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| − | {{Character
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| − | |name=Jiang Kuo
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| − | |pilotpicture=JiangKuo.jpeg
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| − | |caption=16/03/117
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| − | |concordid=Jiang Kuo
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| − | |gender=Male
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| − | |race=Jin-Mei
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| − | |bloodtype=O-
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| − | |father=Lu Kuo - deceased
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| − | |mother=Mi Kuo (Shih) - 47yrs
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| − | |siblings=Li Kuo (F) - 18yrs
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| − | |spouse=None
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| − | |children=None
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| − | |bdate=08/05/92
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| − | |bplace=Lirsautton V, old Kuo family estates
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| − | |height=171cm (5 ft 7 in)
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| − | |weight=65kg (143.3 lbs)
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| − | |haircolor=Light brown
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| − | |eyecolor=optional
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| − | |birthdate=16/03/117
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| − | |corporation=Federal Navy Academy (FNA)
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| − | |occupation=FNA Cadet
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| − | |specialization=Combat
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| − | |degree=Masters in Strategy and Intragalactic Relations
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| − | |affiliation=Gallente Federation
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| − | |augmentations=None
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| − | |piercings=None
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| − | |marks=None
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| − | =Jiang Kuo Early History=
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| − | ==Kuo Family==
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| − | The Kuo family can trace their ancestry to the very origins of the Sang Do class. Given their impeccable antiquity it is hardly surprising that they were renowned for their entrenched conservatism. They opposed almost every single progressive or liberalising idea that the Jin-Mei encountered even before they had contact from the Gallente.
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| − | After admission to the Gallente Federation the Kuo family maintained its century’s long struggle against the slow creep away from the traditional caste system. Successive heads of the family patronised only Jin-Mei artists, businesses, and in general remained obstinately opposed to integration with the Federation any further – they weren’t so stupid as to advocate withdrawal, but their rhetoric came very close over the years.
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| − | == Early Childhood==
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| − | Jiang as the eldest, and only male, child of Lu and Mi Kuo was almost from birth groomed in the family tradition and set on the path to eventually lead the Kuo family in the same way it had been lead for centuries.
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| − | He was a precocious child, and intensely curious (more curious than his father and mother thought seemly), and like most children exceptionally sociable. He was seven when his younger sister, Li Kuo, was born and by the time she was able to walk the two were getting into all manner of trouble.
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| − | ==Education==
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| − | He was educated almost entirely by private tutors selected from those sects of the Adakul his father deemed the most traditional. He was restricted to Jin-Mei literature and history, and it wasn’t until he was well into his teens that he began to encounter any subject matter dealing with the wider galaxy.
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| − | Despite the restricted curriculum he proved to be possessed of a quick and able mind, and it was diminished by the conservative curriculum insisted upon by his father. Come his sixteenth year he was able to work around the GalNet blocks placed by his parents on the home computers and soon began devouring information and knowledge from places he had only ever heard sneered at derisively.
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| − | In his eighteenth year he was sent to an academy for the heirs of Sang Do dynasties. Here he was to receive his final grooming to begin to play a part in the Kuo family and Jin-Mei leadership. The academy was intended by his father to be a cementing of conservative values proved to be exactly the opposite.
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| − | Unlike his father he gravitated to the more liberal Sang Do heirs, and quietly selected those electives which allowed him to study the Gallente Federation and the wider cluster more closely. Academically he excelled initially, and looked poised to be offered a place at the University of Caille.
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| − | =Kuo Family Disgrace=
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| − | ==Circumstances==
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| − | Near the end of Jiang’s eighteenth year his world was dramatically changed. It emerged that his father had outright ignored pieces of legislation that he deemed to be a dilution of Jin-Mei traditions. Gallente activists painted a picture of Lu Kuo as being crueller than an Amarr Holder, and treating the lower castes as virtual slaves.
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| − | Soon pressure mounted on the Jin-Mei authorities on Lirsautton V to take action against Jiang’s father. The media blitz was unrelenting with Jiang and his sister being followed almost constantly whenever they left the family estates. The Kuo family had also earned the ire of many other Sang Do families over the course of its long history that looked to this moment as a chance to take revenge.
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| − | ==Outcome==
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| − | Lu Kuo was fined an astronomical amount, more than the total value of the Kuo family’s assets, unable to pay the fine he was imprisoned immediately. The fine then passed to Jiang.
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| − | Aged nineteen Jiang was suddenly thrust into a position of huge responsibility, with his entire family depending upon him and having no way to support them let alone maintain the life-style the family was long used to.
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| − | ==Jiang’s Response==
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| − | He ignored his father’s pleas to call in old favours and to try and contest the ruling; he knew that the Kuo family were social pariahs now, and that there was not a chance of the ruling being reversed short of a massive bribe – which he was not able to do.
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| − | Jiang took the only option left open to him and traded upon the one asset left to the Kuo family: an ancestry of almost unmatched distinction. So for an astronomical bride price he married his sister to a Saan Go. The choice was a hard one as he had hoped to spare his sister such cruel realities; however Li Kuo was no fool herself and understood the necessity of the marriage, and accepted it with grace.
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| − | Jiang immediately used the funds to purchase a respectable (and up to Federation standards) farm which would provide enough income to support his mother. His sister was already well cared for by her new husband. There was nothing he could do for his father, and more than he cared to admit this hurt the young Jiang.
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| − | =Capsuleerhood=
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| − | ==Federal Navy Academy==
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| − | Two years after the disgrace of the Kuo family Jiang was approached by representatives from the Gallente Federation. During routine checks his capsule compatibility had been discovered, apparently his father had ensured the records had remained private up until his imprisonment.
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| − | Without a backward glance Jiang accepted the offer to join the ranks of the capsuleers, seeing a chance to not simply redeem the Kuo family but to dramatically alter for the better his family’s legacy – setting a new tone for the centuries to come.
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| − | The training for the capsule was hard beyond all imagining, but with serious determination Jiang succeeded. Immediately after his successful death and cloning he enrolled in the Federal Navy Academy.
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