Golden Chrysanthemum Player Guide

[The Gen'an Chrysanthemums]

Golden Chrysanthemums Faction Guide

Written by @Megaera as a collection of ingame GC lore to help new GC players find their way The commentary may not reflect the views of other GC factions/players. Also this is a work in progress and will get regular updates.

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Faction Overview:

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The Golden Chrysanthemums are a terrorist organization seeking to overthrow the current Kusari government and institute a matriarchy.

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.

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.

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What do you need to know when starting out as new GC player?

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• First of all. Every fully initiated member is addicted to cardamine. A drug produced on Planet Malta. This addiction is permanent because of the DNA mutations it creates within the user. Cardamine has several positive effects, including longer life span and sharper reflexes. Cardamine withdrawal is very painful and eventually leads to death. Consult more detailed lore on cardamine if you want to know more.
  
  
• The Golden Chrysanthemums are a woman only faction, also refered to the Sisterhood. Yes there is a male GC NPC on Morioka, called Charles Worthington, who is looking to join the GC, but this NCP was imported into Shikoku from the retconned GC Guard System, which had a very messed up lore to begin with, like a GC cardamine planet. It is my view that he is affiliated instead of a GC member. His current rumors are also a remnant of the retconned Guard system. I have submitted a new set of rumors for him to better reflect his position as affiliate.
  
  
• To set up a GC character, the quickest way is to use the restart command. The command to restart as a GC is /restart KuGC. You will end up on Ainu Base in Hokkaido.
  
  
• Japanese names begin with the surname and are followed by the given name. A GC character will be named like Kinashita Izumi, where Kinashita is the surname and Izumi is the given name.
  

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Reputation Infocard

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ALLIES: Blood Dragons, Outcasts, Lane Hackers

ENEMIES: Corsairs, Hogosha, Farmers Alliance, Bounty Hunters, Kusari Police, Kusari Naval Forces, Samura
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.

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