Editing Kitsune Kurita

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| name                = Kitsune Kurita
| birthdate           = [[3060]]<ref name=GWchap17/>
| died                = 
| othernames          = Kit<ref name=Victor_Omi>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (ScandalVids section), news item published [15/05/30670]: "Victor-Omi Love Child Hidden on Tukayyid!"''</ref>
| affiliation         = [[The Republic of the Sphere]]
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| title               = [[Knight of the Republic|Knight]]
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| profession          = 
| parents             = [[Victor Steiner-Davion]] (father)<ref name=CM>''Crisis Mode''</ref><br/>[[Omiko Kurita]] (mother)<ref name=CM/>
| siblings            = [[Jade Davion|Jade]] (half-sister)<br/>[[Burton Davion|Burton]] (half-brother)<br/>[[Lee Davion|Lee]] (half-brother)
| spouse              = Sandra<ref name=CM/>
| children            = two daughters<ref name=CM/>
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'''Kitsune Kurita''' was the son of [[Victor Steiner-Davion]] and [[Omiko Kurita]]. He became a [[The Republic of the Sphere#Knights|Knight]] of [[The Republic of the Sphere]].

==History==
===Early Life===
Born in secret to Omiko Kurita, Kitsune was kept hidden for the first few years of his life, though rumors of his existence circulated. One such story in [[3067]] alleged he was living alone on [[Tukayyid]], always accompanied by a vast retinue of personal servants, tutors, and bodyguards in an isolated estate on the shores of the Crucible Sea, and protected by a [[battalion]] of elite [[Com Guards|Com Guard]] BattleMechs and armored infantry stationed nearby. The author claimed that the child was between five to eight years old.<ref name=Victor_Omi/>

Evidence strongly suggests Kitsune was actually on [[Ningxia]] since the conclusion of [[Operation BULLDOG]], and was guarded by [[Ryuken-roku]] in what was dubbed [[Operation KITSUNE SHIELD]].<ref>''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 115</ref> By 3067 Kitsune was being trained by [[Clan Nova Cat]] [[Oathmaster]] [[Minoru Nova Cat]], whom visions had told Kitsune would succeed him.<ref>''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 95</ref>

Even after his existence was revealed either in [[3081]] or prior, Kitsune was declared the son of Lady [[Miyako Kurita]], supposedly making him a third cousin to [[Coordinator]] [[Hohiro Kurita II|Hohiro Kurita's]] two sons, [[Shinjiro Kurita (31st c.)|Shinjiro]] and [[Vincent Kurita|Vincent]]. This alleged heritage would lead to the rebellious [[Black Dragon Society]] favoring Kitsune as a replacement Coordinator.<ref name="J:FRp39+">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 39-40, "Coordinator's Son Weds"</ref> <ref name=HWOREp18>''Historical: Wars of the Republic Era'', p. 18</ref>

===Knighthood===
Kitsune Kurita rose to prominence in [[3093]] when he led a joint [[DCMS]]/[[Republic Armed Forces|RAF]] force against a major Black Dragon base on [[Shimonita]]. For this action which ended four years of Black Dragon raids into the Republic, Kitsune was offered Republic citizenship and a knighthood. His public insistence that his rank would be bestowed on him by "one without whom I would be nothing" would lead to an uproar within elements of both the Draconis Combine and the [[Federated Suns]]. Kitsune was referring to his father, [[Victor Steiner-Davion]], and this revelation of his parentage caused hundreds of Black Dragon members to commit ''seppuku'' out of shame for having supported a 'tainted' heir's claim to the Combine throne. The reaction from anti-Kurita partisans in the [[Draconis March]] was equally virulent (if less lethal), as Kitsune's mother was portrayed as a nefarious seducer of their nation's former First Prince.<ref name=GWchap17>''Ghost War'', Chapter 17 (PDF version)</ref> <ref name=HWOREp18/>

Kitsune served as a Knight of the Republic for the next four decades, during which he married a woman named Sandra and fathered two daughters with her. The day after the [[Hyperpulse Generator|HPG]] [[Blackout]] of 7 August, [[3132]], he briefed his father and other Knights on the sudden crisis which had hit the Inner Sphere.<ref name=CM/> Subsequently Kitsune served as one of the investigators into who had caused the crisis, though with little success.<ref>''Era Digest: Dark Age'', p. 5</ref> In January [[3133]] he was one of the senior Republic officials who met with [[Mason Dunne]] to discuss the upsurge in rearmament across the fragmenting Republic, and tasked Dunne with hunting a lead on anti-Republic criminals on [[Basalt]].<ref name=GWchap17/> <ref>''Ghost War'', Chapter 19 (PDF version)</ref>

Following the assassination of his father, Kitsune made a formal protest against the holding of a state funeral for him but attended it with the rest of Victor's children.<ref>''Sword of Sedition'', Chapter 15</ref> <ref>''Sword of Sedition'', Chapter 28</ref>

==Notes==
* "Kitsune" means the "Fox" in Japanese, so it may be assumed Kitsune's name was a reference to his grandfather, [[Hanse Davion]].

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[List of ScandalVids articles#Victor-Omi Love Child Hidden on Tukayyid.21|BattleCorps ScandalVids, 15/05/3067: "Victor-Omi Love Child Hidden on Tukayyid!"]]''
* ''[[Crisis Mode]]'' (short story)
* ''[[Era Digest: Dark Age]]''
* ''[[Ghost War]]'' (novel)
* ''[[Historical: Wars of the Republic Era]]''
* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''
* ''[[Sword of Sedition]]'' (novel)

[[Category:Republic of the Sphere Characters|Kurita, Kitsune]]