Terran Koul

Elder 1, Clan Arcona, Force Disciple
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Event ID
256770
Award
Steel Cross
Quantity
1
Non-site XP
0 XP
Requested by
Aedile Tali Sroka
Primary reason

Returning to our midst in our time of need like an avenger from the dark or a fabled hero of yore, Terran Koul aided Clan Arcona (and House Qel-Droma) to victory in the recent GJW XVI. Applying his skills to gather a total of 7 Seals of Transcendence (and tracing on his boot soles a Cluster of Earth), he displayed the old maxim of working smarter, not harder. For by strategically placing his efforts among seven different competitions of seven different “buckets”, he managed to accrue a 7/9 completion rate and maxed out both Phases 1 and 2!

A remarkable feat for a returning member and one for which I am happy to recommend he be awarded a Steel Cross!

Tali Sroka
Quaestor, House Qel-Droma

Aedile Tali Sroka, 2023-11-26 15:42:01 UTC
Event ID
255682
Award
Seal of Transcendence
Quantity
7
XP Value
175.0 XP (Full Value)
Requested by
Lord Dacien Victae
Primary reason

Participation in 7 events of Great Jedi War XVI: Transcendence

Lord Dacien Victae, 2023-11-01 12:34:35 UTC
Event ID
254054
Award
Cluster of Earth
Quantity
1
Requested by
Champion Rajhin Cindertail
Primary reason

Casual Gaming Queue Casual Gamings (Papergames Battleship ) on or before 2023-10-01

Champion Rajhin Cindertail, 2023-10-01 23:30:42 UTC
Event ID
246837
Old Legacy
Unknown
New Legacy
Browncoat
Primary reason

Requesting a Legacy

Terran Koul, 2023-03-17 23:56:32 UTC
Event ID
246655
Old Rank
Augur (Equite 4)
New Rank
Adept (Elder 1)
Requested by
Qyreia Arronen
Primary reason

Terran Koul has been a member of the Brotherhood for twenty two years and spent over seventy five percent of that in some form or another of leadership and/or position. More on that below though. Terran was last promoted in January '16, and since then he's organized thrity six competitions, co-orged another four, and participated in ninety one (one hundred eighteen if one counts the container competitions), placing in fourteen of them, four of which were earned in Brotherhood vendetta events. He racked up a respectable 841 Clusters of Earth and 78 Clusters of Fire from gaming (as well as two Pendants of Blood, which can't even be earned anymore), 36 Clusters of Graphite, and 61 Clusters of Ice from just shy of seventeen thousand words of fiction. He collected 39 Vendetta Seals, and a Seal of Loyalty for his longstanding service to Arcona and the Brotherhood. Of that service, merely during this rated period, he spent six months as Aedile and roughly twenty months as Quaestor of House Qel-Droma, in addition to a solid six years as Magistrate to the Seneschal. Somewhere from that, he earned a Steel Cross and Amethyst Kukri for what he did in those enigmatic years before XP.

Now, I haven't been in the Brotherhood for twenty years. I haven't been in for ten. Since joining the Brotherhood, Terran collected an impressive record of time as a leader and servant. Eight months as Battleteam Leader, twenty three months as Aedile, thirty one months as Quaestor, one month of Rollmaster, twelve months as Proconsul, one hundred eleven months as Magistrate, and seven as the Brotherhood's Combat Master. Those positions are spread across seven Battleteams, five Houses, and one Clan, including some names that don't even exist anymore: Houses Kirleta and Aleema; House Ektrosis and Battleteam Phoenix; House Marka Ragnos and Battleteams Night Hawks and Avatars of Death; and House Qel-Droma with Battleteams Shadow Gate, Arete, Void Squadron, and Night Raptors. And from all those positions in all those units, he spent a cumulative one hundred ninety three months — roughly sixteen years — in service in some form or another. I even had to make sure I didn't double-count his DV service, and I couldn't even find what that acronym meant! I also had to go look up what the Oracle was in the wiki! Frack, man!

That leadership time more than doubled many of the above stats since just his last recognition. To highlight, 197 competitions participated, 61 organized, 34 co-organized, and such a karkton of Vendetta Seals that I can't subject someone to reading through the full list; only that they add up to one hundred five Seals. Someone's been clubbing. Given the list of Merits and Sacramentals, the Novae and the Crescents, and after having scrubbed the everloving, Hutt-fracking poodoo out of his dossier, I can tell that Terran's career wasn't just long, but eventful. He was there through the good times, the bad times, and all the times in between. And while I may not personally get along with him most of the time simply for clash of personalities, I can't fault his dedication to an organization that he clearly loves and has loved for a long, long time.

What all of this boils down to is that this is an "old guy" in the Brotherhood, and his service record warrants that he finally get the recognition that comes with old guy rank. Give this man a cane to wave and a yard to yell at the kids from. Terran, thank you for your years and years of work and time. We look forward to seeing what you do with this new coat of paint rank.

