Since her last medal in April, Socorra created custom art for 2 weapons, 1 accessory, 2 warbanners, and 1 possession. She approved 12 avatar requests and 22 competitions before the automated XP rewards were put in place for these. She also created 4 basic possession icons and created one additional weapon as part of a team. As Praetor, she also accomplished various miscellaneous administrative tasks, including pouring over spreadsheets with thousands of entries as part of a robes clean-up project that has since been shelved. Though the project may not yet see the light of day, the efforts were there and deserve to be rewarded.

Thank you for your services to the club! Congratulations on this new award.

Bale Andros, 2025-01-07 13:44:54 UTC

Mako Henymory is an example of a Clan Vizsla member who has displayed longevity, loyalty, and dedication to both his Clan and the Dark Brotherhood. He recently earned his Clan's coveted Title after years of work and earning over two million credits for the Clan. This achievement sets him apart from many members and shows his character and resolve when it comes to being a part of a team.

Along the way to earning the Clan name, Mako has earned many other medals and recognition, but it is now time to award him with a Ruby Scepter. His first.

Mako has earned this award through incredible activity and dedication to the clan. 287 competitions across all known DB activity types, 80 gaming activities, fiction activities, role playing events, Shadow Academy Courses, and even commenting on the news page. Throw in positions as an Appeals panel member, Magistrate to the Fist, and Magistrate to the Consul and you start to see a picture of Mako as the type of contributing member that the DJB must have and desires.

A few stats: Since his last recognition Mako earned over one million credits, took 8 Shadow Academy Courses, earned two degrees, ranked up in Societies 6 times, earned 2 Gold Nova, 1 Silver Nova, 1 Bronze Nova, and earned over 50 various crescents. He also picked up a nice 1442 Clusters of Fire, 2 clusters of Ice, and 124 Clusters of Graphite.

Mako is an outstanding member and has earned Ruby Scepter. I am proud of him and all of the work he has put forth in the DJB. Congratulations Mako! This is well deserved and the club is thankful for your continued involvement.

Grand Master Declan Roark, 2024-12-30 22:19:46 UTC

In the last 20 months, Morax hasn’t sat still for a moment. Despite organizing 118 competitions he managed to participate in 295 competitions. Doing this netted him an impressive 72 Crescents (10 Diamond, 6 Ruby, 30 Amethyst, 15 Sapphire, 11 Emerald). In writing, Darkblade hasn’t sat still, writing over 10.000 words spread out over 12 Fiction events and participating in 2 roleplaying sessions. All this writing earned him 21 Clusters of Ice. In graphics, he has gained 68 Clusters of Graphite. In the Shadow Academy, Darkblade has completed 14 courses, attaining an additional 4 degrees. He has also managed to elevate his rank across the various societies 14 times. He's also been serving as Magistrate to the Taldryan Consul for two months now.

However, it is in gaming that Morax has been standing out. Across 35 gaming activities, he managed to acquire an impressive 815 Clusters of Fire.

Darkblade has been a constant source of activity within Taldryan. He is constantly running competitions for the membership. On the social side, the days he isn’t on discord can be considered an abnormality. Always pitching in with comments and advice. Always ready to share a meme he found.

Morax, you’ve come a very long way in a short amount of time. I am proud and honoured to be the one to recommend you for the Ruby Scepter. You’ve more than earned this, enjoy it. And every time you look at it, remember how far you’ve come, and never stop moving forward! Keep up the good work!

Supreme Chancellor Ood Bnar, 2024-11-08 22:16:06 UTC

Since even before stepping into the role of Regent, Thran has been a force within the staff. Even a cursory glance into the staff chat reveals Thran leading the charge in discussions, which is quite a large part of the heavy lifting the Regent does. Each release, no matter the size, with his most recent Splinter release including 20 items, involves a great deal of debate and research. For each item that makes it to release, several more are weighed, measured, and found wanting. That is what it is to hold the Possessions purse strings. Thran stepped into a leadership role, even while Consul, elevating the quality of the office and the work it was accomplishing. He reviews each item through a careful and dispassionate lens, looking only at what potential an addition has for our systems and engagement, as well as how it integrates into the existing rule set. At any one time he is juggling several ongoing projects from upgrades to new releases. All the while he was running carefully crafted roleplaying sessions for CSP, a not insignificant amount of work for a truly guided experience, and participating in 25 competitions himself.

He is currently managing several crafting related projects pertaining to weapons, droids, and other enhancements including an internal review of the current crafting implementation and how it might be adjusted to deliver the best member experience. The latter project has already had outcomes delivered though not yet implemented. With his Regent work in mind, and his steady and successful leadership of Clan Scholae Palatinae, I am happy to recognize his efforts.

