The Shōkaku Clan

The Shōkaku Clan was founded on 17th of February 2021 by Ysmir-M, Ginger Tea, Suklo, austinrisepic and Grombindal as a cadet-branch family of the Mortisian Syndicate. It is based on real-life Yakuza and on the Yakuza game series. It incorporates Gunrunning to serve the purposes of the Syndicate. At the same time it promotes Japanese culture and works to entertain its members and people that wish to interact with the Community.
== Early days ==
With Loli Mafia House of Mortem's ascension to the Mortisian Syndicate, a new system of Cadet-branch families was introduced. This system allowed members to create their own crime families within the Community. As Ysmir-M and Suklo were big fans of the Yakuza game series, the theme was set. Few days later, the pin was introduced - a Crane in the shape of an S holding a flower and the name followed shortly after - Shōkaku Clan. Shōkaku meaning "Soaring Crane".
The Shōkaku Clan was the first cadet-branch family to be officially accepted in the Mortisian Syndicate. With its approchable staff and the heavy inspiration on Japanese culture, it's one of the most popular families in the Community.
As the Shōkaku Clan was one of the first cadet-branch families to be introduced, its leaders had a relative freedom in choosing the business it should revolve around. As such, an obvious choice for the Founding members was Gunrunning - it was easy to implement in Roleplay as the Mortisian Syndicate needed suppliers of weapons and majority of the Founding members were already skilled in using Unity and Blender.
The base of operations for the Shōkaku Clan is "Club Shōkaku", a night club stylised to the Yakuza game series esthetics going as far as having a videoplayer with a preset of Yakuza game series soundtrack in the world, such as "Friday Night", "Baka Mitai" or "Koi no Disco Queen".
== Ranks ==
The Oyabun - The leader of the community, the Oyabun runs the family as whole.
Saiko-Komon - Right hand man of the Oyabun.
Wakagashira - Lieutenants, high-ranking members of the Shōkaku Clan, they help with organisation and are in charge of several businesses of the it.
Kyodai - Big Brother - More trusted member of the Shōkaku Clan, they are utilised as Squad leaders and Specialists. Alongside a Tanto knife, they have a Katana.
Shatei - Young Brother - A basic building block of the Shōkaku Clan, multi-purpose force and accepted members of the Shōkaku Clan. They have a Tanto knife on their back.
Kobun - People showing the interest of joining the Shōkaku Clan.
== Club Shōkaku ==
The Club is the main base of operations to Shōkaku. It includes a large dance floor with a stage for live perfomances, a bar section, a second floor, a game room and a meeting room. A restricted area in the backrooms involve tables with gunrunning equipment - tools, scrap metal and weapon parts. 
In other part, personal quarters of the leaders can be found.
== Lore ==
The Shokaku clan was founded by 5 unlucky individuals from a distant country who all suffered unfortunate events in their lives before meeting in the city of Babylon. Most of the original family members started out their lives there, working for the House of Mortem, doing whatever was necessary for the family in order to survive and make a living in the strange and foreign land they now call their home. 
The original members all arrived in Babylon on a ship called the Shoukaku meaning “The Crane Flying in Heaven”. As outsiders with the same origin they often relied on each other in difficult situations and even outside of the criminal underworld, they have entered together, they had nobody else left. This eventually grew into a tight bond and what began as strangers helping out other strangers developed into a friendship… and this friendship into a family.
After many years, working for the House of Mortem proved to be quite lucrative for the members and with the dons permission they were able to create their own subsidiary family inside the House of Mortem. They called it the Shoukaku clan. Named after both, the ship they arrived on and their shared misfortunate past. With skilled weapons experts and a lead with yakuza roots, who taught them the way of the yakuza the Shoukaku clan felt like an opportunity for them to flourish as arms dealers and work more in the ways they were more familiar with, while still being a part of the House of Mortem in the strange and foreign land they now inhabit.
== Gallery ==
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== Trivia ==
* Original Shōkaku Clan started as a friend group.
* The Shōkaku Clan introduced desktop-friendly avatars and multi-purpose customisable avatars into the Mortisian Syndicate.
* Every person from the Founding Members team arrived from the Loli Police Department.
* The first meeting of the Shōkaku Clan was, in fact, conducted in the LPD's meeting room
* Upper members of the Shōkaku Clan have removable shirts - a reference to Yakuza games.
* The whole Shōkaku Clan was slaughtered at least once In Character.
Category:Organized Crime RP Groups
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