Since his last promotion two months ago, Rouvenor has been working steadily through the requirements to reach Jedi Hunter. I am pleased recommend for his promotion today. He has earned a total of 54 CFs for his consistent gaming for which he has also earned Rank 3 in the GMRG, and a Dark Cross for his efforts in the Rite of Supremacy: Disorder.

Rouvenor has also participated in five competitions, including This Is Who We Are where he took the top spot, Contemplating the Universe, and Red Fury, Crack The Code. He has passed a total of 18 courses in the Shadow Academy, including the Leadership Reports exam with a perfect score and has reached SA Society Rank 3. Furthermore, he is incredibly engaging in House discussions where he offers insightful opinions and well thought out responses.

For all this, I recommend Rouvenor be awarded the rank of Jedi Hunter. Congratulations Rouvenor, just one more push until Knighthood and your lightsaber!

Koryn Palpatine Thraagus, 2015-07-12 12:42:51 UTC

JScumm is one of the greatest gamers our club has ever had, as evidenced by his impressive tally of gaming and merit awards. He was elevated to the second Equite level over six years ago (May 2009), and since then he has continued to display an impressive amount of activity.

While he does not have much in terms of new leadership experience - a six-month term as BTL in House Galeres’ distant history, and a four-month run as our current BTL of Strike-Team Ooroo - he has met with some success in leading Ooroo and maintains a good report frequency that ensures he stays in contact with everyone while leading from the front lines with a truly impressive record of activity.

Since his last promotion, he has earnt himself a Grand Cross of the Dark Side, four Steel Crosses and two Anteian Crosses, all of which say the exact same thing: he is an upstanding gamer, and a hard-working member of his unit.

As a gamer, he has earnt 1251 Clusters of Fire, 281 Clusters of Earth and 20 Pendants of Blood. He has participated in over 70 competitions over the last six years, earning himself a nice collection of Crescents (2 Diamond, 4 Ruby, 7 Amethyst, 7 Sapphire, 12 Emerald, 5 Topaz and 1 Quartz). In Vendettas, he has participated well in the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Great Jedi Wars, and the third round of Fading Light, earning himself 2 Gold, 4 Silver and 1 Bronze Novae. He participated well in the recent Clan Feud against Arcona as well, participating in 8 of 12 events and winning first places in Battleplan and Week 1 Graphics. He has also mentored A’lora Kituri to Jedi Knight, who is now one of the greatest assets our Clan has ever had.

This is an impressive record of activity that stretches back for six years, and today I wish to award JScumm for all of his efforts by elevating him to the next Equite rank. Congratulations, JScumm, Sentinel Shadow!

Mandalorian Darcy Avarik, 2015-07-10 00:21:44 UTC

When I first climbed through the ranks of the Brotherhood, JScumm was one of the first to mentor me through the Journeyman ranks after Jendan. Seeing me on the path to Knighthood, I can recall the dozens of emails and conversations held with him since that time. He was the first to explain to me the process for submitting to competitions, and also co-organized competitions with me to help me understand how the Brotherhood’s content is created and graded.

Personal mentorship aside, JScumm held several events where he would ‘train’ members to become better in the various gaming platforms. In fact - I can recall instances in which he observed matches between myself and the most difficult computer-controlled bots in Empire at War, explaining to me through the in-game chat the strategies he uses to win countless matches against the hardest difficulties. Working with the FIST office under Fremoc, I have seen him organize and volunteer for training nights over IRC for various supported platforms, such as Empire at War, Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy and TIE Fighter. At that time, these events were a weekly occurrence, and are still something that I would like to see return. I have seen gaming events where the same members are always taking the top placements, but while JScumm was far from an average gamer, he wasn’t afraid to share his strategies to give others a fair chance.

That being said, in addition to his other achievements and statistics, I would consider him to be worthy of an elevation to the next Equite rank!

