Well-Known Member
- Intent:
- To add the criminal organization working underneath Onomato Holdings.
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- Organization Name:
- The Eitosōdokuran (Eight Sword Clan)
- Classification:
- Criminal Cartel
- Affiliation:
- Organization Symbol:
- The Eitosōdokuran uses either a eight headed snake sword or the mon of the Oyabun in their various gang territories located in the galaxy.
- Description:
- The Eitosōdokuran is a large criminal cartel that mainly deals in the Eight Great Crimes (Slavery; Assassinations; Smuggling, Larceny; Drug Trade; Security & Enforcement, Banking, and Gambling). Most of its membership is from the Dragon Constellation and the Heaven System with a lesser extent from the Atrisian Community.
- Headquarters:
- Domain:
- The Eitosōdokuran main amount of influence is within the Long Xingzou System and the Heaven System but has a small amount of power within the Atrisian Community to draw from. Their strongest amount of criminal control is on their homeworld of the Dragon Constellation and its small communities located throughout the galaxy on various worlds. Criminals working for the organization have been known to disguise themselves as working for the Nakaioma Corporation and Onomato Holdings in order to move supplies and resources around the galaxy without being detected. They have are an active part of the community with helping to build schools and offering job training; while also providing security services for the communities against rival criminal gangs who seek to corrupt their honorable society. This improving the community has helped their relationship with the local populace considerably.
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- Hierarchy:
- The Eitosōdokuran are lead by the Eight Crime Daimyos which lead the various criminal activities that the clan undertakes. The Individual Daimyo's Domain are completely autonomous from each other but still answer to the Supreme Oyabun and follow his commands. The Organization is split further into smaller domains underneath the control of a Lieutenant who then answer to the a Daimyo. Those smaller domains are then split into several cells with their own leaders who then answer to a Lieutenant. This style was designed to limit the impact of law enforcement upon their criminal activities. At the top of the ladder is believed to be the Supreme Oyabun Tashido a ruthless criminal kingpin whose reputation is respected.
- Membership:
- Estimations by the local government at around ten thousand individuals in total. To become a member of the organization one must go through a selection tournament carried out by the domains each year within a specialized arena filled with monsters and dangerous criminals; those who prove themselves cunning and a master of hand to hand combat are allowed to join the main organization. Those who wish to join the 'Burakkukurēn' the elite of the elite within the organization must take down an entire syndicate cell using nothing but their own hands. The organization does not tolerate weaklings and beats new members into submission in order for them to become strong enough to become an asset and not a liability. The training of martial arts is also paramount for members. To become one of the Crime Daimyo's Bodyguards one must be within the organization for at last 10 years and have earned their spot using ruthless and brutal tactics.
- Climate:
- The climate of the gang is one of strength but also family. Recruitment is typically done to orphans and other members of society who feel that the government has given them nothing in return for their years of service. Everyone who is within the organization is treated as family although those who take a step out of line will be harshly punished or even killed for betraying the gang's rule system. Strength is the most important thing for the organization as they follow the old saying of "Might Equal Rights" when it comes to enforcing their territory. They have been shaped into believing that law enforcement is nothing more than corporate goons who will stand in their way and so they lack fear of them. Death while within the gang is common with many turf wars with more powerful galactic crime syndicates are the norm. Although there are certain rules in place to prevent another gang member from killing others within the organization.
- Reputation:
- To the government of Long Xingzou; the Eitosōdokuran is nothing more than a ruthless criminal organization who will not hesitate to use any methods necessary in order to accomplish their goals. Although to the general public they are respected and even in some cases worshipped because of their investment into hospitals; education centers; and protecting the more undesirable neighbors within the capital city. To the galaxy at large and those who have heard of them their criminal activities have caused deaths on such a large scale. With ruthless turf wars and even burning down cities attributed to them on multiple worlds.
- Curios:
- Members of The Eitosōdokuran are marked with many Long Xingzou tattoos with the more that you have meaning that you are more powerful within the organization. For the Crime Daimyos their bodies are covered from head to toe in tattoos to symbolize their absolute power over their domain. Ceremonial Rings with the clan symbol are also passed out amongst its members to identify them easily. Due to their growing power and influence; they can afford to wear lavish robes which remind people of the Imperial Court.
- Rules:
- The Eitosōdokuran follow a honor code called the 'Sobato Code' which details how the cartel works and the 50 rules that everyone must follow. Those within the organization swear an oath to follow those rules with not even the Crime Daimyo's and Supreme Oyabun are allowed to break. Those gang members that do break the honor code are forced to remove their tattoos and are branded with a E to symbolize their exile from the criminal organization. Those who have been branded with the infamous E are not able to find employment anywhere but the Imperial Grand Army whose harsh training leads to their deaths in most cases.
- Goals:
- The Eitosōdokuran was created to protect the communities of Long Xongzou and the Heaven System from other criminal syndicates who would exploit them without giving back. Although recently the mission of the Eight Sword Clan is to act as the underworld operations for Onomato Holdings and to a lesser extent the Nakaioma Corporation itself. Moving supplies through space that may or may not be entirely legal in nature. This connection with a powerful corporate entity has allowed them to avoid any major crime enforcement.
Kishimoto Nakaioma - Secretive Leader of the Eitosōdokuran under the title of (Supreme Oyabun Tashido)
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The Eitosōdokuran have been involved in the Dragon Constellation's History for as far back as the 'War of the Three Emperors' with them originally being a swordsman clan run by Sobato Wu in service of Emperor Lu Ring of the Hanwan Empire. It was during this time that the Honor Code known as "Sobato Code" was written that the eight sword clan still uses to this day but more modernized to fit their criminal elements. The small swordsman clan eventually expanded into the criminal organization it is today after the collapse of the Three Empires during the war and subsequent later years. Growing from a small crime organization within the capital city of Zongmen City after the arrival of the heavenly emperors to a larger criminal syndicate which controlled Long Xingzou's Underworld and the Heaven System's Underworld through a violent turf war with the other criminal organizations within the same region. Having access to the Imperial Court of the Heavenly Emperor; they have managed to avoid the gaze of the Imperial Grand Army and the City Police Departments to become a system wide threat.
They were also responsible for the movement of Long Xingxou communities across the galaxy with some coming to reside within the Nakaioma Plaza on Coruscant. Focusing on the Eight Great Crimes (Slavery; Assassinations; Smuggling, Larceny; Drug Trade; Security & Enforcement, Banking, and Gambling) and reorganizing themselves into a syndicate ready to lay claim to whatever they desire through brute force if necessary. Recently they have fallen underneath the iron handed rule of Supreme Oyabun Tashido who is none other than Kishimoto Nakaioma, the First Cousin to Saro Nakaioma and his appointed leaders. Underneath his leadership the cartel has expanded into numerous markets underneath the influence of Onomato Holdings.
