Name: Jai Mitsuwa

Age: 31

Appearance: Jaii stands at 171 meter tall but carries herself as if she was 2m flat. She has vivid iceblue eyes that seem to hold little capacity for kindness. Instead everything about her radiates a sort of tense, highly strung energy. Like a caged tiger. Her body is deceptively muscular underneath all the furs and layers of fabric, all which can be shed with a quick undoing of a side buckle. She looks very much like the high class yakuza that she was once part off, with flash clothes and ornate armor pieces that are as much for protection as they are intimdation. Her hair is white as snow, cascading to one side while the other side has been shaved.

Origin: Yakuza

Former Faction: Nobunaga Territories, Sae-Kun Syndicate.

Fighting Style:

Jaii switches between two styles depending on her weapon.

Bōryoku ken no michi (暴力剣の道 - Way of the Violent Sword )
Jais style is a mix of her fathers philosophy of flowing and quick strike to keep a opponent on the back foot, and very unorthodox and wild form of bushido she perfected trough brawls and dueling. A extremely agressive style, it relies on downward cuts and launching the blade from from shoulder down and moving with it as to always present a difficult target. With the sheer size of her sword, she has reache to spare and present a leathal opponent but the momentum carries her more then she controls it. Her former Oyabun mockingly called it “Mountain Monkey Blade” due to how much wasted movement it seems to have and how aggressive it is.

Kuikkukatto no michi (クイックカットの道 - Way of the Quick Cut)

When she isn't wielding the Nodachi, her style is the carbon copy of her fathers famous techniques. Fast, menacing cuts and lightning fast insteps thats based in the most fundamental of Bushido rules. If she were to commit the same energy and effort to learn it, she might be a better combatant with it then the Nodachi. But pride in her fathers work has her focusing on the larger of the blades.

Skills: Great Sword (The Odachi is a large, heavy and hard to wield blade.), Swordmanship, Street Smarts.

Weapons:

Bōryoku: Slung across her back, her fathers infamous Nodachi rests in its scabbard. A monoblade, its about 120 cm long, which on a woman who stands 172, makes the blade extra unwieldy. She compensates with a tailored fighting style. The blade itself is beautifully crafted for a monoblade, and the scabbard is pearl white with blue stylings all over it. As its her trademark, the weapon is always maintained to be in pristine condition.

Gurēsu:
The katana at her waist is nothing special. A serviceable sidesword to her Nodachi, its used when Boryoku is to big be swung around or the monoblade needs retooling.

Motivation: To restore Mitsuwa Legacy of being some of the finest Bushi to ever live and to keep out

Backstory: Jaii was born on the planet of Sagai, In the nobunaga territories. Her father, Jin Mitzuwa was once a Takeda Samurai who was famous for wielding a massive nodachi monoblade into battle and who had won many duels with NobuZai samurai. However, he had been nursing a wound at home when his lord died in battle. The Nobunaga Zaibatsu gave each samurai three options, lay down their weapons and live as they had before. Only their children would become Nobu Samurai in the future. Commit Seppeku, and follow their lord. Or keep their sword, but be exiled as Ronin. Jaii’s father chose the last option, to proud to lay down the sword. But not seeing the merit in taking his own life when he had a daughter on the way. Instead he moved to the planet of Sagai within the Nobuzai territories with the promise he would never take up arms against the NobuZai, nor would any of his offspring. However, his Wife had just given birth to Jaii and had suffered a rare form of bleeders disease as complication. Yet, he was made to move despit her weakened state. She did not survive the jump between systems, the strain to much. Now embittered, her father became a man with a single creed. “Never serve anyone but yourself.”

