Introductions:

These past two weeks have been some of the busiest weeks of my life in the brotherhood. Aside from trying to continue doing what I usual do (IE: Gaming Nights and competitions) I have been trying to focus as much of my attention as possible on getting the Battle Team War! started. The good news is that not too much is left to be, but the bad news is that I have to do it all this weekend. No worries though, I'll come through in the end.

As for my personal life, I bought Republic Commando over the weekend, and love it. The two people I know who can play it with me cannot at this time though, so I have been forced to compete with nerds who only leave the house at night. Some of these people are just scary, that's all I have to say.

As for the battle team, we haven't been doing much team related, but you have all been staying active by winning medals and completing shadow academy courses. This will all change once the war starts though, because after that you won't be able to stop and rest without me pulling the chair out from under you. Except Jonaleth, who may do as he wants :P

Thus, I present to you this bi-weekly report...

What Recently Happened:

~ The Shadow Academy seems to be on drugs or something right now, but I guess that proves that not all of the dark council is lazy. Just kidding, but two more "courses" were released this past week. One is the Training Saber Basics exam that anyone can take just to have it put on their dossier. For those of you without sabers yet, however, it will put a training saber on your dossier for you to use as necessary.

• The other course was the Advancement Survey. This one is only available to those below the rank of Dark Jedi Knight, but is still something else to add to your dossier.
  

~ Congratulations to Virulence who received the most awards/courses passed for this three-week period. He has been doing a great job in staying active, so for that I congratulate you.

Virulence: Alchemy course passed - Lightsaber course passed - Training Saber course passed

Scorpius: StA x1 - Training Saber course passed

Dorn: CF x14

Gala: Lightsaber course passed - CF x2

Famosus: CF x1

Drodik: CF x2 - Training Saber course passed

Current Projects:

~ Right now I continue to try to get the battle team war ready to be released. Right now, I can tell you this, there will be seven events and a run-on that should keep you all busy for the next month and a half. Each event awards points and crescents, so some of you could rack up some serious fifth level shineys from this. I am hoping to get it started by the end of February. After that, we'll stay busy with competitions and detailing our team, but I'll talk about that later on.

Competitions:

~ No competitions right now for the battle team, but this will all change once the war starts.

Future Projects:

~ After the war ends I'll allow you all around a week or two of rest, but I still expect to receive emails about awards you've won. Once you are all recuperated, I will finally release the Trivia competition that was suppose to be done in December. It will contain fifty questions that I copied from a board game. Yes, I am a Star Wars freak. There will also be five bonus questions that I made up. This will be a very easy competition, so I want you all to try to compete in it.

~ After the trivia competition is over we're going to enter Rebirth: Battle Team Edition Phase 1. I promise this one will actually happen though :P We're going to get a website that will contain our history, fleet, artifacts, and more. I'm also going to start what Thran did with positions in the team. I will ask each of you what you wish to be, but those who can't decide I will assign them a spot.

~ Once our team is super detailed and ultra cool I will start our third run-on. This was created by one of our own, Galaphile. With a bit of editing and input from Gaidal and Godo I have made it what I think is ten times better then our first run-on. All I'll say right now is that its basic plot is that I am being tortured, so sleep on that why don't you. Not as if you already don't dream about torturing me :P

Conclusion:

This report wasn't as long as my others were, but the only thing there really is to talk about is the upcoming war. A little extra information, I am currently creating our battle team website. Therefore, if you nag me enough I might just let you have a look. ; )

So long for now,

DJK Aabsdu Dupar al'Tor (Sith)/CMDR/Exar Kun of Plagueis