy turn) an asada churrasceria (portugese, spanish, brazilian style bbq steakhouse) all you can eat rustic style ground fire roasted and grilled meats served by roaming 'cowboy' servers carrying skewers and swords of a wide variety of meats from wagyu beef to swordfish accompanied by a large buffet of traditional sides thru three levels of warm and contemporary yet timeless design with additional private and semi private dining areas for special events owned by the Peony Corp.}, and the Tanpopo ryori gakko {dandelion cooking school}, the Kyanopi catering and event hall, a sento, a multiscreen cinema, cultural and worship centers, a public library branch, a music conservatory, a grotto shrine dedicated to Gaea, a textile market, a shopping mall, and an underground lorry service plaza that also caters to tourists and digital nomads, an underground canal dock which handles tonnes of goods daily, and a main tributary subway station of multiple lines converging in a transit center that connects the city and a great deal of the metropolitan area and some 750,000 people pass thru the station every day.

Some other not to be missed highlights of Hilo are: the Hilo Radio Mast the tallest structure in the city with a 500-m tower and a 700-m antenna spire, an aijiro {blue white} illuminated cylindrical lattice broadcast communications and public observation tower in the Aoba ward {fresh leaves, an upscale commercial and wealthy residential area with many corporate headquarters} offering panoramic views of the city (from three decks) and of the Valle della Luna and the Yami no yamayama;
Himitsu {secret} is a hidden speakeasy serving cocktails and spirits on the highest observation deck of the Hilo Radio Mast only after dark when the moons (Selene and Hinatea) are full and on New Year's Eve;
Tochitawa {torch tower} the tallest skyscraper in the city (450-m) whoseshape conveysthe impression of a fire-lit torch fronted by the 'Bonfire of the Sun' public art installation (a 4.5 meter wide orange-yellow globe containing flickering lights emitting 70,000 lumens that combine to give visitors the impression of sitting in front of a bonfire or laying in a field basking in the sun's rays) on Yobun'na Plaza {extra} in front of the building surrounded by comfortable benches with soft hybrid turf to lie on and other greenery, the plaza shares spacewith the Hilo Globe skyscraper, Harappa Koen {open field park}, and Cover the city's largest newsstand that archives more than three thousand titles from gloss magazines to newspapers, journals, comics and manga, and novels {there are more than 1500 newsstands in the city}. The Tochitawa floors include a vertical garden atrium lobby designed to take in fresh air from the outside surrounded by trees and greenery, a two thousand seat events hall, a boutique museum covering the history of fire and torches through the ages, ballrooms and exhibition spaces, a fitness center and spa, a wellness center and clinic, a public indoor pool and diving center, an indoor public park and playground, artist studios and workshops, galleries, office space, residential spaces, the business offices of Tashikani {indeed} (a job search and resume archive with employment services offering immediate positions and training), Annabella (a private members only social club for the wealthy elite of Hilo with salons and sophisticated lounge areas, acoffee bar and tearoom, a yoga studio and a dojo, a fencing salle, overnight accommodations, two gourmet restaurants, three bars, and a nightclub), an eclectic foodcourt overtaking an entire floor of the tower with many dining options from food stalls to small casal restaurants and cafes (Kkanbu Chicken, Wonderland Tea Party, Baozi he Jiaozi {bun and dumpling}, Karmelkorn, Greek Town, Koiji {love's pathway}, Mojo, Cosmic Buffet, Firebird Spirits Brewpub, BurgerQ, Wanton Wonton, Agartala {under the agar tree}, The Hammock Siesta Lounge, Sazon Hispania, Ramen Ichiraku, Pizzeria Luna Blu, Sangria Tapas, Umami Sushi & Grill, Spoonsticks, Ginger Seoul, Nautilus Pub, A Salt & Battery, Izakaya Stand Jump, Beet Eat, Banh mi Sandwich, Falafel Brothers etc.) with much of the floorspace covered in flowers and greenery the diners are free to relax on outdoor terraces shaded by palm trees with excellent views of the city or the indoor terraces have views of the verticalgarden and the atrium lobby, the Avant nightclub where many of the most famous DJs play concerts throughout the year, King's Joy a three star upscale white cloth restaurant located near the top of the tower offering eclectic fusion gourmet cuisine and spectacular views of the city, Zhenzhu mu {mother of pearl} (a luxury hotel that offers only sumptuous deluxe suites and has one of the city's most impressive rooftop terrace gardens), an underground parking garage, a subway station, balcony apartments, and from its public observation deck you may see picturesque vistas of the city;
Mosaic Stadium {a Sugai Zaibatsu company} a flexible one hundred thousand seat multiuse multilevel sports arena that was designed to resemble a moving roaring and smoking European fairytale dragon that actually 'spits fire' at entering spectators on important game days and other significant cultural events with three professional sides the Hilo Thunderbirds lacrosse club, the Hilo Drakes association football club, and the Hilo Blue Sparks basketball club;
Kairo {circuit} isa motorsport loopy twin ring racetrack in the Soko Zeddo-ku {warehouse zed ward} capable of handling formula one, indy, and stock professional and amateur events including derby's and industrial mech races (it hosts the Annual Charity Mech Dance Challenge graded and elimination rounds of freestyle and line dances and others like the hokey pokey, the macarena, the cha-cha slide, the charleston, and the wobble every September sponsored by local corporations with their best mech pilots that funds children's education and medical foundations), the track also serves as a car park and popular meeting space for motor heads and gearheads to show off their stuff and talk shop as well as put up or shut up on the track, there is also a Lawson convenience store, a vending machine block, a newsstand, the Gearhead Coffee Bar and Izakaya Gears on the property, and there are pro-shops and mechanic shops nearby;
