Proposal: ID changes for 4.87

[jammi]

Not sure who came up with that, but that's not what the faction was originally about. Wanting to establish a matriarchical society would mean the end of their alliance with the Blood Dragons as their goals would no longer coincide. It does not make sense for more then a relatively small, extremist portion of the GC to be wanting this. I think this is one of the cases where player faction lore has started to conflict with server lore to the point that if player lore was fully applied to the faction, the faction would effectively implode. Equal rights is one thing, but I don't see young Kusari males line up to support a matriarchy - so the faction loses popular support among the population, and their BD allies. They become isolated, lose members, and effectively cease to be a power at that point.
Either way, I see no reason to put that on the ID.

I'd disagree here. The Chrysanthemums' goals have never closely coincided with the Blood Dragons' to begin with, so it has always been an alliance of convenience. The pair would likely continue to fight together until they'd defeated their enemies, then turn on each other when their goals fully diverged. At the moment, the primary objective is to defeat the standing military and police forces of Kusari, with what happens next being immaterial until they're in a position to actually act upon that.

The Kishiro backed government did extend the civil powers of women to an extent, but if this had happened completely and even handedly and that "lore was fully applied to the faction, the faction would effectively implode." They'd lose their reason for existing, and simply fade away. Mind you, the main opposition to practical equality wouldn't have been legislative, but cultural. Consider the American civil rights movement, and how long it took for equality to be achieved, despite God-knows how many constitutional amendments that were supposed to secure it. On the ground, the new government's decrees probably seem a bit ineffectual and pointless.

Given that the Chrysanthemums are still fighting on, it stands to reason that the moderates who have been appeased by the minor, token efforts have abandoned the cause, leaving a hardcore of dedicated radicals. Where the demands for a matriarchy may have been very much a minority in the past, the chaff has basically been threshed out. Now you're either a militant matriarch or you've given up the fight and returned to live as an addict within Kusari society, in my opinion.

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