Rob's Desk: House Kurita, Draconis Combine. A Battletech house of pride and history.

Friday, April 13, 2018

House Kurita, Draconis Combine. A Battletech house of pride and history.

Patterned on the culture of feudal Japan, and ruled by a hierarchy of warlords loyal to the shogunate ideals of the ruling House Kurita, the Draconis Combine is a realm whose warriors and citizenry embrace the tenets of bushido—the ancient Japanese Way of the Warrior. To the people of the Combine, honor and duty are the very cornerstones of society, without which there can be nothing. While these social mores have made the Combine’s military one of the most fearsome and fanatical on the battlefi eld, it was the modernist reforms of Coordinator Theodore Kurita that transformed the DCMS into an even more deadly force.
Hard pressed during the Clan invasion—to the point where their own capital of Luthien teetered on the brink of a Clan occupation—the “Dragon” repaid its would-be conquerors by leading the charge to Annihilate Clan Smoke Jaguar. Today the Combine is riddled with internal enemies in the form of the subversive Black Dragon Society, while fi ghting a war of attrition against the Word of Blake. Thus, Coordinator Hohiro Kurita and his supreme warlord, Kanrei Kiyomori Minamoto, now struggle to achieve the twin goals of unifying their realm while turning back the deadly Word of Blake offensive.

A particularly harsh and xenophobic society, the Draconis Combine maintains a socialist market economy and a rigid leadership divided into social castes. Militarily, the Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery continues to struggle with the competing ideals of personal honor and glory, and the need to function as a unit against a determined enemy. Thus, in battle it is as common to see a lone Combine warrior challenge a superior force as it is to see entire formations combine their might to bring down an enemy.

https://mwo.gamepedia.com/Draconis_Combine

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/History_of_the_Draconis_Combine

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