Bastion of Winter is a roleplaying plot created May 27, 2022 by GM Yuuki.

Current Thread	Bastion of Winter: Mission to E13
First Thread	Bastion of Winter: Mission to E13
OOC Thread	Bastion of Winter OOC Thread
Status	Active. Not actively seeking, but ask Yuuki, Cecily, or SirSkully to join.
GM	Yuuki
Co-GM	Cecily and SirSkully
Motto	“A bunch of foxes, some birds, and a few cats, with a cutting edge Yamataian ship, on the frontier, with no one to answer to: what could possibly go wrong?”

The YCS Bastion of Winter, a Yūgure-class Merchant Destroyer, is nominally a technology test platform for Yugumo Fleetworks that also conducts border patrols of the frontier. However, it has a secret mission unknown outside of a select few: unofficial diplomatic contact with the Kingdom of Neshaten.

The Motoyoshi Clan knows the pain of betrayal from within. Sympathetic to the Kingdom against their internal struggles, and concerned with instability along the long border the Motoyoshi Colonial Sector shares with them, Motoyoshi knows that unstable neighbors are bad for business, and bad for their beloved Yamatai Star Empire.

In YE 44, EE006, under the guise of “corporate outreach,” a handful of the best the Shukara Volunteer Navy has to offer, each one secretly a Neshaten Agent and a professional xenotechnology tester from Or'ion Section Five¹⁾ become “exchange officers” aboard the Yamataian vessel.

Strangely, the crew has been augmented with a xenoarchaeologist and a pair of Lorath xenobiologists as it sets out into the frontier. Does someone at Yugumo know something is out there?

And why is a ronin Ketsurui Samurai hanging around?

And if this is an “unofficial” contact between the Yamatai Star Empire and the Kingdom of Neshaten, why is there a Yamataian ambassador on board?

A bunch of foxes, some birds, and a few cats, with a cutting edge Yamataian ship, on the frontier, with no one to answer to: what could possibly go wrong?

The Plot, Playstyle, and Rules of the plot:

• Mostly SP. Maybe a JP. Maybe some Discord stuff.
• Still feeling out the pace, but it should be a low-pressure one.
• This plot uses Troupe System RP, where players have access to a shared cast of characters to control in addition to, or instead of, their own characters.
• This is going to be a low-stress, low-angst, exploration, diplomacy, science, and business plot.
  • That doesn't mean bad things will never happen or there will be no conflicts or violence.
• This Plot is UNRATED

See Characters Wanted.

The first operational voyage of the YCS Bastion of Winter was a mission to make discreet diplomatic contact with the Kingdom of Neshaten²⁾.