Havoc is a converted warehouse in the Soko Chika Zeddo-ku {underground warehouse zed ward} in the Underground that has a ten meter octagonal clear polycarbonate-kevlar compound sealed cage with amateur competitors (mostly students and engineers) of weekly robot cage fights in various weight classes up to 136-kg (firearms and chemical weapons are forbidden
Inn Cahoots is a tudor style boutique hotel in the Kouri-gyo-ku {retail ward} near Sweet Meadow Aerofield with condo style suites and an event space venue, its lounge style bar Shenanigans is very popular with pilots of all stripes (air to mech
Nyla's Lanar is a romanesque style domed building using glass and steel (instead of stone) adorned with stained glass frescoes and mosaics featuring scenes from greek and roman mythology as well as the links between spiritual and physical cleanliness and elaborate geometric patterned marble floors over a modern hypocaust system,a popular hangout in the Downtown Hilo South ward during Siesta that features well lit airy spaces under high vaulted ceilings and archways, a communal thermae with an enormous central bathing hall that has many connected temperature controlled swimming and wading pools featuring small rock waterfalls and grottos for ambience and privacy, there are decorative koi fish swimming freely in the pools and there are planters of ornamntal and productive flora creating spaces where people may sit, talk, and relax;
the Food is Culture museum is located on the second floor of the Empire Stores (complex of converted cargo warehouses {tea and coffee} in the Kouri-gyo-ku {retail ward} on the Kanawha riverfront with an inner courtyard park, an urban rooftop farm, restaurants, retail, market, office, and event spaces, the historic charm of the buildings are preserved with original architectural details like the iconic brick masonry, large arched windows and iron shuttered facade, schist stonewalling, coffee chutes and hoisting wheels), it brings theworld of food and drink to life with exhibits you may taste, touch, and smell with storytelling, classes, and demonstrations providing information about healthy and sustainable eating habits and satisfying curiosity about where food comes from contributing to the preservation of ethnic cuisines and culinary arts and solutions to food challenges of the thirty first century;
Crystal Tower the 350-m skyscraper in the center of a high rise complex owned by the Mahelona Koichizoku is a crystalline appearing tower with a frosted ribbed and slumped glass facade that forms waves giving the tower a slightly tufted appearance, parts of the building complex are covered in images of fractals and geode formations and other artistic and inspiring images demonstrating the virtues of their newest architectural glass product that has propagated across Nejiro;
the 'Painted Buildings' of the Downtown Hilo ward holds many of the city's most interesting skyscrapers, it is a two hour walking tour of the colorful high rise buildings and skyscrapers through the ward where buildings compete to be the prettiest,most beautiful, most kawaii, or inspiring with painted glass (stained glass, watercolor, oil, ink brush, fresco, mosaic, abstract, photo-real picture, or calligraphy) covering the glass facades with colored and textured (Mahelona Glass) patented architectural glass that is wind resistant and shatterproof;
Muse Dream is a shopping arcade under a stained glass dome featuring fractals on the Kanawha riverfront in Downtown Hilo South that features more than three hundred high end luxury retailers, thirty five destination restaurants, and sixteen artist installations, the floors are a cosmic mashup of glittering metallic orbs and accents with wood paneled walls and parquet floors, its home to the Avenue of the Stars a riverfront walkway with panoramic views of the Downtown Hilo skyline, Meiryo-sei School of Jewelry Arts {clarity}, Aesthetic Cosmetology School, the Kube kyoto style roaster and coffee bar, and a ten meter tall peacock shaped slide presides over an urban farm and butterfly garden;
Arabica Cezve is an eminent turk kahvesi sidewalk cafe, a hub for socializing and conversation found along the Starling Promenade in Downtown Hilo South on the Kanawha River near the Chowa Hodokyo {harmony pedestrian bridge} (a picture perfect wooden sori-bashi {moon bridge} with a double woven arch architecture), the cafe roasts, grinds and prepares itsown blend of ultra fine turkish coffee and serves it traditionally with luknam candy and chocolate or baklava in original and unique handcrafted fincun, its stage hosts crosstalk, theater, operatic arias, muscians, poets, philosophers, and storytellers;
the Hoshiakari {starlight} owned by the Netael family is a classic formal supper club of elegant art deco architecture and plush art nouveaux interiors in the Underground Cerise red-light ward offers cocktails a complete supper menu and a supreme wine and spirits compilation with nightly performances from live bands (mostly swing, latin and jazz) and crooners, cabaret and burlesque, comics and entertainers (acrobats, go-go dancers, production numbers, you solve it mystery theater, impersonators and drag queens, interactive dance parties and more), there are private gambling and karaoke rooms, two private event halls, an ample dance floor, and a piano lounge (the club offers ballroom and social dance classes in the early afternoons), reservations are recommended {the club is a 'known' front for the Marco Polo dark web storefront with access to fixers, hackers, thieves, smugglers, black market and underground auctions, goods, information and services, where society rubs elbows and hobnobs with the shadowy underworld};
Shiroi to {white pagoda} is a hundred meter tall japanese style wooden white pagoda tower and Buddhist temple library and learning center in the university ward surrounded by sacred trees (bodhi, fig, upali, nigrodha, ashoka, sakura, pine, lotus, willow, simbulun, sala, parijata, rajayatana, acacia nilotica, banyan) and mandala gardens representing the eightfold path, and meditation and walking paths with an arama style monastery behind the sacred woods in Pairc Emerald;