Having a reputation of being a fierce swordsman and a duelist, he was allowed to start a Dojo with the Lord Demons very own blessings. They wanted his skills to be applied to future samurai of the NobuZai.However, when he started the Dojo, he would only instruct a select few, and those he instructed were sworn to only use the blade as a means of defence, not wield it for NobuZai or any of the subsidiaries. This angered some lower company heads who felt it was an affront to the Demons kindness and generosity which had afforded him the chance to start his life anew. Trough marketing, slander campaigns and painting him as a traitor and cowards who should have died with his old lord they bankrupted the man by raising the rent and disputing the lease on his dojo. They enticed and scared away his students.

In the end, he had only his daughter, a mere babe at 7 years old. Who was to young to understand his grief and bitter resentment. Desperate for money, he turned to gambling and petty duels for others entertainment. The Lion of Takeda was a shadow of his olds self, riddles with rustgut and alcohol. But people still remembered his fierceness. At first, he found some success. He made money, he came alive in battle. But fighting lowlives and rusty and arrogant ronin dulled his skills. One day, He was challenged by a young and nibble samurai. A Takeda Ronin like himself, who resented the old man for pissing away everything and for as he saw it: betrayed the Takeda name. By now, Jaii was 11, and had begun to work as a dice hand at a gambling joint.

It just so happened that it was outside that gambling hall, her father was decapitated in one fell strike. The Takeda Ronin, a man by the name of Ishi, was a accomplished swordsman and had only been a ronin for a little more then 2 months. There was no rust, and her old mans insistence on using a large unwieldy sword when he was anything but his old, trained self, had cost him his life.

Jaii grabbed a tanton of a local thug, and with silent determination, made her way to the man. Right there on the street, only 11 years of age. Jaii gutted a man without a scream of anger. She wasn’t even sure why she had done it afterwards. She had walked up the Ronin who saw no danger from a 11 year old until it was to late.

Of course, as luck would have it. The Ronin was not alone, two fellow samurai found out about his untimely and frankly embarrassing death and went looking for her. However, the thug she had taken the knife from, turned out to be the Oyabun of Sae-Kun Syndicate, a yakuza organization. He had been impressed and moved by someone so young, having the nerves and the determination to avenge their own fathers death the moment it happened. The two Ronin were not seen again, but the Oyabun did wear a takeda helmet for a while afterwards.

Now in debt to the Syndicate, she lived her life a thug. She scrapped, she practiced with her fathers swords and she listened to stories about him from people who had heard of his name. At the age of 17, she was sent to a dojo to practice with the intention to infiltrate it as a rival syndicate had just purchased it. It was there she found her love for 1 on 1 duels. She insisted to use her father's sword, despite it being much to large for her. She was eventually told to stop going as the Sae-Kun found out the buy had been something a feint, to mislead them as their enemies focused on other targets in secret.

Refusing to do so, she continued her training to the dismay of her Oyabun. She found that the thuggish lifestyle was not for her, and aimed to settle her debts with syndicate. The syndicate would of course, not take her resignment in stride. You do not quit the Yakuza. She fled the planet after mortally wounding the Oyabuns only son in a challenge for her freedom that he foolishly accepted.

That was 6 years ago.

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Name: Itsuki Hatanari
Age: 25

Appearance: A rugged fellow, the stress and grime and overall unhealthy lifestyle have added at least 5 years to his appearance, man mistaking him for up to ten years to senior. His smile, while smug at times, usually feel strained and weary. His eyes are slightly sunk in and his hair is greasy and unkept. His beard is the only thing that seems to be groomed properly. He is a rather intimidating sight, at his 192 and broad shouldered physique. He often walks slightly slumped, making him seem almost simple in a way. Itsuki have a single Emperor Bullet hanging around his neck. Saved for a very special samurai he wishes dead.

Origin: Ashigaru

Former Faction: Date Dragons

Skills: Spears, Rifles, Soldiering

Fighting Style:
Inoshishi-goroshi no yari (猪殺しの槍 - Boar Killing Spear)

Itsukis fighting style is nothing special in itself. The Boar Killing spear is something every spearman of the Date Dragons are taught and drilled in. Its a style that is about the reach of the spear and how to use it to stop a superior, charging enemy such as a samurai. He has however, perfected it in a way few of his fellow footmen ever managed to and outside observers have noted that he fights as fiercely as any samurai. He knows the range and pacing so well, that getting close can seem impossible at times.

