I cannot say Dab, how wrong you are.
But I will attempt to anyway; of course you will deny all of what I say is true, but I can say I tried.
Quote:First; The GC supply themselves through piracy.
Your first line! Your first damn line is wrong! The Infocard for the GC mentions ZERO about piracy.
Quote:The Golden Chrysanthemums are a terrorist organization seeking to the overthrow the Kusari government and institute a matriarchy. Short-term goals include helping the Outcasts and Blood Dragons to free Kusari from the Corsair influence.
The -only- reason anyone can consider the GC to be pirates is by the game mechanic, as the rules of the server do not allow the GC to act as terrorists. You'd need a terrorist ID for that.
I usually despise RL comparisons, but Im going to make one here:
The IRA; Goals to free Northern Ireland from the control of Queen Elizabeth II and the state religeon supported by the Church of England, protestantism.
The GC; Goals to free Kusari from the Control of Emperor Jien Kogen and the currently backwards and traditional culture supported by the current regime, which places women further down the order.
The IRA; Try to achieve their goals by destroying profiled targets on the mainland as well as attacking and killing opposition party spokesmen, leaders, military and police personnel.
The GC; Try to achieve their goals by destroying profiled targets in central Kusari as well as attacking and killing the current regimes supporters, primarily Samura, Hogosha, KNF, KSP and the Farmers Alliance.
The IRA; Supplied by those with interests in the goals of the IRA, namely the political party Sinn fein, representatives within, anonymous parties outside and those who want to see control of northern ireland fall into Dublin's hands simply because they have cash or leverage to gain from it.
The GC; Supplied by those with interests in the goals of the GC, namely corporations and factions looking to muscle in on the Kusari market, primarily IC, Synth Foods and the Outcasts, who want to gain a stronger foothold with their Cardamine. Also supplied by donations from any representatives of political parties perhaps even within Samura and the Hogosha, who claim that 'more needs to be done to prevent GC terrorism acts in Kusari' as their reason for a powergrab within their parental faction.
Like most terrorist groups in these days and the next, the GC are a tool by which political manoevering is played out, a game which could currently go either way. They are no more than a tool.
Quote:Also, they spread Cardamine for money as well, and to gain more recruits from the female population of Kusari.
Cardamine is a vessel for gathering credits, and also earns them support from the Outcasts. The spread of Cardamine itself through Kusari plays no role in acting as a 'recruitment banner'. Cardamine is used in initiation, not before. True, a cardamine addicted lady may look to join the Chrysanthemums after being found out and exiled by her blood-relations, but that is not the way that the GC gains the majority of its recruits. They gain most of their recruits instead by appealing to the few women in Kusari who have retained their ability to think for themselves, which I will get on to later.
Quote:Not to mention the fact that piracy harms Kusari's economy, making the GC's goals that much easier to accomplish. Destroying a nation's economy is a stepping stone to revolution. One that is necessary and can't be neglected.
Piracy causes less fear than terrorism, and it is the GC's aim to be feared. After all, if you fear someone and they speak, you tend to listen to them rather than ignore them. And what's better, if you destroy things, you still get to tow away some of the loot.
Quote:Also, the Maltans, in your opinion, aren't nice people. But that's just your opinion, and not fact in any way or form.. I have Outcast characters. None of them are evil. I have GC characters, none of them are evil either.
So, essentially, the GC condone slavery and a horrible death by a thousand cuts. Excellent.In rebelling against the patriarchal society of Kusari, and in being responsible for deaths through acts of terrorism, they lose all sense of humanity. Sarcasm of course.
Quote:On the assumption that a wealthy plantation owner wouldn't marry a GC, that really is the choice of that Maltan. There would be several reasons for it, among them the fact that, while GC use Cardamine, most are not the descendents of a line of ancestors that also used it. That means these women have a higher fertility rate than Maltese women. That's just the practicality side, not straying into the fact that love is love, and it doesn't have to adhere to what you decide it to be. If a Maltan were to meet a GC and fall in love with her, what's to stop him? Unlike the Corsairs, the Outcasts have no family marriage restrictions stating they must marry within the Outcasts. They can do whatever they wish to do. Due to the close relations between the GC and OC, something like this happening is rare, but not impossible or unthinkable.
Here I agree with you. There's that famous rumour about a Outcast and Corsair getting entangled with each other, I dont think it's outside the realms of possibility.
Quote:Think about the atmosphere they live in, and most likely grew up in. Kusari men are the 'enemy'.
But these Kusari men do not rape other Kusari women or commit similar attrocities and get away with it. As Unselie said, if such a thing were to happen, you would probably see revenge killing's of sorts.
This is Kusari/Japan that we're talking about, during the period before the conclusion of the second world war. My grandmother was punched by a military officer when she was six for breaking her bow to look up at him while he was passed. She didn't then decide to join a suffragette-eque movement.
Having first hand experience of even modern Japan, women play their role still subject to the will of the man in the family, though far less so than in pre-war Japan. Women do not get pushed around or forced into the role that they play, they just do so without asking questions.
You are thinking about 'the atmosphere they live in, and most likely grew up in' from the eyes of a westerner. It may seem perfectly logical to you to, but even Japanese women wont quite see what you're trying to say. Or rather, they will appear to agree with you but in reality have no opinion of their own. This is because Japanese people, women and men alike, are put through an educational system that dumbs down the ability of free thinking and question asking in exchange for a vast knowledge base from which to draw facts and methods. For example, putting your hand up during an excerpt being read out by a teacher in High School in Japan typically earns you a detention, rather than them allowing you to ask your question. You listen. You learn. You do not question. These are the rules of the current educational system, which has been in place since Japan modernised its armed forces over a century ago.
If we now assume that Kusari is traditional Japan in respect to its very fact-based educational system, strong traditions of patriarchy and a prized value for brides as a way of sealing connections between families, all of which existed before westernisation and still do to a large extent, then the GC movement should still be what it was in vanilla; a small but expanding group of idealists who have taken the most extreme measures to fulfill their goals. Not some bloody armada like they are now.
Let me now conclude with what I could gather here:
Part of the Ainu infocard:
Quote: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.
Lacking in direction =/= being raped, abused and generally pushed around.
Quote:Matsuda looked to the foreigners as a model, where women could be president and run corporations.
Politicians in Japan do this now, and find themselves blocked by a considerable traditionalist contingent across the two main political parties where changes to key milestones in Japanese tradition are proposed.
Quote: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.
Which supports my statement about their size in relation to other more substancial organisations within Kusari.