Qyreia Arronen
Consul, Clan Arcona

Qyreia Arronen, 2023-03-16 09:10:06 UTC
Event ID
234586
Society
Shroud Syndicate
Old Rank
None
New Rank
V: Rook
Requested by
dbb0t
Primary reason

Migrated from legacy data

dbb0t, 2022-11-23 19:17:51 UTC
Event ID
226739
Position
Magistrate to the Seneschal
Unit
Assistants
Event ID
218017
Old Order
Force Disciple (Gray Path)
New Order
Force Disciple (No path)
Old Rank
Augur
New Rank
Augur
Primary reason

Automatically created: Removal of Paths

dbb0t, 2022-03-18 16:24:38 UTC
Event ID
215515
Award
Amethyst Kukri
Quantity
1
Non-site XP
3324 XP
Requested by
Blade Master Aiden Lee Deshra
Primary reason

Since his last recogntion, Terran “Vic” Koul has been a steady pillar of Arcona’s Arconae, serving the Clan as Aedile, Quaestor, and Proconsul for a total of over two years. In addition, his service has been to the Club as a whole, with over 5(!) years of Magistrate work for the Senechal. He has worked tirelessly for our benefit, but also as an individual, with 25 (co-)organized comps and 83 participations, for which he’s earned 843 Clusters of varying kinds and a palette of Crescents as well.

As an extra note, it should be mentioned that most of the organized competitions came from running two episodes of Clan Arcona’s “Sins of the Past” -storyline. In addition to the mere competitions themselves, he was thus responsible for organizing the plotline and co(ercing)-ordinating the efforts of multiple writers to craft a singular storyline.

Whenever Arcona has gone to War, Terran has been there for us, earning 39 Seals from the last four Vendettas alongside 4 Novae for his stellar performance. It thus cannot be said he hasn’t been giving it his all when the Clan needed him the most.

During the past while that he has been working for Arcona, Vic has truly been a fundamental force for the Clan, and especially House Qel-Droma. For a fact, we still use the Activity Tracking sheet which he pioneered, helping us to keep track of our members’ activities and working them towards Awards and Promotions.

Further, he drafted a training document (Responsibilities and Expectations for Summit Positions) to help with the teaching of new leaders, aiding in the immensely important task of legacy planning. He was also creating a Rollmaster’s Guide, further showing his commitment to institutionalizing formal leadership documentation, even if the position is of now getting mothballed.

In his tasks in Clan leadership, Terran has offered invaluable insight in forming the AEF/DDF into its current shape, his deep knowledge in all things Fleet related having always been at our disposal. His leadership style encouraged subordinate activity and responsibility, giving independent tasks for people to use their own creativity to accomplish—in accordance with the best tenants of delegation. Indeed, he spent the last six months of his tenure as Quaestor making sure his Aedile and BTL were up to the task of replacing him, showing his dedication to longevity of both House and Clan.

In the trenches of the Wiki Wars, he oversaw the Arcona Article Improvement Program. There, he oversaw, coordinated, approved and made suggestions on everything Arcona wiki related for close to a year and a half. As a massive part of the previous, he revised and organized the Clan's personal timeline, summarizing major events and laid them out for ease of access to the newbies. The sheer amount of long-beard consulting, email un-dusting, and lost holocron hunting that was required for this task beggars belief…

For all of these efforts, and the daily ones which so often slip through the cracks, I am honored to recommend Terran be awarded an Amethyst Khukuri as recognition of his service to House and Clan.

Tali Sroka

Quaestor of Qel-Droma

Blade Master Aiden Lee Deshra, 2022-01-08 23:40:00 UTC
Additional reasons

Terran Koul truly is an asset to Arcona. I have had the opportunity to work closely with him during my tenure as BTL of Voidbreaker, and I can say unequivocally that he has a leadership style that is unlike any other. He is very knowledgeable, and does not hesitate to share his insight with others. He readily provides support and guidance to those who are new to leadership. He is in many ways an excellent project manager. It is for these reasons that I am happy to lend my voice in support that Terran be awarded the Amethyst Kukri! Congratulations, Terran!

Lucine Vasano, 2022-01-08 23:40:11 UTC

Terran Koul, better known as Vic to some, has been a backbone of the Arconan summit and Arcona as a whole for, and I mean this quite literally, the last decade (2011). I only get to talk about a small part of that service, but it is still an important and vital part.

