Served on the Chamber of Justice Appeals panel for the 2017 term (which ran until Feb 26, 2018). This term on the appeals panel was largely uneventful, only requiring one assembly for the purpose of reviewing an Order of Advanced Incarceration. However, the appeals panelists all remained on-call and were a pleasure to work with on staff.

Jac Cotelin Grand Master and former Justicar

Assisted in the proofing of all current "active" ACC Venues. Proofed a total of 12 venues as follows: Ahch-To: Ancient Islands Coruscant: Level 1313 Dathomir: Desolate Swamps Dromund Kaas: Dark Temple Ruins Felucia: Rancor Graveyard Godless Matron: Chute Town Godless Matron: Hangar Zerek Godless Matron: The Gauntlet Hoth: Ice Cave Ilum: Crystal Cave Luprora: Rising Tide Assisted in the proofing and oversight of COU specific venues: Daleem: Tunnels Kiast: Velastari Temple

• Atra Ventus
• Combat Master

Since his last promotion in January of 2017, Bentre Kairn'tel Stahoes has proven himself again and again to be the most irreplaceable member of my staff on the DJB Wiki. He has been a tireless staffer on both larger project work as well as the oft overlooked article patrolling. The latter task, thankless and often invisible, is what makes sure the Wiki doesn't descend into a mass of confusing, twisted, un-categorized chaos as more and more edits introduce ever increasing amounts of entropy into the system. At least one or more times a week Ben makes his rounds through all the newly made edits, adjusting pages and making minor fixes wherever he finds the need. Additionally, as one of my longest tenured and most experienced staffers, Ben has taken a front seat in training new staff members that have come on board during his tenure, specifically Tasha'Vel Versea who came to the staff with little direct experience but plenty of eagerness to learn. Ben has allowed the rest of the staff to benefit from his experience at all times.

On the project front, Bentre served as the sole or lead member on various tasks. The audit of all ship articles on the wiki, both personal and Clan-owned, cleaning up the past military possessions of all Clans under the pre-possessions system, the arduous task of adding wiki linking the new DJB Covenant, and an audit/clean up of the massive "Under Construction" category to remove pages that were no longer under active editing and were instead outdated and merely incomplete are some of the major, higher profile projects he spearheaded.

Between his project tasks, patrolling edits, and clan work he has made 742 individual edits on the wiki from article clean ups to adding a missing category. He is one of the most dedicated wiki staffers I have seen in my tenure as Tribune, or even in the years I previously spent as a staffer myself. It is my deep honor to add my recommendation to those of his Clan mates for this award. It is most well deserved, and it comes with my grateful thanks for a job well done.

Bentre has served as a Magistrate to the Headmaster for nine months - since May of last year - and in that time has proved himself to be an invaluable part of our staff. He helped in editing and updating our Leadership courses to make them more user-friendly and relevant to the DB, he proofread and edited the latest batch of History courses that the Shadow Academy put out, and he stepped in when necessary to grade 87 courses (that's much more than almost all of the actual Professors and Docents grade in the same span of time). The biggest and most influential thing that Bentre did as M:HM, though, was utilizing his Wiki expertise to address numerous issues the SA had on the DB Wiki. On that regard he created, altered, moved, or otherwise updated over thirty articles pertaining to the SA or related topics. This was the single-largest revision the SA articles have seen on the Wiki since at least my tenure began as Headmaster and likely long before that. They were severely outdated and certainly not useful, and Bentre corrected that oversight.

For all of these reasons as well as his continued excellent service to the Shadow Academy, I'm happy to join in on recommending him for this sacramental award. He has clearly earned it. Congrats, Benny!

Without going into the nitty gritty details of what Benny has done in terms of activity, I think it's important to talk about Benny as a member of the Brotherhood.

An essential part to any team is steadfast leadership, and that we have in spades when it comes to Benny. As second-in-command for the Clan, Benny perfectly fills his role of being a Summit member, but also having an air of still feeling like part of the membership. With this unique combination of authority and comraderie, Benny has lead the charge in nearly all of CNS' goings on.

In my role as Quaestor, Benny has been an essential part of my leadership toolkit. He had been constantly available for questions and feedback and has provided a solid foundation upon which for me to build my own path as a leader. This last half year as Quaestor would have been a slog without Benny, I am certain of that. And I confidently speak for my Aedile and Battleteam Leader in saying this is true for them as well.

Sacramental awards are both just for merit, but for the legacy built by the member in question. Benny is a legend in CNS, without question, and I can think of no better person to receive this award.

