Division of the Norsoutha-Tomoshima families

A division, rift or fractures in the Norsoutha-Tomoshima families, the rulers of the hereditary military dictatorship that is the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth, and its branch families usually happen every year or half-decade. The Norsoutha-Tomoshima families pretended to look stable on the outside and in public and even went as far as to use bribery, blackmail and fake news to preserve its status; some Grand Marshals and retired Grand Marshals were kept out of the dark or even unaware of the divisions that happen to the families.
Much of the Novayan populace were also under the dark, with only conspiracy theorists and even gossip seekers learning of the divisions through rumors; many have tried and failed to follow the rumors, with many reaching dead ends while the few who do so were bribed, blackmailed or silenced in "accidents" orchestrated by some members of the Norsoutha-Tomoshima families and their supporters and followers. Government orders from the main families to the corporate media were made to dispel the existence of the fractured ruling families as "hoaxes, false news and messages by anti-Norsoutha-Tomoshima trolls and fraudsters".
Hackers and whistleblowers leak details to the public, which led to the NSC government in censoring them and broadcasting announcements to the people "not to listen to the liars", and retired government officials, military leaders, civilian leaders and clergymen and women who learned of the truth kept themselves away from the eyes of the Novayan government before silently defecting to other nations and factions, such as the NSC's rivals (the Saiyanese Stellar Federation and the New Roman Empire), the ultranationalistic Old Officers under Generalfeldmarschall Erich Armansche and the growing coalition of multiple resistance groups and movements across the NSC's eastern territories known as the Free Army Novaya (Armeeverband "Freies Novaya" or Free Novaya Army) under Wilhelm Brandt; some of these defectors also ordered various members of the Principal Elite Guard and affiliates to smuggle their families, neighbors and friends out as well as their own.
The secret domineering aspect of the main families and the frustration and anger of the branch families would later be revealed after the disastrous Norsoutha-Tomoshima family reunion at their estate and theresulting battle between elements of the Merdinan and Novayan Black Guards, Norsoutha-Tomoshima Family Security Force and Principal Elite Guard under the mad Schattenfuhrer Yarin Norsoutha and those loyal to Grand Marshal Borealis Norsoutha III (then critically wounded by the mad/parasite-controlled Yarin and unaware of the divisions) under the leadership of Oberbefehlshaber Reinhilde Heydrich and intervention by forces (including Yarinite forces but minus Yarin) under 1st Grand Marshal Daniel Norsoutha.
The revelations of the divisions shattered the illusion of the Norsoutha-Tomoshima families being the most stable and has contributed to the national instability and the subsequent near-collapse of the NSC into near-anarchy, leading to the recall of most NSC military units on peacekeeping missions and anti-piracy operations to return to impose martial law and curfews (NSC military units involved in wars on several worlds were unable to return) but the aftermath saw confusion among the predeployed, deployed or returning NSC military units. The confusion within the NSC military high command allowed for diverse groups of Novayans aligned with the Old Officers or Free Army Novaya to converge at the eastern commissariats in preparation for the uprisings there.
The near-collapse of the NSC also prevented it from responding to the One Sith's war throughout several universes and multiverses, Galaxy Foxtrot-Foxtrot-Alpha and Universe Alpha-November-India-Mike-Echo, forcing Lord Admiral Borealis Norsoutha I to deploy NSC military units already present within the various Military Staging Grounds outside the Void to launch a counterresponse. The War against the Godom Empire would have ended in victory for the One Sith (who manipulates the Godom Empire) if it hadn't been for the arrival of reinforcements gathered from Outer Territorial, Saiyanese, and a number of still-available NSC military units (untouched by the resulting near-collapse) that volunteered to join the war; the remainder of the fractured NSC Armed Forces in the Void is left to maintain order all the while preparing to face the revolts.
==Known divisions==
===Main families===
===Branch families===