Itsuki is also well versed with the Tanegashima, and will happily take out opponents from afar rather then take them on in close combat.

Weapons:

Samurais Bane: A very dramatic name, Itsuki was not the one who named his spear. He doesnt really consider it worth a name. It was in fact a samurai, who had witnessed one of his compatriots charge headlong into the Mono-Edged Yari, getting evisicirated for his arrogance. The spear is superbly balanced and prolly gets more love and care then its owner. Its of the Jogekama Yari, with two prong blades, one each side of the main blade. One is pointed as a hook downwards, one upwards. Almost forming a Manji Cross.

Date “GReat Tanegashima” Gauss Rifle.
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A rifle that Nobu Developed but now redesigned and outfitted to trusted Ashigaru of the Date corps. These rifles fire one round with immense force, the kick back making it very impractical unless your someone like Itsuki, who is both strong and heavy. The bullet won’t stop a RAI protected samurai in one shot. And firing it inside a smaller ship is death for everyone onboard. But it’s reliant and a very efficient weapon when fired in sequence with 50 more of its kind. IT also takes a great number of munitions, and if loaded with a Emperor bullet, that means a dead samurai.

Motivation: Itsuki is driven by two things. The desire to get as far away from the memories of Shojaka Castle, trough drink or other means and to find the general that led the attack on his home system so he can put a bullet between his eyes.

Backstory: Born in Date Territory, his father was a retired soldier who had given both an eye and a leg for the Dates, and who now lived a rather content life on a farm on a agricultural planet. He bore two sons and daughter. The oldest of the sons was Hage, who died in a rare disease at the age of 3. A year after Hages death, Minata, his wife, bore a daughter. They named her Yue, and she grew to become the households pride. Incredibly talented and intelligent, she was destined to rise in corporate ranks.

The youngest son was Itsuki, who grew like nothing else as he got older. At the age of 15 he was already 185 tall and as is the nature of quickly growing boys, a tad clumsy. His father, realizing there was no way that the notorious Date Dragons would not hesitate pick up such a promising, massive young man for their foot soldier program, he began training his son. He drilled him in everything from spear fighting, to all the dirty trick a commoner like him would have to employ to have even a ghost of a chance against the battlebred and fearsome samurai. And although he tried to instill his youngest a sense of gravity and severity regarding the situation and what was in store. But Itsuki in his ever exuberant youth, went into service with a sense of great pride nad patriotism.

Something that would soon be tested. The first crack in his rosey worldview was the way many Date Samurai treated him and his fellows. They seemed to detest the lower ranks, who fought not as great war machines or master swordsmen but as mere cannon fodder. In time, he would take extra joy in showing them just what a spear could do.

His first posting was on Iwahide, a planet near the Saiga Unions border. Date would do occassionally do business with them as both sides found NobuZai a great problem. One day, a Nobu “Rifle class” warship assaulted the station and out of the 30.000 Ashigaru stationed around the system, only 1246 survived. Out of the 410 samurai, only 5 died.

At this point, he was starting to look for an out. A way to escape the carnage. On one of his leaves, he met Osoko, a woman of such class and beuty it made him speechless. The two hit it off well, and despite her company status basically made her nobility compared to him, they had a child together.

Unfortunately, when he returned to duty, he no longer had a choice but to stay. If he deserted, it’d endanger Osoko and their unborn child. Because unlike her, honour meant a lot more than just a word samurai used to seem better than him and his peers. So he stuck it out.