I would like to take the time to recommend Bentre for commendation to you. I’m going to let others discuss his statistics. Instead I would like to discuss his can-do attitude. I’ve had the pleasure of writing with him more than once. Bentre is a level-headed, enthusiastic, and competent leader. I find him to genuinely care about those under his leadership, to be an approachable and effective leader, and to be active in leading from the front in competitions. Bentre deserves commendation. -Adept Macron Sadow, Consul Emeritus

I am more than happy to be able to add my voice to those clamoring for Bentre to be rewarded. While many of the other voices here will elaborate on the hard details, the numbers and other frankly impressive statistics, I wanted to touch on something a bit more nebulous. In my experience, he has shown that he not only grows with every interaction and event, but that he genuinely cares for the members in his clan. His continued support of those individuals, and his willingness to be there for them helps build the rapport between members in a visceral and meaningful way that will help keep new members engaged in the club itself. It is that attitude, that friendship that is important to a great many members, myself included. Thank you, Bentre. --Muz Ashen Keibatsu, the Lion of Tarthos

Ever since I took over as Consul earlier this year after he stepped down, Teylas has continued to be a strong and consistent presence in Clan Plagueis. Both as a leader and an active member, he's shined while doing things that those other members without a full time Praetor gig for the hardest office in the Brotherhood could not. He's also been a solid and irreplaceable leader from his place in the trenches, always there to offer advice to both me and his fellow Clan members.

In the realm of general activity, Teylas has, to use the vernacular, wrecked face. Since his last recognition in January, he has participated in 52 competitions and placed in ten of them. Those placements netted him 1 Gold Nova, 1 Ruby Crescent, 2 Amethyst Crescents, and 3 Crescents each of Sapphire and Topaz. Stepping up during major competitions has also been his forte. Teylas entered 22 competitions during our Enemy Below event, placing in three while taking 11th place overall. During the recently completed Twelfth Great Jedi War, Teylas entered 12 events (earning 12 Seals of Wrath), helped our RO team take first place for the second GJW in a row, and earned the 4th most points of any Plagueian. He has also earned 7 Clusters of Ice, 110 Clusters of Earth, and 22 Clusters of Graphite. Not bad for a guy who spends most of his time remanding recommendations!

It is as a peer leader, however, that Teylas has really made his mark on Plagueis. He has been an active part of most summit discussions, bringing his perspective and advice to the table. Even more importantly than this, however, was his help during our pre-GJW Plagueis Pro Bowl, this time featuring Taldryan. With the Great Jedi War delayed, Plagueis was looking for an event to maintain interest and capitalize on the drive for activity our members were feeling. Knowing that we were searching for something to make sure our members didn't feel like they'd been promised a Vendetta and left with nothing, Teylas volunteered to run our second annual Pro Bowl event in the interim along with Dracaryis. He didn't even flinch when we added Clan Taldryan to the mix, massively increasing his workload overnight. Teylas organized 16 competitions and co-organized 4 more, grading or entering scores for the lion's share of 473 total entries. This event was a much needed activity for both Plagueis and Taldryan, and helped begin to forge a relationship between the two units. Without Teylas's tireless efforts, it is unlikely that the event would have taken place as it did.

His work as both member and mentor have been without peer over the course of 2017, and Plagueis would not be the place that it is without his efforts. Congratulations!

As a member of Taldryan, and a Quaestor of Ektrosis, Rian Taldrya has proven to be one of the most valuable members of the Summit, and the Clan in general. Aside from his invaluable advice, and perspective, Rian is one of Tals most active and effective leaders.

Since the last time he was recognized for his efforts Rian has organized 6 competitions, and participated in 86 more earning 26 crescents for his efforts. He's earned 39 clusters of fire, 27 clusters of ice, 4 clusters of earth, and 23 clusters of graphite for his fiction, gaming, and graphics work. Overall he's proven himself to be a force in Taldryan.

Most recently, Rian went above and beyond for Taldryan by taking on the task of creating a new planetary system for TAL to call home. He designed the system, the star, and the planets of the Caelus System, and created the backbone of the fictional direction Taldryan, and by extension Ektrosis, will follow as we settle in. His work has proven to be exemplary and he is more than deserving of his third sacramental award.

Congratulations Rian Taldrya on your award and thank you for everything you've done for Taldryan!

Since the day I became Consul of Clan Plagueis there has been one person who has been at my side the entire time: Selika Roh. With such a multi-faceted talent as my proconsul it becomes hard as time goes on to shrink everything he's done for both myself and Clan Plagueis into words. In the past six months Selika has been both what we in Plagueis call a "producer" and a "consumer".