the Crystal Palace a stained glass and steel edifice resembling crystal geodes used for leisure socializing, concerts, exhibitions, charity events, and art shows in Sunshine Park an eighty five acre public park with majestic oaks, eucalyptus, aspen, cottonwood, maple, and sakura woodlands, trails through desert wildflower meadows, playgrounds, pitches and courts, lush lawns, a life-sized 'wizards' chess set, a roomba go board, a gazebo bandstand, and a covered picnic pavilion as well as the crystal water fountain Peaceful Harmony that uses harmonics to create music and beautiful sounds to relax to;
the Hilo Public Library a Beaux-Arts style building featuring sculptural figures and architectural details depicting important personages and tools of scholarship and libraries, the arched grand entrance stairway as well as the indoor glass treaded grand helical staircase spotlights several pairs of guardian komainu {lion-dog} and shishi {stone lion} statues, it is the main branch of the city's public library system and its central research library that is attached to the Civic Center Station the city's busiest commuter and subway station with distinctive neo-classical architecture and interiors with stone bas-relief zodiac sculptures and frescoes of constellation star maps covering the walls and ceilings, both buildings were designed by Nikken Sekkei {japanese diaspora design} a global architectural firm based in Hilo;
Hilo City Hall a fine example of Beaux-Arts architecture clad in white marble that covers an entire city block in the Shiku Choson {municipal ward}, it has a colossal central hall for full City Council meetings and debates with a spectator gallery under a huge gilded dome with a spectacular interior rotunda expressing ideals of openness, accessibility, and transparency, there is an open atrium lobby, a press room, an auditorium/public meeting hall, the mayor's offices, an event hall, a formal dining hall and several bistros, a ballroom, an extensive collection of formal portraiture and antique furniture, a judicial chamber, city executive offices and meeting spaces, some city services offices, a communal market hall, and a public square for community gatherings and information dissemination, there is public and reserved below grade parking, and has its own subway station;
the Hilo Opera House an elegant modern building of undulating architecture and superb sonic clarity on the banks of the Waikato River in the Shiku Choson {municipal ward} across from City Hall;
La Cafeteria is a public twenty eight hour dining hall located on the ground floor, below the lobby, of the City Services Building near to City Hall, Chuo Eki {center station}, and the central Chihosaibansho {district court} and Magistrate Court Houses in the Shiku Choson {municipal ward}, the eatery combines a cafeteria dining hall, a vending machine hall, an automat, coffee and tea services, a juice bar, a bakery, street food stalls, and an always fresh grand buffet with additional seating in the rear courtyard of the building, the building is one of the few stone high rises in the city and its ferrocrete and steel skeleton is clad in creme and brown marble with copper accents, the art deco building highlights its vertical emphasis with elongated lines and geometric shapes and details, it features a frieze bas-relief of dandelions and the main entrance is marked by a massive glass archway which lets natural light into the atrium lobby, visitors enjoy the opulent and decadent (especially for a public services building) interiors of birdcage lifts, laquered surfaces, metal and gilt accents, jewel-toned high end upholstery surfaces, and polished wooden paneling and parquet floors;
the 92nd Street YAA is a non-profit community center in a historic building among row-houses and machiya {japanese design wooden townhouses that are both residences and businesses} on Glory Boulevard in the Toyon {edible berry producing shrubs} residential ward on the Waikato riverfront on the east side of Hilo, of a variegated brick facade a fusion of venetian renaissance and romanesque styles with extravagent and vivid terracotta decorations and juliette ready balconies that won several awards for craftship and design, bringing people together and providing exceptional groundbreaking programs for the performing and visual arts, literature and culture, adult and children's education, afterschool activities, family programming, talks on a huge range of topics, and health and fitness services and facilities, the amenities include the roundtable virtual classroom for lectures and lively discussions in history, art, literature, philosophy, and culture, a 1000-seat concert hall, a theater, a cinema auditorium, an intimate performance stage, a lounge act venue, two indoor pools, a splash zone pool with slidesand springboards, a diving and scuba center, professional fitness and excercise equipment, three gymnasiums, a ballroom and banquet hall, a cafeteria, a delicatessan, a bakery, a mosque and a Shinto shrine, several 'novel' rooms of different ethnic cultures, a public library and archive, a fencing salle, a dojo, a sailing and riverine center, radio and television broadcast stdios, a music recording studio, 175 classrooms for arts, vocational, and academic courses, a turkish bath, an indoor running track, six indoor sport courts, an extensive variety of excercise classes and a wide variety of sports and athletics, a daycare and nursery school, a small press publisher, an inner courtyard with cricket and football pitches plus garden and lounge areas, a residence hall, a dormitory, an art gallery and heritage museum;
the Urbain Apar'hotel several chateauesque with serviced apartments and resident suites in the Shogyo {commercial}, Downtown Hilo, and Civic Center wards catering to business and extended stay travelers with weekly and monthly rates, delivers hospitality that's both remarkable and accessible with spaces that inspire and delight that fulfills needs without sacrificing style all while delivering seamless personalized experiences, its amenities include twenty eight hour reception and concierge services, curated neighborhood guides, boutique bathroom amenities, EV charging stations in our valet parking center, shuttle service to aeroports and rail stations, an events center, a twenty eight hour on call wellness and security center, biometric security measures, a gymnasium and fitness center, an indoor pool and spa, a business center with a boardroom and conference rooms, laundrey services, and room service;
the Downtown Night Market open air bazaar on the Kanawha riverfront is open from sunset to sunrise everyday for leisurely strolling, shopping, and eating and is teeming with food stalls and kiosks of handcrafted and commercial goods;
Red Jester Onsen Ryokan of traditional japanese architecture of natural materials and elements built around a large inner courtyard with additional beautiful gardens and baths behind the structure for privacy at the edge of the Hiro {generous prosperous} residential ward with omotenashi {hospitality} the key element of the staffs performance for the guests sense of comfort and relaxation, there is a concierge, mineral rock filtered waters, indoor private soaking tubs and social baths, outdoor onsen in woodland surroundings, segregated and mixed baths, attentive bath attendents, masseurs, a gourmet chef preparing local multicourse seasonal specialties, a yukata and geta boutique, karaoke rooms, game rooms, shows, and shops;
