A terribly happy end of March to all of you fine people. My hope is that you are all well into the enjoyment of our event:

I think we’re all enjoying it. I know I’m enjoying seeing how much hype we’re getting from our Summit, and how much discussion we’re getting about it from you guys. I can’t wait to start grading. But we’ll talk more on this in a little bit.

Well I’m moving tomorrow, so if you need me, I’ll be totally unavailable. I’m barely sneaking in a cheeky last second report in after packing our truck. Literally sleeping on an air mattress tonight in our living room. Good times. But I have good stuff for you guys! I’ll try to make this a good one.

But enough about me and all my life! Let’s get going with this report!

Fiction Update

Aliso City

From his vantage point atop Hak’s Hideout, Arden was in his element. While most of his Sith compatriots would have been more at home on the ground, working from up high was what he did best. Moving from target to target with a finely honed grace, he was dropping droids with virtually every trigger pull. These older model B1s weren’t the brightest droids in the galaxy which made the Overseer’s job that much easier. While he had wished he’d brought one of his longer range rifles so he could hit even more droids, the F11D-s superior ammo capacity was coming in handy right now.

“I could do this all day,” he muttered to himself as another squad of droids pushed into his view. While Arden probably could have held this position by himself for a good while, thankfully, he didn’t have to. In between shots, he’d get calls from the Pinnacle promising reinforcements or make calls to the city’s security forces which were quickly getting organized. They were managing to hold their own and were managing to keep the droids fairly contained. Once the Ascendant Legion arrived in force they could start pushing back the droids.

And they were never late.

Just as Arden lined up a shot on an approaching droid, his focus was broken by the familiar buzz of approaching LAATs which caused the droids to immediately bolt for cover. Arden shook his head and keyed his comm.

“You ruined my shot,” the Overseer grumbled. “But welcome to the party anyway. Command squad on me. Everyone else, proceed to a suitable LZ and push south towards the breach points.”

“Acknowledged Overseer,” a monotone voice replied.

With trained precision the LAATs started to fan out across the city. A short moment later, one came to a hover right over the Hideout. Ropes dropped to the roof behind him and within a couple seconds, boots could be heard hitting the building while the door gunner laid down repeating blaster fire on the droids in the street. The first group down the ropes formed up on the front of the building with Arden while the second fire team moved towards the ladder in the back. Between the seasoned squad and the supporting fire from the LAAT, it wasn’t long before the immediate vicinity was cleared of droids.

Exhaling, Arden stood up and turned to see a Legion officer behind him. Arden acknowledged the lanky Mirialan. “Lieutenant Grando, isn’t it?”

“Yessir,” the Mirialan replied. “Apologies for our timing.”

“No need for that Lieutenant, I’d downed plenty before you arrived,” Arden answered, his tone not suggesting whether he was being sarcastic or not. “Status report?”

“Besh company is deploying now by air with Cresh company four minutes out,” the Mirialan lieutenant rattled off. “Aurek company is inbound with the ULAVs, they'll be here in fifteen.”

Arden nodded. “Good, we can finally go on offense now. The droids have been coming up from subsurface caverns on the southern end of the city. Let's go push them back down their holes.”

The Mirialan grinned. “Return to sender, yessir!

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The Enemy Below: Week 2

Mmm, I love plotty goodness. But you can’t just read about history, go make it happen. We’ve got stuff for you this week. Even more competitions to sink your teeth into! Go fight against those dastardly Enemies Below in Week 2. The competitions will open tomorrow at site reset!

Week Two: March 27th - April 2nd

• Fiction
• Poetry
• Puzzle
• Flash Gaming I
• Flash Gaming II
• Logic Puzzle
• Crossword
• Graphics

There are some other competitions and other things to do out there, but I’m not going to tell you what they are. We need you focused, here and now on The Enemy Below! I’d say just kidding, but we do appreciate if you do our stuff first, and then if you’ve got all 8/8 done then you can think about doing some other stuff. I’ll allow it.

We’ve got lots of reports out, and here’s a good list of what’s going in the DB.

• PLA CON Report - If you missed week one of TEB event and you need to get caught up on the fiction, here’s Slags report on that. Go check it out.

• PLA Rollmaster Report - Arden leaves us a nice fiction, as well as asking for more volunteers for Master/Student relations. If you’re interested, he’s the man to talk to.

• Combat Master Report - Atra is running a creative writing workshop, if you’re interested in improving your writing, go check out his report on how to apply.

• Herald Report - Morgan has a fun art competition running currently. If you’re not signed up, it’s a little too late, but if you are participating don’t forget to go do that. Once you’re finished with all of our stuff of course.

• Drac got a new toy - Even after they leave the nest, and move on to bigger better things, we still love to see when our guys do good. Obviously Drac is one of the best, congrats on your new Sapphire Blade.

• HAP AED Report - Kelly has a great report out. If you’re on her team, Team Odd, make sure you let her know about your progress on events. She wants to know.

• HKM QAE Report - Furious’ report is also out, and he’s thrown down the gauntlet. His challenge is at least 10/24 competitions for the event. Can you do it?

Concluding Thoughts

Let me finish up by saying how happy I am to see you guys doing so well this last month. I get emails every day for your guys activity and I couldn’t be more proud. We’ve got a really strong core group of members here in Plagueis, and I want to see that grow here in the next several months. I’m going to issue a challenge to you guys, to take it to the next level. You’ve probably seen or noticed that our numbers in the clan have definitely dropped some recently, but that’s not unfixable. Go out, invite your friends who love Star Wars. Invite your friends who enjoy creative writing. Invite friends who are gamers, looking for some people to do it with. We have lots to offer here, and many great ways to sell it.

The next best thing to getting strong new members, is going out to find some of those members who’ve been missing for a while. Half of our current Summit consists of members that have been on hiatus for some amount of time or another. There are some great members that we haven’t seen in a while, who could really help Plagueis step up. If you’ve got friends, old masters, old pupils who you think might come back, go get them. Send them a friendly email. We’d really appreciate it, we love having everyone here, and remind them that they’re missed. Plus we’re coming up for a GJW later this year, it would be super helpful to have some more teammates to help out with that.

We’ve had some great participation for our Event so far this week, and more than anything I’d love to see the opposite of our normal trend for events. I want to see Week 2 and 3 even bigger than Week1. I know you can do it. My advice, and this is coming from everyone on the Summit, tackle the little things first. Do the small easy events. It gets them out of the way. If you try to tackle the big stuff first and that takes all your time, then you don’t even get it done for some reason, then you haven’t done anything. That just makes me cry. I want to see you guys succeed, so go out there and do it.

Alright, I’m getting off my soap box now. I hope you guys had a great March. Get ready for an awesome April. We should be seeing the first trailer for Star Wars Episode VIII, I’m excited and I hope you guys are too. Work hard, keep earning those awards. If you do well in the event you’ll get those too.

TLDR

• Fiction

• Go do the event!

• Other people's reports