Over the past year, DarkHawk completed capped off a successful term as CNS PCON with a strong showing as Second Clan of the Brotherhood. Shortly after that, Bentre resigned and DH replaced him as Consul. As CON he has kept CNS (and club) busy through dozens of competitions, including the Pro Bowl and a DB-wide holiday event. He's put a solid leadership team in place and the future is bright for CNS.

His personal activity has been astounding. Besides the dozens of competitions he has organized or co-organized, DH also participated in 97 comps, winning nearly 30 crescents. He picked up 725 CFs, 226 CEs, 17 CGs, and 69 CIs based on 27k words of fiction. Congrats, DH!

Lord Dacien Victae, 2023-01-13 22:50:14 UTC

Holy smokes. Korvis. Where to start? Since his promotion only six months ago, this guy (who needs a last name, damn it) has been a force to be reckoned with. He has single handedly re-written and brought up to par two major Regent policies (the Item Aspect Approval Guidelines and Item Prototype Approval Policy) that were woefully out of date with little to no guidance using the knowledge he's acquired in the relatively short span he's been on the staff. Both were on point and exactly what I was looking for. He conducted peer and quality control reviews on our last booster release (over 20 total items when including the clan stuff). He's been an instrumental part of our Capital Ship Upgrades project sitting in Bubba and Evant's inbox (over 100 new items), conducting a peer and quality control review in addition to assisting on what is arguably the most important part of this project given we needed the perfect balance - item pricing.

Korvis also undertook two major reviews by himself, researching canon lightsaber resistant materials and providing an assessment on each for inclusion into our system - and then scouring several stores looking for current and possible lightsaber resistant items to which we could make that instrumental change to, then providing recommendations for each and taking part in our staff discussions on the subject. His research was extremely thorough, valuable, and best of all objective. He's contributed to our newest booster release, which is 95% completed and almost ready for the Overlords.

Korvis, in his full review for additional Book of Boba Fett and The Mandalorian content - in which he's proposed over a dozen new items for addition that he's working on - has rewatched those series four times, taking notes with a notepad. That is some ridiculous dedication, even for me. In my last recommendation for him I stated his Equite 4 promotion wouldn't stop his roll, and I was right. The man continues to impress at every level, and I have no doubt in my mind that with the included recommendations below, Korvis has more than earned this reward. We couldn't ask for a better member.

P.S. pick a last name, Korvis.

General Zxyl Bes'uliik, 2023-01-07 01:53:42 UTC

Socorra has been a great help to me as Grand Master since joining my staff over half a year ago. Her help in discussing my plans for member experience and where all the various projects I had going were at at organizing and moving things forward has been helpful. While I will let future awards speak for her accomplishments on specific projects, her support of me while continuing to be a rockstar within her Clan have more than proven she has earned this medal. Congratulations Socorra on your Ruby Scepter.

Master Aramis Taelyan, 2023-01-06 00:01:45 UTC

Thran continues to be a force to be reckoned with, no matter what position he's serving (whether as my Praetor or Kamjin's Proconsul) and remains the most instrumental part of my staff. Since I last recognized Thran's contributions, he has continued plugging away at a multitude of projects to make the possessions system better for the entirety of the club.

During the last several months, Thran has:

• Reviewed every current item prototype release to date (dating all the way back to Evant's term) to assign them to a Regent release filter in the prototype research page, over a thousand items, to make it easier for members to filter and search for items from a specific release
• Led the deploy of our third booster release in May, working with Magistrate Korvis. He personally added 10/18 prototypes to the system, did our mandatory quality check on all 18 entries, and stocked each of those items to the store
• Completed, just like Planetary Assets, almost the entirety of the Land Vehicle Upgrades project by himself, which included the full development of well over 100 new prototypes, building a pricing structure for those items, eliminating the old modification aspect type and replacing it with a new one, adding the new upgrade slots (and aspect type change) to every single member land vehicle item in our system, inputting all 121 new upgrades into the system as prototypes, running several quality control checks to ensure spelling and grammar accuracy as well as proper input and creation of the stocking rules, and finally going back into those item prototype pages and stocking them to the new store
• Came up with the initial concept of a "chop shop" for our land vehicle upgrade store, which eventually evolved into honoring one of our greatest members, Frosty Tarentae
• Has hit the ground running on the Capital Space Vehicle Upgrades project, compiling a list of 32 potential upgrades so far. This is a project I specifically saved for Thran, and he'll be the one doing most of the development on this project.

