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The Shinken Initiative is an organization within the star_army_of_yamataiwith the purpose of researchign and fostering interest in the old sword culture that belogned to the yamatai_star_empire. Their primary focus is giving in depth training to soldiers that can later beused as security for enclosed or retrained enviroments or combat specialist. However they also offer courses intended for law enforcement, as well as sporting and hobby courses for civilians.

The Shinken initiative was formally founded in ye 37 but the actual start of the program was back in ye 35 with the creation of a batch of melee specialized Nekovalkyrja. Due to their better than expected performance more resources were allocated as time went on until the organization was officially recognized as a child organization of the star_army_of_yamatai

The Shinken initiative offers different courses for their students, based on how it's intended for for the techniques to be used. All of the courses and techniques were developed with the aid of the ketsurui_samurai.

This is a week long course designed to teach self defense techniques using knives and short swords. Offensive techniques are not strongly emphasized in this class and rather defense is strongly focused on. By the end students are capable of defending themselves from typical thugs both armed and unarmed. It is advertised as a perfect class to take before a vacation to Nepleslian territory.

The Sport lessons, also called hobby lessons have no set time frame for completion. The course is taken with the purpose of extended study of marital arts techniques and refining them. However rather than use in war, the techniques taught in these lessons are designed for use in competitive dueling.

The Security course is a two month course that focuses on protection of individuals and of locations. Once again the focus is primarily defensive, however they do stress threat removal, be that through apprehension or through elimination. These classes also have back powerarmor control lessons incorporated into them encase of power armor attack.

The military courses take 3 months for completion and incorporate the bulk of the security courses. However these courses are designed for true warfare and give techniques suitable for going on the offensive as well. Along with powerarmor combat lessons the courses also instruct students in vehicle and small space craft use so that they can infiltrate a location quickly and force the fight into close-quarters. Restrictions: In order to take the Shinken Military courses, students mush have a year or more left on their service contract -after- the estimated completion date.

This page was originally created on 2015/10/07 11:04 by syaoran.