Kusari discussion club

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Semi-serious suggestion:

Proper kusari civil war. exiles make a play to retake kusari and re-install an emperor. Loyalist supporting factions fight republican factions.

thats all i got. feel free to expand from there.
Edit: As Knjaz said, the only really active house is the one with the newbie starting system. perhaps have newbies start in kusari instead.

4.87. Also OP a lot of data you have in your post is actually wrong or out of date. Or otherwise eskewed. I appreciate your concern about my house but you have the wrong idea's.

Honestly 4.86 was wrong for kusari because it totally crippled us. And even now and in the next version Bretonia somehow still has a bigger battleship fleet then Kusari will. (logic!)

Kusari. It is meant to represent the feodalic Japane. History was playing a fair part in the Freelancer's factions background and the Kusari is sending us back to the Emperor's authority restavration which ended the Shogun Tokugawa's rule. I'm of cause not talking about the current Kusari. Current Kusari is a mistake from how I see it because the whole idea of Kusari and it's background was blown away painting it all gray. From my opinion Kusari must be built around the Blood Dragons and their war with the Imperialists backed by Samura.

I dont think it should be built around the blood dragons but rather Samura vs Kishiro. I think the reason behind that is all too clear. So I will not adress your second point because it builds up on your idea of Samura vs Blood Dragons

The 'sides' if you will are indeed a bit more concrete for Samura. Its Samura, Hogosha, AFA and it used to also include KPT (since they adressed directly to the emperor, they do not anymore since 4.86) As 'indies / both' sides you have KSP and KNF. They can however be sympathetic to the Farmers Alliance and sometimes outright ignore their piracy

The other side is a loosely tied bunch of factions. Kishiro works closely with the GMG, the GMG has close ties with the Blood Dragons who has close ties to the order and GC, who in turn have close ties with the Outcasts. Again kishiro also benefits from the KSP / KNF but neither side really commands them. This does put kishiro in a weaker spot indeed. Since so far in the lore of our house I do not believe that kishiro has tried to exploit the BD or GC. The reason behind that is kind of easy to figure out why. The BD is seen as terrorists only wanting to overthrow the government while the GC only wished (wishes) for more rights for women but also deal cardamine and generally turn people into cardamine addicts. Their goal has now switched to getting a matriarchy since kishiro is introducing more rights for women (right to vote, equal pay, equal jobs iirc / afaik)

Kishiro shot themself in the foot a bit with what they did. They cant exactly have blood dragon support or GC support if they are seen as undermining both factions. And this is exactly what has happened this version and I do not see that change in the next one.

GC can work well as Kusari's "Xenos" but with different vector.

wrong analogy. The farmers alliance is Kusari's xeno's. the GC are more like the Liberty Rogues where as the blood dragons are more like the hellfire legion. (that is using liberty examples)

Next is - Kusari's systems. I don't want to say something bad about the people who put the effort into making new systems such as Rishiri and Nagano but REALY. Those systems have no use except miners sitting in them and it's only nagano. Remove those systems and move the mining spots inside the already existent systems. They really have no place or use any then going there and back to get ores\pirate miners. Stratching the already tiny player base for 2 more huge systems is not vise at all, sorry. Put more love into the vanilla territory so it will be easier for people to find each others.

I disagree slightly. Simply for the fact that you cant exactly make up a story as to why there is a bunch of platinum in a system in kusari (read the back ground on how the platinum in nagano appeared) I do agree slightly in rishiri but that system will get more usage in 4.87

Also: Give Kusari a new war.

Start of Civil war in 4.87 and full blown civil war in 4.88 I imagine.

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