These last four months have been a rollercoaster, Gui. I came into this role with minimal knowledge of how systems were run and did my best to keep up and you were quick to take a place as mentor and teach me what you understood of the systems, how things operated, and how we were expected to run the Clan. For what it’s worth, I know you’ve saved Arch from a lot of stress and plucked feathers when I was finally able to quit asking as many questions. Over these last few months, we've gotten to see the unshakeable spirit of COU as we pulled everything together, you’ve crafted and implemented a new core storyline for the Clan from the void we were left in, leaving the Archivist and me with room to work on extant ideas and future storylines in conjunction, as we persevered through the changing of the guard and laid solid foundations to build the Clan's future. Throughout this time you've had your own ups and downs, from life throwing you a few hardships to the joy of Bouncing Baby #3, and still, you've been dedicated to the Clan throughout.

We made quick friends after both throwing our hats in for the CON position, and I'm glad you chose me to be your PCON because it gave me the chance to be a part of building my original clan back up. Your quick wit and well-timed jokes always got a laugh out of me, and when I had my own problems you were one of the first people to check up on me. You've led COU not just from a mechanical standpoint, but you do your best to care for your Clan as people, which has definitely left an impression.

You’ve spearheaded several of our Clan Projects as well as revamped storyline, reorganized our efforts, you’ve assisted greatly in others, taken a grand role alongside Waza in turning our Proving Grounds project into a working success, and assisted throughout the COU Wiki Project we’re still gathering data for (damned unlinked, stub, and repeat articles), and you’ve been instrumental in laying the basis for our members to become more involved throughout the community, Mr. Haiku. Your torrent of Poetry has not gone unnoticed. Along all of this, you’re one of our more active socialites, contrasted to my reserved takeaway to general conversation. If there isn’t a conversation, you make one, because, in your eyes, quiet is a bad thing.

Ever onwards, my friend.

Will the real Slim Korvis please stand up?

Korvis was Consul for another three months during this award period that came on the heels of EL1 and I can say with certainty that if anything, his award and promotion lit a fire under him because he did not rest on his laurels. I had a lot of onboarding needed as his Pcon due to the fact that I was coming from a different clan. He worked with me on a regular basis for sometimes hours at a time to get me up to speed on just about everything possible: fictional direction, clan structure, the massive amount of documents, wikis, lore, and all the permissions stuff that we don't often think about as work.

Korvis had most of the Great Hunt clan event already planned well ahead of time, which was kind of mind-blowing to me, so it was ready to rock with full fiction and everything on the day it was due to launch. I was assisting him in running it but had a family emergency and instantly he was there to cover for me, no questions asked. The clan event went flawlessly with 11 competitions and 14 participants, which was just under half of the clan, with some the retirees and founders coming out of the woodwork to participate.

Korvis also retired from Consul during this period but that didn’t stop him from still running even more competitions and participating in our clan comps. Even in retirement he has been highly active in both warchat and public, helping to keep discussions and activity going when most of us are in slumberland. He has also been serving as great support for me as I settled into his chair - not boots, because he was a giant 14ft Rattataki whose boots I could never fill. Despite no longer having giant mouse ears, he always has one ready and advice when needed. Not all of us get to have our predecessor nearby so I am grateful and it has been a tremendous comfort and boon.

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For the major bling-bling, Slim Korvis has earned the clan 442990 credits because he organized 46 competitions, coorganized 2, participated in 86, 9 gaming, 15 fiction, 2 courses, 4 news posts with 44! comments. Earned 1 Diamond star, 4 ruby, 4 amethyst, 10 sapphire, 5 emerald, 3 topaz, 1 quartz, 6 cluster of fire, 13 ice, 43 earth, 15 graphite, and 21 seals of transcendence for his war participation. Korvis obtained the special scroll of Foundation and of the Master for his student Legion reaching the rank of JM4.

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Thank you for all of your community and clan efforts and ultimately, just being you.