Congratulations, Thran!

Darth Renatus, 2024-10-22 12:19:12 UTC

Idris continues to be an unerring workhorse for the Council, leaving no questions as to his capabilities and accomplishments. Since his last recognition, he has added to his list beyond what is shown by XP. Most notably, Idris ran a successful ACC tournament where he was the sole Judge. With normal ACC matches included he has judged a total of 62 matches. That is no small feat, especially considering the time each match takes to review properly and fairly. He continues to be the main voice in the Story Group as he helps drive the fictional direction of the club and listen to the whims (and crazy ramblings) of myself and Dacien. I would pity him more were I not the one subjecting him to it. Still, I'm grateful to have him and always excited to see where he takes things. Probably of greatest note is the recent launch of Custom Disciplines. This process involves a lot of manual admin work by the Voice team, but Idris managed to create a streamlined process that has taken the club by storm and resulted in not only an influx of new Discipline feats for members to chose from, but countless combinations that further allow our members to craft the specific experience they're looking for. This leads to growth in engagement and enjoyment for all.

No small feats, and he continues to live and breath the club throughout all the turmoils of his life. Congratulations Iddy.

Darth Renatus, 2024-10-22 12:18:34 UTC

It's not been long since I last awarded Sofila. Frighteningly little time, actually, yet here we are with an absolute KARK tonne from ARC's punchiest Mirilian. Despite all the hurdles and shenangins and Blitz being Blitz thrown her way, Sof or Jenni as we more so call her, has been a anchor of the clan. For once I'm not going to do the numbers first!

On moving up from AED, Sofila took Doon into the position, training him on the reporting done for the House at large and then helping with the spreadsheet editing to make that information better for the credit pull system recently reinstated. Alongside that, she hired and trained Alex Draconic more known as Bograt. She took a dusty old man and got him to a position where now he's leading the House in her stead with confidence and no squeaky wheels. She completed 3 Medal reccs as well as doing 2 people's EQ 2 recommendations, supporting 7 more medal reccs and another 4 promotions. She has been an extremely communicative, responsible and stalwhart leader in HQD, be it handling members and ensurnig she knew what each of them liked, wanted and needed from their leaders, to creating the new house plot solo. All of this, while still regularly outputting reports and keeping people informed.

Not that Jenni's efforts were limited just to leadership, afterall she created the wiki page for Discord Trivia herself, ensuring that it was thoroughly informative and making Trivia comps accessible to anyone who desires to give it a shot. She also updated the Port Ol'Val timeline and Voidbreaker II's roster on their pages and created the Siren air squadron page from scratch, not only creating lore but creating a space for several Arconan members to colloborate and have a shared sense of unity together. Because that's what Jenni is all about, bringing people together and being a beating heart for this community. She has spent hours dedicating her time to her members, and to members outside the brotherhood. You can see that every day when the powers that be aren't nerfing her so she doesn't take over the world.

Finally, to her numbers. Jenni has organised 18 competitions, co-organising 1 more. She has participated in 187 comps, 41 of which containers. In doing so she has earned 6 Crescents with Diamond Stars, 11 Ruby, 7 Amethyst, 15 Sapphire, 7 Emerald, 8 Topaz and 8 Quartz. Across 39 Fiction activities and 3 ACC battles Jenni harvested 124 Clusters of Ice and over 44 Gaming activities there is 336 Clusters of Fire burning a hole in her pocket. She's also earned 3 Dark Side Scrolls and 12 Clusters of Graphite, and just throw some extra in there did a tactical SA exam to gain her one more Degree. All this earned Jenni 5 more Society Rank ups and 872,570 Credits for Clan Arcona.

Those numbers of course are nothing in comparison to the effect Jenni has on our little community, as well as the community of the Brotherhood at large. I couldn't be happier to grant her this Ruby Scepter. Bonk away Jenni, just be gentle with me.

Envoy Zuza Lottson, 2024-10-19 20:00:23 UTC

Since his last medal, Kam has continued to serve with distinction as Justicar. He contributes to most DC discussions, helps DCers formulate policy changes (such as our shifting policies on AI use), and has assisted Consuls with mediation and counseling of disruptive members. He also keeps the CoJ running like clockwork, investigating complaints including one of the largest in the history of this club, which involved reviewing dozens of competition and running them through multiple AI detectors--a delicate and time consuming undertaking.

He has also maintained a high level of personal activity, participating in 89 competitions, winning eight Cr-Ds and eight Cr-Rs along with a smattering of other crescents and clusters. Thank you, Other Mav!

