Rp Background and Reasons

[beander2]

Zelot, thanks for your initial post and for opening your RP up to questions from the community.

As to those who continue to argue just to argue, stop.

I actually have a genuine question, Zelot, and it has to do with your description of AFA as "ultra-nationalist," and whether that fits well within the context of the Kusari empire. Within scholarship on nationalism, nationalist movements are usually set apart from empires for one significant reason: nations and nationalism, by definition, root themselves in a particular bounded territory which is part and parcel of their national identity, while empires expand and attempt to subsume more and more territory under their control. Nationalists have a specifically limited sense of their nation's territory; empires do not, and typically refuse to except for pragmatic reasons. Thus, an ultra-nationalist group aiding the military expansion of empire doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

When it comes to the RP in your first post, I find the argument for AFA presence in Leeds a bit tenuous. The only point that seems remotely applicable is #4, and that is a stretch considering FA's/AFA's stated raison d'etre. Now, I'm not asking you to stop, because I tend toward a live and let live approach to RP, when nobody else is being adversely affected. However, I do wonder if a stronger RP rationale isn't called for here.

Nationalists are inwardly focused, and some specifically emphasize purification of culture. This is FA/AFA to a tee. However, hitting supply lines to aid imperial expansion is not. What I'd suggest is that AFA, if it wants to continue an active presence in Leeds, actively engage in cultural expansion. Looking at Leeds as incoming Kusari territory, aim for the purification of its culture (along Kusari lines). Use nationalist propaganda, mixed with environmental concerns (since that would be the most obvious connection in that system), to extend the nationalist message to your nation's newest members. I think this would fit the faction much better than mere paramilitary action.

Sorry for the wall of text.

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Sir Alisdair Buchanan, KBE ~ Gateway)Trafalgar