Ascendant James Lucius Entar

Elder 4, The Council, Sith, Krath
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Displaying events 41 - 60 of 186 in total
Event ID
118953
Award
Seal of Revelation
Quantity
2
XP Value
50.0 XP (Full Value)
Requested by
Zanet Xox
Primary reason

For event management during GJW XI

Zanet Xox, 2015-03-13 13:52:46 UTC
Event ID
118338
Title
Sith Lord
Requested by
Mandalorian Declan Roark
Primary reason

Lord of the Sith. Awarded to those who deserve it. Those very few!

Mandalorian Declan Roark, 2015-03-01 17:52:30 UTC
Event ID
118337
Award
Silver Sash
Quantity
1
Non-site XP
293341 XP
Requested by
Mandalorian Declan Roark
Primary reason

The First Recipient of the Day of the Jac, SS. Congrats!

Mandalorian Declan Roark, 2015-03-01 07:51:19 UTC
Event ID
113889
Award
Seal of Loyalty
Quantity
1
XP Value
0.0 XP (Full Value)
Requested by
Mandalorian Declan Roark
Primary reason

Day of the Fox. Thank you for your dedication and Loyalty to the Dark Brotherhood.

Mandalorian Declan Roark, 2014-11-07 02:53:20 UTC
Event ID
113805
Award
Seal of the Crusader
Quantity
5
XP Value
125.0 XP (Full Value)
Requested by
Lord Muz Ashen Keibatsu
Primary reason

Awarded for grading, creation and/or administrative functions during Fading Light: Nicht Ka

Lord Muz Ashen Keibatsu, 2014-11-06 19:06:44 UTC
Event ID
110040
Award
Steel Cross
Quantity
1
Non-site XP
1004 XP
Requested by
Driftan Balephor
Primary reason

For services rendered to the Chamber of Justice, we thank you.

Driftan Balephor, 2014-07-31 23:02:49 UTC
Event ID
110033
Award
Seal of the Crusader
Quantity
18
XP Value
450.0 XP (Full Value)
Requested by
Lord Muz Ashen Keibatsu
Primary reason

Awarded for grading, creation and administrative functions during the Dark Crusade, including Fading Light. Thank you for your work. This event could not have gone as well without you.

Lord Muz Ashen Keibatsu, 2014-07-31 00:38:46 UTC
Event ID
107533
Award
Amethyst Kukri
Quantity
1
Non-site XP
11445 XP
Requested by
Mandalorian Declan Roark
Primary reason

Dark Jedi Master James Lucius Entar Arconae has served as a project manager for over a year. James utilized his specific knowledge of coding to transition our great ideas into reality. Additionally, and probably more importantly, James stood as a voice of reason and helped guide the ACC project back into the realm of possible when our ideas became too grandiose or impossible to implement. James coding support included the identification of bugs, bug fixes, and solutions to coding problems the rest of us were incapable of solving. Additionally, James provided direct support to the Office of the Voice in the manner of automating competition administrative support (the awarding of CIs, the automatic closing of competition sign ups). James has dedicated a year of his life to supporting, tweaking, and working on bringing the ACC to our members. We are a better club due to his efforts and an AK is a truly well deserved award. - Grand Master Sarin

James has always been there for any request I had, big or small, related not just to the ACC, but anything coded related on the site. Early on in the process, James helped guide discussions on coding, and more recently, he stepped in and helped organize and streamline our final launch process, by taking the final set of feature requests and organizing them into various tiers and timelines, such that he and Kalen were finally able to complete the necessarily things for launch! James more than deserves this Amethys Kukri for his work, not just on the ACC, but his continued work at making the DB a better place for all of us. ~Mav

Mandalorian Declan Roark, 2014-05-08 14:04:48 UTC
Event ID
106908
Award
Seal of Loyalty
Quantity
1
XP Value
0.0 XP (Full Value)
Requested by
Lord Muz Ashen Keibatsu
Primary reason

On Exodus Day, we honor those among us with Seals Of Loyalty, awarding those among us who have displayed the tenacity to keep on working to improve this club that we love. We nominate those who give all that they can to the club, those who do it for the love of their Clan, their house, their order, their brethren. It is those people, those attitudes and those work ethics that keep the Brotherhood moving forward.

