Hiroyuki Suzuki was a mild-mannered yet inquisitive chemistry student, but along with his mild nature was a strong sense of right and wrong, and an even greater interest in doing good things for humans. This was one of reasons he decided to try chemistry. Another one was that he wanted to do something ground-breaking one day. He loved Australia and America, continuously excited to see new technologies on one hand and the immense beauty that nature provided both countries. It was his family's holiday in Australia where he first started to grasp how “the other part of the world” lived. Being invited to a friend's farm, they experienced, albeit for only a few days, what it was to “work the land” - harvesting crops, feeding the pigs, chasing sheep. Hunting Kangaroos at night with the spot-light. Such experiences nowadays are rare – and even more-so for the average Japanese. He savoured this time and it has helped shape him and his ideas and driven him to help bring Japan away from its unrelenting drive to becoming a nation dependent on machines in the well-known “concrete jungle”..
It was a random, but pivotal event that he met Jacob while in Australia. Being the same age, they met at a University party, years after his first trip to Australia when Hiroyuki walked past and over-heard Jacob talking to a group of his friends about “making the world a better place” and receiving his fair share of “good luck, mate” from the very hi audience. He floated around near the side of the group and listened. Not much of what Jacob was talking about was possible yet, but the belief and conviction in his voice was very powerful and he did seem to be intelligent. At some point in his discussion, Jacob decided to end his “speech” and get another beer and walking past the attentive Japanese, he said, “hi” on passing.
Hiroyuki was not a shy man and could feel some kind of “alignment” so was very happy to be able to connect with Jacob. Also present at that party was Luciano, a young Italian who ran a pizza shop by day and was a wild inventor at home in his own time. Jacob first met Luciano at his pizza shop, enjoying a few slices of authentic Italian pizza while studying for his University exams. After a few meetings, they got to talking and Jacob was enthused to hear this Italian inventor's ideas. He was at that time working on a device that sat upon two slim canoe-type rafts that were driven by the back and forth arm movement, creating a “gliding” effect similar to that of how a dolphin would swim. Besides being excited to see such an invention come to life, Jacob knew he would be good friends with Luciano. It was from those early days until the present that they and some other very close friends began developing their “world strategies” - which now has become even larger than they could have hoped.
"Jacob, the material holds. We have broken through one of the last barriers for this stage of the project. With the sandstone forma-plast, we can now prepare launch of the bunkers. The resource, recycler, regenerator, greenhouse and health kits are working perfectly. We have to run some more tests with this final mixture, but the auto-wall blast pack doesn't require any re-working, so we are good to go in a few days.”
“Hiro, that is perfect. Very nice job, indeed. I can not wait to see these start rolling these out. Now is the start of our grandest idea – which makes it all the more exciting that we are actually going through with it. It will be the introduction to a much greater future for mankind..”
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