The Crimson Levy is sub-plot of the YSS Kaiyō II, an award winning Star Army of Yamatai roleplaying plot. This Kaiyō II side story is run by GM raz and began on June 9, 2023.

• OOC Thread: [Yamatai] The Crimson Levy
• RP Forum: YSS Kaiyō II
• Plot Planning: Crimson Levy / Hanako's World Adventure (GMs and FMs only)

Despite the Kuvexian War's end and an absence of major military threats to the Yamatai Star Empire, the business of training new generations of Star Army leaders continues uninterrupted. With the final quarter of the YE 45 academic year drawing to a close at the prestigious Star Army Academy of Military and Medical Sciences at Tania on planet Yamatai. Chusa Ketsurui Aiko, a war hero and princess of the Star Empire's ruling clan, finds herself at SAAMMS for the spring, too — as an instructor rather than a student. Those handful of seniors enrolled in Ketsurui-chusa's special seminar on combat leadership are considered lucky among the corps of cadets for being granted the opportunity to hear the famous officer's war stories for college credit. But before they can graduate and receive their first assignments to the fleet, they must first survive Aiko's unorthodox curriculum.​

On 45.4.18, the Kuvexian remnant occupying Hanako's World since it was conquered in YE 41 began cracking down on the Yamataian civilian population still living there.¹⁾ Although citizens of the Yamatai Star Empire living on Hanako's World had by YE 45 began to conduct their lives with some semblance of normalcy under their Kuvexian tyrants, SASO "Unifiers" secretly deployed²⁾ to the planet ostensibly to organize resistance failed to be discreet and drew unwanted attention. The Kuvexian leader, General Tokeroh Bruchiiz, captured both the SASO insurgents and swathes of innocent Yamataian civilians before demanding a ransom for their lives.

Ketsurui Aiko, a soldier known across the Kikyo Sector for fighting at the forefront of Yamatai's Star Army during the Kuvexian War, heard the news about Hanako's World while she prepared lesson plans for her last seminar of the semester at SAAMMS. Incensed that her old Kuvexian foes dared to harm her countrymen — and doubly helpless because the YSS Kaiyō II she normally served as First Officer aboard was in drydock for repairs with its captain Taiyou Hoshi away on assignment outside of the sector — reached out to an old operative friend to blow off some steam.

Together, Aiko and Nicholas Saiga formulated a plan³⁾ to take immediate action and save Yamataian lives on Hanako's World.

Saiga-taisa arranged for Aiko and her class of cadets to visit the YSS Asamoya, a ship he'd once captained years ago. And beyond that, he obtained permission from his superiors at Star Army Intelligence to utilize the ship as transport for Special Intelligence Fire Teams to infiltrate Hanako's World and retrieve the compromised SASO personnel being held there. Aiko and her class, all seniors at SAAMMS ready to serve aboard ships in the fleet, would stand-in as the Asamoya's temporary crew for the clandestine mission. To maintain operational security and establish even a moment's surprise should the mission be uncovered by the Kuvexians on Hanako's World, a staged theft of the Asamoya from the orbital shipyards at Luna Bianca was arranged with word of the incident being leaked to Kuvexian channels in the sector.⁴⁾

After dropping Saiga-taisa's teams off with orders from him to remain hidden beneath the waves on Hanako's World, the Asamoya found itself the target of Kuvexian watercraft and its crew is currently fighting to escape and camouflage their ship once again.

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Aiko's Star Army Academy class:

• Chusa Ketsurui Aiko, legendary Star Army soldier and SAAMMS instructor. Played by raz.
• Shoi Kohosei Koizumi Aratani, SAAMMS Midshipman. Played by Ametheliana.
• Shoi Kohosei Zelphon Belmont, SAAMMS Midshipman. Played by Spaceeye/Miko.
• Shoi Kohosei Andres Sarna, SAAMMS Midshipman. GM Non-Player Character.
• Shoi Kohosei Tamahagane Hisako, SAAMMS Midshipman. GM NPC.
• Shoi Kohosei Ariadne Tarchaneiotissa, SAAMMS Midshipman. GM NPC.
• Shoi Kohosei Iwasaki Yaeko, SAAMMS Midshipman. Ametheliana's NPC.

Friends and Allies:

• Taisa Nicholas Saiga, Star Army Intelligence commando and Aiko's clandestine sensei. Played by raz.
• Captain (NSMC) William, Nepleslian Marine exchange officer and friend to Aiko. Played by Gunhand4171.
• Boss, the YSS Kaiyō II's MEGAMI. Played by Ametheliana.
• Rei, Princess Aiko's senior Ketsurui Samurai yojimbo and Aiko's sensei. Played by Ametheliana.
• Mao, Princess Aiko's junior Ketsurui Samurai yojimbo. Played by raz.

raz created this article on 2023/08/08 18:45.

🚧 This article details an in-progress plot.