Grand Master Report

2005/02/26, 10:01 AM, Grand Master - The Council

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_The Twenty-Sixth of February in the Year of Darkness,

Two-Thousand and Five  

**Report Thirteen**_

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[- Don't put all your Jacs in one basket -](#1)  

[- Situational Commentary -](#2)  

[- Next Dark Voice -](#3)  

[- Covenant Update -](#4)  

[- Clan and Order Powers update -](#5)  

[- Flagship name -](#8)  

[- Big Props -](#Props)  




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Wow -- what a rough week. I am really starting to look forward to my Spring 
Break. I need to time off to get myself back on track... :P  



If you didn't know, last weekend I was in Baltimore visiting my 
Grandparents. My Grandpa has been on &quot;pain management&quot; and we moved him into 
Hospice over the weekend. It was hard to do, and hard to say goodbye. He 
hasn't been himself for a long time though. I think it was just harder 
watching my dad than anything else.  



I tried to get some stuff done in the car, since I had a good twenty hours 
to do stuff. Of course, I got no school work done. Because of that, my 
schedule has been off all week. I normally need to have some work done for 
the week, or else I'm screwed. I was screwed.  



Not to mention I had a research paper due Friday. I pulled an all-nighter to 
finish it. Fun Fun.  



Ever get to a point in life where you just have so much crap to do that you 
just don't know where to start. Yeah, that's where I am. Wedding crap, 
school crap, db crap, and random life crap.....meh.  



I didn't miss any class this week. That's a plus.

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A successful DB has always been about good communication. Of course, doing 
that over the web is always a challenge. It takes a lot of effort to keep 
everyone informed of things. I've tried hard to keep people up-to-date, but 
it hasn't been enough.  



What I'm referring to is the big picture outlook of the DB. I've had a bunch 
of people come up to me in the last few weeks talking about progress in the 
DB. When I explain to them things from my point of view, I think it helps 
them to get the big picture of things. Things may not be progressing super 
fast in one area of the DB, or one project may be in a rut, but when you 
take the aggregate progress, I think the DB is moving faster than we have in 
years. Just go read the reports from the last few months. Compare them to 
the ones from the three months right before that. You'll see a huge 
difference.  



I think it's always very tempting to compare the present time to the split 
activity. I miss that time too, because I had the most fun of my career when 
we told the EH to shove it. I think what made it fun though is that ALL of 
the old folks came back, and EVERYONE put Real Life on hold for a couple 
months. Naturally, that can't happen all the time. I think a misconception 
we have is that everyone was working well together then. I think that's true 
in a sense, but we all had one common enemy. These days, a lot of us have 
goals that and ideas that may conflict, or we have personal ambitions that 
get in the way.



We have moved from a club that can be successful by defeating a rival club 
to one that can only be successful if we don't defeat ourselves. The 
infighting needs to stop. People need to take a step back and say &quot;what the 
hell am I doing that is good for the DB?&quot; We are all on the same team. We 
all have the same goals.  



I am an optimist at heart, but this is not something I need optimism about. 
I know that we will be successful. Have faith in that.

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<>- Next Dark Voice -</td>

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Trev and I talked about when we want the next DV out. We are behind by about 
a month on releasing them, and so we want the next one to come sooner than 
later.  



With that, we have decided that we are going to aim for mid-march for the 
next DV. Please start working on submissions. The deadline for submissions 
is Wednesday, March 9th.

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<>- Covenant Update -</td>

On my trip lat weekend I managed to find a good ten hours to put into the 
Dark Covenant<jasru><korras> while in the car. I finally finished my 
review/re-write. I sent the cov out to the DC and Summits for review.</korras></jasru>


I<jasru><korras> received a lot of great feedback. Most 
people were glad to see a document of that caliber.  



Of course, after talking with a few people, I decided to make another set of 
big changes -- cutting down the content of the Cov. Mav is looking that over 
and I will be sending the updated version to the DC when he gets back to me.  

</korras></jasru>

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<>- Clan and Order Powers Update -</td>

Big thanks to Pyralis for this.


Pyr went through the C&amp;OP system and updated it to encompass 
the new medal changes. I've uploaded the new documents and updated my &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://gm.darkjedibrotherhood.com/policies/&quot;&gt;policy site&lt;/a&gt;.

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<>- Flagship name -</td>

From last week:



So if you haven't seen our new flagship in the DV, go check it out. It's 
sweet as can be. Spears did an amazing job in designing it. I am very happy 
with what he came up with.  



Now, for the next DV, I want to get a name for the ship. As is custom with 
tradition, the name of the first ship in a line of capital ships is the 
actual designation of the Ship. So if ee call it the Billy Class Destroyer, 
the name would be Billy. Get it?  



So what I want are suggestions for names -- You can post them
[
here on the MBs](http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=225) Whoever comes up with the one we vote is best will get 
an SC.

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<>- Big Props -</td>

- Props to Pyr for the C&amp;OP stuff -  

- w00t w00t! Sunflash got a lightsaber! -   

- Congrats to Khan and Kaek on MAA/P -

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I gaze up at the night's starry domain of heaven,  

Then no longer on earth I stand; I touch the Creator,  

And my lively spirit drinketh immortality&quot;</td>

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A deleted dossier, 26 Feb, 2005 10:44 AM

Nice work on the Clan and Order Powers rework... I like the changes. Lots more flexibility and its still pretty hard to meet the top levels. I like the Clan Loyalty service requirements too.

Mandalorian Darcy Avarik, 26 Feb, 2005 7:00 PM

Sorry to hear about your grandfather. I remembered you mentioning him in a previous report, and figured something had gone wrong. Hang in there, Jac.

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