It has been a busier than usual month administratively for Scholae Palatinae, mixed with a flurry of competitions and an expanding summit. All of it for the benefit of the members today, and well into the future, to grow and maintain our awesome community. So, business as usual.

With the change in positions, if not just in name, comes a change in focus of my reports. Houses are picking up much of the day-to-day, while Xen continues his great holistic view reporting, I will focus on what's going on. With a fictional summary, a list of upcoming major events, a calendar to help see what we see on the horizon and an exhaustive review of ongoing projects. This will help increase transparency on what we are working on for the Clan, and leave no confusion about what’s underway.

Any questions at all on anything that comes up, or if you’re interested in getting more involved. Let me know.

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Fictional Updates

Following the end of Great Jedi War XI, elevated to the status of Clan again under newly appointed Grand Master Darth Pravus, Scholae Palatinae returned home to a period of recovery. Their armies were thinned out from the constant battles on Korriban, their fleet heavily damaged holding positions in space above, including the near destruction of the fleet flagship.

House Excidium and House Imperium were opened up immediately following the return to the Cocytus System, each lead by a new Quaestor who began the task to forge a new identity. Although the war had a devastating toll on their military, it saw great experience and moments of leadership from its Dark Jedi. The new House structure would establish a superior structure within the reformed Clan to manage the growing power of Scholae Palatinae.

Military leaders quickly put heavy training regiments in place to replace those lost in the war. Pilots, soldiers, spies, all rapidly being pushed through programs trying to rebuild veteran experience lost. While shipyards were busy repairing the damaged, the worst of which was the flagship Excidium II, rebuilt and renamed as the Dark Paladin. Everyone was busy doing their part.

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Major Events

This will be the name of the next Clan wide competition. It will have a fiction only prologue sometime this week, followed by 3 Acts, and then a fictional epilogue to wrap it all up. The first act will come in April in a few weeks and include a planned 10 events. Act 2 is planned for sometime mid-June. With the final Act 3 in early September. All tentative depending on what else is going on. More on the theme will come out of the prologue, but it will take place in our own Cocytus System, and will do a lot to make sense of many of the unexplained features on the different planets.

• Clan Naga Sadow: We are still in discussions with Clan Naga Sadow for a cooperative event. There has been a complete reshuffling of their summit since discussions started, but Locke is still on board and Xen'mordin is working with him to get something running in May. The theme will be focused on cooperation, likely a shaky alliance, and the events themselves will ideally have us working cross Clan. Plot wise it will be very standalone. Easy to follow without any prior knowledge of either Clan.

• Brotherhood Wide: I have no further details about future Brotherhood wide events. I know that some things are planned to happen ahead of the release of additional movies, with a major vendetta planned just before. For now, that’s all I know.

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Calendar of Major Events

• Blue is planned Forgotten Clan event
• Orange is planned Clan Naga Sadow event

All dates are subject to change depending on changes, but all efforts will be made to minimize any adjustments to schedule.

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Clan Projects

In no particular order...

• Clanhood: This project is now complete. It was the creation of, and execution of, our House creation proposal. It saw the removal of several Battle Teams, and the creation of House Excidium with Koryn Thraagus as Quaestor and Lucyeth as Aedile, and House Imperium with Kell Palpatine Dante as Quaestor and Zagro Fenn as Aedile. All members have now been assigned to one of the two Houses using stated preferences, recruitment and Master/Apprentice relationships, and each is starting to develop a new fictional identity. The final stage of this will see the development and opening of Battle Teams, if they make sense. Some chatter has been on the mailing lists on several ideas, and will see it happen at some point. No rush here.

• House Fictional Identities: This is lead entirely by the respective Quaestors of the two Houses, with the help of their Aediles and membership. However, all from Consul through Aedile make up the new Clan summit, and will work together to create something comprehensive and fun together. I have seen a few ideas come about, and know it's something that should start to develop more in the coming days. I would expect to see some rounds of competitions, and wiki updates associated with this. If you want to help, contact your House summit.

• Leadership Manual: This was a work in progress from when we originally began discussing our future Clanning proposal. It lays out expectations for new leaders, and goes over the individual roles and how they operate in Scholae Palatinae. So nobody is ever dropped in the deep end and gets a great resource. A major goal for Xen and myself is to ensure that we train up leaders so there is always someone ready to take over the reigns as Consul and this guide provides a framework for that in the future. It will be released for the entire Clan at some point once it's all well reviewed.

• Wiki clean-up: This is an ongoing process. Now that we saw a major restructuring from House Scholae Palatinae to Clan Scholae Palatinae, which we all anticipated was coming eventually, we can make this happen. The wiki should be a place anyone can go to understand how the Clan fictionally operates, and where they stand in it. So expect to see some simplification and updates, and then some new pages to highlight where everyone's character stands. This is a bit of a merge of my 'careers' plan I inherited from Xantros, and some other resources I've been sent. I've gotten some interest already in being involved in the wiki, if it sounds exciting to you, let me know.

• Communications: We are first and foremost a community of Star Wars fans. We do this by gaming, or writing fiction, or in some cases just endlessly ranting on IRC. Xen is looking into some other communication tools, although we're all familiar with google chat, IRC, teamspeak or WhatApp. Maybe facebook. We try and maintain a level of anonymity with communications so avoid anything too personal due to some issues in the past with the DJB in general. Highlighting here as a constant work in progress to evolve in the ways we communicate. For now we always have lots and lots of emails.

• Battle Teams: Although we've mentioned formation of Battle Teams is possible, and driven by a leader. We plan to add more structure to this with examples and details of what it takes. Right now it's a bit ambiguous, but we do intend to form an application and examples and details of what's expected down the road. For now we have House identities to forge, but quickly will focus on the important Battle Team aspect too.

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Closing

I am very excited at the opportunity to be entrusted with the role of Proconsule of Scholae Palatinae. I have some major goals I want to accomplish with Xen, and as we work to see this implemented you'll see everything that's being done show up here. Almost all Clan related efforts by myself have been thrown at the Clanning efforts, and filling our staff and new Houses, with everything else towards this upcoming event. From Star Conflict to Minecraft servers and new Battle Team ideas, I think there's a place for everyone in our new Clan to enjoy themselves. If you aren't sure what you can do, always let me know.

For the Empire!