Kwyna:
<quote>8 Move (focusing on the "always moving" aspect and the whole "being on the right place at the right time" which ties in with the last event as well)
'One step ahead of the competition' would be a good metaphor here.
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7 Understand (Solid grasp of science but we're not really cutting-edge, we're making strides though)
New Holtzman research would be about as cutting-edge as one can get, if there were new breakthroughs made. There's been none since the days of Norma Cenva, and by all rational standards she was a freak. There hasn't been a mind like hers before or since. Your Holtzman research pays off in the tiniest of increments — more efficient power use, miniaturization, etc. Anything big would require huge investment of House resources to develop and would be a campaign arc all its own.
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6 Discipline (We have a firm grasp on our people but we're not indoctrinating them; we're just good employers)
Less a noble house than a corporate hierarchy?
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5 Communicate (We're building on that, but we are an upstart House and bound to step on some toes)
House Kirish's upstart days are 10,000 years behind it, unless you want that massive disaster 2,600 years ago to have essentially knocked our House back to Nascent status. The slow climb back up from near-extinction could be an entire campaign in itself!
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4 Battle (We focus too much on the individual and location, location, location, and we never really had to bother with war, that our military is advanced but small)
A rating that low says the opposite of advanced-but-small. More like large-and-poorly-trained-and-incompetently-lead.