{"id":187,"date":"2024-12-25T01:42:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T06:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=187"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:09:20","slug":"misery-flies-a-white-banner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Misery Flies a White Banner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Originally posted to the CGL Battletech forum as a fanfic story seed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michi Noketsuna was the first to give voice to the truth.&nbsp; Warlord Grieg Samsonov and Coordinator Takashi Kurita had betrayed the Dragon&#8217;s most loyal servant.&nbsp; True, the life of each samurai belongs to his lord &#8211; but this was dishonor beyond the bounds of the <em>Dictum Honorium<\/em>.&nbsp; The Ryuken had proven that honor was in right thought and right action, not merely right appearances, and this was their reward?&nbsp; It was unconscionable.&nbsp; A samurai from their ranks who sank to such treachery would be fortunate if death were his reward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michi Noketsuna was the first to repudiate the covenant that his lord had broken.&nbsp; Free of his oaths to House Kurita, he pledged his loyalty to the man who had forged the Dragon Sword.&nbsp; Where he led, those who remained followed.&nbsp; And if their new master could only cleanse his own honor in death, they would follow there as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A single wakizashi was now poised to spill the blood of every surviving samurai of the Ryuken.&nbsp; Michi Noketsuna had found the one point of leverage that could forestall his mentor&#8217;s seppuku: responsibility.&nbsp; Unable to condemn loyal men and women to death under the weight of his own karma, Minobu Tetsuhara reluctantly declared himself ronin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under a white banner, the Ryuken boarded white ships and lifted from a white world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted to the CGL Battletech forum as a fanfic story seed. Michi Noketsuna was the first to give voice to the truth.&nbsp; Warlord Grieg Samsonov and Coordinator Takashi Kurita had betrayed the Dragon&#8217;s most loyal servant.&nbsp; True, the life of each samurai belongs to his lord &#8211; but this was dishonor beyond the bounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-btech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}