Thran continues to be an active participant in every discussion we hold, literally a beacon of activity. I would be lying if I said that he wasn't my right hand man, and it is such an incredible joy working with him. He's always got the club's interests at heart, and it shows. His contributions and sheer effort he puts into everything he does speaks for itself. There is zero doubt in my mind that this club would be a lot less enjoyable if Thran were not in it.

For his contributions to the entirety of the Brotherhood, I hereby request this Ruby Scepter for Thran (Thran did things, now Thran gets medal).

General Zxyl Bes'uliik, 2022-10-31 15:17:37 UTC

Noobi has been hard at work this year churning out item releases, new policies like Artifact and Dominion policies, and successfully implementing weapons upgrades as a new possessions system. His energy is boundless, which shows from his constant input on DC discussions, the 34 comps he's run, and the 79 he has participated in, plus hundreds of clusters. He also played an important role in getting our new RP system tested and running, and has racked up almost 20,000 words of RP activity.

Keep it up, Noobi!

Lord Dacien Victae, 2022-08-06 16:14:17 UTC

Over the last seven months, Revak has kept up a high level of activity, participating in 143 competitions and earning three dozen crescents, plus 167 CFs, 112 CEs, 112 CGs, and 61 CIs. He has also helped the Exarch develop RP as a club-wide activity and contributed about 25,000 words of written activity across fiction, RP, and RO.

As Consul, Revak organized 16 competitions and helped push his clan to the second-highest participation rate in GJW XV: Ascension while also participating in all 29 competitions himself. Revak has done a great job keeping COU busy and active and is a regularly contributor to leadership discussions.

Great work, Revak!

Lord Dacien Victae, 2022-08-06 03:19:11 UTC

Kamjin "Other Mav" Lap'lamiz has been one of the busiest people in the club, holding down both Consul and RhoJ (and LHoJ before that) while also churning out absurd levels of activity. In the last seven months, he has participated in 162 competitions, winning 57 crescents, a GN, and an SN, written roughly 50,000 words across all fiction activities, earned 317 CFs, 127 CIs, 149 CEs, 165 CGs, and participated in all 29 GJW XV competitions in a desperate search for the Mother. He keeps himself busy.

As Consul, he organized or co-organized 24 competitions, including the Tal v. CSP event and the 12 competition CSP-only Dark Times Saga conclusion. Since becoming CON last October, CSP has enjoyed a kind of renaissance, with activity on the rise and a number of new and returning members along for the ride. We're lucky to have you, Kam. Keep up the good work!

Lord Dacien Victae, 2022-08-06 02:29:29 UTC

Drac has been busy in the year since his last medal. For half of that time, he has served his third term as Fist. Aside from being a trusted and consistent adviser to me and Evant (and his fellow Dark Councilors, for that matter), he took it upon himself to drastically (Dracstically?) overhaul DB gaming: he abolished traditional PvP as a separate and overly complex activity, replacing it with a more accessible and popular system that rewards wins and losses equally; he reworked the GMRG Society to end its reliance on the gaming leaderboard, opening maximum society advancement to a much wider audience; and he conceived and successfully instituted the casual gaming queue, which has driven sustained DB gaming activity to levels rarely seen outside of vendettas.

Few DCers have come into office with so many big ideas and actually accomplished all of their goals; I'm not sure anyone has done it in just six months before Drac. In short, he nailed it.

Congratulations!

Lord Dacien Victae, 2022-04-07 01:18:03 UTC

Halc did, does, and will continue to do work for the Brotherhood. That's who he is. Since his last recognition, Halc has participated in 103 competitions, co-organized 3 more, earned two novae, 22 crescents, 29 clusters, and I gather was generally a pain the ass of the Dark Council.

