Event History

It has been nearly 7 months since Kah'ri's last medal. In that time, Kah'ri has stepped up into a leadership role. In this position, he has been eager to learn, eager to execute, and eager to improve. Not only has he shown an eagerness for all of these things, he has done them.

Kah'ri has now been QUA for nearly 6 months, helping to lead CSP through a GJW along the way. IN this time he has participated in 109 competitions, stacks of crescents to boot, he's leveled up in societies 10 times, participated in 4 RPs as a participant and run one as the DM. Kah'ri has been involved on all fronts when it comes to member activity, but where he has really come to shine is as an emerging leader of Clan Scholae Palatinae.

If I need something done, Kah'ri is always the first to jump at the chance. Of the 15 competitions run during CSP's Sithmas event, Kah'ri supplied the concept for 7 of them. He routinely contributes, even if he is not running the event. During the Sithmas event, he completed in all the events while encouraging others to do so as well. Kah'ri is also instrumental in advertising the clan events. He has also personally reached out to our members with AWOL warnings and continues to show a unmatched dedication to his role.

Beyond the daily operations of being QUA, Kah'ri has also taken up a project of creating Renders of CSP's Headquarters. One of these renders is visible in my last report. Throughout the process of creating these pieces, Kah'ri has been receptive He has also created images for all of the CSP Artifacts, which can be found on the Wiki. Including several gifs for the Rajk Opal. I also got a a kick ass render of CSP's SARLAC Station from him. Throughout the process of these projects, Kah'ri has been nothing but receptive and responsive to criticism. He takes it well, focuses on how he can improve and then does so. I've been so impressed with this, I'll be putting him to work on a long backlog of images the Clan needs.

In addition to this project, Kah'ri has provided me with the swish new graphics for my Consul report. His work stands miles above anything I could make and he volunteered without question.

Kah'ri places improving the experience of our members above anything else and has grown every single day in his role as QUA. I am so greatful for his positive attitude, work ethic and drive. I cannot wait to see what else he has in store for us. Congratulations Kah'ri. Keep up the fantastic work!

Thran Occasus-Palpatine, 2024-01-11 02:55:57 UTC

Socorra is just a flat-out tornado of activity. Seemingly everywhere there is a competition to be done she is on it. Since the end of October. She has organized 39 competitions and she teamed up with another member to co-run 1 for a total of 40. That is 1 competition on an average of 1.5 days. She has also participated in another 54 competitions during that time. She has DM'ed 2 Role playing sessions and participated in another 14. Just truly impressive numbers especially for such a short period.

Socorra has been the Proconsul of Vizsla for a short time. However, her work both inside and outside is considerable. I will let Noobi elaborate more on her work for the Regent staff and such. Having worked with her on that staff for a while now I can see her dedication to making things for members and just how far-reaching that work is for the club in general. She dives into everything like her activity and it is fantastic to see her back in the brotherhood and succeeding at a high level.

Korvyn, 2024-01-02 00:12:05 UTC

It's been almost exactly a year since Zuza's last recognition for her work on the HM/SA staff, a period that neatly overlaps with her service as my Praetor. Although I discussed much of her work in her recent promotion, now I'm stuck trying to figure out how to quantify that in terms of XP.

Part of Zuza's job over the last year has been, as I put it in the promo rec, "Deputy Arch." She had to prepare to take on the HM role in case I was unavailable for any reason. Sometimes she got something to show for it, like the 36 exams she graded during this period or credit for running the Q4 Decathlon competitions. But usually it meant that she had to give up time that could have been spent gaming, writing, or doing anything at all that would've been more fun so that she could deal with continuity training. I have no idea how long she spent on this. I know simple tasks, like when I walked her through grading SA exams, were pretty quick: that was a 13 minute call in January. Other times it was more involved: when I gave her a full overview of staging SA courses, which includes preparing and uploading assets, creating the course on the site, creating the exam, and repeatedly previewing and tweaking everything, I know she sat patiently on the call for a little over an hour. But I don't know how long she spent looking through the style guide and building the template for the upcoming societies courses, or learning how to make course updates through the admin panel (which only she and Zen have done among current staffers), or handling the off-site issues tracker and bug report system (which only she's done), or learning how to update the Ruby script that governs degree progress.