-Socks

Last summer, Korvis told me that he planned to step down from VizCON following the GJW. However when the time came he opted to stay on a few more months to avoid a leadership vacuum at the top of the clan after his former PCON left to take over COU. During his final months, Korvis could have rested on his laurels, but he didn't: he organized a steady course of competitions for Vizsla, most notably Great Hunt VII. Most importantly, he used that time to help prepare his summit for a leadership transition, taking on Socks as PCON and Ikarri as M:CON.

Korvis, you've done a lot for this club and for Vizsla in particular. Congrats!

As a serious reason to this inquiry, Korvis (He will only ever have the one name) has been a great addition to the Chamber of Justice. Within days of accepting the role he was effectively managing the 'bread-and-butter' activity of the Chamber - reaching out to suspected clones and helping to guide these members to identify themselves or have their dossiers made accessible.

He is a natural investigator and his attention to detail was critical in his first case - also within weeks of joining the Chamber. He takes his role seriously and ensured to triple check all his findings while finding a balance of finding justice without being overly punitive in his approach.

I'm extremely grateful that he's joined my staff and look forward to continuing to work with him (hopefully on mundane things) for the remainder of the year.

If there's one thing I know about Cassandra, (formerly known as Tiddles the Ewok before that character was eaten by our Justicar,) its that he likes to plan ahead.

Currently, the Taldryan Summit is in the process of preparing for the next major Clan event to take place sometime in the summer. Teebu has had us working since the start of the year in preparation for it. Whether it is aiding Meleu in updating/creating gods only know how many wiki pages, writing fiction updates himself, or assigning myself and Alaisy to faction and lore creation. He very much is the brain of the operation sending the commands to the other organs of the summit.

Weird metaphor aside, Cassandra developed the fictional background for the most recent Taldryan event, planning competitions, and developing story beats for the RP that run alongside it.

He's also a big proponent of the #OneBrotherhood initiative. We recently finished a joint Clan event with Arcona, Odan-Urr, and Naga Sadow. He brought it before the summit and voiced his approval of doing such an event with members all across the club.

Cassandra, Teebu, Tibbles, congratulations on your AK! You earned it!

Since rejoining my staff in the fall as Magistrate to the Regent, Teebu (Cassandra) has been a force to be reckoned with; he’s handled a large portion of the QoL fixes that have gone on behind the scene with clan unit possessions, including description edits to several items to bring them in line with Wookieepedia, completing full stock rules audits on all five types of clan land vehicle unit possessions (which included at minimum adding an un-stock rule for Antrophos Military Academy), and decommissioned seventy four of those items from AMA’s inventory. He performed the same sort of audit on all clan space vehicle unit possessions.

Like all of my staff members Teebu was integral in the inception and deployment of our first step towards a refined crafting system, participating frequently in the mountainous talks, thresholds and costs and other factors we needed to take into consideration. He worked on the development of Member Corvette costs and pricing, added seven Member Corvette crafting material prototypes of his own, and worked to provide both pre and post-crafting framework launch support. He conducted two quality control passes on member corvette crafting materials, helped add both lightsaber and member corvette blueprints to the site, and went through the task of creating all of the clone “disassemble” recipes required to uncraft an item. He continued to spot check items post-launch by making sure crafting materials were not running empty why we investigated why they were not stocking correctly.

Once a year for the two previous years we have run our Life Day Celebration Series competition, and like other members of my staff Teebu helped both plan and execute that competition series run club-wide, personally participating as a judge on several of the competitions and ensuring a smooth event overall.

For his continued service to the Brotherhood at large, often from behind the scenes, I hereby append this recommendation. Thanks for all the hard work, Teebu.

It is with swelling pride that I append myself to this recommendation. At all times Dbbot has acted with the highest degrees of honor and chivalry.

There is no one more deserving nor more under-appreciated in this organization. May they forgive us for this unjust delay in recognition.