Hello folks,

If you are a lifelong fan of Star Wars, and you keep track of your calendar, you’ll notice that today is the 4th of May. “So what?” I can hear you think. It’s a day of celebration, celebrating this amazing gift that “Ol’ George” gave us called Star Wars. Fun fact: the reference was first used used on May 4, 1979, the day Margaret Thatcher took office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Thatcher's political party, the Conservatives, placed a congratulatory advertisement inThe London Evening News that stated "May the Fourth Be with You, Maggie. Congratulations."

The Brotherhoods upper brass have been holding competitions today (1st level crescents!!), and today only, so check out links below and snag some diamonds! That history lesson over, let’s see what you’ve all been up to.

On a separate note, I want to take this paragraph to congratulate Ondur on being a beast and the most active, asskicking, pwninating Journeyman over the past month. Keep it up, and you’ll get your lightsaber in no time!

Dark Crusade: Fading Light

Signups for the next round of the Fading Light chapter have opened a while back. You’ll find a link below, just hit subscribe and be ready for the sweet, sweet, ACC-isms. Before you can participate, you’ll have to be qualified for the ACC. The fundamentals course gives you the basic idea of the how's, what's, and why's and should be the first thing you do if you are interested in helping Taldryan kick some ass. ACC Fundamentals
After the Fundamentals course, you'll have to get qualified, this is also done in the Shadow Academy (as opposed to in the ACC itself like it was done in the past). ACC Qualifier

Fading Light Signup

Competitions galore!!

There’s a few competitions going on (some only for a day!!!!)

1. Episode VII Poster: One of those rare GFX-competitions! You are tasked with creating a movie teaser/promotion poster in any way you can/want/WILL. The rewards are 1st level crescents and the competition runs for only 1 day (booo). I don’t know if a sketch will suffice, but trying doesn’t kill ya.

2. Sarin’s “Just write something, anything” competition: Also part of the Star Wars day celebrations. Sarin leaves you to write…well…anything. No word minimum/limit, no subject, no prompt, nothing. Just give your brain free reign (unless you’re Tarax, that may be a bit too graphic bro <3)

3. Infiltrate the Shadow Academy: Yacko doesn’t like many things, but he certainly doesn’t like the SA! Infiltrate it this month, and destroy it by doing…you guessed it, ALL the courses. Note: If you do do all the courses, I will not be held responsible for the mental breakdown.

4. Wardens Weekly Puzzle #5: Dru is hosting the 5th installment of the Wardens' Weekly Puzzle, it's open to the entire clan. If you like breaking your head of pieces of virtual paper, this might be your thing! (and even if it's not, do it anyway.)

5. Bounty Hunting 1: Hosted by Zednich Wolfram, you are dropped on a planet with no access to your Force Powers. You'll be hunted down and have to fight for your life.

6. Bounty Hunter 2 : Hosted by Brimstone, you are tasked to compete against another Bounty Hunter, for the same bounty!

As I said above, click the links, read the details, submit the things!

House News
Ondur has been kicking major ass, I could link all the stuff he’s been doing, but it would be way too long and take too much work (and since it’s Sunday, that’d be sacrilege!)

Shadow is in the finals of the ACC beta tournament and is fighting against Verse Theris. Go cheer him on because Shad = Awesome.

Awards
Mav has won: Crescent with Emerald Star

Shad has won: Crescent with Emerald Star, Crescent with Topaz Star

Armags has won: Crescent with Topaz Star, Crescent with Sapphire Star

A lot of people have also been awarded Clusters of Fire and/or Pendants of Blood, but I don’t need to list the breakdown because you get emailed these yourself! Go check your own inboxes for these, lazy *******

Starting in my next report, I’ll be going to use this section to talk a bit about my personal life. Nothing too serious or in depth, since that would just be creepy.

This month's quote of the month is drumroll
”The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” –Chinese Proverb
This basically means that you have to get out there, and do ALL the things you can do, before you regret not doing them later. I'm certain Howie will nod in appreciation.

That’s all folks! I hope to see all of you in the ACC!