Motoyoshi Igarashi Yuka is a GM NPC played by Andrew. She first was made in 2006, when she appeared in an NPC listing for the Fifth Expeditionary Fleet.¹⁾ This character was transferred to Yuuki in 2022.

Yuka is a Minkan female with black hair and light green eyes. She has a pale complexion and carries herself with confident and expressive body language. She tends to wear her hair at shoulder length and shaped to form around the curvature of her cheeks and avoids the usage of make-up in preference of her natural form.

Yuka is an ESFJ personality type.²⁾She has a very social personality and enjoys interaction especially during the negotiation of business deals. She tends to be very supportive of those around her and frequently cheers on those she loves and those under her supervision and often lends herself to assist with the completion of their goals. Yuka has a bad habit of falling into conversations that could be considered gossip, and tunes in to catch the latest rumors.

She is devoted and loyal to the people and ideals of the Motoyoshi Clan and has served as a confident and support for Ketsurui-Motoyoshi Katsuko during their many years of adoptive sisterhood. She holds things like duty and relationships forward of her own needs. As a mother to her adopted daughter, Motoyoshi-Igarashi Yue, she serves as a guiding and yet kindred spirit and considers her someone that she can rely on. She's very concerned with Yue's future and is willing to sacrifice to see her succeed. In her personal relationships, Yuka is frequently engaged, be it in communications or in-person communications, she likes to check up on people to make sure they are doing okay. Yuka was in a serious relationship with Todd Mazu until his death which devastated her. She has not had a sustained relationship since.

The history of Motoyoshi-Igarashi Yuka.

Before she appeared in roleplay.

• Yuka was created as a NH-17 Nekovalkyrja in YE 20.
• She underwent socialization and training on Yamatai (Planet), she then specialized as a Star Army Clerk and worked at Star Army Command in Kyoto until the middle of YE 22.
• Inspired by the influence of Taisho Ketsurui Yui she attended Kyoto War College and completed an accelerated program and finished wth the rank of Shoi in YE 25.
• She was assigned to the First Fleet and quickly moved up the ranks as she proved as a competent commander and reached the rank of Chusa in YE 28 when she was transferred to the Fifth Expeditionary Fleet where she met her love Todd Mazu. She was promoted to the rank of Taisa in YE 29.
• She was the Star Army First Officer of Shôshô Ayugai Mami in the Siasei Battlegroup in the Fifth Expeditionary Fleet which was deployed near the Great Southern Nebula. ³⁾

Taisa Igarashi Yuka was at the Freespacer Massacre and Related Battles in YE 30 in command of the The Akuro III⁴⁾ which arrived at the battle in time to stop the traitor, Motoyoshi Kiyoko's attempt to kill Taisho Ketsurui Yui ⁵⁾⁶⁾ She returned to Yamatai (Planet) after the battle to inform Empress Motoyoshi Katsuko that she had been forced to kill her daughter.

In YE 33, Yuka retired from the Star Army of Yamatai and settled on Nataria. She pursued her personal interests and worked through her grief about Todd Mazu's death until YE 34 when Ketsurui-Motoyoshi Katsuko asked her to take the reigns of the Motoyoshi Hanei Kaisha, the Motoyoshi Clan's corporation. She successfully led the company until YE 41 when it became the Yugumo Corporation. Yuka adopted her daughter Motoyoshi-Igarashi Yue in YE 35 and has pursued a close and cherished relationship with her. Ketsurui-Motoyoshi Katsuko once again called upon her to run Yugumo Corporation to handle day to day operations due to her retired status from the Star Army of Yamatai.

In YE 42, when Yugumo Corporation adopted a new rank and title structure, Yuka was made a Fuku-Kaichō. In YE 43, Yuka was the first person to know that Ketsurui-Motoyoshi Katsuko was going to retire from the Star Army of Yamatai in pursuit of a career in politics. She told Motoyoshi-Yamada Ayano in confidence who spread the news through their entire clan.⁷⁾

Yuka has led a very busy schedule in YE 43, in the first month alone she negotiated the Ryu Keiretsu And Yugumo Corporation Agreement of YE 43, attended Victory Day YE 43. She traveled to the Draco Eridanus System with her daughter, Motoyoshi-Igarashi Yue, to meet with officials from the Mining Guild in the New Dusk Conclave.⁸⁾

In YE 44, she arranged to meet with Donvan Black of Galactic Horizon on Koukotsu II, to discuss licensing some of their industrial vehicles and transports for manufacture⁹⁾.

Yuka is the highest rank of the Yugumo Corporation corporate structure. She is entrusted with access to Motoyoshi Clan finances and is able to make purchases for her support from those accounts. She also owns a residence at Asagumo-jo.

• Page was created by Andrew
• If Andrew becomes inactive see Andrew's Star Army Will.
• NPC was approved in the Fifth Expeditionary Fleet previously.
  • Fifth Expeditionary Fleet Important PCs/NPCs
• New Art done in Midjourney Bot by Andrew.
• Old Art done in Artbreeder by Andrew.