Vic was always at hand and on duty to help, even before I was an Aedile and when I became Consul. While it may be hard to define what an "advisor" is in metric, I can tell anyone that it involved discussing every topic that ever came up to the summit, offering solutions and playing devil's advocate to every problem, email chains in the double and triple digits and a boggling number of spreadsheets and midnight debates about spending credits and the merits of ship types and fleet allocations that I knew nothing about-- and a lot of other things. As Consul, I knew I could delegate any task involving data management or tool building to Vic and it would be done right away with more efficiency than almost anyone else could manage. He built activity trackers and award calculators and report templates. He taught myself and other rotating generations of the summit over the years wiki coding and Markdown even before the courses and often in place of the courses (because it's easier to ask). Most wiki tables on Arcona pages came from him.

As Quaestor during my Consulship, he cared for Qel-Droma closely and built out not only tools and updated wikis for them, refreshing a lot of old material and building from the ground up with his leadership team, but also tackled the Clan-wide plotlines and competitions with me in Sins of the Past, which others can also detail. This was a huge undertaking. He plotted out a year out of Clan plot by himself, created the Muun Species proposal in order to provide the CS for one of the first villains, created and ran those completions, created Star Wars story crawls for each sub competition and the main event (you can still watch them playing in gif format on Discourse), posted all the plot updates, and made sure all members who contributed to the fictions were credited and awarded bonus CIs for it.

Besides this, he also revised and updated the Arcona Fiction Timeline, wrote our Leadership guidelines, managed fleet planning as aforementioned, and stepped up to Proconsul after I retired to continue serving. He's done everything-- proofed every fiction or post, listened to every rant, been the voice of reason that kept our summit from going off the rails entirely at the worst of times. These are not reflected in numbers, but they are no less critical. It is why he is a title holder: because few have given so much for the Clan in service as he has.

Thank you for always being there and having our backs, Vic. For loving us more than our faults.

Master Ruka Tenbriss Ya-ir, 2022-01-08 23:40:35 UTC
Event ID
241395
Society
Grand Master's Royal Guard
Old Rank
XI
New Rank
XII
Requested by
dbb0t
Primary reason

Migrated from legacy data

dbb0t, 2022-01-08 23:40:45 UTC
Event ID
202034
Award
Seal of Visions
Quantity
1
XP Value
25.0 XP (Full Value)
Requested by
Telaris "Mav" Cantor
Primary reason

Participation in 1 event of Great Jedi War XIV: Homefront

Telaris "Mav" Cantor, 2020-08-03 15:33:07 UTC
Event ID
200779
Award
Cluster of Fire
Quantity
1
Requested by
Raiheaux
Primary reason

PvP matches played on or before 2020-07-08

Raiheaux, 2020-07-08 23:30:15 UTC
Event ID
200556
Award
Cluster of Fire
Quantity
1
Requested by
Raiheaux
Primary reason

PvP matches played on or before 2020-06-21

Raiheaux, 2020-06-21 23:30:14 UTC
Event ID
200436
Award
Cluster of Fire
Quantity
3
Requested by
Raiheaux
Primary reason

PvP matches played on or before 2020-06-14

Raiheaux, 2020-06-14 23:30:15 UTC
Event ID
200186
Award
Cluster of Fire
Quantity
3
Requested by
Raiheaux
Primary reason

PvP matches played on or before 2020-06-02

Raiheaux, 2020-06-02 23:30:13 UTC
Event ID
194345
Award
Crescent with Diamond Star
Quantity
1
XP Value
200.0 XP (Full Value)
Competition
TED Talks: DB Edition
Requested by
Grand Inquisitor Arden Karn di Plagia
Primary reason

For achieving 1st place in the TED Talks: DB Edition competition.

The awards for this competition were upgraded due to high participation.

Grand Inquisitor Arden Karn di Plagia, 2019-09-24 00:54:47 UTC
Event ID
194058
Award
Seal of Discord
Quantity
10
XP Value
250.0 XP (Full Value)
Requested by
Telaris "Mav" Cantor
Primary reason

Participation in 10 events of Great Jedi War XIII: Discord

Telaris "Mav" Cantor, 2019-09-16 04:16:36 UTC
Event ID
193851
Award
Cluster of Ice
Quantity
1
Requested by
Exarch Marick Tyris Arconae
Primary reason

500 words of fiction (Fiction Activities #5277 and #5944)

Exarch Marick Tyris Arconae, 2019-09-10 23:30:15 UTC
Event ID
193543
Award
Cluster of Graphite
Quantity
4
Competition
[GJW XIII Phase II] Graphics - New Friends?
Requested by
Master Selika Roh di Plagia
Primary reason

Participation in the [GJW XIII Phase II] Graphics - New Friends? competition.

Master Selika Roh di Plagia, 2019-09-10 05:12:41 UTC
Event ID
193460
Award
Cluster of Graphite
Quantity
4
Competition
[GJW XIII Phase I] Graphics - Calling Card
Requested by
Master Selika Roh di Plagia
Primary reason

Participation in the [GJW XIII Phase I] Graphics - Calling Card competition.

Master Selika Roh di Plagia, 2019-09-10 05:11:08 UTC