Since coming to the Master at Arms office, Halc has used his prior knowledge and experience (because he's an old ass DBer and a previous Master at Arms) to support our efforts.

The real work of the MAA Office comes in the day to day work of approving and denying medal requests, processing appointments and resignations, managing competitions (and manually editing competitions) – and knowing the nuances of our database to make competitions work (for instance, switching competition archetypes to allow manual addition of participants, and then switching it back). Like all that came before him and those that will come after - Halc's biggest contributions are related to the discussions that occur among the staff about medals and promotions. That happens with every single sacramental award (and many of the merit), every equite and higher promotion – that is where the bulk of the work occurs.

Enjoy your red club, Halcy von Doodle.

Howlader Taldrya, 2022-01-06 18:28:31 UTC

Kordath is without a doubt a premier leader in this club. There really is no other way to put it. He’s a pillar within Arcona, a paragon of activity and leadership. He has devoted countless hours to this club, both as a member and as a leader, even after reaching the heights of Elder rank.

Since his last promotion, he has organized 48 competitions, many of which were long-running club-wide competitions. He has also participated in 242 competitions. This has netted him a ton of clusters (34 Fire, 166 Ice, 37 Earth, 36 Graphite), a respectable number of crescents (2 Diamond, 7 Ruby, 20 Amethyst, 22 Sapphire, 10 Emerald, 4 Topaz, 3 Quartz), 5 PoBs and 3 LoS’s. During the last Vendettas, he scored a Gold Nova, a Silver Nova, a Bronze Nova, 12 Seals of Enmity, and 14 Seals of Vision. When he is not doing all the competitions, he is ACCing, having finished 8 matches and judged 32. His keyboard also goes brrrr outside the ACC, where he has written a total of 53,854 words of fiction. He passed 9 SA courses, gained 2 degrees, and has graded 6 courses. Finally, he received 2 Scrolls of Foundation and 8 Scrolls of Indoctrination!

In addition to his regular activity, he continues to work within multiple roles within the club. He had served as an ACC judge for over 2 years, and Turel’s recc will provide more insight into his work there. He is also finishing up his tenure as Arcona’s Rollmaster, a job that he’s held since January of 2020.

As Rollmaster, he works closely with new members by assessing their needs and helping to guide them through the process. For example, he recently helped one new join who had been stuck for a couple of weeks on the Trial of Identity. As Rollmaster, he has worked directly with 28 new joins. Of those, 11 remain active members of the club. He has seen 6 of them through to the rank of Knight. Knowing that his tenure is coming to an end, Kord has been working with newer members to get them ready to take over for him. He has been assisting them with applications and teaching them the ropes of leadership in our Clan.

From a project standpoint, he has also taken point in world-building through the Selen Development Project competition series. Once the judging was done on each of these competitions, he worked with Grot to facilitate translating the winning entries into wiki entries. He also worked closely with a few other Arconans to draft a lengthy proposal regarding changes to the Arconan fleet. Upon receiving the go-ahead, he took responsibility for purchasing and reorganizing the clan possessions. He continues to be instrumental with our Fleet, helping to plan out the best way to utilize our funds to have the strongest fleet for our Clan, along with how we would utilize the fleet fictionally.

On a more personal note, Kord has been instrumental to my success in Arcona. He showed me how to be a leader, pulling me up when I came over to this Clan. Working closely with him taught me a lot and I will be forever grateful for him. He also has been a steady hand to help guide me when real-life stuff knocked me off my feet. His dedication and friendship have been paramount to my ability to continue on.

He is a friendly and helpful presence no matter what the venue. Discord, Telegram, Hangouts, he is there (though he may not necessarily be awake), cracking jokes, sharing knowledge, and just generally being awesome. He is always quick to hype an event or to congratulate others for a promotion or an award.

I honestly don’t know what I would do without him. He is a huge asset to Arcona and to this club. He spends countless hours actively helping to make the DJB a more fun and interesting place. As such, I am proud to recommend him for a Ruby Scepter. Congratulations on your new RS Kord!

Blade Master Aiden Lee Deshra, 2021-12-30 19:29:00 UTC