House Report for Galthain of Satal Keto

Designation: Vess 23: 12/22/03

Sorry about the lateness of this. I’ve been fighting with my parents’ virus ridden and generally screwed up computer for the past three days trying to get online again. Very frustrating….anyway….

See the House News section for some important updates and questions I’d like answered. Things I’d like your input on are denoted with an asterisk “*”. Note that no one has given me any input yet.

Words of Wisdom:

-Read the House report, it has your baseline instructions for stuff.

-Read instructions carefully, always send competition submissions where they’re supposed to go, and attach your ID line.

-CC your friendly neighbourhood QUA on your activities so they won’t go unnoticed.

-Recruitment is always a high priority, let’s get some more fresh blood in this House.

-As we all know the Sith Order is in pain. This is not the time to become complacent, we cannot let it die. Stand tall my Brothers and Sisters, defend the honour of your House and your Order by remaining active. Your leaders are exploring new options to rekindle the fire.

COMPETITIONS AND OTHER THINGS YOU CAN DO TO GET NOTICED:

-The Capital Gains competition! The fiction part has started, so now you can come up with a story on how we came to possess the 2 new ships in our little 4 ship fleet - a Gallofree Medium Transport (MTRNS) and a Modified Strike Cruiser (M/STRKC). Go ahead and make names for them in your submission, the Clan is still keeping it’s options open. The fiction stuff is due on JANUARY 12th.

In case you need or want to know, our fleet also consists of 2 Modified Corvettes (Malevolent, and Dark Paladin). Send all submissions to Mav ([Log in to view e-mail addresses]) and if it’s not too much trouble cc our Consul, Gord Darkonian, and maybe even little old me…. Remember to call it “Capital Gains Comp” in the subject line and have your ID line in the submission too.

For any particulars I’ve missed see the Capital Gains website, accessible through its article on the DB main page, or Gord’s email concerning it.

-One more Dalthid comp aside from the run-on. Here are the particulars for those ACCers who may be interested.

Challenge anyone from CSK in the ACC preferably state the reason as “CSK Bloodbath” and get a Cluster of Fire for a win…or 3 losses. Overall winners will get the standard array of Crescents as a reward. Email Dalthid with news of your exploits, include the battle number in your mail, and remember to cc me.

-Join the run-on training team and learn how to help your Clan in future comps. Contact Dalthid and Gord.

-The Dark Voice, could always use fiction submissions….I’ll even help you edit stuff (depending on how much time I have).

-There are always Shadow Academy courses for your enlightenment.

-You can always do some MP flying and earn yourselves some awards. The High Warrior has now made it possible for us to do MP style activities with SP platforms.

“A Singleplayer Challenge (or SPC for short) is a way in which we can make use of platforms like TIE and an encouragement for those unable to play formal MP matches to still come along and have a go at earning Clusters of Fire. The idea is that two people can agree on a mission and a time limit and race to get a high score, or quickest mission time, at the Training Night. After deciding on the details they both have to get their pilot file to the Host before the end of the time limit who will award the win based on who gets the highest score, or quickest mission time, or whatever the details might be.”

The source of the mission doesn’t matter (it can be downloaded from anywhere on the internet, or be from within the standard missions of the platform itself).

-Although the Sith Mission Competition itself is over, feel free to make more missions (plots or all that crazy computer stuff) and send them to Gord. They would be greatly appreciated.

-If there’s anything you can think of doing, do it. Initiative is always a good thing and looked upon highly.

This week’s report:

ACTIVITY:

-I submitted for Dalthid’s “Is it luck?” Comp.

-I rewarded Arso for his clone, Osra’s, exploits. A shiny new Star of Antei is his reward.

-Communication with a few of you.

PROMOTIONS:

None this week.

HOUSE NEWS:

-With any luck there will be an actual flight-based competition starting in the next few weeks. Yes, you read that right…FLIGHT-BASED!

-The Position of Sith Commander for our House is open to applicants.

If you’re PRT or above, have 3 months DB experience, have a good email and online presence…and above all are interested, feel free to contact both Waffennass and myself.

*-Since we don’t really have much to fly at the moment, I’m thinking of starting a mission building initiative within the House. Since we don’t have a very strong programming base we’d just be brainstorming ideas for missions and sending them up the chain of command for their scrutiny. What do you think about that, guys? Good idea, bad idea, insane idea? Let me know (use the Galthain group so we can get a discussion going). We really need more communication around here.

*-There are rumblings behind the scenes of a possible semi-merger of Galthain and our Obelisk brothers in Kirleta. Basically this just opens up more activities to us. We still retain our Sith leanings toward flight-based stuff, and our leadership structure remains the same. Competitions would have both Obbie and Sith components, and members can do whatever portions they feel like doing. I support this idea, but I want to know what you guys think. Any thoughts or ideas?

NEWS FROM THE DB IN GENERAL:

-Our new High Warrior has begun the task of reviving our Order. Project “Sith Revival” will focus on building an Order website, expanding our gaming base, creating new missions, and generally improving communication.

• The first edition of the new Dark Voice is out. View it at http://www.taldryan.org/dv/index.php
  

The next edition has been delayed.

-DB membership is increasing steadily. If you know anyone who would be a good Dber, give ‘em a nudge, we could always use new recruits, try to get them into Galthain. Let’s make this a priority.

LINKS:

www.darkjedibrotherhood.org

Galthain's current homepage: http://www.minos.net/~xura/Galthain/index.html

The Clan MB: http://www.satalketo.net/mb/

Dalthid’s cool PCON office page: http://darkjedicrypt.com/

The Dark Voice: http://www.taldryan.org/dv/index.php

and last but not least, the ACC webpage: http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.org/dbjedi/acc/

Our roster stands at 8 members:

QUA: Sith Warrior Vessicant ([Log in to view e-mail addresses])

AED: Sith Warmaster William Waffennass ([Log in to view e-mail addresses])

Warlord Armus ([Log in to view e-mail addresses])

Jedi Hunter Carl Starr ([Log in to view e-mail addresses])

Guardian mariusbob ([Log in to view e-mail addresses]) -Galthain Ace.

Protector Cam’k Seale ([Log in to view e-mail addresses])

Protector Osra ([Log in to view e-mail addresses])

Novice Final Sage ([Log in to view e-mail addresses])

That's it for this week.

Let your Darkness guide you,

-Vess

SW Vessicant(Sith)/QUA/Galthain of Satal Keto [KSOE: CCE] [ACC: SQ] GC/(SC)/(StA-QL)/DC-KC/(SN)/Cr-1T-4E-6S-4A-1R-2D/DSS-QK {SA: G:P2-G:LS-S:CORE-S:ISET-S:ESET}