SBM Backfire reporting in for house Archanis 27.01.2003

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News

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Greetings brothers in darksness

It was long week this one, a lot things happend, some were good,

some weren't, still we are all here kicking some ass :)

Most importantly Pell just resigned Hyperion CMDR due to lack of

time - he is very active all around EH, so i understand it's

hard to do so much job all around. Pell you are great CMDR and

pilot, i'm happy you stay with us in Hyperion.

So far Hypo CMDR is opened for apps - keep in mind you'll have to

actually WORK at CMDR position here, we will request a lot of

things done from you, so don't apply if you don't have enough time

for a lot of activity.

Okay, last week we had two comps hosted by some person named

Backfire :p With good participation in Red Alert we got a hardly

descent one in Night Raid, probably battle is too hard to fly

within 4-5 days, and i'll keep that in mind. So far congrats

again on Red alert to all winners - awards already arrived to

Drak, Roasty and Phantom. Raid is resolved as well and medals

will be here soon as well :) So congrats to Drak (twice!) and

Scuslem - good flying and good victories guys. By the way for

all you slackers who didn't fly (;P) since it was battles to fly,

medals for Raid are better then ones for Red Alert :P

Martial Law is released, see my comment below.

GRD Dragon also known as Devin has left Hyperion due to lack of

time - he was very active pilot and we'll miss him a lot, hope he

wil return one day.

People go and people come, everyone welcome JH Blade joined us,

good to see you with us!

From now on cometitions can be registered at SHW office so it

will be awarded with Indestrial points - those give you a chance

to improve your fighters. Note: improve only, no new fighters

allowed, wOOt to Hypo - only squad in DB with their personal,

unique Hyperion class star fighter :)

Okay, congrats time :) Today mine goes (besides comps i mentioned

before) Sabbath - great activity and well deserved promotion,

also beers go to Scuslem, both of them are good pilots and both

promoted to Protectors - let you way to lightsaber be fast

brothers. And at last, but not at least, PRED got SBL!!!!!!!!!

WOOOOOT, he was waiting for this promotion for almost half year

and it's finally here :) Congrats Pred and beers from you at

the cantina ;)

On medal part we got Drak and Sabbath overflying Pell this month

and Sabbath also got a DC for intensive flying, congrats everyone :)

Oh, i also promised to explain what is Quest for Glory today, but i

lied, this report is long already, so i won't abuse you with more

explanations :) Expect it next time.

Okay there are more things like Cor writing fictions and doing exams

and so on but i doubt you read those lines by now, lol.

Martial Law

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Okay, let's see what we have by now:

some people aren't agree with ML but to my surprise all of them are

not affected by it because they are active, although last competition

results makes me doubt that. So in total i think system is accepted ;)

If you dont agree - mail me and tell that, just don't stay quiet, i'm

here to cooperate, not press or bitch over you. So - my door is always

open and i never say shuddup and do what i say :)

Okay, to make it short let's see what changes:

for pilots: nothing at all - you fly whatever you wish and send ALL

your files to CMDRs. My advise - fly for all DB comps, and if you can't

fly please inform your cmdr why you didn't, simple eh?

for commanders: you count score for Sith champ as before - if pilot is

active he get full score without any penalties.

But you also count ML score - that's DB only activity, both scores you

list in your report, for example: Sith champ: 1000, ML - 100. If pilot

was active and flying for all comps i add him 1000 points. And 100

otherwise. So it gives me a new work same way you do :)

Scores will be counted weekly as usually.

Comps running at the moment

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I'm thinking about some new wierd comp, will be released soon i hope,

no ideas so far ;) If you got idea about comp - start it right away,

you are more then welcome ;)

TCC - http://www22.brinkster.com/grail/acc/

Archanis is getting pretty high participation here already, still we

got plenty of pilots who didn't register - one who grabs easy medal

wins :))

Clan Trivia - not our sort of activity, still join in if you want

to, as i know it's usually on #Taldryan, Sunday, 3PM EST.

We'll have Great Jedi War really soon, everyone keep your fighters warm.

