OOC: I think the Black Dragons should be a little different from regular Hogosha. I know more about Japanese history than the average American, but I don't know how the Yakuza (historical basis for the Hogosha) acted during times of war (specifically, during World War II). I would be curious to find out. However, I do know that the Italian-American Mafia covertly helped the U.S. Government during WWII. Even as late as the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba during the Kennedy administration in the early 1960s, the Mafia covertly helped the U.S. Government, even though JFK's brother (RFK) was a prosecutor obsessed with attacking the Mafia. If the Nazis had succeeded in an invasion of New York City (a Mafia stronghold) during World War II, I'm sure that the Mafia would have retaliated with sabotage, drive-by shootings and whatever else they could do to hurt the Nazis.
IC as Wakagashira: Hogosha means "protector" in Japanese, so we Hogosha view ourselves as protectors of the Kusari people. That means that we Hogosha would do everything possible to defend the Kusari people against Bretonian aggression, such as QCO/QCP raids on New Tokyo.
I respectfully propose that any Black Dragon piracy should be (primarily, if not exclusively) versus Bretonia, making us the Kusari equivalent of QCP. The fact that the KNF will allow us Black Dragons to have some Kusari Naval ships means that we will act as a small paramilitary force to defend Kusari space.
OK, seeing as how I am back now I am bumping this thread for the purpose of proposing the Black Dragon Society as a faction again. I have spoken with a couple of the old members and they are going to stick with it so I will need a couple more confirmed pilots to have enough to resurrect the BDS.
I wanted to get everyone's thoughts on trying to bring them back and also see who else is interested in joining up.
Just one thing - the process for becoming a faction has changed. Now, you need to shell out 500mil to even make a post in the appropriate forum that gets you considered. Just to let you know.
I'll help when I can. Give me a character name and I'll send the money periodically with /givecash.
Donations from ALS)Cerulean, Nori.Koga, Ayumu.Ishida (and variants), and Floyd.Roberts are from me.
I'd recommend rewriting the original description, or at least adding a little more formatting (more line breaks plz) and ship lists/diplomacy like other factions have.
This thread was the first ever proposal I made back in the day, we were actually a faction for a while.
So the diplomacy list needs to be updated some for new factions and for others that no longer exist but otherwise it's all ready to go.
Oh and I was joking about donations, I'm not looking for charity. Although I'm not saying I'll turn down free cash if people want to send some my way.. :-P
' Wrote:Oh and I was joking about donations, I'm not looking for charity. Although I'm not saying I'll turn down free cash if people want to send some my way.. :-P
I wasn't joking, gimme a name and I'll send a few million over.