Zuza also provided skills that I don't have. I knew the gifs for Comms 101 were outdated and needed to be replaced but I don't know how. So Zuza did it, and then she taught me how she did it. My only experience with video editing is a school project in 2005, so it fell to Zuza to create the video for Writing Dialogue. I made her track time on that one, so I know it was about two hours of harvesting clips, editing, and re-editing.

Since this summer, Zuza has officially been the point person for a lot of what is now Emissary work. Specifically, stalking our new joins and doing individual, private outreach to them. It was a natural evolution of the ad hoc new member engagement she'd been doing and the informal taskings I'd been giving her to poll newer members about the Essentials courses and other SA projects. She was the only person in the club working this as a primary duty before the Emissary position opened; now she's still doing it but she's at least part of a team.

I guess I should step back and acknowledge that a lot of people don't think that "chat" is work. Well, if it's not work, why is it so damn hard to get people to do it? At every level of this club, purposeful communication is critical for getting results. But it's a struggle to get people to go out and promote their competitions. It's a struggle to get supervisors to give their subordinates actual instructions or feedback. The CONs sit in their chat complaining that the DC doesn't talk to them while we sit in our chat complaining that the CONs don't talk to us. For years, it's been an uphill battle to get people to talk about the work their peers and subordinates are doing so they can get timely medals and promotions. I used to tell my junior summit to "do one thing and talk about it" and it was like pulling teeth. It's impossible to quantify the energy expenditure or impact of this, but the units where people do it are active and growing and the units where people are not doing it are not. So it's tempting to write off "Zuza talks to new people" as a charming personality quirk, but that's ripping her off. It was direct tasking from her boss that she faithfully executed for half a year. Recruiters, sales reps, pollsters, and others make a living doing the same thing. When Zuza was starting conversations with twenty-something Discord-authenticated new joins, getting into voice and video chat and gaming sessions with them, that was an intentional time investment in the future of this club and a mission so important it just got the first new DC position in six years.

Zuza, thank you for all your work over the past year. I look forward to seeing what you and Qormus can accomplish in the new office.

Alethia Archenksova
Headmistress

Darth Strix, 2023-12-20 19:23:39 UTC

Adept Malik Sadow has been grinding away at the XP ladder in order to reach another accolade in his career. Over the past few months this Old Guard of Sadow has put forth an impressive stack of activity. Most recently he racked up seventy one points for Sadow during the Great Jedi War XVI: Transcendence. He participated in seven comp bins and placed in five GJW Comps. Those contributions led to CNS having the highest participation rate throughout the war! He has participated in over one hundred comps earning himself close to a hundred clusters along this trek.

Not only that, to further his DB education he took on courses at the Shadow Academy earning himself two degrees in Communications & Activities. Malik's commitment to our little Star Wars family is difficult to quantify in a manner commensurate with who he is. However that commitment is always on point and leading by example. He has been the BTL for Sapphire Squadron for nearly a year and under his leadership Sapphire witnessed an increase in activity from its members which helped bolster our participation rate for the War.

As one of our resident Old Guard, his council is both persuasive and impactful at all levels of the Clan. His experience and knowledge has contributed to multiple developments of Clan possessions, story arcs and the overall dynamics of the Clan. As a former member of the Club’s Star Chamber the Adept is a valuable member to have in and Clan.

It is with great pleasure to be a part of this award recommendation. This is just a small token of the Clan’s appreciation for everything you do. Congrats Sir and well deserved!

Adept DarkHawk Sadow, 2023-11-21 13:02:16 UTC

Since his last award in August of 2022, Ikarri has been a stellar force for activity. He has participated in 57 competitions, 59 gaming activities, and 3 role-playing sessions. He has earned 11 crescents and a Bronze nova during that time frame not to mention over 500 Clusters. While Ikarri is new to the Vizsla Summit he is already showing his prowess in taking on work and providing his thoughts and input in clan discussions. I look forward to writing up many more recommendations for you Ikarri, Congratulations.

