Welcome to the November Scholae Palatinae Quaestor Report! Final Crusade news, statistics, and more! It has been a hard year of crusading efforts so now as we go into the Holiday Season take a moment to feel proud for what you all have accomplished!

This Round
This final round of the Crusade found us fighting on Dromund Kaas along side the forces of Taldryan and Odan-Urr. Both put up a massive showing with Taldryan earning a whooping 100 points from their Special Forces. Our own teams saw a 5th place Fiction Entry from Dante, and the split efforts of our SF team got 4th and 5th places in the Advertising Campaign. Much more importantly however this round saw the first time in the crusade where our participation ratio got over a 1.0. This round netted us our highest participation score yet of 1.2. If you look back earlier in the year we had moments such as Ashas Ree where we got a score of .4! If you look at the submissions to events, first round on Nfolgai we had a ratio of 2.2 submissions:events while here on Dromund Kaas we had a ratio of 8!

Massive improvements as we have gone along. Great effort from all of you who participated. We never would have made it this far if it wasn’t for you all. And because of our participation score we get custom Scholae Palatinae Robes! I find that incredibly exciting, and hopefully you guys do too. (Except for Dante because Commando Armor would be terrible. :P)

Overall Crusade Results
This round being the final round included the over all results of the Crusade. Overall placement was based upon how many planets were won, with ties broken by participation rate. After a very close round on Ziost, Plagueis took the lead with 5 Planets, Arcona and Taldryan tied at 4 and we sat at 1. The final Crusade Vendetta results are 1st - Plagueis, 2nd - Arcona, 3rd - Taldryan, 4th - Scholae Palatinae. We got 4th overall!

I want to give a massive congratulations to Plagueis on their first place victory, and to Arcona and Taldryan for their tremendous efforts as well for finishing top 3. As for us, a fourth place is a very respectable placing, and we can honestly say we gave it our all. Fantastic work to everyone who fought in this year long vendetta.

For some more information about how we did in this crusade, based off my tracking of events there were a total of 184 HSP submissions during the course of this vendetta. Out of those our top participants were Archangel(27), Dante(22), Myself (21), Xantros(20), and Eether (20). Also out of those submissions we saw 8 Gold Nova, 19 Silver Nova, and 12 Bronze.

Reward wise, at some point everyone who participated in the crusade should be getting ribbons for the events they participated in. Merit rewards for people who kicked ass over the course of this year are being worked on and should be finished in the next couple of days (barring any delays with the Thanksgiving Holiday). Scholae Palatinae and the entire Brotherhood only survive because of the awesome members who give it their all. Thank you guys for making this such an awesome place. I couldn’t be more glad to work as your Quaestor.

House News
With the holidays upon us and the crusade at an end, we are looking at running really light and fun things for those of you who are interested. Coming next year in addition to the planned GJW in the summer, we are also going to see the continuation of the Looking Home Campaign, where you guys can continue to have an influence on the fictional side of the house’s workings. As well there has been a inter-house event that we are looking at picking back up now that we have some more time to run it. Its going to be an exciting year in 2014.

Evant, our long standing Caliburnus BTL has decided he was a traitor... er, that he has wanted some more leadership experience and was selected by the filthy Jedi, er, lovely folks in Odan-Urr for their new Rollmaster! I want to wish him very good luck and thank him for being such an awesome BTL and member here in HSP. We are certainly going to miss him here.

In his place, Eether has been selected to be the new BTL for Caliburnus. Eether, of course, has been a long standing and hard working member of HSP who should do wonderfully in this position.

Okay, I think that will cover it for this round of the lovely and fun QUA Report. Once again thank you to everyone who participated in the crusade, and congratulations to all the many winners through out the year. Have a Happy Thanksgiving if you are celebrating it on Thursday.

For the Empire!
Xen'Mordin Vismorsus
Quaestor of Scholae Palatinae