Yumeuri Land {glass dream space} (a Phoenix Industries company) a glass enclosed indoor water park and spa covering two city blocks in the Goraku ward with private skybox suites and cabanas, spa services, The Burger Shack cafe, The Sky Garden brasserie serving a fusion of spa and korean cuisine, snack shops and juice bars, saunas and plunge pools, jetted hot tubs, mineral baths, water volleyball, water polo, swimming, diving, and lap pools, a tropical aquarium, Blast super soaker obstacle field, indoor water coasters, raft rides, rope swings and water slides, asplash pad playground, a lazy river, a surf pool, and an enormous wave pool with its own beach, an adults only clothing optional romanesque bath house on the topmost level;
Vesathai Fort (a Phoenix Industries company) is a gamers paradise in the Goraku ward of Hilo in a large building complex that resembles a miniature Hindu desert fort with everything from arcade games and pachinko to cards and dice, and console games and tabletop battles plus enough Mech simulator pods to play regiment on regiment, there is a casino, a Mahjong parlor, a sports bar with multiple screens showing multiple events and a life size tri-d holographic projection of the biggest games and events, a karaoke bar and suites, a concert hall, an e-stadium, and immersive virtual reality suites available by reservation only;
the Waypoint Cybercafe has several locations in the city near busy rail stations, they offer secure high speed broadband and public internet access on the most cutting edge machinery available at quarterly hour rates, they also offer tea, coffee, fizzy drinks and energy drinks, baked goods, snacks, soups and sandwiches, as well as multiplayer gamer networks, a gaming shop, several tri-d holo-projection gaming tables, computer and smartphone repair services, video conference booths, a business hub, quiet study rooms, a card game player and tournament area, classes and workshops, events and activities, and game card and phone card sales;
the ComStar Communication Tower is in the Shogyo {commerce} ward of Hilo, the white glass facade skyscraper of 300-m, that somewhat resembles their logo, the silver blue glass and steel sphere at the apex of the tower has a public observation deck, public gardens, and Alwhite a white linen kaiseiki-ryori restaurant, the tower houses public communication services with dozens of private and conference style booths (it is one C-bill per one millisecond of text only HPG transmission), a news bureau, a public lounge with a newsstand and multiple screens presenting news and information from INN and multiple interstellar sources, a history archive, financial offices, and banking services, the tower also leases space to quite a few businesses and shops, and there are dormitories and residences for the ComStar acolytesand adepts;
the Skyline Ballroom formal dress supper club and dance hall has massive skylights offering especially good views of the night sky during the Kurai Sora Matsuri {dark skies festival} in November during the Leonid meteor showers, it also has floor to ceiling glass walls presenting glorious views of the city and the Kanawha River from the top of the Majestic Hotel & Casino designed in the art deco vintage hollywood glam aesthetic of grandeur and sophistication on the shopping thoroughfare of the Ruby red-light ward of the city;
The Devil's Playground reservation only adult only restaurant tavern and sex club with public and private playrooms, where the interior staff serves nude in all over red body paint of various designs located in the Ruju {rouge} red-light ward;
Zepp Hilo {Zepp is a global brand of grandiose live houses that host interstellar tours and preeminent global and stellar acts} a live house, music archive, music hall and repository showcasing musical artifacts from across the Sphere and Periphery that seats over three thousand in a blue marble clad circular amphitheater with valerium in the university ward of the city;
Sekai no eiga toshokan {world cinema library} the large elaborately decorated eclectic and exotic complex of movie palaces in the Goraku ward is host to three main theaters that embody three styles of movie palace, the classical style with its opulent and luxurious architecture reminiscent of ancient opera houses, the asymmetrical playful atmospheric style with a painted auditorium ceiling under a rounded dome that depicts a cerulean blue open starlit sky, and the bold exotic and glamorous art deco style theater, all the palaces have full stages, orchestra pits and dressing rooms, plus there is a drive-in and a multiscreen cinema fronted by an irregular arched colonnade with a large barrel vault reception hall, the complex is centered by the archive, a parametric building of curved timber and glass that housesan enormous film library preserving digital and film cinema from Nejiro's founding and beyond, the venue hosts film festivals, events and award presentations, and shows first run, art house, classic, independent, interstellar films, and blockbuster movies;
Subarashi monogatari no sento {great story spire} a fantastical miniature spire (30-m) that is both reminiscent of a great tree and a fairy tale tower in the Daikan {great view} ward {a fashionable residential area with a relaxed atmosphere, a small pocket of calm in the bustling city}, that holds a storytelling venue with several types of stages and storyteller spaces, of special note is Mujigae {rainbow} the wraparound tri-d movie screen in a theater in the round (with the audience in the middle surrounding a small stage) filled with outsized bean bag chairs and projecting rotating immersive images (sometimes animated) of the illustrations of children's books accompanied by a live narrator (some of whom are celebrities and actors), there is also a large research library of fiction featuring fables, fairytales, folklore, legend and myth, and a huge bookshop and gift boutique;
Pier 39 near the Hilo Inland Port is a tourist attraction with amusements and a boardwalk,a marina and yacht club, boutique museums, galleries, pubs and izakaya, coffee bars and tearooms, casual and fine dining, shops, a fish market, and has several obsolete sailing and powered ships on display and available to public tours;
the Lao She Teahouse a global independent private chain of traditional chinese style teahouses, named after the famous writer, not just a simple tea break serving tea and snacks, but they are venues for intellectual exchange, leisure and entertainment with crosstalk, operatic arias, musicians, and storytellers telling tales of history, mythology, and folklore {Weng Fengchang, Jasmine Nightingale, and Stiofan Murphy-Shigematsu are storytellers of prominence in the teahouses and numerous stoyteller venues of Hilo} with welcoming courtyards and intricate layouts of elaborate latticework and finely carved wooden panels providing an ambient setting for patrons, in Hilo they reflect the city's cosmopolitan spirit providing a sophisticated blend of historical charm and modern comfort and amid the serenity of the traditional teahouse patrons may partake in pastimes such as chess, poetry, calligraphy, philosophical debate and discussion, tea tastings, cultural exhibitions, and the cultivation and enjoyment of brewing and sipping tea {there are more than 700 tea houses of various ethnic, cultural, and tea serving styles in Hilo};

