Quaestor Report
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Prologue
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This will be a short RP-style introduction relating to current events in the House, Clan, & DJB.
Raken was alone in the fields below the Dark Hall. The Kapsina moon shone brightly overhead casting playful shadows about the Knight's shoulders. Solitary, taciturn, the creature often wandered alone among the tall grass contemplating his place in the order of things.
His reverie was broken by a calling. A strange sound on the wind. Or was it in his mind? The dark energy that shrouded his presence in the Force like a parasite whispered to him of a shifting in the delicate balance of the nascent Clan...
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#999900">News From the Front</font>
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CHANGE OF COMMAND
Before I get started, I'd like to again acknowledge and thank OP Silent for his long history of hard work and dedication to HSK and CP. He made working as his AED fun and easy and I sincerely look forward to his return to us.
That said, I am honored by this opportunity to step up to the next level and serve the Clan. I will continue in this new role as I have in all my others. I will dedicate as much of my time and resources as is possible in order to ensure we all have a better experience here for it.
As with any change of administration, some things will be different. Some things will stay the same. Know this: everything I do is for the fun and enjoyment of us all.
Some things about me:
I don't care about rank, I don't care about titles, I don't care about awards, I don't care about how fat my ID line gets. Everything I love to do here I can do as an APP as easily as some lofty rank. I spend a good deal of my free time here for the interaction and creativity the Club offers. For me, it's a form of intellectual catharsis to be able to write stories, create graphics, or help administrate the Club in a fictional Star Wars setting.
I am a rabid Star Wars fan and love to discuss the EU, movies, etc. with my friends both here and at home. I really enjoy the environment that Sarin and others have created in CP where we spend a lot of our time discussing ideas of how to make things more fun and interesting regarding the timeline, our characters, the Dark Side of the Force, etc. Then, as leaders, we turn around and try to make those things part of your experience here so that hopefully you find them very cool and fun to participate in. End of story. That's my goal. (Did I mention crushing all of CP's enemies as well? No? We'll get to that later =)
I do care about fun, interaction, participation, creativity, motivation, competition. These things are what's fun here, or anywhere for that matter. If you want crap like rank, awards, advancement, focus on the things I just listed. If you busy yourself having fun and bettering yourself and others around you, all the accolades and baubles will take care of themselves. Don't get me wrong, those things are fun too and I do like them from an RP point of view, but don't make your goal earning a Grand Cross so your ID line looks "sweet". Make your goal to improve the House and Clan so when you lock-up for the night, they and their members are better off than when you found them.
<font color="#999900" size="4">AEDILE APPLICATIONS</font>
As I have been asked to step up, so too must someone else. Applications are being taken until 5 October for the position of HSK Aedile and what will essentially be My Right Hand. Myself and the Clan Summit will make the best choice of those that apply. If you think you have the desire, motivation, time and maturity to step up to what I will most certainly ask of you, then by all means send in the best application you can write to myself, Sarin, Aabs, and Orzon.
That being said, here are some things to take under advisement when considering this position. I do not like people who merely seek to fatten their dossier. I do not want someone who is trying to fly to the top of the roster for their personal gain first, everything else second. For me, Leadership might as well be a synonym for Service. If you truly desire to see this House and Clan a better place and are willing to place the good of the membership above your own, then I want you with me.
Traits of a successful applicant will include:
Motivation
Service
Dedication
Creativity
Solid knowledge of Star Wars and DJB lore
Effective communicator
Energetic
Reliable
Punctual
Helpful
Diplomatic
Mature
Do these things describe you?
GUIDANCE
Right now I can offer you what I myself adhere to. CP is undergoing changes. We have been constantly working and creating new ways to do things here so that we can get the Clan and its Houses to a place we'd all like to see them: at the top of the DJB.
I would suggest patience and dedication from you, the membership, so that we may all get this thing on the right track and prepare ourselves for what's to come in the DJB as a Club. Make no mistake, most of the other Clan's are ahead of us in this regard. They are older, have many more members, and think themselves perhaps untouchable in competition from ones such as we. Know this, Ketoans, I love to compete. When the next Club-wide Clan competion rolls around, this House and this Clan, will be ready to exhibit the full measure of our skill. Are you with me on that?
