Hoseki Bako Complex

The Hoseki Bako Complex represents a collection of, what are still considered to be far-flung, human colonies. Any organisation they may have, comes from their shared geography, loose, mostly bilateral treaties, and cultural norms akin to those of partly ancient Korea, but mostly ancient Japan. This last element is a historical artefact of their mutual origin in a compact of post-Nipponese Technocratium corporations associated with the Strikermechanica (the flagship programme of the Shipwright's Guild), a compact that has been referred to in latter-day historical accounts as the Hashitori Movement (or in reference the same when in transit and establishment, as the Shintoist-Musokist colonists).

The Technocratium had long been a font of rebellious sentiment within the Monarchrate, leading to a range of novel uprisings, escapades, and technical departues from Guild and Fraternal norms, most notable of these were the various forces leading to the Event of 2552. The Hashitori Movement could ultimately be described as an escapade that took on a recogniseable shape within elements of the Shipwrights Guild soon after the Strikermechanica started bearing fruit. It remains the earliest known, and one of the most distal, leap-colonisation projects.

The earliest colonies were established in the four most favourable locales, in what are today the sectors of Akada (2791), Funatsu (2784), Onitsuka (2752) and Yoshyama (2770). These are variously separated from each other (averaging on 100 lightyears), but collectively lie well to the rim of what is most commonly understood to be the Hoseki Bako Fields.

Over the following centuries the colonisation moved slowly coreward, fanning in all directions, south, north, spinward and tailward.