Korvyn, 2023-11-18 01:20:53 UTC

Nobilus, my trusted Magistrate.

I know how badly you have been looking forward to reaching this point, always dreaming of how you've got your character's next upgrades planned out and how you'd love to be able to do specific things at certain levels, but are just shy of the points required to make your CS accurately portray those. I still remember you were super excited, thinking you'd be able to reach it at Equite 2; just to find out you were 'just' shy of it. I won't lie, it was fairly comical watching you throw your Nobi-style tantrum after that happened and then laughing at the end of it all and planning for the next. A moment I wouldn't change for the world, as it showed me just how much you were invested in everything. In turn, I found it comical to turn the tables on you by telling you that I was having trouble getting enough together to get you a promotion despite everything you had accomplished so you could finally get that done. Well...that's actually because I was getting it all together for this instead! So I hope you don't hate me too much for the small deception, but hey, as you always say, it's all in good fun. (insert frog snickering face here)

That said, honestly it's those quirks of yours that always put a smile on members, your demeanor, and your positive and upbeat attitude, that made me proud to bring you on as my Magistrate back in July; and since then you have done nothing but prove that it was the right and proper decision as you continue to flourish and work diligently to ensure that Taldryan flourishes as well. Even if some of your ideas were, a little...odd. Like the name pun that Taldryan used to use which I won't mention here, but always makes me chuckle when I think about it or you bring it up.

You've helped us create new graphics for each of our specific divisions, our naval forces, armed forces, and intelligence services, which while quite a few of those are not yet being used until our wiki revamp is completely finished, I am eagerly looking forward to being able to utilize them and show them off. You even designed the official Seal of the Taldryan Republic which is proudly featured on our main wiki page and used as our core fictional centerpiece that defines us. Oh, and most importantly, designing my Republic-themed report graphics without me even having to ask. Because when I did ask if you could design some report graphics for me, you immediately dropped it in my lap already complete and ready to go; pretty signature and all.

That is one thing I have always appreciated about you, has been your drive and initiative. With the survey you sent out to the clan right after becoming part of the summit, dropping your own full spreadsheet with suggestions on how to optimize and structure it all item by item of the armed forces AND the naval forces at the drop of a hat when you learned we were looking at making additions to the two, especially our armed forces with the post-GJW credits. Because of that, I directly included you in our discussions of the expansion; and even now you eagerly and happily continue to add your own thoughts and contributions; even if they contradict the majority. I wouldn't have it any other way, as to me, having those ideas on the table I feel is vital, and offers new insight to things not considered; even sometimes changing the minds of some of the majority.

You've even started helping myself and Erin with the clan storyline, pitching ideas and thoughts as we actively move forward; and still ask if I have anything specific I need you to work on outside of your spontaneous and helpful projects; even while life gets busy with the season. And despite that, during the Great Jedi War you actively sought to beat the drums and help get members excited, motivated, and engaged; even at times when you were unable to yourself due to your sudden schedule shift (your boss is evil and may squirrels pelt them with nuts forever more). Always staying active in the chats and helping people with their own various projects that they need, constantly getting involved wherever and however you can, there's literally nothing about you that I would change.

Since your last recognition, you’ve participated in 108 competitions; 35 of which brought home crescents! You’ve burned through 52 different Shadow Academy courses with 8 various degrees as you move up the society ranks. You’ve taken part in 28 different gaming activities with 90 Clusters of Fire and 297 Clusters of Earth, an extremely nice number for the amount of activities; great work!

I look forward to 2024 and everything else you have to offer, especially as we begin more work in earnest to prepare you for the bright future you so want in leadership. Congratulations brother, you've earned this without a shadow of a doubt in my mind.

~Signed,
Lady Second Cassandra Oriana Tyris
Supreme Chancellor of the Taldryan Republic
Clan Taldryan

Sage Cassandra Oriana Taldrya, 2023-10-26 12:54:21 UTC

Can you believe this amazing woman is only now getting her first ever AK? No? Neither can I. But here we are! So let's get to it! That purple stabby is gonna match some nice outfits along with all the other knives.