Quest for Glory

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Hello pilots of house Archanis, it's been a long time i addressed you

without week report word and it's my mistake :)

Today is a great day! Why? Because we start a huge competition... no,

it's not a competition, it's a whole mess of work to do: flying,

writing, making websites and making yourself better and better every

second you are in it. Of course this will not be easy at all,

it will take a lot of your blood and, i can guarantee that, a lot of

us will not survive this challenge, only strongest ones will get

through. But it's life, isn't it? The strongest kind survives, weak

and useless ones go down, only lifes goes on, so get yourself really

ready for it. We will bring you hardest challenges you ever faced in

this life, we will torture your body, we will bring pain of loss and

bloody joy of victory, when slayed opponent draw hands before you and

accepts your superiority in every attempt, we will make you cry from

terrible pain, and we will teach you to make others cry for their

defeat, we will bring chaos and destruction to all that is wrong and

built a new, shining and bright future of our immense strenght and

power. WE WILL BRING ARCHANIS TO THE PLACE IT BELONGS! WE WILL BE

THE FIRST HOUSE OF THE DARK BROTHERHOOD ONCE AGAIN!!!

 Sometimes we ask ourselves, what is Glory? Where's it comes from?  

What is it consist of? I don't know for sure. But I will share my

vision with you. Glory - is a mountain. High and unapproachable,

with peak hidden behind cloud layer, and you never know what's

hidden up there, on top of it. It's so good to be at the bottom

of it, relaxing and chilling in the sun. Like million of others.

But there, on top of this mountain - is where gods reside. It is

a place for them, and only best, the elite ones, strongest,

fastest, dexterous, smartest and most skilled people enjoy their

life as high as no one other - people who are equal to gods, and

gods who treat them as equal to themselves.

 And that, is where we will go now - we will climb this mountain,  

road will be as hard as you can think of it, stonefalls, avalanches,

peaks, covered with ice, snow as deep as sea, cold, freezing you to

death.

  A lot of us will fall down, will be left behind, but people  

who belong to this top will always find their way there, even if you

fall or lost - you can always recover, catch up - and THAT, and

only THAT, makes you a true winner. It's not as valuable to reach

it with single jump - but when you are able to lose, and then find

will and force in yourself to stand up from your knees and say: "I'm

not belong here, my place is up there, right on TOP" - you are a true

champion, true ruler of this WORLD.

This time I will address our commanders: Pell and Az. I remember the

time when i was Hyperion commander. If somebody will ever ask me

what was best about it, i will name 3 things: Pellaeon, Azazel and

Hermann. There were and there are more great pilots, we were best

pilots of the brotherhood, and we still are, but you guys were the best,

the elite, that's a reason why you are now command Archanis even

more then me and Rex - you command squadrons, Glory of Archanis,

is first of all glory of our squadrons - your glory and your pilots.

For both of you i can give my life in combat to your hands and be

sure in you as i'm sure in myself.

You are a true example for all pilot under your command - so be it,

be as good as you wish your pilots to be. Never hesitate, you see

an opportunity - grab it and use it, don't dare to say "I will do

it tomorrow" - the second you think of it - do it, whatever it is.

If you want to make comp - do it, you are a leader, you are born

to command people, not ask them if they want to or ready to. It's

better to make a mistake and try it again. Even if you did a mistake -

admit it and no one will ever remember it anymore. Never stand back -

you are a leader, you are the best - you never do any mistakes, even

when you are wrong - you word is a law as it is, so always go forward,

never look back - people will follow you. And ones who will not -

they never was ready to be commanded by leaders like you, they

never deserved such honor.

Let's make our way now, together we can do it. And we WILL DO IT.

to be continued...

Communications

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It's getting crowdy already, but still we'd like to see more

people in IRC and via emails, if you something to say - mail to

all, noone will hurt you for it :)

Links

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http://www.minos.net/~archanis - house Archanis

http://members.aol.com/hades55624/office - SHW office

http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.org/dbjedi/news.asp - DB news