Editing Lord Shinji

<blockquote>Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease, succumbing to radiation, suffocating in vacuum, or committing seppuku. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead.<br />
Hagakure</blockquote>

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In spite of its history counting thousands of years, humanity has not lost its ancient cultural roots. In the Polaris Empire, amid considerable technological development, numerous cults flourish, many of them paths supposed to improve one as a warrior: codes of chivalry originating in the Middle Ages, Slavic teachings of martial perfection, and, of course, Bushido. Lord Shinji is the most prominent imperial samurai of the modern times.

Among his many Legion peers, Shinji's distinguishing feature is the consistency of his achievements; never the one to win a resounding victory like lord Cross, but also never the one to lose. Over the course of his career, he moved progressively from one success to another.<br />
It was a few years before the start of the First Wave when Hikaru Shinji, back then a young officer of the imperial fleet, won his first mark; leading a small destroyer squad on border patrol duty, he routed a large pirate fleet of total tonnage several times exceeding that of his own flotilla.

At the time of the First Wave, Shinji wasn't at the forefront of fighting, but proved himself to be a capable convoy escort leader - a necessary task for ensuring the proper supply of the advancing imperial armies. His finest hour came during the Second Wave; following lord Cross' defeat at Lily-3, a gap of several systems, completely defenseless, formed in the imperial frontlines, potentially opening the path to the richest and most industrially-developed planets of those acquired by the Empire over the course of the First Wave.<br />
Shinji's independent squadron, stationed in one of these systems at the time, was the one to stop the Protectorate's counterattack. His tenacious defense of the Lorke system held Protectorate forces long enough for the gap to be closed. By the time reinforcements arrived to Lorke, Shinji's squadron, initially numbering slightly less than forty vessels and more than a hundred thousand human and clone personnel, had been reduced to less than two thousand men and two ships - unable to propel themselves due to sustained damage, but still participating using their long-ranged artillery.<br />
Shinji proved himself to be not only a superb tactician, but a high-class warrior as well. At one occasion, he had been separated from the rest of the Empire's forces and had to battle his way through for nearby twenty-four hours straight, killing more than five thousand soldiers and destroying over a hundred vehicles. For that, Shinji received the Imperial Bloody Ribbon, the award for personal heroism in combat - the fourth known case when it was not posthumous.<br />
During the Third Wave, unlike the many lords busy suppressing rebellions on previously conquered planets, lord Shinji was at the very speartip of imperial assault.

Aside from the defense of Lorke, Shinji is also famous for conquering of the ocean planet of Poseidon, attacking the asteroid cities of the Broken Wings system, and crushing the religious revolt on Delusion.

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