• Name: Golden Chrysanthemums
• ID: Golden Chrysanthemums ID
• IFF: GC
• Tag: GC|
History
Most scholars date the start of the group as the publication of Golden Chrysanthemum in Bloom in 642 AS. The author, Yuyu Matsuda, was a young but critically acclaimed poet. Charismatic and well-spoken, Matusda had a considerable following among young Kusari women who found their lives lacking in direction but were reluctant to become married and fulfill their traditional role in Kusari society.
Matsuda decried what she saw as the corruption of the Kusari male-dominated culture and preached a revolution led by the long-suffering women of Kusari. These ideas were eventually encapsulated in Golden Chrysanthemum in Bloom, in which Matsuda described a fictitious nation called Yomi. A place of fat, lazy male bureaucrats who handed out concessions at the whim of entrenched mega-corporations, Yomi was eventually engulfed in revolution and united under the rule of a benevolent Empress personally selected by the goddess Amaterasu to watch over her people.
Matsuda looked to the foreigners as a model, where women could be president and run corporations. The Chrysanthemum went on to become a best-seller. Unfortunately, in 648 AS, Matsuda crossed the dangerous line between ideas and actions when she was implicated in the botched assassination attempt of the planetary governor of Kyushu.
Rather than face the ignominy of imprisonment, Matsuda chose ritual suicide instead. An increase in attacks on government personnel and installations followed soon after. Neither as well armed as the Blood Dragons nor as influential as the Hogosha, the Golden C. have been more of an irritant to the government than an actual threat.
Unfortunately, any attempts to locate the Golden C. base or learn more about their organization has been thwarted by their willingness to die rather than talk. A Golden C. pilot will trigger her ship's self-destruction rather than be captured, and suicide attacks are common. Attempts to infiltrate the Golden C. have proven equally fruitless. On several occasions the Kusari government has received the finger of an undercover agent wrapped in a page from one of Matsuda's books.
The Kusari State Police keeps a watchful eye on the faction, but has been unable to completely control them. This is at least partly due to the assistance of the Blood Dragons, who have made use of the Golden C. base in Hokkaido as a rest stop on the long journey to the inner systems of Kusari. The Blood Dragons also share the group’s desire to overthrow the government and reform House Kusari, although perhaps using more sophisticated methods.
Background
After Golden Chrysanthеmum Pretender on the Kusari Throne, The Amaterasu's Light, Child Empress Kimiko Takamitsu was meanly assassinated, the whole Golden Chrysanthemums movement entered a deep reformation. Remembering the old days and making new structures Chrysanthemums successfully passed the transition period. Gathering all available resources and getting new followers, the movement was finally ready to follow the new elaborated doctrine.
Due to the limited possibilities of the Blood Dragons concerning the assistance with refitting the Matsuda, the Golden Chrysanthemums decided to call in another of their allies for help, the Outcasts. After the successful repair of the impulse engines, the Matsuda was moved into the Sigma-19 system, guarding the Cardamine route and being way closer to the helpful Outcasts then in Okinawa. While the ongoing repairs, the Chrysanthemums saw the possibility of getting a foothold in the Sigmas controlled by the GMG.
In a striking amount of time the movement gathered enough resources to build a small Outpost inside Sigma-59, Nishiara. With the arrival of the Matsuda deep within Kusari's heart, this small little Outpost remains as the Chrysanthemums foothold in the Sigmas. With this base of operation and their dealings with the Outcasts and the Gas Miners, the GC will put as much as they can into the effort of securing their stand in the Sigmas and create a secure sector free of the blinded puppets of the Kusarian Corporations and Corsairs.
In full awareness of the need new sources of income to continue propagandistic and paramilitary operations Golden Chrysanthеmums have decided to look beyond the Kusari borders in hope to find the new opportunities. While keep maintaining relations with traditional partners such as Gas Miners Guild or The Kingdom of Bretonia, new doctrine is assuming slowly but surely develop new financial relations with the world outside of Kusari.
By providing some assistance to Blood Dragon general offensive in Nagano system, GC are keeping their raids wherever it's possible in order to collect more resources as well as disorganize Republican logistic network. Using the chaos in Tau and Kyushu after the invasion of Imperial forces and the burning conflict with Rheinland, the Chrysanthеmums are attempting to increase the Cardamine flow through Kusari and deal significant damage to their enemies within this sector.
Faction goals
Long-term goals
• Overthrowing the current Kusari government and institute a matriarchy.
• Securing independence of the Kusarian government from influence of Gallia and corrupt corporations.
• Gain of sufficient political influence to undermine the political world of Kusari (achieved)
• Elimination of gender based discrimination in the Kusarian society.
Short-term goals
• Securing additional sources of funding and supplies for the GC.
• Collaboration of efforts with the Outcasts and Bretonia to counter the Gallic threat. (achieved)
• Acquiring heavier military assets through their allies.
• Fully setting up the safe haven "Susanoo" (achieved)
• Building an underworld trade network within Kusari and its borders
Diplomacy
Allied:
Blood Dragons
Junker Marauders
Lane Hackers
Outcasts
The Order
Borderworld Exports
Bretonia Mining and Manufacturing
Bretonia Privateers
Bundschuh
Gateway Shipping
Hellfire Legion
Omicron Supply Industries
Landwirtrechtbewegung
Liberty Rogues
Planetform Incorporated
Crayter Republic
Red Hessians
Zoners
Buro der Marineintelligenz
Unfriendly:
Ageira Technologies
ALG Waste Disposal
Marinenachrichtendienst
Daumann Heavy Construction
Deep Space Engineering
Gaians
Independent Miners Guild
Kruger Minerals
Liberty Navy
Liberty Police Incorporated
Liberty Security Force
Molly
Unioners
Republican Shipping
Rheinland Federal Police
Sirius Coalition
The Core
Unione Corse
Hostile:
Bounty Hunters Guild
Corsairs
EFL Oil & Machinery
Farmers Alliance
Rheinland Military
Gallic Metal Service
Confederal Gallic Defense Forces
Gallic Gendarmerie
Office of Confederal Intelligence
Hogosha
Ile-de-France Shipping
Kishiro Technologies
Kusari State Police
Kusari Naval Forces
Samura Industries
Cryer Pharmaceuticals
Xenos