Each of the Dark Councilors and the heads of the clouses have nominated people for this award, but I hope that you all join me as I personally extend my thanks to each of them. Please accept this as a token of our gratitude, of our esteem. Thank you, for all that you do.

Lord Muz Ashen Keibatsu, 2014-04-14 02:29:39 UTC
Event ID
106264
Award
Dark Cross
Quantity
1
Non-site XP
198 XP
Requested by
Mandalorian Declan Roark
Primary reason

James conducted a search through 14 months of news page reports to identify all Dark Jedi Brotherhood plot updates. His work is a tremendous contribution to ensuring the past year of fiction will be recorded on our wiki and establish continuity. Thanks for your help!

Mandalorian Declan Roark, 2014-03-26 20:59:03 UTC
Event ID
103634
Old Legacy
Unknown
New Legacy
Lord Archon of the Brotherhood
Primary reason

Transitioning vanity title to Legacy

Ascendant James Lucius Entar, 2014-01-08 14:35:46 UTC
Event ID
102335
Award
Dark Cross
Quantity
1
Non-site XP
198 XP
Requested by
Gavriel Kadesh
Primary reason

For assistance rendered to the Master at Arms office in implementing the new Promotion Guidelines within the Promotheus tool.

Gavriel Kadesh, 2013-11-26 14:17:49 UTC
Event ID
101764
Award
Seal of Loyalty
Quantity
1
XP Value
0.0 XP (Full Value)
Requested by
Lord Muz Ashen Keibatsu
Primary reason

As our traditions dictate, on the Day of the Fox, we award those among us who have displayed great loyalty to our club, worked long and hard hours to make it a better place for all of us. We recognize them with our SEAL OF LOYALTY to thank them for outstanding service. Please accept this as a token of our esteem, on behalf of a grateful Brotherhood. ~Muz Ashen, Dark Lord of the Sith.

Lord Muz Ashen Keibatsu, 2013-11-07 06:04:43 UTC
Event ID
101482
Award
Legion of the Scholar
Quantity
1
XP Value
25.0 XP (Full Value)
Competition
Kooki's IRC trivia
Requested by
Unknown
Primary reason

For achieving 2nd place in the Kooki's IRC trivia competition.

, 2013-10-28 21:52:33 UTC
Event ID
100955
Position
Magistrate to the Master At Arms
Unit
Assistants
Event ID
99013
Award
Golden Lightsaber
Quantity
1
Non-site XP
660041 XP
Requested by
Lord Muz Ashen Keibatsu
Primary reason

I'm not sure there's a way to put into words the massive contribution that James has made with the launch of the new Club website. The man is a paragon of ability and drive, and has been completely focused on accomplishing this monumental objective. With the added functionality, as well as the ability to improve and add to the site we are sure to see this work last for many years into the future. Every existing member, and every new member of this Club will be impacted by this endeavor for years to come.

Fantastic job James! Congratulations on becoming one of a select few in the Club to be awarded a Golden Lightsaber! ~ Valhavoc, Fist of the Dark Lord


The Golden Lightsaber is an award reserved for very few. Generally speaking, it has been awarded to Grand Masters upon their retirement, in recognition of their years of service to the Brotherhood. I sometimes and go look at those names that have received the award and remember all that those men have done. I see where we are today, and I can trace the progress of the Brotherhood through the line of GLS recipients. The award shows a complete lineage of the Brotherhood's greatest. But, at this moment, and until another Lightsaber is bestowed, the list is currently incomplete.

Jam3z Lucius Entar deserves a Golden Lightsaber. His name should be quickened to the list of names of the Brotherhood's greatest. Because he is one; Jam3z, our Seneschal, is one of the Brotherhood's greatest members.

Not many people can comprehend the amount of time, effort and dedication that have gone into Jam3z and his team rebuilding the Brotherhood website. I can. I understand. We have attempted to take on this feat four other times. Jam3z was there for most of them, when we tried to rebuild the site in ASP.NET, PHP, traditional ASP, and PHP again. Jam3z was witness to the failure of each attempt. The site was too big. There was too much functionality to rebuild. It could not be done with our small team of coders.

