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Shinken Initiative

<WRAP center round important 60%> This article is a work in progress; It is currently not approved as canon. </WRAP>

The Shinken Initiative is an organization within the star_army_of_yamatai with 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.

History

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

Courses

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.

Differences from Sora-Mai

The Shinken Program has it's roots in sora-mai, but takes a step off the path of tradition and art, preferring to head in the direction of pure combat system. As such there are different emphasis on what is important and methodologies are different, but Shinken techniques are compatible with sora-mai teachings.

Civilian Courses

Self Defense

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.

Key Features

By the end of the self defense course students are able to;

  • properly handle and wiled a short sword or knife
  • perform basic unarmed martial arts techniques
  • Defend themselves against unarmed assailants
  • Disarm and defense against assailants armed with civilian weapons
  • Apprehend and secure an aggressive individual.

Sport

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.

Key Features

The sports course ends at the student's choosing but focuses on teaching;

  • Refined 'competitive' style martial arts revolving around;
    • swords
    • spears
    • bow and arrow
    • unarmed combat
  • physical fitness
  • meditation and other forms of concentration
  • the history of traditional weapons in Yamatai

Combat Courses

These courses are designed for individuals who will see live combat on a regular basis, as such these courses lack the formalities of the others and stress high efficiency and quick threat removal in practical scenarios.

Security

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.

Key Features

By the end of the Security Course students are expected to be able to;

Military

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.

Key Features

OOC Notes

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


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