Since her last medal at the launch of the XP system, Socks has organized 25 competitions, including her currently running #Darktober series, which she purposely crafted to engage and broaden the art community and encourage #art-chat on our Discord. She's participated in 210 competitions not including containers, but indeed including her stellar war participation, which boasted 9/9 complete bin participation and a total of 24 competitions. Her efforts secured her a small pile of Novae, including a Gold Nova, two Silver Novae, and two Bronze Novae, as well as an even bigger pile of Crescents: 6 Crescents with Diamond Stars, 4 Crescents with Ruby Stars, 14 Crescents with Amethyst Stars, 5 Crescents with Sapphire Stars, 2 Crescents with Emerald Stars, and 4 Crescents with Quartz Stars. That's 35 total Crescents and 5 Novae, for an average placement rate of 20%! Of course, these competitions as well as her general activity have garnered her plenty more, as between passing 3 Shadow Academy courses, 5 Gaming activities and 19 fiction ones in addition to all her beautiful art, Socks has earned 46 Clusters of Ice, 20 Clusters of Earth and a whooping 109 Clusters of Graphite.

But Socks is far from just a monster of a participant. She is also a leader and builder of the art community and advocate for #OneDB. She served 2 months as Aedile of her House. Socks has been a rockstar ever since she returned, and we and the Brotherhood are grateful to her efforts. Congratulations, Matron. Enjoy your machete.

Atty
Proconsul, Clan Arcona

Qyreia Arronen, 2023-10-26 02:16:53 UTC

Breaking news: Wally did things. Since his last medal, Wally has continued to lead the Exarch staff and remained directly involved in day-to-day managing of our RP scene, answering questions, giving advice, and processing RPs. He also regularly tracks and reviews Envoy Corps stats to ensure that members are progressing through its ranks more or less as anticipated. He participated in 42 comps, DMed 4 RPs and participated in another 10. He has earned 89 CIs, a handful of other clusters, and an impressive five nova from GJW XVI.

Lord Dacien Victae, 2023-10-24 13:09:29 UTC

Centam,

It feels like only 5 and a half months ago we saw you advance to the ranks of the Vanguard. Since then, you have continued to shine and be a valuable part of the Taldryan Republic. Even in the Great Jedi War, you walked away with a Gold and Bronze Novae; which we are immensely proud of you for.

Because of everything you have accomplished and by constantly demonstrating the values of what it means to be a part of Taldryan, we are proud to award you with this Amethyst Kukri. May your stabs be swift, and your enemies shanked in defense of the Republic.

Congratulations, Centam!

~Signed,
Lady Second Cassandra Oriana Tyris
Supreme Chancellor of the Taldryan Republic
Clan Taldryan

Sage Cassandra Oriana Taldrya, 2023-10-24 05:38:08 UTC

Appius Zappius Anderppius Wightanderson...wait, that's not right...

Despite everything you have faced and endured throughout this year, you have continued to be a beacon of light within Taldryan since your return. You have been hosting an insane amount of competitions (and participating in just as equally as many if not more), driving activity not just for us; but for the Brotherhood at large. Even while you were in the rogues, you still continued to push onward; as I saw myself with the Mario Kart competition series that I hosted.

When it came time for the Pro Bowl, you did not disappoint either; with significant contributions across the board you struck like the thunder we've always known you to be. Just as similar with the Great Jedi War, participating in 25 different competitions and bringing home two Gold Novae, a Bronze Novae, 16 Clusters of Graphite, 10 Clusters of Ice, and an Amethyst, Quartz, and Sapphite Star Crescent!

It is because of your consistent hard work and ever diligent efforts that I am proud, and honored, to award you this Amethyst Kukri on behalf of Taldryan.

Congratulations, App....err...Andersy. Yeah. Andersy.

~Signed,
Lady Second Cassandra Oriana Tyris
Supreme Chancellor of the Taldryan Republic
Clan Taldryan

Sage Cassandra Oriana Taldrya, 2023-10-24 05:38:15 UTC