Pier 39 near the Hilo Inland Port is a tourist attraction with amusements and a boardwalk, a marina and yacht club, boutique museums, galleries, pubs and izakaya, coffee bars and tearooms, casual and fine dining, shops, a fish market, and has several obsolete sailing and powered ships on display and available to public tours;
the Lao She Teahouse a global independent private chain of traditional chinese style teahouses, named after the famous writer, not just a simple tea break serving tea and snacks, but they are venues for intellectual exchange, leisure and entertainment with crosstalk, operatic arias, musicians, and storytellers telling tales of history, mythology, and folklore {Weng Fengchang, Jasmine Nightingale, and Stiofan Murphy-Shigematsu are storytellers of prominence in the teahouses and numerous stoyteller venues of Hilo} with welcoming courtyards and intricate layouts of elaborate latticework and finely carved wooden panels providing an ambient setting for patrons, in Hilo they reflect the city's cosmopolitan spirit providing a sophisticated blend of historical charm and modern comfort and amid the serenity of the teahouse patrons may partake in pastimes such as chess, poetry, calligraphy, philosophical debate and discussion, tea tastings, cultural exhibitions, and the cultivation and enjoyment of brewing and sipping tea {there are more than 700 tea houses of various ethnic, cultural, and tea serving styles in Hilo};
Project Art a community center in the Surry Hills, a working class residential neighborhood of the theater ward, that hosts arts and crafts projects and classes from volunteer resident teaching artists and crafters for adults and children, there is also an aquatic center, a fitness center, game rooms, a library, a multipurpose gymnasium, youth center, worship spaces, communal spaces, lounge and relaxation spaces, a cafe, a juice bar, and an urban farm designed around the building complex that seems to flow and weave through the sloping landscape like a river;
Namida no niwa kinen bochi {Garden of Tears Memorial Cemetary} {most people on Nejiro are not buried after death, cremation and ash storage in a family shrine or masoleum is standard, there are also a few cemetaries where the deceased is cremated then buried in a family grave with stone markers and wooden Buddhist grave markers (to prevent them from re-entering the mortal world), some choose to have their ashes spread over nature in its many forms or used to grow new life, some rural areas still use kofun} a terraced cemetary of flower beds, masoleums, stone markers and lanterns, and a stand of stratosphere ironwood trees;
Buki Industries {weapon} {foreign interstellar business, Hilo facilities manager Koyla Lavrenti, Nejiro CEO Arkady Borsakov} a large scale industrial park in the Seizo ward {fabricate} housing manufacturing (thermal energy plant, laser weapons, heat sinks, power amplifiers, support and personnel weapons), transport, warehousing, an urban farm (leasing space to Rooftop Magic Bee Farms), and office facilities of ferrocrete based buildings topped by rounded ribbed lantern-like translucent polycarbonate structures that also provide excess thermal energy to the city;
the Museum of Art for Children at Heart an immersive hands-on interactive museum that focuses on the mechanics of creation, art theory, and history with art classes and demonstrations, crafts, workshops, sing-alongs, scavenger hunts, games, puzzles, story hours, creation galleries, play spaces, and special exhibitions;
The Hyperion Hotel an art deco style exclusive luxury hotel (home of the somewhat infamous detective agency Enkeli Chosa {angel investigations}) located in the 400-m tall Hyperion Tower skyscraper in the Takami {the heights} area of the finance ward, evocative of a stratosphere ironwood tree with two popular lounge bars - the Solarium with a dwarf citrus garden patio and a cabana bar with a swimming pool in an upper public floor of the hotel with expansive views of the city, and the tower hosts a spacious lobby bar the King Cole a classic cocktail bar with an extensive list of wines and aged spirits, where visitors may take in the epitome of art deco architecture and decor in Hilo;
Ageha {swallowtail butterfly} 'the spot' Hilo's most popular nightclub with several enormous dance floors including an outdoor black and white geometric dance floor under a pergola draped in string lights and a rooftop terrace cocktail bar, located on the Kanawha River in Downtown Hilo with dock space for patron yachts and sailboats;
Poppy Sunset is a high end reservation only dinner spot from six to ten pm each day then it transforms into a top go to nightclub a place for celebrity glitterati, globetrotters, hospitality industry insiders, and affluent club-goers with a chic and glamorous hollywood golden age ethos with a swanky vintage lounge, private rooms, an outdoor garden patio lounge, and ultra friendly white glove service staff offering delicacies such as hamachi crudo, lobster toast, wagyu sliders, pea hummus, chopped chicken salad dumplings, grilled prawns, and tableside craft cocktail service, with a state of the art kinetic ceiling covered in folding mirrored panels over the massive dance floor and as the energy builds the planes gradually unfold revealing a digital light show creating a dramatic reflective landscape in the late evening party space with speakers galore, two DJ booths, and bottle service;
Blue Note Hilo is a live jazz club featuring the best performers in the genre and weekly jam sessions;
Dokutsu {underground enclosure} an underground intimate live house {small non-smoker venues with space for dozens to thousands, generally standing room only, atmospheric often experimental live music clubs playing many music genres from jazz to folk to hogaku {home/country} to rock and pop that may serve food and spirits, there are about 300 in Hilo, shows generally start at around seven pm and feature four to seven bands with audiences there for the music}, the place to be to enjoy acoustic music and rock, pop, and folk located in the Hilo Underground university ward;
Salda {live} is an alternate indie band live house with a wall to wall live digital projected painting of a giant opalescent moon dropping from the ceiling and a second floor balcony overlooking it all with tiny tables, the three hundred capacity music venue puts the music front and enter with a low key bar along the wall at stage right, the magnificent lighting reflected off the hanging moon means excellent live pics and the sound system is superb enough to keep up with the club's manifold attractions, a favorite local hangout in the Hiro residential ward {generous prosperous, a high class and high end serene residential area with a blend of urban living and peaceful sanctuary with many interstellar and former aerospace ship crew residents};
Ongaku-kissa {music cafe} is an idol band live house widely liked by cosplayers and anime and video game otaku in the university ward;
Zher The Zoo {here} a dimly lit basement live house and nightclub in the theater ward accented with exposed brick archways and brick floors around the bar and a sprung hardwood floor in front of the stage, the grand piano set up on the stage puts out an eclectic mix of sounds from ska to alternative rock, the spacious cavern like den is excellent for dancing so most of the acts are high energy and it is a popular place for corps de ballet and chorus line performers to let off steam;
the Budokan Concert Hall an octagonal building inspired by the Hall of Dreams on Terra and is known for its symphony orchestra performances, its summer idol bands, and its pop and rock concert series;
Yoyogi Park a 100-ha landscaped public park for recreation and leisure with buskers and street performers, a great lawn for picnics and kiting, hanami and momijigari tree groves and gathering spaces, the Adirondack Lounge with chairs and tables arranged outdoors under umbrellas around fire pits and chimineas with beer and cider stalls, a one thousand seat amphitheater, benches, trails, sport courts, playgrounds, and a statue garden in the Serana {tranquil, calm} residential ward of Hilo;
the Akasaka Blitz Live House {red slope, an especially hilly commerce ward in the city} near Akasaka Eki with an eclectic mix of independent bands with edgy and interstellar rock bands, the club has a one thousand person capacity and an attached soundproofed izakaya showing live streams of the performances from booth jukebox monitors;
the Continental Marquis Hotel with an enviable address in the theater ward of the city with an atrium lobby, terraces and balconies, an imposing twelve story podium with a sleek facade of laser etched kinetic metal panels depicting shuffling hanafuda {flower cards}, and holds retail space, office space, an indoor pool and fitness spa, digital and personal concierge services, meeting spaces, ballrooms, and more than one thousand guest rooms and suites plus the Marquess Brasserie, the Mark Casino, and the Marquis Theater which seats seven hundred and fifty patrons for dramatic stageplays to musical theater presentations

