4.86 Tau War Event - POW Exchange

[Slainte]

Well if they dont thier pilots back what about all the civvies on Stokes and Glasgow? surely they would want them back. Or should they all fall on thier swords as well! :crazy:

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[FooFighter]

Any Kusari Samurai would rather die then be captured by the enemy and dishonor his family. I am sure that any that were captured would take the first opportunity to commit ritual suicide. As such, the BAF has no Samurai to return to Kusari.

But, certainly, not every soldier serving Kusari is also a member of it's Samurai caste, right? Officers may or may not surrender, but enlisted grunts tend to have different notions about the concept of a honorable death. Also, mind you that not everybody rendered unable to fight is also killed in action. In WW2, there were quite a few Japanese soldiers who were simply knocked out or heavily wounded by taking a shot in a non-critical location, concussions, etc - the Pacific Theater was brutal (to say the least), but the Allies still took some POWs, some of which even cooperated with their captors later. Now, that's ground and not space combat, but I'm sure not every Kusarian soldier has his escape pod deactivated (and when a Kusarian battleship is going down, not everybody is willing to "sink" with his ship). If you're interested, I'm sure we could work something out that'd leave the honor of the Kusarian Samurais intact.

As for the GRN - I can't speak about the rest of High Command, but I, RPing the chief of it's black ops/intel/secret police branch would very much like participating in this event.