Then Shojaka Castle happened. Shojaka was the station that guarded his very homeplanet. Where Osoko and he first met. He was stationed there as a marriage gift from his commander, who knew he had a child to protect and care for. Nobody expected for a prong attacked by NobuZai and TokuCorp. The fleet breached the jumpgate at great risk. Pushing into combat range even as the Shojaka and its sister platforms turned the entire place into a killing zone. The NabuZais strategy was bold and suicidal. It launched no less then 300 boarding vehicles full with Ashigaru and Red Samurai. They swarmed the system with boarding crews. Every ship at dock and revving up at the fight became more in dock as their crews had to fight NobuZai shocktroopers.

And the stations. The mighty castles and the planets underneath? They got scorched by a innitil barrage of emperor ordinance that completely destroyed the sai systems. NobuZai and TokuCorp did underestimate the sheer fierceness of the Date defenders however. Ashigarus and Samurai who were desperate to defend their homes came together in one of the most drawn out and bloody battles of the war; The Shojaka Massacre. Man to Man, door to door, corridor for corridor. For each dead samurai, the Ashigaru would break their Emperor swords up into pieces (many times under protest of the samurai) to make improvised samurai killing bullets out off.

Blood caked the walls, made the floor to slick to find footing. And in the middle of it all, a cornered, angry Itsuki. It was during that 5 day long battle, Samurais Bane gained its name. In a desperate lounge to break the Defenders ranks, a high class Red Samurai charged the Ashigaru. The noble warrior hoped that he could drive a wedge into the weakened and tired commoners. At first it worked, they fell like it was nothing.

And then, Itsuki happened. As the Samurai charged headlong into another charge, the Ashigaru braced his and several of his fallen comrades spears in front of him and began taking pot shots with his rifle. Each gauss round was shrapnell, exploding around the samurai, making it impossible for the Nobu footment to follow their lords mad charge. And when the samurai reached his target, he found himself impaled on not one, but 7 spears. In the shocked silence that followed, one person remember hearing itsuki mumble “The only good samurai, is a dead samurai” However, that was only one corridor. And the battle raged on for 3 more days after that before the Date managed to enter the system with their own armada, driving back the attackers.

In the end, 220.000 Nobu and Toku Ashigaru were dead, and over a hundred Red Samurai armors had been taken. over 400 more had been destroyed. The Date casualties were almost double of that. And two planets were so badly bombarded, the Company decided to move as much of its business elsewhere. Putting its inhabitants in unimaginable squalor.

For Itsuki, a unmarked Date vessel became his escape during the last day of the battle, sending Osoko a message to forgive his cowardice, he found out she had died during the NobuZais bombardment. However, his sister had managed to save his daughter, and was high enough in rank that she could move with the corporation to their new priority systems. Knowing that he could never go back, he became a mercenary, chasing drink and drugs to try and suppress the memories from those bloodsoaked five days.

That was 3 years ago.

Appearance: Haruka stands at 180 cm(just shy of six foot) and weighs in at a willowy 63.5 kg(140 lbs), and yet does not look gaunt, only graceful. Her hair shows evidence of being cared for in the past, and is kept in a long ponytail or a large bun most of the time. Pale of skin, she appears to fairly exude nobility, something she has tried to hide unsuccessfully. Dark eyes, shadowed by weariness and stress, stare into the middle distance most of the time, though her fighting spirit is obvious when she focuses.

By tiny mannerisms, such as how she stands, the way she looks imperiously over others when observing, the way she holds herself, she is clearly a former samurai, though she has tried to disguise this by wearing only the most common of clothing. Attempts to appear as a born ronin are frequent, though not constant in execution. She can sometimes be observed to check herself and then slouch or otherwise attempt to appear less than she is.

Movement-wise, her long legs carry her quickly, and the strength and speed by which she moves belie augmentation even though none is visible. She also tends to, as most samurai, move as though nothing but her goal matters, cutting through crowds and obstacles with disdain. In combat, her augments become even more obvious, as she moves far faster than a natural human should, and can strike quicker than any but another trained samurai could react.

