What you can expect:

Openended, story driven roleplay.
Active GMing driving the overall story forward.
Some GM dice rolls (Aka, in a situation I might roll a die to basicly decide just how successfull we are with something.)Samurai, Ninja/Shinobi, Feudal Japan inspired stuff in space!



Humanity made it to the stars, we transcended our homeworld and spread like only humans do. We spanned the galaxy, terraforming dead rocks, inhabiting and taming wild and alien worlds. We grew, we expanded, we harvested. Earth became a memory and then our home all but vanished from the collected conscious. We had no problem making new earths, new homes. Megapolis worlds and factory worlds. Minecrews working asteroid belts and interstellar jumpgates putting systems at hours distance.

But even so, when humans spread and over large distances, they end up sowing the seeds of isolation and distrust among their own. And when distrust grow to outright animosity, humanity do what it always do. It wars with itself. For a while, this was kept at bay due to the first contact with a truly extraterrestrial species. The Eintri was a threat to all of humanity, and so we banded together. A legendary commander stepped up, and he was given full control of every companies private army, every planetary recruit and under his leadership we survived. We, humanity, briefly looked upon him as a sort of savior.

Others, the more militant and more hungry for power saw him as the highest of aspirations. A lord who united all, to turn back the barbarian or in this case alien hordes. There was a term for those kind of leader who had survived the blending of language as humanity travelled the stars and cultures melded together. It was sei’i taishõgun.

And all of them, from every corner of human space, wanted to be the next Shogun.

And it is the nature of the human soul, to ever want more. To ever crave something we do not possess. Humanity, in its stretched out and constantly fractured state needed a leader to keep it from eating itself. So when that leader died?When there was no longer a brilliant Shogun around? There was suddenly a void left to be filled. And everyone with a claim, a ideal, a vision, rushed in like air out a spaceships hull breach. And so, humanity began to eat itself once more.

As lines are drawn and factions descended into a skirmishes and allegiances are sworn, everyone suddenly have a stake on the throne. Smaller company ceo or faction leaders follow one of the big mega corps and their leaders into battle like modern day samurai. In fact, while the elite corporate soldiers don exoskeletons and top of the line equipment, the indentured men and women drafted to fight for them go into battle with far less impressive gear. The neo-feudal corporatism see the rich and wealthy cut up their own little tiefdoms and swere allegience to those that serve to further their agendas.

The question we now have to ask however? Who will claim that title, who will seize the throat of the galaxy itself? The religious Tengi Sect, who had taken to worshipping the remains of a dead alien civilization? Or the fearsome Obucorp, whose contact with more peaceful aliens had given them a edge in technology. Or was it perhaps the IgaCorp, with their million eyes and ears and corporate assassins and spies. Or any of the other multitudes of factions.

What we do know, is that a new era of war descends upon the human race. And in the end, only one can be Shogun, and everyone else either fall in line or die by bullet and blade.

It is in this era of strife were we find ourselves. A couple of souls drawn into the intrigue and chaos of a multifaceted war. Were nobody knows where the true loyalties lies, were intrigue and murder lurk behind every corner, and where honor and greed is becoming harder and harder to differentiate.

Colour me interested, but you already knew that.

we in it

I will throw some interest. This looks interesting!

Hello, newbie here. I have a craving for RP and wanted to be involved in a fresh game. I'm a fan of Sengoku history, so this is a treat. I'd like to join once this gets up and running.

I would like to ask a question, though. One of the things a reader of history gets from the Sengoku era is the sense of a clash between modernity and tradition. We modern readers see the ritual combat between samurai pushed aside for the mass battles between formations of ashigaru, the way of the horse and bow overtaken by pike and shot. In Europe, similar changes in the conduct of military affairs were both contingent upon and themselves partial causes of changes in social affairs--the centralization of states, the weakening of feudal power, the the eventual rise of the third estates over the nobility. But in Japan, because the Tokugawa were so successful in establishing hegemony, the feudal system, while it did not remain unchanged, did persist for two-and-a-half centuries more. In a sense, the Tokugawa were able to stop the clock, enough so that the beginning of the Meiji Restoration could be called a feudal revolt, the Shimazu of Satsuma and Mori of Choshu being powerful feudal vassals that had retained and expanded their power since the Sengoku era. What happened afterwards was in every sense a social revolution, of course--you can get whiplash from reading the history, with everything happening so fast, and you get the sense that it would have felt as if centuries had passed in the span of a few years.

But that Tokugawa would forestall this is what we know as modern readers. For people at the time of gekokujo, the sense that things could potentially explode all at once, even if only the most perceptive could wrap their heads around what that could mean, must have been dizzyingly present. Since this is set in space*, how would you emulate this sense of technological and military changes that could potentially lead to a rupture of social changes, something that makes the exoskeleton samurai think that their conscript counterparts might be getting the better of them?

*And let me just say that space feudalism is cool as heck. Depending on the level of development in a space setting, I think it makes eminent sense. If, for example, travel and communications between planets is possible, but takes both substantial time and exorbitant resources such that it takes tremendous collective (societal) effort to undertake, but at the same time makes control over many planets difficult because any central authority wouldn't be able to administer them or quickly go and suppress a challenge to their power, you have many of the ingredients that made feudalism a necessary and useful system for the powers-that-were, historically speaking.

Oh WOW.

This is really good. But im intimidated by its advanced status.

@Banzai Tracers

Well, you ARE in the advanced Interest check.

@Rigmarole

My dude. Myyyy dude. That is a exellent set of questions!

On technology/formation/The samurai finding themselves increasingly on the short stick. That would be the alien tech. I will adress this more in depth in the OOC, safe to say thou, part of the big shift is due to alien tech (Like the european rifle changed Sengoku dynamics around Oda.) Thats on the military side, obviously. Part of the stalling would be the fact that these are corperations, and stuff like patents and economy monopolies and the the corperate side of things would help stiffle the growth of a new third estate.

Kind of tenatively interested.

Mark me down as interested.

@AmongHeroes

AH, how you been you old fox.

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ALso, I think I have enough groundswell to go on with OOC. It should be up in a day or so.

@Hellis Good, good. Just living the dream. Glad to see you're still about.

I'm intrigued

This looks pretty groovy. I’m into it.

Color me interested and sign me up if there's space to do so still :D

@PURRfect93@Clumsywordsmith@AmongHeroes@Zetsuko@Afro Samurai@Indy Cooper@Instigator@Banzai Tracers@Rigmarole@Lmpkio

roleplayerguild.com/topics/173344-sen… Its done

Woooo!

we've lost a few playeres, so I am firing up the old recruitment drive. We have only just started, so you can easily jump in!

Sounds interesting