Background:
Proserpina was the ancient Greek goddess whose story is the basis of the myth for springtime. Her Roman equivalent name is Persephone. The route word for both is proserpere, meaning, “to emerge”. As such, the Proserpina Bars are the mark of all Juraian members who have emerged from, or through, MechWarrior battle. House Kurita uses the Proserpina award in a different minor. |
| House Jurai uses the device known as the Proserpina bars (P-Bars) to mark the number of Within the online gaming community this is the number of MechWarrior battles or battle nights a member has attended over the coarse of their membership and time in House Jurai. A member may earn more then one Proserpina Bars when more then one league is being fought in a night and each league has a set of battles. While a major battle is usually a league planetary assault (PA), any battle set can include both raiding battles and PAs. In the older leagues (under NetMech) PAs where done in one or two nights earning a warrior just one or two Proserpina Bars. In the newer leagues starting with MW4, the planetary assaults can last several months and take five to twenty nights of battling to finish. Thus, a warrior need not be at each battle of a PA to earn a P-bar. Some members are at almost every battle while others are there when they can. Some members earn a lot of P-bars over just a short time while others have earned theirs over years. The P-bars is not only a gauge of how active a member is, but sometimes when reviewed with their rank a gauge of how long a person has been a member (Juraian) and the Juraian's dedication.
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| Proserpina Bars are worn in groups of one to five in the same color group and are akin to hash marks. (See the Awards pages for actual displays.) After a warrior earns their 5th Proserpina Bar in any color group they move up one color group to the next level and start all over again. In this fashion there are no more then five Proserpina Bars worn on the Juraian Uniform at any time. (For more information on Proserpina bars see the Proserpina bar section under the List button on the Awards pages.) Those on a member’s award page are properly displayed. Currently, the count has a maximum display range stopping at 360 battles.
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