Introduction

...A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death — the spacelanes bear only commerce — sentients everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire Brotherhood lies quietly at peace.

The War is over, long live the War! Or something like that I guess.

Table of Contents

• Great Jedi War XII Results
• Summit and Structure Changes
• New Stuff

This month's art feature is another piece done by KaRolding featuring Kelly Mendes and Tasha'Vel Versea. I hate it when my minions fight...

Great Jedi War XII Results

As I'm sure everyone has seen, the Great Jedi War results have been posted here. On the participation front, Plagueis itself saw 180 total entries from 22 unique participants. Some of the highlights include:

• Dacien absolutely destroying the fiction events on his way to taking fourth place overall.
• Kelly taking first place in the Pazaak Den competition, as she is want to do every time.
• Plagueis taking the gold nova in the Run On event again, for the second Great Jedi War in a row. (And continuing our longer streak of having a Plagueis team take home one of the RO nova in every vendetta RO event dating back to Horizons.)

Given what we've done over the past while when it comes to participation, the one thing that leaves me a bit sad is where we were participation wise vs. the field. It's my hope that moving forward we, the summit, can serve you guys better and make sure that we're showing you how much we value your activity. I'm looking forward to the next Brotherhood vendetta so we can put those promises to work as well.

On that front, the Clan leadership and I are currently crunching the numbers so we can start to get various reward requests sent up the chain to the Great Panda so that our members can start getting all that lewt they've earned. And, on the subject of Clan leadership...

Summit and Structure Changes

Abadeer has talked to me recently about how real life has just been destroying him of late, and so he has stepped down from his position as Proconsul. I'd like to thank him for his service since taking over the position nine months ago and would love to welcome him back to the summit if things ever get less hairy on the life front. With his position vacant, I'd considered opening up applications because I wasn't sure my #1 internal choice would want the gig (given that he's also slave to the other debate coach in the DJB, Farrin). However, given what his time commitments in both real life (his Canadian army slavery is also not long for this world) and his workload in the Academy mines will look like moving forward, Laren Uscot was more than happy to jump at the opportunity. Replacing him as Aedile in House Karness Muur is everyone's favorite mask, TuQ'uan Varick. TuQ'uan's move out of the Circle battleteam leader position leads us to our next topic, structural changes.

The Clan summit and I have thought that, conceptually, the Circle (and the predecessor teams in Karness Muur and Ajunta Pall) are very good ideas. New member focused units with leaders that focus directly on new member engagement. In practice, however, we haven't seen the number of new members that are responsive and involved in the Clan/Brotherhood as a whole to really justify the existence of a separate unit with separate leaders, the work just hasn't been there that needs to be done. As such, I've dissolved the Circle as a unit, with new members being sent directly to the Houses. Our Rollmaster position will still work with new members to guide them through the Brotherhood, but will be doing so by liaising with the House summits. If we ever see a real uptick in new joins, the summit and I will revisit the training team concept. Additionally, the Circle can and will still continue to exist as a fictional concept and location, so no lore is gone away, promise!

New Stuff

In addition to the Great Jedi War results, the spoils of war have also been posted by Evant here. Being the good little capitalists we are (Darth Plagueis was a Muun, after all), we've already spent our money to buy some new stuff, creating job and stimulating the Brotherhood economy.

Much of the changes have been in the form of upgrades rather than new additions, for example all of our Raider-I corvettes are now Raider-II's, but we did get a brand new ship in the form of an Acclamator for our new PCON to bomb around in. Additionally, since the Abrogator got a little bit… exploded and crashed into a planet, that ship has now been upgraded to a Strike Cruiser. Yay! (And I'd suggest that you go read the Team Beyond run on for details on what happened to our poor, poor Pelta.)

Additionally, the Ascendant Legion got an whole new armored regiment, bringing our total from three regiments to four and basically doubling the number of tanks, walkers, and general pew-pew that we have. This was long on the drawing board, as we made the decision with our initial purchase to short our army a little bit to leverage credits for the big, evil Imperial star destroyer that serves as our flagship. Now, our Ascendant Legion has caught up with the Ascendant Fleet.

Brotherhood News

• Essentially, all of the important stuff is already linked above. Click it there!

In Closing

This is normally the place for a bit of a closing remark or summary of what's going on or what's being looked forward to. However, this month I want to use it for something slightly different. As some of you may (or may not) have noticed, I've been less "around" than normal over the last two months, and reports haven't been dropping in the meantime either. I did want to discuss some of what's been happening of late, and assure you that I have not, in fact, disappeared on you guys.

I had planned to release a pre-GJW hype report the week before the start of the event as well as set up all our internal tracking spreadsheets that we use to monitor activity during a major event. However, that was not to be. Some in the clan know that I live in northern California in the town of Santa Rosa, and, essentially, my town caught on fire the Sunday night of that week. I ended up evacuating from my home at about 5 am Monday morning after waking up to the smell of smoke and seeing the sky lit by flames less than a mile from my home. To get a feel of what that night was like, the best I can offer is video shot by a Berkeley, CA engine company that was called up to fight the blaze. I was out of my house for a bit over a week, and my work was also closed as it was located within a mandatory evacuation zone.

After the evacuations were lifted, I ended up working extra hours at work as some of my coworkers had lost homes in the fires. Between my day job and my two speech & debate jobs, I ended up working 26 days straight between October 15th and November 9th. So, suffice it to say, my time has been eaten like no time in my recent memory. However, things are stabilizing once again, and promise to be back to normal in the coming days. As we've been saying around my county, #SonomaCountyStrong. Here in Plagueis, we're going to keep going and I'm going to keep working for our future all the same. #PlagueisStrong.

Adapt, Ascend, Avail