Topaz Faction

The Council for Emergency National Reform, known more commonly by its colloquial term, the Topaz Faction, is a major paramilitary/mercenary organization that is most well known for it's status as the premiere terrorist organization in Kasnyia.

History

The organization which would eventually be known as the Topaz Faction had its beginnings in the time of the Great Opening, when Grand Duke Karl Xavier XIII ended Kasnyia's 400 years of self isolation . During this time, at all levels of Kasnyian society, including the military, academic discussions and arguements began on how this would affect Kasnyia's future. While at first, opinions were diverse and many, within a couple of years during and after the Great Opening, most Kasnyians fell into two diametrically opposed camps: the New Order (called Usurpers by the opposition), who embraced the fact that Kasnyia's borders were now open and theorized that Kasnyia could only benefit and infact flourish in the years to come because of this act, and Society's Guardians (called Jingoists by opponents), who believed that opening Kasnyia's borders would only invite trouble and foreign interference/influence upon their culturally pure society due to this event. These factions had varying numbers depending on which level of society one analyzed, and within the military, it was universally (at some level or another) supportive of the Society's Guardians way of thinking. It was here that the Topaz Faction was born.

Because (at the time) the enitre intellectual body of the military was opposed in some form to the Great Opening, there were many debates regarding the event at all military installations and instituitions. Eventually, through a great deal of discussion,