Yet Jam3z has completed the task. He has, with the help of but few others, taken our website into the next generation and preserved our ability to prosper as a club for many more years. I doubt anyone could really count the number of hours he put into this project, but if I guessed over 1,000, I may come close by half. Our website is comprised of hundreds of scripts, dozens of tools, and countless different intricacies; rebuilding it was a herculean task.

And it was just in time. The old website was on the fritz. At times it was inaccessible. It had the fingerprints of a half dozen Seneschals and the code was out-of date. For the DB to progress, we needed a solid foundation and the ability to build new and better things. Without Jam3z work, we would be stuck.

I underestimated Jam3z, I will admit. When the project first launched, I had my doubts as to the ability of the team to pull through. I am very glad to be wrong. I am thankful to be wrong. I love this club and its members and want to see it last for another twenty years. Thanks to Jam3z, we have a shot at that future.

I am certain Jam3z will continue to do more for us. This website is his to care for, maintain and further develop, so there will be more things to thank him for in the future. But right now, it's appropriate to thank him for the work he's done to date. And that work puts our Seneschal in elite company; he deserves to be known as one of our greatest members. Because, as I said, he is one.

Jam3z: Thank you for everything. I am grateful for you. Congratulations. ~ Jac Cotelin, Sith Lord


The Dark Jedi Brotherhood is an internet based club that relies heavily on our website. Its complexity attracts new members, its functionality enables day to day operations, and its unreliability is legendary. Robot hacking bots owned us, requests are lost to the internet, and pages refuse to load. BUT, all this has changed. Jam3z has led our coders on an operation that has been talked about for years, but never accomplished. The Dark Jedi Brotherhood's website and all of its complexities have been upgraded and built on a new and stable coding language that will ensure our longevity and continued existence for years to come. Jam3z work ranks in the pantheon of Dark Jedi Brotherhood accomplishments and is deserving our our finest awards. I'm proud to be a member of this request and proud to thank one of our best members ever. Thanks for all your work! ~ Darth Pravus, Sith Lord


Many aspire to climb mountains. Few ever do. Many say what they will do. Few follow through. Many make promises. Few keep them.

We have so many examples of the above I need no more words to describe them. They are all-too-familiar to us. But what is not as familiar, what may indeed require a few more carefully chosen words, is what it looks like when someone steps apart from the rest and actually accomplishes what he set out to do.

This is what it looks like when someone doesn't talk about climbing the mountain but does it. This is what it sounds like when someone does what they said. This is what it feels like when someone keeps a promise. And as you likely have innumerable examples of the former, I will give you one of the later...

James Lucius Entar Arconae.

I have had the pleasure of working with James and his team during my tenure as Deputy Grand Master. When he was hired James was tasked with one mission: Design a new and modern website from the ground up. Unlike my experience with other coders in the past, James has been ever-present during this project. In days gone by the Brotherhood was often at the mercy of coders as the technical nature of their skills was difficult to come by and their reliability and dedication often more so.

James was unique in his role. Constant updates. Constant questions. Constant improvements. James worked so hard for so long it was difficult for the Dark Council, especially Muz and I, to keep up with all his advances on this project. But the beauty of hiring and then relying on someone like James, his tenacity, maturity, and personal drive; I knew I didn't need to worry about him, keep tabs on him, or even push him to do his job.

Few realize that a leader should never have to push his people forward. Rather, he should only have to reign them in and focus them on their next objective.

With James, I had need to do neither. James did this work. And what is to be remembered is that he did not do it for the Grand Master or the Dark Council. He did not do it for promotion, fame, or accolade.

James did it for us, the Brotherhood. He did it for you, the member.

He worked tirelessly to leave something behind for all of us. So let us do what little we can in return...

James, thank you for everything you've done for us and continue to do in your role here. Please accept the Golden Lightsaber on behalf of a most grateful Deputy Grand Master, and more importantly, a most grateful Brotherhood.

Congratulations, my friend. ~ Raken, Sith Lord


The Golden Lightsaber is one of our highest accolades, and requires a 2/3 DC vote. I want to take a moment and explain why I think he deserves it.