Armour-wise, without her exosuit, Haruka prefers classically designed raiment with modern material, in the hon kozane dou style. The scales are all made with lightweight alloyed metal, though she forgoes the sode in favour of manueverability, leaving her shoulders exposed but with a much greater range of motion. She owns them, and will don them for ceremonial purposes.

Despite her dour exterior, Haruka is quite warm in personality, and this shows sometimes when she is relaxing. A small smile or a lifting of the brows at something a child shows her, or a hearty laugh at a joke. And when drunk, something she has fallen into the habit of doing recently, she can in fact be boisterous and rather ignorant of personal space, tending to hang off of others with abandon to keep herself either standing or in the conversation. Her favourite topics include poetry, music, and small, furry animals, no matter the species or world of origin.

Origin: Samurai

Former Faction: Takeda

Skills:
Primary: Swordsmanship
Secondary: Piloting, Survival

Fighting Style: Ten Kara no Kaminari (天からの雷, Thunder from Heaven) is a fast and brutal combat style, perfected by Morishige Kaito, as befitting his unit's role as a shock force. There is no pause for reading your opponent as in most styles, no standing back and waiting. The fighter is trained through a harsh regimen to read their opponent as they react to the charge, and fight appropriately. Strikes are aimed to maim, disable, or kill outright as quickly as possible, with little artistry if it gets in the way of efficiency. Major joints and the neck are typical targets. Training happens with katana, naginata, masakari, wakazashi, and even tanto. When unarmed, the style relies on closing fast, inside the opponents range, and striking with forehead, elbow, and knee, savaging the opponent too quickly for him to react well. Throws are rare, as it defeats the purpose, though joint locks with the aim of breaking bones are common. Inside an exosuit, the style remains mostly unchanged, though the use of booster jets and utilising the RAI as an offensive tool against unarmoured opponents come into play. The style demands a very small exosuit, compared to others, barely more than an armoured flightsuit, allowing the Iron Samurai to move lightning fast compared to larger, bulkier opponents.

Weapons: Yume no Hana o Karu(夢の花を刈る, Dream-cutting Blossom), when expanded to it's full length, is a five and a half foot naginata with a monoedged blade that glitters blue when struck by the right light, but otherwise looks mostly just like a normal blade. The pole features cleverly disguised ridges inside a sakura blossom motif, pink and black on a white background. The ridges themselves are the result of the weapons functionality, designed to fit inside a fighter crafts cockpit without getting in the way. It telescopes down to merely a foot and a half, with the blade sliding down into the haft. It can be flicked open remarkably fast, though a safety catch near the base is what releases the blade itself, allowing the super-strong alloyed pole to be used as a staff if desired.

Standard daisho set: Though monoedged, the katana is a simple affair, bearing a simple black scabbard and hilt with silver highlights. The wakizashi, however, bears the same motif as the naginata.

Kurēnburēdo class fighter craft: This specialty of the Takeda's is a long, narrow, blade-like ship, cockpit near the rear, with a twin mounted rear impulse engine and extremely powerful manuevering jets. Several heavy rapid-fire auto-cannons, not as powerful as railguns but in the same neighbourhood, spread along the “crosstree” of the craft, pointing forwards. The crowning point of the thing, however, is the finely tuned balance. It turns on a dime and moves extremely fast. In formation they can tear apart most other fighter craft, when well piloted, and does very well even in dogfights.

Measuring twelve metres from nosecone to exhaust, when fully loaded it carries enough fuel for three days of low-grade impulse travel, or around twelve hours of combat. The ammunition bay holds thirty-six thousand rounds of caseless 30mm slugs, in batches of six-thousand for each of the six cannons, mounted hexagonally around the midline "crosstree". The whole of the ship weighs in at around fifteen tonnes, and can easily hide in the silhouette of most other ships when needed, which is how she got it on board the station to begin with.

