[@Rigmarole]

My dude. Myyyy dude. That is a exellent set of questions!

On technology/formation/The samurai finding themselves increasingly on the short stick. That would be the alien tech. I will adress this more in depth in the OOC, safe to say thou, part of the big shift is due to alien tech (Like the european rifle changed Sengoku dynamics around Oda.) Thats on the military side, obviously. Part of the stalling would be the fact that these are corperations, and stuff like patents and economy monopolies and the the corperate side of things would help stiffle the growth of a new third estate.