Jam3z was given one major task since he was made Seneschal in May or 2012: Save our club from this dying site. I don't need to tell you how bad it was on the best of days. Dossiers erroring out, requests vanishing into thin air, graphics getting erased, and everything loaded far far slower than we liked. This continued to get worse over the past few years, the result of so many seneschals, each with their own coding styles and piss-poor documentation to back it up.

It was a hell of a job, akin to getting thrown into a kitchen that had not been stocked or cleaned in twenty years and told to make a gourmet meal. It's not the first time I gave that job out. I'm not the only GM to hand that job out. But Jamez is the only man who achieved the goal.

Since then, he's been methodically burning through the site code, trying to find ways to do what we do now, but in more stable ways. He decided on a new framework code, called Ruby on Rails, to do the whole new site in. This makes the code modular, and easily adaptable for future projects that we've all been drooling over for the past ten years. Rough estimates from fellow coders place the amount of work he has put in at 700-800 hours of coding. That averages out to about two hours of coding EVERY day since he was named Seneschal, no weekends, vacations, or time off for good behavior.

That is a feat, gentlemen. One worthy of our highest award.

Now here's why it's the right time for him to get this award. He's done this out of love for the club. You don't do this many hours of dirty, hard, migraine-inducing work just for a few pixels, and the fleeting admiration of a few dozen people. You don't do this for the thirty comments on the announcement that will fall off the news page in two weeks. You do this because you want to heal the club, to make it better, to help us survive into the next ten years or more. On our old site, we could all feel it coming. The end of our club inched closer with every failed dossier load. Now, we have something that gives us a much better chance to not only survive, but to thrive. We needed this, and we needed it now. Now we can hone the site, live testing showing us where more work is needed. We have the framework for a new ACC, we have framework for possessions, we have framework for projects we haven't even had the balls to think up yet because those that were already on the list were clogging up our brains.

They're all possible now, and we have one man to personally thank.

Yes, there's more work to do. No, we're not done. But I think we should acknowledge the man as one of the greats in our organization, and show him that we do appreciate him and his work.

I ask you all to stand with me and thank Jam3z for his work. ~ Muz Ashen, Dark Lord of the Sith

Lord Muz Ashen Keibatsu, 2013-07-29 04:58:50 UTC
Event ID
58053
Award
Seal of Reminiscence
Quantity
21
XP Value
525.0 XP (Full Value)
Requested by
Ascendant James Lucius Entar
Primary reason

For your involvement in the 2013 Independence Games as Independence Games Administrator

-James, Muz, Solari

Ascendant James Lucius Entar, 2013-05-21 03:15:01 UTC
Event ID
57004
Award
Seal of Loyalty
Quantity
1
XP Value
0.0 XP (Full Value)
Requested by
Raken
Primary reason

For outstanding service to the Dark Brotherhood on this Tenth Anniversary of Independence.

Raken, 2013-04-13 01:11:05 UTC
Event ID
71271
Old Rank
Dark Side Adept (Elder 1)
New Rank
Dark Jedi Master (Elder 2)
Requested by
Lord Muz Ashen Keibatsu
Primary reason

I am honored to have been asked to write a recommendation for James. He is, without a doubt, the person I look up to most in the Brotherhood, and one of the few people I feel the urge to buy a plane ticket to go meet and shake his hand in person.

He has been Seneschal for nine months now, and constantly a member of the SCL staff as either Lord Archon or some form of Magistrate (including Special and Empowered) since his promotion to Dark Side Adept.

My mind boggles when I consider the work he has been a part of in the various efforts to maintain and expand the Dark Brotherhood website. I truly believe that without James, our current website would be crippled or dead, and a replacement website nowhere in sight.

However, thanks to James, the current website is serviceable and a new - faster, better, stronger - website is just around the corner. His work hosting a beta site, and managing the hoards of people who have access to it is commendable. His improvements and additions to it are consistent and top quality. For all this effort, he is never "above" listening to and taking action on feedback; or scrapping an idea if he finds a better solution.