A'lora Kituri, 2015-07-10 00:21:32 UTC

After being knighted in January last year, Zednich has slowly kept himself active with a mix of mobile competitions, writing and gaming. He has won himself 216 Clusters of Earth, 46 of Fire, and 11 of Ice. He has earnt 5 Pendants of Blood along the way. He has won Crescents with a Diamond, Topaz, Emerald, 2 Amethyst and 3 Sapphire Stars. He has won 6 Seals of the Crusader for participation in the Dark Crusade and the Fading Light ACC Tournament and Runons. For merit awards, he has received two Dark Crosses attesting to his activity. This effort, conducted across 26 competitions, and a further 22 competitions that he has co-organized, attest to Zednich’s activity across a range of fields.

This is only complimented by his hard work at the Star Wars Celebration convention earlier this year, where Zednich sacrificed his weekend to ensure that the Brotherhood was kept well informed of all the happenings and goings on. Having spoken with Pravus and Valhavoc, I have learnt that Zednich took 285 photos, filmed 7 videos and shared 357 messages, photos and videos over Telegram to keep the Brotherhood informed during the weekend of the Celebration. He also advertised extensively for the club, wearing a shirt and approaching total strangers to hand out recruitment cards. That takes some balls, to approach random strangers and advertise your geeky club to other random, awkward and shy individuals, but he committed the entire weekend between updating the Brotherhood, accosting random strangers and standing there, twiddling his thumbs while waiting for his phone to charge instead of just showing up and having a great time.

His efforts since becoming a Knight have made it clear to me that he has what it takes to succeed as an Equite, and today I wish to elevate him to Equite status. Congratulations, Zednich, and thank you for your hard work during the convention!

Mandalorian Darcy Avarik, 2015-07-10 00:19:43 UTC

Zednich only recently joined Arcona and took up the mantle of Battleteam Leader for us so I can’t speak for what he’s done for us at this point in time. However, I have had the pleasure of working closely with Zed when he took over the Professorship of the Combat Studies department from me. He seamlessly assumed duties for grading and maintaining five high traffic courses while taking the reigns of another three new courses at various stages of development. In the three months since he’s taken over he’s already graded fifty three course submissions.

Zed has already shown himself to be hard-working, professional and focused on the betterment of the Dark Brotherhood as a whole. When his thorough and well thought out application for Battleteam Leader crossed my desk, hiring him was a no brainer. Similarly I believe his elevation from Knight to Equite is also an easy decision and I proudly lend my voice in support of his promotion.

I look forward to working with you in Galeres and have no doubt you will continue to impress. Welcome to the Equites Zed!

Councillor Turel Sorenn, 2015-07-10 00:18:47 UTC

DeCicco's level of activity has picked up exponentially since his last promotion. He has completed 3 Shadow Academy courses, earning him rank 2 in the Shadow Academy Society. He has also been extremely active in gaming, earning himself 8 Pendants of Blood for his characters in SW:TOR, as well as earning himself 47 Clusters of Earth. This flurry of activity in gaming has earned him an elevation to GMRG rank 3 and given him a chance to interact with more of the members in Clan Plagueis. He has been a pleasure to have in Plagueis and we're very excited to see what he does going forward. For all of his activity and the level of engagement we are seeing from him, I am happy to recommend his promotion to Jedi Hunter. Congratulations DeCicco!

Jai'de Serpens, 2015-07-09 18:19:09 UTC

Justin Wayne is not what you call a crazy active member. He doesnt "Do it all", but he does the next best thing, he gives it his all. Justin has been in the DJB for several years now, slowly climbing through the ranks, and doing SA courses and competitions as his hectic RL allows. During the course of these competitions he has earned 2 Diamond and 3 Ruby Crescents. Recently though 2 of those Diamond Crescents were through FIST sponsored Mobile gaming events. This gained him 5 Clusters of Fire and, due to recent restructuring, 10 Clusters of Earth. He was also awarded a Seal of Revelations for this efforts during the GJW.

To put everything down to numbers he has earned 2 Dark Crosses (1 was very recent). 10 of 2 required Crescents, has competed in 17 of 15 required competitions. He has also reached Rank 4 in the Shadow Academy Society, earned 7 Clusters of Ice, and finally got a 3000 words of character development fiction finished.

Its been a long time coming my friend, but I am glad to finally see you off to the real world and as a Jedi Knight!