Something else I'd like to remind you of is: YOU SHOULD BE EXCITED! You are basically on the ground floor of a Clan just starting out. You have the opportunity to make your presence felt both here and in the club as a whole with your loyalty and service to your Clan and its members. Anyone can defect to another Clan and then claim a piece of their laurels, history, and glory. But not just anyone can be there for an organization when the chips are down and see them from relative unknown, to an absolutely immutable force that demands recognition.
REPORTS
Here is the breakdown on how these will go. (There is no change from before, so take this as a reminder.)
BTL=Thursday
ENV=Friday
AED=Friday
QUA=Saturday
I will say this to my fellow HSK Summit members in council, but here it is for you all as well: I like quality reports. I want them to be more than just a list of things that happened to people. There needs to be a reason to read them beyond that they just say what a lot of us already know from our emails.
EMAILS
Speaking of emails...there continues to be issues regarding them when dealing with auto-generated ones for various things you do in the DJB. Recently I've barely gotten any for things like the SA. I've learned the problem is known, though not precisely what causes it. It is being worked on though at the top.
GAMING
Admittedly, gaming is not my thing. It used to be, but then I got married. Now it's a thing I look upon fondly as I drool over all the sweet games I'll never get the time to play.
Though a lot of the DJB emails have not been getting through to me, ones that have have been for our recent gaming participation. And I must say, I'm impressed. Particularly so with Niman and Dax who have racked up quite a few CFs of late! Great job, gentlemen.
HALLOWEEN
I don't know about you, but Halloween is my favorite holiday. I'm working on some things to do throughout the month of October that should be pretty fun. Stay tuned.
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<font color="#999900">State of the House</font>****
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This will be the section where I address the House and let us all know about how we're doing, what's coming up, what we've accomplished, etc.
Obviously, we're all adapting to the recent changes in leadership. Enough has probably been said on this already. I plan to not break stride regardless of what positions may be changing hands even if I have to do everything myself. I want us ready for the next major Club competition and the next GJW.
Currently we are working to re-establish our identity as both a House and Clan. We have dropped to one BT and rightly so. I received one request to join a BT from House members not in a team already in the last two weeks. Combining the teams at least gives us one complete group of motivated individuals. I want to encourage you to step up and start doing the little things if you want to advance in this House. It's funny how many times I see very little effort from an individual either to better himself, or another, yet when a leadership positions opens up, bam, there they are with an application. Why would anyone not willing to serve and follow, be willing to lead? Not for any good reason I can think of.
I suggest we all stay motivated and find the things that bring us joy and entertainment here. Dwelling on the negative and trying to bring anyone down with you as a result of your displeasure with something that happens here will not be looked upon kindly. This does not mean, sit down, shut up and don't ask questions. Absolutely not the case. Please contact me, talk to me, PM me, I love hearing your ideas. I don't have all the answers, nor the best ideas man's ever conceived. Just ask my wife...
I'm simply talking about anyone who may become disgruntled and try and "take it out" on the House or Clan. If I hear about subversion of this nature, I'll deal with it harshly. This is a pretend club for Star Wars fans afterall, let's skip all the drama and have a good time. If you feel you've been treated unfairly, send me a direct email. I will speak to anyone about anything. Ask around if you don't believe me, I've talked to people before solely from the perspective of helping them resolve their issue.
More to come once I get settled in.
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<font color="#999900">Projects</font>
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I recently completed work on my portion of the Antei System planets. That was a fairly sizable ordeal and I'm glad I'm out from underneath it. If you get the opportunity to work on some Club-wide projects like that, do it, it's pretty fun to be able to write things that will become Club canon.
Obviously I have tons of things to organize for the House. I am planning some competitions, the way we will be administrating, and looking for ways to motivate our members.
The updates to the HSK site continue as well. I had recently finished the Order of Keto document which is up on the site now. Basically it's an expansion of the cool honor for Equites that recognize them as an unofficial Summit councilor if they are selected.
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<font color="#999900">The Quaestor's Hand</font>****
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Details to follow. This will be good.
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<font color="#999900">Required Reading </font>****
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If you've been following the many Clan events of late, you've undoubtedly seen the mention of the Sistros Acquisitions & Holdings front company for CP. Well, here's a brief blurb on where we got that from and how it lends its concept of duality to our Clan.
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<font color="#999900">Summit Reports </font>
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BTL ~ On Time (Sent via email)
ENV ~ On Time
AED ~ None (Due to Change of Command)
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