Lord Dacien Victae, 2024-07-25 17:01:44 UTC

Mal has been on a tear in the Herald office, working with his staff to turn out dozens of extremely high quality custom images from robes, to weapons, to new possessions art. His team-based approach to the workflow has paid dividends, helping to keep the queue moving at a good pace, and has also taken the time to help teach his staff new techniques. His personal contributions have included:

• 2 team robes (Shading)
• 2 solo weapons
• 3 accessories (5 variants each)
• 11 possessions
• 4 site graphics requests
• Generated 35 individual images overall

In consultation with the DC and JST, he also made important changes to graphics competition rules to prohibit the use of AI in any cluster-awarding competition.

Most significantly, though, was his just-launched revamp of the Shroud Society which includes changes to graphics competition difficulty levels, increases to cluster awards across the board, and a corresponding increase in society points required to advance. This project was the work of several months, requiring a careful look at the numbers to ensure we don't over- or undershoot the ideal progression rate.

Thanks, oh Bearded One, and congratulations!

Lord Dacien Victae, 2024-07-17 14:22:17 UTC

CSP's own little ball of chaotic witchy pyromaniac. Rayne.

I have had the extreme pleasure of watching Rayne operate within CSP for the last 3 years. She has been nothing short of a shining star for the Clan. Rayne leads by example. She is omnipresent and supportive of the clan like no other person. She bleeds CSP.

Her participation numbers are second to none. Since her last medal she has run 1 competition, participated in 63 competitions, earning 22 crescents, a handful of clusters and a seal of loyalty, and ranked up in one society. Look back through the last 18 months and those numbers get absolutely gigantic. Her consistency is what really impresses me. Rayne has been one of the most reliable and constant members in all of CSP history. She deserves to be recognized for that alone.

What the site doesn't show is everything else she's done in her official roles within the Clan Summit. Rayne has been my right hand as PCON for 8 months. In that time, she has really stepped up into her role. Everything that happens in CSP Rayne has a say in. She has been an absolute sponge soaking up all the information that I can pass to her.

She has helped me in every single capacity that a PCON can. She helps run competitions with the QUAs. She guides the summit and contributes to every conversation. Beyond this, she's recently taken on a major project, remapping and fancying up Seraph, the Homeworld of CSP. This project involves the rewriting of political, geographic, and other aspects of the planet. She’s developed over 10 additional landmarks and has already updated the previous political breakdown to the past history of the Caperion system. This update has been needed for well over a year and if it weren't for Rayne taking it on, it wouldn’t have been done. She's shared updated maps with the Clan, and even taken to asking people where they live on the map.

Rayne has also been my sounding board and editor for all of the Clan fictions that have been published in the last year. She has personally reviewed everything and sent the details back to me with markups and suggestions. That is at least 4 publications reviewed prior to release. Beyond that, Rayne has curated a list of Mobile Friendly Games and activities that have been included in our past Clan level events. At her suggestion, we have begun to include more of these mobile friendly games in our activities and we’ve seen an increase in numbers there. The list is maintained on the CSP leadership Google drive allowing access from all leaders.

Rayne maintains our wiki pages, updating them where necessary. This is a project that she has been working on since she was QUA. She’s updated numerous pages, cleaned up our categories and Rayne has worked as my official sounding board for all ideas that I have. Beyond that, she has helped me to develop the model that we use to run CSPs day to day activities. Rayne also assisted the Clan in the development of several social media sites. While they are underused, the development of these social media profiles is part of an ongoing plan for recruitment and retention. She routinely monitors our members' activity logs and recommends the appropriate awarding actions. To put it plainly, I could not accomplish anything in CSP without Rayne's help

Prior to her time as PCON, Rayne served 7 months as QUA. In her time as QUA she contributed with the same vigor that she does as Proconsul. Most of her awards during this tenure were based solely on the XP she earned from the veritable hailstorm of activity that she was doing at the time. However, this is a great opportunity to acknowledge that her contributions as QUA did not go unnoticed. All of the work that was put in as QUA that went under-awarded did not phase her. She kept doing what needed to be done. During her time as QUA, she was the first to promote our activities, developed an idea for a CSP Clan Fiction Chat, where members can discuss their characters, undertook the wiki cleanup project, There is a reason that Rayne is where she is today: Her hard work and dedication to CSP.

Rayne is not only an excellent role model for the Clan, she is the future of CSP's leadership. She has learned everything there is to know about how to run our Clan and I look forward to the day where I can pass over the throne to her. CSP would not be the same without having Rayne in it. Keep up the fantastic work. Drinks are on you!

Thran Occasus-Palpatine, 2024-07-14 21:24:08 UTC

Zuza remains ridiculously active, but this medal is largely due to XP she earned from the recent end of diminishing returns for clusters. Congrats, enjoy the credits!

Lord Dacien Victae, 2024-07-08 14:33:12 UTC