If he needs something tested that he has just implemented, he'll generally ask people who are on on IRC and prompt them for feedback. He even helped me realize I hadn't paid enough attention when testing the new Character Sheets, as he explained what I was asking to be changed about it was already in place.

Once the new main site for the Brotherhood was in a state he was happy with, where the main bulk of the work was complete, he spearheaded the start of the development of a new Shadow Academy site.

He told us to list everything we wanted out of the new site, and not to limit ourselves to what the current site could do. The worst that would happen if we requested something that couldn't be easily coded was that it may be delayed until after launch, or an alternative looked into.

Fortunately, James managed to take our massive list of requests and work flow, and turned it into a workable spec sheet, incorporating all that we had asked for. I have no doubt that under James' guidance the Shadow Academy will become every bit as awesome as it needs to be.

James has also developed a tool called Promotheus, which I believe was once intended to help the summit of Arcona, but now services the entire Brotherhood. This tool helps keep track of Journeymen and when they are eligible for promotions. This has helped dramatically in making sure that no members fall through the cracks when they deserve a promotion.

Promotheus, on the current site, is pretty slow. I understand it takes over an hour to check every member of the Brotherhood currently, but James managed to speed it up dramatically as part of creating the new website. It now take maybe a minute or two to check every dossier, and is so fast that it can be made to re-check a dossier whenever something changes on it (like a member getting a medal.) This will speed up the recognition of a potential Journeyman promotion dramatically.

James has since assisted me in extending Promotheus, such that it can check for people who are eligible for, and eventually award, Dark Side Degrees.

All of the above is to say, James is, in my opinion, one of the most stand up and influential guys in the Brotherhood. His work may not always be in the face of every member, but he touches every members "Brotherhood lives."

Congratulations James, and keep up the Kick-assery.

~Solari, Headmaster

James is one of the few major contributors to the club over the years that I don't know well. So what I'm forced to do is "know him through his work." Each time I log onto the new website, I get to know James a little better. With every click I can see the passion he has for the club. With every new function implemented I can feel how much James cares about our corner of the Star Wars universe.

Most recently I've seen his passion for the material shift into a whole new gear with his work on the new Character Sheet coding process. Literally overnight James had a working model based off the "proposal" CS document. Overnight. We've seldom had that kind of power at our fingertips when implementing new systems. With James on our team I am truly excited to see what comes next. Because with him, every day is like Christmas.

-Raken, Shadow Hand

Hey Jam3z, can you take this ancient website coded by multiple people and convert it to a new language, on a new server, and replicate every single function it currently has, but you need to make it better. Thanks buddy. This sums up what we have asked Jam3z to do for the Dark Brotherhood. The final product is nearing release and we are already stacking new requirements on Jam3z and he is completing them at a rate that can only be described as incredible. Our coders have always been slow to receive awards despite the tremendous amount of pressure and work we have put on them, but those days are long gone. It is truly an honor to recommend our SCL for Dark Jedi Master. Congrats buddy!

-GM Pravus, Voice

Jam3z is a god. He erupted fully formed from the womb of Ada Lovelace and studied with Babbage and Turing. He killed his father, an Olympian god of copper and silicon, using nothing but a few lines of code and a shot of liquor. When he woke up from a fifty year nap, he was offered jobs with Microsoft and apple, Cisco and Bell labs. Instead, he has blessed us with his presence, almost singlehandedly creating a new website for us that is clean and awesome, drawing in elements from suggestions as easily as I am typing this right now. When Shadow, Sarin, Raken and I were discussing character sheets, he got copied and CODED IT UP ON THE SPOT, to explain it better. My mind = blown. So... Jam3z Entar != Dark Side Adept. Please take this as a token, a sacrifice, O god of the code. For all that you have done, and all that I know that you are currently doing, thank you.

-Muz Ashen, Dark Lord of the Sith

Lord Muz Ashen Keibatsu, 2013-02-20 14:09:40 UTC
Event ID
54215
Award
Dark Cross
Quantity
1
Non-site XP
198 XP
Requested by
Sashar Erinos Arconae
Primary reason

for editing 2845 battles in the ACC so they'll properly register with the new ACC rank reqs

Sashar Erinos Arconae, 2012-10-31 08:13:44 UTC