Kusari State Police

[wrathkin]

Merged some ideas, brushed it up.

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ID, IFF: Kusari State Police
Tag: [KSP]
Naming convention: IJN small ship names, for example my Gunboat is named 'Tachikaze', meaning "The wind of a sword stroke", which was the name of a destroyer(-class). Look up IJN names and naming conventions (DONT use the names of well-known navy ships, or any BB,BC, CA or CV - leave them to the KNF if they want them). So, if this beccomes real, my Yoshin character's ship will have the callsign [KSP]Tachikaze

Internal organization
The Kusari State Police are headed by two 'machi-bugyoh', who serve as judges, magistrates and chief of police.
They are seconded by a small number of assistant magistrates, the 'yoriki'.
The 'regular' police officers are the 'doshin'.

The Machi-bugyoh are directly responsible to the Imperial Court, and they are high-ranking samurai that apart from judging can also set state policy.
Machi-bugyoh never venture outside the core systems, and whenever they are space borne, they fly destroyers with heavy escort.

(For RP reasons, they should only be brought out in-game for special events or when pirate or terrorist captial ships penetrate to the interior - so, mainly a forum presence and a threat. The rationale for giving them capships is that a Machi-bugyoh are next to the Imperial court and should command absolute authority and an army of samurai bodyguards of his own. A cruiser is a handy substitute.)

The Yoriki are assistants to the Machi-bugyoh and are responsible to take care and command of day-to-day affairs. The Yoriki are also the executioners of the KSP, and because of this, while being high-ranked samurai, are banned from the royal court for social stigma. They would be the highest ranking KSP seen regularly in space, flying gunboats, advanced heavy fighters, or occasionally bombers.
(Yoriki players should also have a Doshin character)

The Doshin are the patrolling police officers. They patrol the lanes, enforce the law, and deal with the delicacies of implementing Kusari politics in real life. They fly fighters, and can recruit any Kusari citizen for temporary duty. Although lowest in rank among the KSP, they are samurai and so outranks any corporate - at least in theory - and any gaijin in theory and in practice.

Relations to the KNF

With the war, resources as well as authority passes to the military, whether the KSP wants it or not. Still, internal security is a State Police matter, not a military one.
The Navy is, of course, in charge of the frontier systems - Hokkaido beyond the gate and Sapporo, Taus beyond 29, Sigma-13/19 beyond the trade lanes. There they control contraband, meet threats to the state, set policy, and do whatever glory boys do.

In the interior, though, the KSP set policy, control trade, and fight piracy, insurgents and smuggling.
If a Navy officer finds police work in the interior - turn it over to police if possible, otherwise handle it according to police policies and file a report at the KSP. Likewise, if the KSP meets military threats, they must turn it over to the military if possible, otherwise handle it according to navy policies and file a report. The Navy has full authority to police the frontier systems alongside with the State Police.

KSP set policy on contraband, trade tariffs and licenses, and who is allowed and not in the core systems. The Navy decides who is allowed in frontier space.

In any joint venture, the highest ranking samurai will assume command (since the KNF is both the Machi-bugyohsho and the metsuke or we need two KSP factions :rolleyes:). The Machi-bugyoh will yeild only to the commander of the KNF (same rank, but any operation where the commander of KNF is involved is certain to be a military matter, at least in scope), or to a direct order from the court of the Emperor. The Yoriki will yield to an Admiral or a Commander. The Doshin will yield to a Captain.

Note that this is the rules of rank, but the police are expected to yield to the fleet at the frontier, and the fleet is expected to yield to the police in the interior and in civilian matters, as well as when a KNF Officer is under investigation. For a police officer to pull rank to boss around KNF squads at the frontier would be impolite, and sure to be punished by the Machi-bugyoh, and vice versa for an navy officer in the interior.

The Navy and Police share a common list of unwanted individuals (KoS list).

Initial relations

Allied
- KNF
- Samura

Friendly

- Kishiro
- Farmers Alliance (_not_ allowed to smuggle or tax/pirate gaijin in front of an officer)
- Gaians
- Rhineland Police
- Friendly with any trader supplying Deutrium - escorted to Honshu

Neutral

- Hogosha
- IND
- TAZ
- RepEx
- KoF
- GalEx
- Liberty Police
Any faction not listed elsewhere.

Unfriendly - not allowed Gunboats within the core systems, bullied, monitored and scanned excessively. May be fined if not complying fast enough.
- Criminals from Liberty, Rheinland
- RHA
- UKMG
- .:UOG:.
- Bretonian corporations - forced to dump cargo and escorted out of Kusari if not hauling Deutrium to Honshu, in that case escorted there and back out.
- Corsairs - forced to leave the core systems

Hostile - engaged and killed on sight.
- Outcasts
- GC
- 101st/202nd
- BLS
- Bushido
- NovaPG
- Phantoms
- QC*
- RoS
- Bretonian Armed Forces
- Blood Dragons
- Xenos
- M

Initial policies
Bretonia companies forced out of the country, shot if not complying. (supplying deuterium - escorted to Honshu and back out)
No Engine Components, H-Fuel, Optronics, light arms or military vehicles may enter the Taus beyond 29 except for with military or police escort to make sure it will not end up in Bretonia.
Military vehicles and light arms may only be hauled by Samura, Kishiro and GMG (PC faction or ID+IFF).
No foreign capital ships (destroyer and above) within the core systems (Tokyo, Honshu, Kuyshu, guard systems).
Artifact trade forbidden. Hogosha artifact smugglers are politely ignored as long as they don't flaunt it.
Cardamine trafficking forbidden. Smugglers are fined and turned back.
Slave trafficking forbidden, smugglers forced to drop cargo.
Counterfeit software forbidden, Hogosha, again, ignored.
Synthetic pot forbidden, Hogosha... you guessed it - ignored.
Defaming the State or the Emperor or insulting a samurai's honor (all KSP/KNF officers) forbidden and fined or paid in blood.
Succeeding in resisting arrest leads to KoS list. Removed from there only if original fine is paid, fine for resisting arrest is paid, and RP while doing it is at least ok-ish.
No foreign police or military ID:d vessels allowed in Kusari except if invited by their Kusari counterpart - and in that case they ought to be escorted.

Plans:
Intention of licensing export of niobium and import of diamonds to disrupt the dual-way NT-NB route (only allow license one way to same corp/faction).
No Nomad licenses, no gun-dealing licenses. Trade away!

Funding
Funding of individual pilots, missions and percentage of fines. Funding of (exactly two) Machi-bugyohsho capitals and eventual sign-on bonus for recruits, the remaining percentage of fines and licenses.

Equipment
Strictly Kusari equipment. A few gunboats, chimeras and bombers flown by the Yoriki. Doshin fly Dragon or Wyrm.
Two machi-bugyoh destroyers when there are funds. (in-rp, they already exist, of course)

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