Industry & Trade

Unassigned Things

Gunji Kojo {military factory} is an independent Nejiroan defense contractor located in the Vulcan Arms Industrial Park. It is a publicly traded company with shares currently worth 612 Ryu each. Gunji Kojo manufactures a diverse array of military hardware including - military combat and support vehicles, military autonomous vehicles, military amphibious vehicles, military remote piloted vehicles, field guns, machine guns, autocannons, missile systems, vehicle armor, personnel armor, satellite systems, lasers, heat sinks, amplifiers, firearms, support weapons, munitions, also guidance, communication, sensors and electronics, navigation, and control systems. Their catalog includes:

Saemae {falcon} fifty ton hover combat vehicle that carries three crew, an ICE engine with heat sinks that provides speeds to 151 km/h and fires a medium laser and two short range missile system six packs

Tenma {pegasus} thirty five ton hover environmentally sealed amphibious combat vehicle with a six ton cargo or infantry compartment (two platoons of foot or one special platoon) and six tons of electronics, communications, and sensors, the ICE engine provides speeds to 129 km/h for a crew of three; the armed variants either carry two short range missile systems six packs and a medium laser, or two short range missile system four packs and a remote sensor dispenser with sensors (30 per half ton)

Fuyunotaka {winter hawk} twenty ton hover combat vehicle carries a four ton infantry compartment with a fuel cell engine that provides speeds to 162 km/h and fires one short range missile system two pack and two machine guns from a turret

Suisei {comet} thirty five ton tracked combat vehicle has an ICE engine that provides speeds to 146 km/h, it carries a hogosho {guardian} electronic suite and a sentinel sensor suite, and fires two autocannon/5 and two machie guns from a turret

Caiman twenty five ton environmentally sealed amphibious wheeled combat vehicle carries a one ton sensor suite, an ICE engine with heat sink that provides speeds up to 119 km/h and fires a medium laser

Samshoo Sharyo {salamander vehicles} an independent private Nejiroan defense contractor with facilities in the Vulcan Arms Industrial Park that manufactures apc's, ground and naval military combat vehicles, emergency and hazardous materials vehicles, military support vehicles, and also runs a technical and engineering section that has maintenance contracts and does custom builds, renovation, salvage, and upgrades. Their catalog includes:

Ariete sixty five ton tracked combat vehicle with an ICE engine that provides speeds up to 64 km/h and fires three autocannon/10 from a turret

Thunder eighty five ton tracked combat vehicle that fires three long range missile system fifteen packs from a turret and two swivel mounted machine guns on each side, its ICE engine provides speeds up to 54 km/h

Firefly ninety five ton tracked combat vehicle carries thirty two heat sinks, an ICE engine that provides speeds to 54 km/h and fire four large lasers from a turret and two long range missile system five packs

Financial Companies and Groups

Nejiro Stock Exchange

This is Nejiro's principal securities and commodities market, it is the central edifice of the Hilo financial ward. A wonder of modern architecture with a distinctive aesthetic appeal that is an iconic Nejiroan building with its sleek glass facade and striking steel framework its architectural layout emphasizes transparency and connectivity, symbolizing openness and accessibility in financial markets. The Nejiro Stock Exchange building is surrounded by the principle banking and investment firms of Nejiro

La Caixa Hilo

A savings bank {most citizens and residents of Hilo have an account} (an office of La Caixa {box} a global privately owned savings bank and financial services company {most citizens and residents of Nejiro have an account} owned by the Murashu-Rothschild family of the Akaite Zaibatsu {red shield global conglomerate} a holding company of banking and financial companies that also covers real estate, brokerages, mining, art, venture capital, private equity funds, wealth and asset management, technology, hospitality, vineyards, agribusiness, luxury commodities, and consumer products; with a sizable percentage of the bank's surplus invested in the province through a committee of the Eastern Desert Chiku MPs and the La Caixa Foundation; formed globally and endowed annually from La Caixa's surplus and controlled by a board composed of the individual province and stellar sector Chairs

Nejiro Imperial Bank

The Hilo offices of the central bank of Nejiro, which houses a gold reserve and regulatory and enforcement departments as well as research and analysis departments {the 180-m skyscraper with ultra high performence ferrocrete and glass facades with their complex geometry follows extremely high standards in terms of bomb safety and resistance to attack and theft, the tower sits on a cubicle podium constructed of ultra high performance ferrocrete clad in locally quarried creme and chocolate marble that is organized around an inner courtyard which rises 40-m and is surrounded on all sides by offices seperated by an interior glass curtain wall, overall the building conveys the core values at the heart of the institution solidity, stability, and sustainability};

the Chuujiko Bank {central commercial} building is the largest for profit bank on Nejiro owned and operated by the Koizumi Group, the jaw dropping prism shaped tower oozes power, prestige, and creativity soaring well over three hundred meters into the sky;

the Su Tamago Shikin {nest egg fund} headquarters building is the Sugai Zaibatsu private banking and investment firm; the Vermillion Bird building with its striking red glass facade is the Phoenix Industries private investment firm;

the Grass Ocean Credit Union building is a global/stellar credit union owned and operated by the Rhee Dai Ichizoku;

Wonderful Life Savings and Loan is a global financial services and investment bank of the Four Corners Zaibatsu;

the Nakazawa Trust building is a private wealth management and investment firm and

the Flowing River Financial building is (publicly traded 108.5 Ryu per share) commercial bank both owned and operated by the Nakazawa Dai Ichizoku;

the Tiger Funds building is a private investment firm of the Zakharovich Dai Ichizoku;

the Mizuho Financial {golden ears of rice} building is a global/stellar consumer and corporate bank owned and operated by Peony Corp.; and the

Drakon'yego Klada {dragon hoard} building is a private investment firm of the Drake Consortium.

