1: My apologies that these are late. Unfortunately, owing to some unpleasant incidents in the TIE Corps, my attention has been directed rather more in that direction than to the DB this last few days, and for that I apologise. I hope these issues will be sorted out soon, and things can go back to normal.

2: Monthly topics are open until 11.59pm EST 30th April. Right now I have a whole host of poems (excellent, I shall have to run Haiku more often), and a total of 8 story entries. I need only two more story entries to be able to award nice big shiny medals, so two people out there that haven't submitted need to send me stuff. The details are:

Story:

• Write a story on the topic of "War"

• The story must be at least 1 page long in length

• It must be submitted as a .doc, .txt or .rtf attachment

• You must include your ID Line and PIN Number in your submission.

• Send to [Log in to view e-mail addresses]

Poem:

• Write a poem on the subject of "Tainted Love" in the genre of "Haiku"

• For more details on how to write Haiku, visit http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.org/krath/focus/

• Send to [Log in to view e-mail addresses]

3: Battle boards continue... there have been a few opening glitches, but these are slowly getting ironed out and people are getting into the swing of it I think. I'm quite happy with how things are working out.

4: My Praetor appears to be back off leave with a brand new laptop. Yey for him!

That's it for this week.