Arieg
DEFCON Everybody Dies
Alright I'm going to hit the reset button and start with this meta plot idea from scratch stating both intent and idea but let me begin with the way I saw things when I launched on this project. First I did not see Asura as either a significant nor grave site of Yamataian concern outside of the Tenth Fleet plot, heck Asura is what it is because I pushed for both its significant population as well as its level of intactness. It would have ended up as another write off when Yamatai 'evacuated' the area and glassed everything that was left. But anyways moving on....
The idea for this meta plot to begin with is establishing a chain of historical events from the Tenth Fleets arrival and pseudo annexation of the system, the resulting political and social turmiol, and of course the steady decline to where Asura is by YE 37. Which is nothing more then its district governments being left and even some of those effectively being gone leaving their areas of control in utter chaos and anarchy with the rest holding on to what semblence of law and order they have.
The backbone of the plot is the fact that Asurans don't want to be Yamataians at any cost, animosity having been established from them fleeing the empire in the first place with the founding of the UOC and that dislike only growing with the activites of the Empire during the rise of the UOC and its eventual fall. Some of this could be factual some of it could merely be a perversion of the truth being seen through rage red colored glasses. But in the end Yamatai's tenth fleet did cause the slip into their present state by chasing off the Lorath and leaving the system open to all manner of unsavory individuals due to the Tenth's policy toward the planet and star system at the time.
However they where left with a promise (which more or less became viewed as a treaty) to be left alone, for Yamataian not to project themselves on the surface or attempt to blockade the planet. We can assume this is a pseudo promise of independence in the same sence of whats going on between the People's Repulbic of China and the City-State of Hong Kong.
Now from this fertile seedbed of plot we have the rise of the Kongian Liberation Army, officially Pro-Yamataian Asurans, actually off world brigands and power hungry individuals being backed by a Yamataian cabal intent on seeing Asura firmly back in their hands. They can be sanctioned or simply be acting with their own authority covertly, but in the end they are providing assistance both in Non-SAOY manpower and equipment to a militant faction whom since YE-35 has been slowly taking over the surface of Asura one downtrodden district at a time. Imposing their own form of Yamataian laws and brutally enforcing them resulting in both brutal war crimes and increasing hatrid toward them resulting in something akin to an insurgency emerging in the northern territories they control. To add to the issue this force has granted Yamatai control over the former planetary capital of Osaka and the suburbs immediately surrounding it, this along with the steady creep of the KLA is the spark that will eventually result in the opposition forces.
Now the plot is aimed at the beginning of YE-38 and the first time the KLA has attempted to annex a district that is well off and with its own decently equipped and trained security force and will result in a fight that will eventually align the rest of Asura against the KLA and their backers with the assistance of various interested off world groups and this conflict will also represent the catalyst which brings the Asuran districts back together and on their feet toward reestalibing it as a united planet.
Now I'm not going to lie, I don't want this to end with Yamataian control of the planet but at the same time I don't want it to end with total indepednence. The goal for me is Asura to manage to bash and chew its way to a state of being a Semi-Independent territory. A special economic zone free of most Yamataian restrictions but still governed enough to be a functional faction in its own right with their own self defense force. I suppose you could say I want to turn them into SARP's Japan.
Anyways, carry on the discussion.
The idea for this meta plot to begin with is establishing a chain of historical events from the Tenth Fleets arrival and pseudo annexation of the system, the resulting political and social turmiol, and of course the steady decline to where Asura is by YE 37. Which is nothing more then its district governments being left and even some of those effectively being gone leaving their areas of control in utter chaos and anarchy with the rest holding on to what semblence of law and order they have.
The backbone of the plot is the fact that Asurans don't want to be Yamataians at any cost, animosity having been established from them fleeing the empire in the first place with the founding of the UOC and that dislike only growing with the activites of the Empire during the rise of the UOC and its eventual fall. Some of this could be factual some of it could merely be a perversion of the truth being seen through rage red colored glasses. But in the end Yamatai's tenth fleet did cause the slip into their present state by chasing off the Lorath and leaving the system open to all manner of unsavory individuals due to the Tenth's policy toward the planet and star system at the time.
However they where left with a promise (which more or less became viewed as a treaty) to be left alone, for Yamataian not to project themselves on the surface or attempt to blockade the planet. We can assume this is a pseudo promise of independence in the same sence of whats going on between the People's Repulbic of China and the City-State of Hong Kong.
Now from this fertile seedbed of plot we have the rise of the Kongian Liberation Army, officially Pro-Yamataian Asurans, actually off world brigands and power hungry individuals being backed by a Yamataian cabal intent on seeing Asura firmly back in their hands. They can be sanctioned or simply be acting with their own authority covertly, but in the end they are providing assistance both in Non-SAOY manpower and equipment to a militant faction whom since YE-35 has been slowly taking over the surface of Asura one downtrodden district at a time. Imposing their own form of Yamataian laws and brutally enforcing them resulting in both brutal war crimes and increasing hatrid toward them resulting in something akin to an insurgency emerging in the northern territories they control. To add to the issue this force has granted Yamatai control over the former planetary capital of Osaka and the suburbs immediately surrounding it, this along with the steady creep of the KLA is the spark that will eventually result in the opposition forces.
Now the plot is aimed at the beginning of YE-38 and the first time the KLA has attempted to annex a district that is well off and with its own decently equipped and trained security force and will result in a fight that will eventually align the rest of Asura against the KLA and their backers with the assistance of various interested off world groups and this conflict will also represent the catalyst which brings the Asuran districts back together and on their feet toward reestalibing it as a united planet.
Now I'm not going to lie, I don't want this to end with Yamataian control of the planet but at the same time I don't want it to end with total indepednence. The goal for me is Asura to manage to bash and chew its way to a state of being a Semi-Independent territory. A special economic zone free of most Yamataian restrictions but still governed enough to be a functional faction in its own right with their own self defense force. I suppose you could say I want to turn them into SARP's Japan.
Anyways, carry on the discussion.
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