News and Media

Hilo Herald

Red Top

A widely read privately owned (Brown & Bell Limited) splashy, lurid, and sensational daily tabloid newspaper a purveyor of titillation and shock focusing on the city of Hilo and its crime, celebrity scoops, sports, gossip, and political and society scandals

The Society Pages is an independent private globally distributed weekend magazine of Nejiroan arts and culture, style and fashion, stellar and global society and celebrity gossip, the foodie papers, hotspots, and interviews with photospreads in print and digital formats with social media connections owned and published by the Blethyn family

Hilo TV3

A local moderate news channel (an outlet of the Sentinal Media Group of Phoenix Industries

Nejiro Hoso Kyokai (NHK)

(a Fenix Consortium Crown Corporation of the Sankaku and Phoenix Industries) a public broadcaster funded primarily by its viewers via a flat 55 Ryu annual fee (most citizens, residents, and businesses of Nejiro and the stellar system subscribe) it offers emergency and early warning reporting, local and interstellar news presented without opinion or editorial, scripted comedy and drama, entertainmnt, sports, children and educational programs, music, culture and arts programs, it operates three terrestrial television channels from Yousai, Leyte, and Hilo (NHK General, NHK Children's Television, and NHK Education and Documentary), three digital satellite television channels from Pluoton, Selene, and Buda also broadcasting across the stellar system, two ultra high definition tri-d holo-television channels, and three radio networks;

The Sentinel a daily print/digital imperial moderate broadsheet newspaper covering interstellar headlines and affairs and stellar and global news in depth (an outlet of the Sentinal Media Group

The Hilo Globe

(publicly traded 54.93 Ryu per share) a green progressive family owned (Northciffe-Devi) daily print/digital broadsheet newspaper covering Hilo and its metropolitan area and the Eastern Desert province, also stellar and interstellar news from several regional bureaus and satellite offices publishing (with one of the largest journalism staffs on planet) articles, newsletters, turnovers, political positions, opinion pieces, editorials, investigative reports, reviews and a diverse variety of original and syndicated comic strips and columns (e.g. the Phoebe and Her Unicorn comic adventures, Kissing a slice of life romcom, Guardian a manhua xianxia {immortal hero fantasy}, Tagon's Toughs and the Sword of Inevitable Justice comedic space opera, the Silhouette Knights mechwarrior seinen manga, the Desport weekly column of interviews with star athletes and tips on technique, the well known and influential journalist Mahmad Wang global and interstellar affairs and political commentary column; the Miss Manners advice on etiquette and culture column, the Lets Talk about Sex! advice and education column etc.), plus the Sunday Magazine as a forum for ideas with expanded article coverage, photographic layouts, serial novels, the book review, guest essays by well known contributors, sports, business, advice, gossip, style, grammar and language (for the official and major languages spoken on Nejiro), poetry, puzzles, and the funny pages (comical storyteller content and comic strips) from its headquarters in the Downtown Hilo ward Kotoba-dzukai no tatsujin {wordsmith, master of language} building part of the 'Painted Buildings' tour it features iconic calligraphic headlines and quotes from the papers long history (est. 2837), the paper has the largest circulation and one of the largest paid subscription and advertiser lists on planet;

Watchmen News Network (WNN) media and digital twenty eight hour live moderate news channel covering interstellar headlines, and global and stellar news in depth (an outlet of the Sentinel Media Group

Heritage Broadcasting Company (HBC) produces and broadcasts public television and radio programming (an outlet of the Sentinel Media Group

Redstone News a conservative twenty eight hour global and interstellar digital news and radio channel with a focus on economic, business, political, and financial news (an outlet of the Koizumi Group

Ninki Kagaku

Is a print/digital monthly magazine publishing awe inspiring science reporting and technology news with a social media forum which allows amateurs and enthusiasts to interact with professionals and academics to question, debate, and discuss science (an outlet of the Sugai Zaibatsu

Nejiro Live progressive digital/media twenty eight hour global news channel (owned by Stat

Financial Times

The daily print broadsheet newspaper covers and analyzes interstellar financial markets, global financial markets, stellar financial markets, and corporate, political, media, technology, economic, marketing, money, and investing news from its headquarters in the Hilo financial ward at Horshoe Court Towers near the Southwark Bridge looking across the Waikato River to the Civic Center ward (an outlet of Voyager Media

MyNetworkTV (MyTV) digital and media broadcast network of scripted television with syndicated entertainment, licensed entertainment, sports, news shows, and original programming (an outlet of the Rohrs Koichizoku

Konshu {this week} weekly print/digital news magazine reporting investigational and in depth global, stellar, and interstellar news and affairs with additional weekly news story analysis and debate television, radio, and podcast broadcasts (an outlet of the Rosslyn Koichizoku

Market News daily standard print/digital newspaper focusing on global, stellar, and interstellar business and finance news and affairs published by Axel Springer;

Nejiro Public Radio public twenty eight hour broadcasting of live and syndicated global and stellar news, sports, culture, and entertainment programs {it was endowed by the Parliament of Nejiro and operates via grants and donations, and dues and fees from more than one thousand member stations};

LOOK a global/stellar print/digital weekly magazine of photographs, photojournalism, and human interest stories published by Searchlight;

MustSee Travelogue print/digital/social media weekly magazine and weekly syndicated tv show covering Nejiroan travel, destinations, tourism, and hospitality (an outlet of Voyager Media

STEM monthly print/digital magazine/journal of global and stellar science news and education, and the very best in research across the sciences with articles that consistently rate among the most cited in the world published by the Discovery Society Trust (owned by the Orlov family) and associated with the Nejiro Society for the Advancement of the Sciences;

The Military Press daily digital and weekly print newspaper covering golbal, stellar, and interstellar military, militia, private contractor, and mercenary forces news, information, and operations, also reporting on members and their communities (an outlet of the Sentinel Media Group

KZOO a globally streaming pop radio station offering a wide variety of music and programming (an outlet of the Helekia Dai Ichizoku

Cahuenga Valley Television (CVTV) media/digital global sports and tabloid entertainment news network (an outlet of the Nakazawa Dai Ichizoku

The Mirror daily print/digital tabloid newspaper covering global and stellar sports, news, life and style, investigations, society and celebrity gossip, tv and film, theater, politics, and has Sunday inserts that cover interstellar affairs, industry, economics, travel, science and technology, arts and culture, pictorials, and business news aimed at working class readers (an outlet of the Nakazawa Dai Ichizoku

The Babbler daily digital and social media tabloid of global and stellar gossip, photos, celebrity and society gossip, classic and pop culture trade news, entertainment and media trade news, box office results and business analysis, music reviews, tv and movie reviews, fashion and style news, trending news and topics, politics, sports, travel, food, beauty columns and news (an outlet of the Nakazawa Dai Ichizoku

Zahiru {the hill} green progressive daily print/digital broadsheet newspaper covers capitol news {Yousai} especially from Parliament Hill and the Governors Palace, and global and stellar political facts and speculation published by Hermes Media;

The Chronicle a regional print and digital broadsheet newspaper covering the Deccan Peninsula in the Annettai Heiya {subtropical plains} on Tairiku, the Spaceport, and the Enclave, plus global and interstellar headlines (an outlet of the Iona Koichizoku

