Welcome to another one of my wonderful reports! I am very busy right now, so I am going to try to keep this report short and to the point, but you never know. A lot has happened these past two weeks in the brotherhood, and most are talked about here, so read on. I now declare this report OPEN

Oh, I also got another set of report graphics and some new HTML skills, so prepare yourself!

~ Jac was awarded a Silver Sash, Goat was promoted to Deputy Grand Master, Braecen and Thran resigned as house summit, and more I'm too lazy to talk about. This is, in short, what recently happened. As a reminder, gaming is currently awarding double and triple Cluster of Fires for flying games and Empire at War, so I encourage you all to go out there and play. In the recent Dark Voice, Muz talked about some of the changes he is planning. One of which is custom robes, and the other is new medal graphics. Personally, I can't wait for either of them, so good job Muz!

~ Reports also came in that the Shadow Academy will be reorganized into an easier and cooler website. Numerous courses are also being written right now such as a Star Wars Astronomy course and a new IRC Ops course. This means more stuff to put on your dossiers as well as more ways to keep you busy!

~ Numerous Dark Council members have recently started blogs to tell you what's happening in the secret rooms we are not allowed to enter. The big ones are the Herald's Blog and the Headmaster's Blog

~ These past two weeks were busier than I expected them to be, and I congratulate you all for that. Special congrats to Erdon who was the most active, and another congrats to Orzon who was made Envoy last week.

• Orzon: (E)Crescent x2 - Test of Wisdom course passed - Advanced Test of Wisdom course passed - ICQ course passed - Sith Alchemy course passed - Safe Computing course passed - DC x1 - Sith Core passed - Sith ESET course passed

• Galaphile: (T)Crescent x1 - LS x1 - CF x1

• Erdon: (E)Crescent x1 - StA x1 - Conflict Mediation course passed - Promoted to Guardian - (T)Crescent x1 - Lightsaber Basics course passed - Test of Wisdom passed - (Q)Crescent x1 - (S)Crescent x1 - PHP Programming course passed

• Dorn: Promoted to Guardian - (E)Crescent x1

• Famosus: DC x1 - StA x1 - CF x2 - (A)Crescent x1 - Promoted to Priest -

• Silent: (T)Crescent x1

• Scorpius: (S)Crescent x1 - (Q)Crescent x1

• Jonaleth: SoL x1

~ The Exar Kun Battle Team War is still going on, and will stay that way until the end of April. Thus far, the six main events have ended, and I will be starting the run-on later today. So far, Exar's Shadow has dominated the war with events and winners, and I am very proud of that. The points for the run-on will be totaled slightly different, however, so we need to keep up if we want to leave Blades of Kun in the past. As I said, I will start the run-on later today after I post the results of Event #5 and #6.

Battle Team War Topic

~ Also, be sure to check my blog now and then for news. I found sending you guys tons of emails annoying, so from now on I'll just post it all here. These blogs are useful, so I encourage you all to check mine at least once a week.

Office of Commander Dupar

~ There are plenty of competitions out there for you peeps to do, so go out and try to earn some crescents. Participating in competitions is one of the easiest ways to be promoted, so in the end it is a good idea. One of the big reasons I was promoted to Warrior was because of my strong participation in competitions, so it pays off. Moreover, you get a nice medal on your dossier if you win. Those protector and below should really look into Orzon's competitions, and the rest of us should look into the monthly topics that award second level crescents!

Trivia for PRTs and Below

April MT Fiction: The Ties That Bind

April MT Poetry: Silence

April MT Graphic: Artifact Hunt

Plagueis Caption Contest

Plagueis MT Poetry

Plagueis MT Fiction

~ As I said in my blog, I have many ideas for the future of soon-to-be Blades of Kun. As stated before, after the war I will give you all a weeklong break so we can rearrange the teams, and then I have a Star Wars Trivia competition for you. I then have yet another run-on that you all will love so much, and that should take us through the summer.

Come August I don't know what will happen, rather it be I get promoted or I go AWOL. Either way, I do have competitions in the works for us that we will do if I am here. If I am promoted, then I'll run them at whatever lvl I am on and you all can still participate. One of these is a fiction piece, another run-on, and then a gaming competition that is still being written.

Remember, that if you ever have any ideas feel free to email them to me. Three of our upcoming competitions were written from ideas Gala gave me, so it pays off in the end.

This report was not as detailed or long as some of my others, but I am really busy right now so I do not have the time to write a full-blown report this week. As always, if you have any questions/suggestions/comments feel free to PM me on IRC or email me. My turn-around for emails is somewhere around eight to ten hours.

So long for now,

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