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The Shinken Initiative is an organization within the star_army_of_yamatai with the purpose of researching and fostering interest in the old sword culture that belonged to the Yamatai Star Empire. Their primary focus is giving in depth training to soldiers that can later be used as security for enclosed or retrained environments or combat specialist. However they also offer courses intended for law enforcement, as well as sporting and hobby courses for civilians.

Their main office is located on Yamatai (Planet) and is used as a martial research facilities as well as the primary location for offering Gendai-Sensō branch classes.

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 spends most of it's resources on furthering melee weapon culture in the Yamatai Star Empirein a variety of ways. However it's main focus is both teaching gendaijutsu and hosting martial arts tournaments

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