A ronin was a samurai with no lord or master during the feudal period (1185–1868) of Japan. A samurai became masterless by the ruin or fall of his master, or after the loss of his master's favour or privilege.
During the Coalition Wars, there was a squadron, fighting on the side of the Alliance, which inscribed its name in the halls of legend. It was a Japanese unit, based on the carrier Yamato, that excelled in bravery. Ultimately, they were completely exterminated but their name lived on; they were the Ronin.
The Ronin want to pay homage to those brave men and women who sacrificed their lives for freedom, by adopting their name in the hope some of their glory can be reflected upon us and as an example to emulate.
Political Dissidents
It is precisely freedom, and what it involves, that forced this group of former members of the Kusari Navy Forces to resign their commissions and choose the Sigmas as their new home.
In the present political situation, the Emperor is held hostage by self-centred groups of power that hunger for control and domination of Kusari, their pressuring and manipulation of events having ultimately escalated into a war with Bretonia. These groups, along with some semi-legal groups, form the real power behind the throne, enhances their grasp on Kusari by establishing an oppressive regime which disregards all evolution and progress, imposing a medieval servitude over the House as a whole.
This is not the way of the Samurai; this clashes with our traditions and is a travesty of the ancestral code that we obey, the first and most important duty of which is to serve the Emperor and, through him, the Kusarians, by defending and keeping the traditions of our way of life, and not permitting, by complacency or inaction, an age of darkness and servitude to gain a foothold in Kusari.
In the complicated chess board of Kusari, the Emperor is not a piece to be moved by sordid interests of those who confuse the welfare of the people of our House with their own agendas. The Throne should be place above petty economical and political arenas and the Emperor should be the arbiter of the game. His councillors should have the highest ethical principals and be chosen from those who have made service to the Empire their first and only priority.
Without the right connections and affiliations with the eminence grises that pull the strings, this members of the Kusari Naval Force found themselves in a situation where their career become stale with no discernible prospects. Not able to become an organised opposition as members of the KNF and not willing to become outright rebels and outcasts in their own House, the Ronin had but one choice: exile, since serving the group powers that controlled Kusari and had the ear of the Emperor was not honourable to these samurai.
Exile
Disgusted with the this grim setting, the Ronin resigned their commissions, entered their former service ships, bought as war surplus, and flew to self-imposed exile in the Sigmas. In the border they found solace and a new beginning.
Constantly seeking new areas to explore for natural resources and with an increasing demand for competent escorts for their convoys, the GMG was a natural choice for this group of exiles and so the negotiations started. The Ronin were allowed to become an autonomous group working with GMG but with their own command, allowing those proud samurai to retain their identity while following the orders and policies of the Guild and directions of the Guild Masters.
The Ronin are particularly adept in the organisation and security of convoys that supply H-fuel or Plutonium to several destinations in the Sirius sector, particularly to our allies, the Zoners. All the logistics, security needs, planning and route-designing fit the profile of the men and women of the Ronin, which includes former members of the Kusarian exploration wing.
Due to their background, Ronin is more at ease in a military situation than a police work routine, so in patrolling the GMG zones of influence they are more focused on identifying potential threats and trespassers than in searching for smugglers. However, traffic in drugs or human flesh is dealt with as harshly as an enemy incursion.
Ronin will normally integrate within GMG patrols or serve as a task force to defuse dangerous situations in GMG territory or will serve in exploration missions and scouting assignments.
Members of the Ronin will use not only their former service ships, which were still of Kishiro manufacture, and will still be serviced by them, but also the vessels that the Guild has generously put at their disposal, as well as some civilian line ships.
Note: as soon as the 500 million credits are gathered this proposal will be changed in a faction proposal considering the feedback received meanwhile.
As I know samurais live for service, it was their goal, not the freedom. If they lost their lord, they lost their honor, so most of them killed himself, those who not, tried to search a new superior as soon as possible, so they get back their honor. A common samurai dont have the right to argue his daimyo's decisions neither the emperor's. If he do this, usually he got an order to make seppuku. If he refuse this, he lost all rights as samurai, and lost his honor too. The honor for a samurai is the most important, more important than his life. In Kusari the Blood Dragons the only one samurai group who has good reason to live not under the shogun's controll, the revenge. But normally, if Samura and his naval force puppets dont betray and kill the true shogun, Hideyoshi, the Dragons dont want to live as outcast.
So if you leave your duty because you dont like the emperor, you are, who betrayed the way of the samurais and so unworthy to the life.
I hate to rain on your parade but... I think there's already a Ronin faction. They're GMG if I believe.
Now, that's not to say you can't make a faction of Ronin, it just means you'll have to call yourselves something else.
' Wrote:I hate to rain on your parade but... I think there's already a Ronin faction. They're GMG if I believe.
Now, that's not to say you can't make a faction of Ronin, it just means you'll have to call yourselves something else.
Whilst one might or might not BELIEVE oneself to be a 'true' samurai or ronin, the actual code as such died out before the start of the 20th century.
Thus futuristic variants such as this faction are entitled to put their own slant on it.
This outline is a good background, of course it is not complete. It needs to touch on how they might differ in culture or attitude from the regular GMG faction.
Being very recently Kusari citizens, they would have strong cultural influences and ties there. This is certainly reflected in their use of Kusari-made ships (which I might add are a nice bright green on the ship tech list so no complaints from anyone about that eh?)
That is just my suggestion. Whatever the Ronin decide it should be reflected in their Diplomacy List - which they need to draw up. It would be very similar to the regular GMG faction, but with allowance for some variation. For example they might well be uncomfortable with the Guild's under-the-table dealings with the Blood Dragons, preferring not to associate with them where possible.
Overall the Ronin proposal should improve with time. They need time to develop their RP and interact with other factions.
Although English is not their first language, their leader has shown a willingness to engage in RP on the forums, and to both advocate for - and discipline his troops.
I welcome them as Brothers-in-Arms and members of the community.
' Wrote:Mind you this is a fst draft , intending to be fleshed out as we gather the money, which will take time.
Just wanted to say, try to find a better reason why the Ronins left the service in the final version of description. Because the samurai mean to serve (and this is their main goal), they cant be freedom fighters.