General Daniel Stephens, 2015-07-09 04:52:39 UTC

Lucien, you continue to impress. You're growing more competent each day and you will surely rival the Dark Council when the time is right. You have met the requirements for promotion, and a recommendation has be filed. Your accomplishments include:

• Begin to outline character history for eventual posting on the Brotherhood Wiki, as approved by House leadership or Master
• Logon to IRC and visit Clan channel
• Participate in 5 competitions
• Pass Dark Brotherhood Basics Shadow Academy course

I will continue to watch your progress, Lucien, but my direct intervention in your promotions must come to an end.

You will go far within this Brotherhood.

May the Force guide you, Protector,

DA Dacien Victae di Plagia Headmaster

Lord Dacien Victae, 2015-07-09 04:19:15 UTC

Arcean Furnece or Vithrian as he was previously known has stepped up for Arcona recently and I’m proud to announce he has completed his requirements for promotion to Guardian. Since has last promotion 63 days ago he has participated in five competitions which included three events of the Tides of Change ARC/COU event. His contributions to his run-on team in the Tides event helped secure a second place finish for the team and a Ruby Crescent. He has also joined us on the Clan IRC channel.

In the past few weeks he has delved into character development with a name change and the submission of an solid character sheet as well as submitting over 750 words of character fiction to his master. It’s always exciting to see members delve deep to flesh out their characters and weave their stories into the Clan’s and the Brotherhood’s. Keep up the good work Arcean!

• Quaestor, House Galeres, Clan Arcona

Councillor Turel Sorenn, 2015-07-09 02:34:56 UTC

Padawan Suur has, since his first day, been a very active and upstanding member of our Clan. He has completed everything required of him dutifully and with dedication. No one can ask more from any other member. He has spent more than enough days in his rank, earned no less than eleven Crescents, six Pendants of Blood, 283 Clusters of Fire, 2 Clusters of Ice and 85 Clusters of Earth. He has also participate in no less than eight competitions, including several during our very important feud "Tides of Change" against Arcona.

He has reached the 6th rank of the GMRG, far more than required for this promotion, and he has recently been awarded the Anteian cross for his efforts and dedication to the Clan. He has also written a fiction approved by his master and thus completed all the requirements for his next promotion. I am a very proud Proconsul today and I do believe Clan Odan-Urr deserves such a dedicated and hard working Jedi Knight.

Congratulations, Suur!

~V'yr Vorsa, Proconsul

Boss Morgan Sorenn, 2015-07-09 01:25:10 UTC

Suur,

What can I say here but congrats man you deserve this promotion to knighthood. As your master I stand here acknowledging everything that you have done to get to this point. You have wrote a fiction piece that went above by over a thousand words from what I had asked of you. There is not a day that goes by without me getting an email about you earning Clusters of Fire and competitions that you have participated in. This should be a happy day for you my apprentice. Even though you are becoming a knight and will be able to take on your own apprentice when you feel it is right, I will always be here for you to still answer your questions that you may have that pops up.

Now my rise my apprentice. As you rise you are no more a padawaan but a Knight of the Jedi Order. Congratulations.

GD Sa Ool

Sa Ool, 2015-07-09 01:23:49 UTC

Ingram Thorpe, you continue to impress. You're growing more competent each day and you will surely rival the Dark Council when the time is right. You have met the requirements for promotion, and a recommendation has be filed. Your accomplishments include:

• Have an approved character sheet on record
• Logon to the DJB Voice server
• Pass 8 Shadow Academy courses from the (Journeyman Hall) department(s)
• Pass Dark Brotherhood Basics Shadow Academy course

I will continue to watch your progress, Ingram Thorpe, but my direct intervention in your promotions must come to an end.

You will go far within this Brotherhood.

May the Force guide you, Protector,

DA Dacien Victae di Plagia Headmaster

Lord Dacien Victae, 2015-07-08 12:03:21 UTC

You're already beginning to make a name for yourself, Deminius. I have heard reports from Battle Team Apostles of Syn that you have managed to:

• Pass Any Shadow Academy course except (Test Of Lore,Advancement Survey)

I have recommended you for immediate promotion.

Congratulations, and may the Force guide you, Novice,

DA Dacien Victae di Plagia Headmaster

Lord Dacien Victae, 2015-07-05 20:31:40 UTC