Knights Chronicle daily print/digital moderate newspaper covering global news, capitol news, and the regional news of the Annettai Heiya province (an outlet of the Kusonoke Koichizoku

Holopuni News Network {to sail everywhere} digital news network and social media forum covering the oceans and islands of Nejiro (an outlet of the Mahelona Koichizoku

Parameters monthly magazine/journal of interstellar armed forces news covering warfare and operations, and the debate and analysis of historical and contemporary tactics, strategy, and leadership (an outlet of the Strategic Defense Institute of Phoenix Industries

Steam

Is a print/digital/social media monthly magazine of global and stellar news intersecting the arts and sciences published by the Steam Trust {endowed by the Sforza family} from offices in the Hilo theater ward;

Spark News syndicated tv news show of story analysis, interviews, discussions and debates owned by Communications Unlimited;

Nikkō News Network

Is a twenty eight hour scholarly and academic digital/media in depth regional news channel covering the news and affairs of the Nikko Chiku {district} and the Eastern Desert province (an outlet of News Corp.

Global Post daily print/digital tabloid newspaper of trending news and gossip (an outlet of Newsquest

Nejiro Today syndicated digital/media morning news show owned by Silver Media;

More Things Horatio digital weekly news of the unusual and unique from factual global and interstellar sources syndicated by Kingdom Features Syndicate;

Mecha Otaku globally available fan published digital magazine covering the science, technology, art, and applications of mechatronics and robotics (mecha, mechs, robots, drones, remote controlled and autonomous vehicles) plus a digital blog and social media forum {has a larger presence in Hilo with the coming of several Ichizoku and private mechs forces and Camp Haken being occupied by the GSF};

ComStar Associated Press News Services/INN

Is a daily digital/print interstellar newspaper and a twenty eight hour interstellar live and breaking news network (media/radio

MercNet digital interstellar database for mercenary units in search of employment and contract information (an outlet of the MRBC plus a wide variety of other digital media, radio, and locally printed newspapers, magazines, and journals through subscriptions or from Hilo's hundreds of newsstands.

Geography

The city covers a total of one thousand square kilometers plus its extended metropolitan area sprawls over another ten thousand square kilometers with another million or so people in residence. The official flower insignia and icon of the city is the dandelion, it also features prominently in the Seifu no kōshiki inshō of the city and its courts. The city is located in the Valle della Luna, a broad hilly valley of blue-iron oak and chaparral woodlands, natural grassy desert wildflower meadows, and rushing rivers of more than sixteen thousand square kilometers. The valley is situated north of the Yami no Yamayama that are covered in dense shrubland that stretches for over five hundred kilometers from east to west made up of hard dark rocks such as granite and quartzite as well as slate and gneiss with heights up to thirteen hundred meters above sea level with a few dozen vast commercial olive and nut groves, citrus and fruit farms, and grape vineyards covering over a half a million hectares. There are some clay, marble, and limestone quarries near the major rivers. The valley and mountains serve as habitat to over a hundred species of birds such as hrafn, scrub jays, fish owls, grouse, and golden eagles, to over seventy species of mammals including idaina kemono, serow, iberlynx, Fahad, Obake Ōkami, Akashika, spectral bats, tanuki, wild boar, ryukyu flying fox, muflon, horned andalusians, macaque, wildcats, xolotl, and antlered hare. There are also a wide diversity of freshwater fish, pollinating insects, salamander reptiles, and venomous snakes. The Yami no Yamayama is also home to small bands of banditto {bandits, thieves, robbers, rogues}. There are a score or so of NPO Wylde Ranger Towers and Sugai Yoroi Zenshōkichi spread over the mountains, hills, and valley guarding and patrolling the area. There are also a few NDT Military Oases and small fortifications in the Yami no Yamayama and the Valle della Luna and their surrounds.

Climate

Hilo has very hot, long dry summers and mild winters with moderate rainfall. The sky is clear with a good air quality index and very low pollutant levels (mostly from wildfires and dust storms). There is an average annual temperature of twenty five degrees celsius during the day and thirteen degrees celsius at night, with summer highs up to thirty six degrees celsius. Sporadic heat waves often break forty degrees celsius for several days. There are about three thousand sunshine hours in Hilo annually, with July and August being the hottest months and many city dwellers take advantage of holidays and vacation time to travel somewhere cooler, and 'nearby' Sakura Onsen, Hoshizora Shizen Hogo Kokuritsu Koen {starry sky nature preserve national park}, Hawks Bay, Stonehaven, the Blue Mountains, Mauna Kea, and Whistler are especially popular. Tourists from the cooler climes of Nejiro and the stellar depths flock to the city at this time to bask in the warm sunshine. Hilo has around fifty rainy days per year, frequently torrential, accumulating as much as six hundred millimeters of precipitation annually. Snowfall is virtually unknown but the occasional cold snap may drop temperatures to below negative five degrees celsius. Fleet Week is the second week of August and is 'celebrated' across Nejiro; traditionally the DCA Marines {Draconis Combine Admiralty} arrive to bring their troops for training at MAWS {Marine Advanced Warfare Schools, a Phoenix Industries company} and the NDT and even the NPO Sea Patrol fleets dock their ships for refresh and replenishment, so there are generally loads of military personnel out carousing on leave through the city's attractions, amusements, and red-light wards. The Parade of Ships is a flotilla of naval vessels from the NDT Navy and the Sugai Keibi Hiko-tai {sea security squadrons}, also ships of the various Ichizoku naval fleets nearby, mayhap a few blue water or riverine vessels from the DCA, followed by a procession of civilian vessels at their spiffiest, that leads Fleet Week into Hilo making its way down the Kanawha River from the Sangosho Gulf to the military terminals in the Hilo Inland Port. The Parade is followed by a host of parties and events, both military and civilian throughout the city. There may be guided tours of ships {sometimes including aerospace ships and small craft} and military equipment, as well as military demonstrations and air shows.

Founding Date

2790

Type

Large city

Population

5 million and another million in sprawl

Inhabitant Demonym

Nejiroan

Location under

Tairiku

Included Locations

Related Reports (Primary)

Mission 17 - Raid on Hilo

Hilo

Industry & Trade

Unassigned Things

Financial Companies and Groups

Nejiro Stock Exchange

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