The easier of the two to quantify is consumer; these are the things you can clearly see on a person's dossier. In the past eleven months Selika has participated in 59 competitions, bringing home crescents in 14 of those 59 including the coveted diamond crescent. As a writer he's produced 6,334 words of across 8 fiction activities, racked up 18 Clusters of Ice, participated in 3 ACC matches, including representing Clan Plagueis in the Grand Master's ACC tournament where he finished third overall. As a gamer he's been able to gather up plenty of awards including 4 Pendants of Blood, 23 Clusters of Fire, and 285 Clusters of Earth. He has also earned 3 of the new Clusters of Graphite for his graphics entries.

However, as I often say when praising Selika to others, it's as a producer where he really shines. In the short term, he's helped to mentor journeymen members to the rank of knight both for other masters and his own apprentice, Malice, which earned him his own Scroll of the Master. Engaging with the membership and pushing them to be active is one of Selika's best qualities. The most recent quarterly report from Mav showed that Plagueis had a participation ratio of 0.79 and a participations per competition of 9, both of which were significantly above the rest of the Brotherhood or the average. This has also been the best that Plagueis has seen in a very long time. I have no hesitation in chalking this up to the leadership that Selika has brought to Plagueis, by my side, since day one as proconsul. Aside from that, Selika has organized 6 competitions and co-organized 36 additional competitions. Out of these, many were competitions belonging to the Clan Plagueis-Odan Urr feud: Between Light and Dark. When the leadership of Odan Urr first approached us to do something together we jumped right on board. Little did we know that we'd eventually be laying the foundations for how feuds work in the Brotherhood as we were the first real "feud" in years. Selika was instrumental in the feuds planning, implementation, and guidelines. He helped ensure that the rules we set forth as a framework for others moving forward were fair, unbiased, and just. It isn't an exaggeration to say that the conversations over many nights on how to frame and move forward with the feud were heated. But I think this just goes to show fact that Selika is so passionate about what he does here in the Brotherhood and providing a service to the members. After all, we were told we'd be creating a template for the rest of the Brotherhood and wanted to get it right.

More recently Selika worked with me and the rest of the Plagueis leadership to create and deploy the 2016 Plagueis Pro Bowl event. The Pro Bowl and it's format (drafting, etc) was Selika's idea; something to get away from the norm. Following on from that, Selika also was instrumental in the creation and running of our A Call to Arms house feud pitting the two Plagueian houses against one another. Due to scheduling anomalies, both Dracaryis and myself were unavailable for quick turnaround grading, so Selika took on the job of grading all twenty-two events by himself to ensure that the event results were released to our members as soon as possible. And without any hesitation or break from providing fun to our members, he's right by my side as we're already into planning our next event.

• Teylas Ramar di Plagia
• Consul of Clan Plagueis

Selika Roh has done some of the most extensive work I’ve seen any Magistrate do in the Office in the last 8 years that I’ve been involved with it. To say that his contributions are anything short of shining would be disrespect to his service. Firstly, I would like to talk about projects, and these include bi-monthly releases, the Herald Style Hanukkah and Possessions, and we’ll start chronologically.

The last Herald Style Hanukkah was in December 2015. That particular event, being the final one of its kind, was particularly large, yielding 1475 new images total uploaded to the site. Of those 1475, Selika has completed 520. That’s 19 items in various combinations of styles, colors, models, etc., both robes and weapons alike. That is a substantial chunk of the work that he has completed on time and diligently, making sure no detail escaped his attention. Next, we need to mention bi-monthly releases of which we’ve had two so far. Selika has completed 2 items, but those two items yielded 50 new images on the website for the members to enjoy. Possessions is another element I must mention because, despite it being a ways away from release, Selika has already completed 100 images for the starfighters, starships and speeders that will be included in the system itself.

Then we come to the day-to-day work that Selika has been doing. His return rate or warbanners, in particular, was extremely fast and usually no longer than one day, maybe two if real life kept him busy. He has completed 14 Warbanners since his last promotion. He has also completed 4 custom weapon images for our members and 19 graphics requests from Summits and leadership that yielded well over 40 images in total. All in all Selika has done a stellar job and created 159 new items, totaling 728 images, not including the ones he did off the record, for the Dark Brotherhood since last December alone..

In conclusion I would like to add a personal note. Selika is not only a good artist, he is a hard worker when he is not bogged down with his real life work. And even then, he will usually find the time to help in some way. He has a drive to learn new things to improve himself and the quality of his work. He is also an active supporter of the Art Community we have strived to nurture in the past year, and for this I am personally thankful. I think Selika is one of the best artists we have in the Brotherhood and one of the best Magistrates to the Herald I’ve seen thus far. This award comes as no surprise. Congratulations!

• Vyr (Morgan)
• Herald of the Brotherhood