Motivation: With her expulsion from the ranks of the Takeda samurai, Haruka has lost direction. No stranger to being by herself for periods of time, she has kept herself in shape, and currently does odd-jobs to earn money or food. However, her honour pulls her two ways. First, with the dishonour and execution of her lord, society demands that she commit seppuku, but as the last of her fighting style, she cannot let it die with her. To that end, she is painstakingly saving up to start a dojo, teach one student, and then she can decide whether she should live or not.

Backstory: Born to a minor family inside a subsidiary company of a subsidiary company of the Takeda Corporation, Haruka was the only child of the Kitamura primary line. Without a son, her father decided that she must be better than anyone else, to bring glory to their name, and thus she was trained as soon as she could walk in all that bushido aimed to be. Her father, an idealist and of a low enough rank to not be dangerous to his superiours, used much of his money getting her trained with the main Takeda samurai, purchasing favours where he could to earn her place. She did him very proudly, taking to both combat and courtly behaviour quite easily, and was selected for her lord's main body, assigned to the illustrious Morishige Thunders. Here, under Morishige's watchful eye, she became the top student of Ten Kara no Kaminari.

Serving from fifteen years old, Haruka distinguished herself in combat multiple times over, survivng being stranded in enemy territory on several occasions, once even successfully taking control of a small military vessel after being taken prisoner. Several times, she earned direct praise from her Lord Sawada, who gifted her the naginata she now carries.

However, just one year ago, in an unprecedented assault on the Takeda holdings by Nobunaga-Zaibatsu, Morishige's unit was called in, but failed to arrive in time, resulting in a minor lord's death. Morishige himself was found dead drunk the next day, and the whole unit was arrested, saving that Haruka was sent away just before the arrest, and while technically is wanted by Lord Sawada for arrest and judgement, she refuses to come in and has fled to the planet Aishidu, in Date territory. In the past year, she has poorly attempted to disguise her true nature, removed all identifying labels of her former corporate overlords, and now works to survive on the planet, taking jobs she inwardly seethes at having to do. Morishige's final words to her were to not let the Ten Kara no Kaminari die with him, so she is honour bound now to find a way to further the school.

Her fighter craft is now stashed in an abandoned docking bay in the city of Hakuto, where it sits idle until she can one day regain enough of her sense of honour to allow herself to fly it again. The outer insignia have all been masked, and much useless junk added to disguise its sleek lines. She actually lives in the docking bay as well, keeping to herself when not working or drinking at a local sake house.

Name: Trịnh Văn Sơn (Sơn is the given name)

Age: 58



Origin: Samurai

Former Faction: Nobuzai

Skills: Space warfare, planetary warfare, sojutsu

Fighting Style: Sơn practices Izanagi Shin Buko-ryu (伊邪那岐神武甲流), a style supposedly divinely inspired by Izanagi, focused on sojutsu. It's style is distinct for its use of the spear not just as a thrusting weapon, but for powerful, cleaving attacks; they are meant to be strong enough to push a blocking monoblade back into the face of the user. It also has techniques for wrestling with the aid of the haft and for staff fighting.

Weapons:
Monoblade jumonji yari - Sơn's yari features a long, cross-shaped monoblade. The blade is 2 shaku long, much like a omi yari, with the tang nearly as long as the blade. It is fitted on a 7 shaku haft made of light durasteel meant to resist monoblade attacks, but the blade can be removed to be fit onto a shorter haft of two shaku. On the other side of the haft opposite the blade is a stun baton, which starts out at a disabling strength can be powered up to be lethal. The hafts themselves are suitable staves. When fitted with a saya it looks much like a spade and hits like one too. Engraved into the collar below the blade is his family's kamon, two suzuran plants. This spear is one of the few things of worth owned by his family. Sơn often leans on it when his leg bothers him.

Monoblade tanto - a simple weapon, nearly straight and flat, meant for stabbing once an opponent has been wrestled to the ground. The whole tanto is one shaku long.

Motivation: to put his talents to the test shaping the end of an era, and then seeing what the universe looks like on the other side.