Thran (or the Thranalorian as he's annoyingly taken to calling himself sometimes) continues to be a fierce storm to be reckoned with on the Regent Staff, surpassing all expectations on the daily. He's spent the last two months working extremely diligently, taking those 32 proposed capital ship upgrades he started with during my last recommendation to 100+ separate upgrades, helping to fulfill my vision for this project. Just like Planetary Assets, which was a driving factor in my recommendation for his Elder promotion, Thran had to come up with several different aspects for this system. Not only did he completely develop, balance, and do most of the quality control on those 100+ items, he came up with a suitable slotting scheme for each different "size" of upgrade as well as the slot sizes for each category of capital ship, putting in an exemplary amount of theory into making sure it fits both realism and possessions. He took point on pricing for this project as well, creating the pricing scheme and working with Korvis and myself to find the incredibly difficult sweet spot on where we wanted them to be. In addition to all that, Thran wrote most of the Capital Ship Upgrades Primer doc submitted to Evant and Bubba that explains our reasoning and methodological approach to this project.

And as if that wasn't enough, he did primary item photos reviews on the CIS Item Review fellow staff member Teebu completed to cut content he knew I would not accept (he was right), and is a major contributor in our next booster release, completing over 10 additional item prototypes. It's not out of this world for me to say here and now that when I finally step down (not anytime soon, don't get any ideas Thran) he is the clear and obvious choice for my replacement. I can't think of any other member in recent times that has earned a Sapphire Blade just two months after earning a Ruby Scepter, but a Grand Cross just isn't enough for the sheer amount of work this guy puts in. I'm very lucky to have him as my Praetor.

General Zxyl Bes'uliik, 2023-01-05 22:50:39 UTC