The Blood Dragons

[pipboy]

Okay... since I've not seen you today, I'll just post... I'm still convinced this proposal can be improved to a more... interesting, vision of how the Blood Dragons should be, rather than just conforming to the black and white alliances that most factions now have... As I'd said in PM, I didn't address all the issues in one post.

My main concern now, is the ranking system...
The idea that you're going to rule the whole Blood Dragon faction, with one of the few remaining direct descendent of Hideyoshi under your control, it's a little... over-ruling, of anything any other faction can do. It would basically be what you say, or execution.

You've mentioned the "Rising Son" but you've also used "Blood Dragons" through out... it's a conflict.

I'd say stick to the "Rising Sun" idea, dropping the references to leading the Blood Dragons.. you can have elite members, sure... Just not the leader of the whole NPC faction. It'd be more reasonable to have the leading rank of the "Rising Sun" as a Shogun.

To adopt this "Rising Sun" idea, I'd also change the tag... ]bd[ doesn't seem disimilar enough from [BD], BD-RS|? RS-? This request needed a little more time...

This requires a change in the back ground story, but not a complete overhaul.
You've also not included the its I've said about the HG... i.e. it was a 101st-eqsue Blood Dragon faction, we certianly did -NOT- do any piracy. The only "piracy" we did, was asking people to drop whole cargo-holds full, to destroy it, which was only because we could not, at that time, simply destroy them. We only did this in Chugoku. Neither did HG "die out" entirely, we re-merged into NovaPG.

Initially, it was due to the fact that Exile and I wanted a different vision of the Blood Dragons, we re-merged due to chronic inactivity, though I would've simply deleted the character had NovaPG not repositioned since the split to attempt to emulate the vanilla Blood Dragon faction as well as possible.
The GC side of the coin has also not been addressed... I think pipboy was in agreement over the issue, honestly, it'll make the Kusari unlawful scene a -lot- more interesting and a -lot- more accurate... Simply having them as allied would lose the Blood Dragons in the PR department in Kusari. Certainly enough to make them extremely wary of any attempt to do such a thing...

Sorry long work day today, just recently got home. What PM are you referring to?

We never claimed that just because he is a descendant of Hideyoshi that it makes him the default leader of ALL the Blood Dragons. He is "A" direct descendant, not "the". So he has "A" claim to leadership. Whether or not anyone chooses to follow him is up to them. The other Shoguns (leaders) are descendants of other Shoguns from the era of Shoguns that have decided to back his claim and fight under his flag.

On the Rising Sons thing, I sort of originally wanted that to be the name of the whole faction but I'm not the only one that has a say so there you go. We are still Blood Dragons just like the NovaPG and anyone else and we're using the name and a tag that goes along with that. That still does not make us the leaders of the whole faction. We won't ever claim that, and that was never our planned RP. As it stands now we are the Rising Sons which is a movement among the Blood Dragons, but we're still Blood Dragons and if anyone else wants to make a faction called "Blood Dragons" they're free to do so. We're still the Rising Sons movement. Our tag even is ]bd[ and doesn't stop someone from using a [BD], BD-, BD| or whatever. I do get what you're saying and I'm not against the idea of changing the name of the faction to The Rising Sons but that decision isn't entirely up to me. Could even use a tag like ]*[ or something to get the idea of a rising sun.

The title Taishogun is the exact same thing as Shogun, the definition is exactly the same. Shogun is nothing more than an abbreviation of the word Taishogun. We needed a title that differentiated the faction leader from the other Shoguns so we just used the whole word rather than the abbreviated version. It's an OORP way of designating the faction leader.

On the GC issue I agreed with your ideas on it, but Reaven reminded me of current RP in game:
(Quoting Reaven)
"The GC are no longer loosely affilliated in my mind. We gave them a battleship, we helped develop their guns and their new ships. We give them access to our bases and our resources and are often found working together. Right now I think they are staying as allies."

The giving them a battleship is the part that makes an alliance in a way to me. Granted this is all part of the Okinawa system RP which I will admit I'm not really a fan of. So honestly I'm not personally sure how this is all supposed to be in RP...

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