As I did with my GJW trivia, I wanted to go through the questions and answers for my Parabellum comp.

Answers

Question 1:

Out of the Council members, what is the highest/lowest PIN?

Several questions had variants as an anti-cheating measure. In this case, about half of you got asked for the highest PIN and half for the lowest. They were, respectively, 14287 and 8, mine and Howie's. 86% of people got this one. The easiest way was to go over to the Council roster and check the links.

Question 2:

How much XP does it take to reach the rank of Journeyman 4/Equite 4/Elder 1?

This was readily available from the XP Policy: 3600 for JM4, 44000 for EQ4, and 85000 for EL1. 84% of people got this.

Question 3:

How many news items/reports were published to the site in 2020/2021/2022/2023/2024?

This was one of three questions that required some basic math. First, go to the News Archive. "Browse by Date" will show you the reports broken down by month, and you just had to add all of the months for your year to get the answer. This was tied for the hardest question with only 55% getting it right.

Question 4:

What year is it ABY (i.e. in-character)?

It's 43 ABY. The main DB page for logged in users has it at the bottom right, the main page of the Wiki has it in the "Explore the Brotherhood" box right in the middle of the page, Parabellum Chapter 5 has it on both the fic itself and Iddy's news post from when he published the fic. This was the second-easier question at 92%.

Question 5:

How many clans have existed in the Brotherhood over the years?

67% of people got this right, which surprised me because I expect this to be the hardest question. The answer is 13. There are our current 7 (Arcona, Naga Sadow, Odan-Urr, Plagueis, Scholae Palatinae, Taldryan, and Vizsla) and then another 6 inactive clans most easily found via the wiki category of the same name. These were Aquillas and Ar'Kell, who died off before the Exodus, Alvaak, which was renamed Exar Kun during the Exodus, Exar Kun and Satal Keto, which merged to form Plagueis in 2005, and Tarentum, closed at the tail end of 2017.

The question asked for clans specifically, so independent houses like Revan did not count.

Question 6:

How many Pendants of Blood/Legions of the Scholar were awarded before we stopped awarding that medal?

The statistics page leads you to an Award Breakdown with information on how many medals have been awarded. I picked two defunct ones so that value wouldn't change. There were 4290 PoBs and 3342 LoS. 80% of people got this one.

Question 7:

How many item prototypes were in the Possessions Core release?

You know how I just said I picked values that wouldn't change? Funny story about that.

The best way to find this answer is to go the Item Research page and open the filter. There's an option for Release and if you pick Possessions Core you will get your answer, 692. Or rather, it's 692 now. My answer key says 694. Well, sometimes I goof, which I why I check and recheck this stuff. But former SM:RGT Slagar, former P:RGT Korvyn, and even former RGT Renatus all got the same answer I got. It seemed unlikely we all got it wrong, much less that we all got the same wrong answer.

Well, it turns out that the real answer as of this morning is 702, because there are some hidden items on the backend. There were 694 publicly visible from when I wrote the exam through into October, but then when James recoded some things for how Possessions work, "some collective bullshit" (Thran's technical term) changed that number.

Long story short, a lot of people put 692 or 694 and they all got credit, and a lot of people put numbers that were not at all close (10, 4000, 1337, etc), and they did not get credit. Overall 63% got this right.

Question 8:

Ignoring placement medals, how many times do you have to participate in Discord trivia to buy a set of Mandalorian Beskar Armor, starting from zero credits?

Anybody who does Discord trivia knows you get 225 credits per competition entry. Using that same Item Research screen or looking in the stores, you'll find that item costs 153900. The cost divided by 225 gets you 684 comps entries.

People wimped out at the sight of word problems so 59% got this.

Question 9:

Ignoring placement medals, how many Tier 2 Puzzle competitions would you have to do to reach Elder 1, starting from zero XP?

Per the XP Policy in question 2, you need 85000 XP. That same policy shows that entering a "Tier 2" (Second Level Crescent) competition gets you 30 XP. 85000/30 gets you 2833 and one third. The correct answer is thus 2834, but I wasn't picky about how you handled that .33 repeating.

55% of you got this, making it tied for the hardest question. Interestingly, when people were guessing at these two questions, they tended to way overestimate how many comps it takes to buy full beskar but way underestimate how many comps it takes to grind out an EL1 promotion.

Question 10:

What is your PIN?

Exactly one person missed this, and I'm not entirely sure how, because it was off by too much to be a typo but this person has been around for so long that they probably had to use their PIN to login to the website back in the day. That made this the easiest question with 98% of you getting it right. The kids are alright.

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I will probably sneak out a farewell report before the end of the month, but I'm officially a short-timer. My successor will be taking over beginning in November.