Incoming Transmission... Decoding... From: Office of the Aedile To: All Members of Scholae Palatinae

My Brothers and Sisters of the Royal House, As you have no doubt seen over the last week there has been a massive increase of terrorist activities in our System. These are just the most recent workings in a long series of attacks and movements all orchestrated by "The Cause". For years this group has been a thorn in our side and now, their attacks have resulted in a massive system wide riot. Cities through out the Cocytus System are revolting in protest to our seeming lack of security. We are now at the brink of a Civil War, a Civil War that would cripple our House. On behalf of the Emperor, Ood Bnar Scythe'rae, and as the Grand Marshall of the house I am ordering an immediate mobilization of our forces.

For too long have we allowed these pests to disrupt our plans and efforts for this system. For too long have they hindered the growth of the Empire. For too long have we been lenient and fair to the people of the Cocytus System. For too long have we endured attacks against our security as Dark Jedi. This ends now. It is up to us to side step the pitiful local law enforcement and take this into our own hands. As wielders of the Dark Side of the Force, we are the most powerful beings in the Galaxy. We should not have to deal with such insubordination. We will succeed where the normal citizens of the System have failed. We will succeed were where have failed in the past. We WILL eliminate "The Cause" for good.

While secondary goals are to kill and capture as many of the grunts of this organization as possible, it is the central leadership of the group we most focus our efforts on. Our primary objectives are to capture or kill the main leadership of this group. Several individuals who have in the past only been slightly known about have been identified. Further information is being processed and obtained as we speak. Information on the known members of "The Cause" leadership can be found here. More information on the leaders will be released as it is discovered. More importantly we must find the identity of two individuals. "The General" and "The Shadow". These are the most two important individuals for us to take down, however; only with the death or capture of all of the leadership can this terrorist group finally crumble.

From the members of this group we have managed to capture and obtain information from, it is clear that outside of those who are the central leadership, there are none who can rise to fill those positions. If we strike fast enough, we can insure no new bodies can fill the vacancies.

It is time to take up arms and fight back. This is our system and we cannot allow a civil war to remove it from our control. That is unacceptable. Failure is not an option. We will have complete and total control of this system, and no group will stand in our way. We follow in the footsteps of the Great Emperor Palpatine, and to fail brings dishonor to his memory and legacy. We will neutralize this threat. For the Empire!

Greetings House Scholae Palatinae! Welcome to the start of The Neutralization, a three week long house event. I have been working on this for a long time, so I hope you all have fun and participate in what is coming. My hope is you take this as seriously as a Great Jedi War or any other DB wide Vendetta. We had an excellent showing in the last Vendetta, Disorder, so I hope to see a lot of participation in this. Not only do I hope you all have fun, I hope this helps you prepare for the upcoming Great Jedi War later this year. As you all should know, DB Vendettas are a big deal so I want you all to be ready for it. So please use this event as an opportunity to hone and practice your skills.

As an aid to this event I have created a simple website found here. There you can find duplicates of the information I will be sending out through emails in case you need to look something up. As well remember the competition listing on the DB site, where you can easily find what events are going on each week.

For The Neutralization there will be three (3) competitions each of the three (3) weeks it runs. These range from simple flash games, to various fictions to graphics. There should be something that everyone is capable of doing in this event, and I hope it gives a nice mix of things you can see in the bigger Vendettas. In addition to these week long competitions, there will be two event long activities.

First there will be gaming. I talked with Fremoc, The Fist, to work out how this will work. It is very simple. You can game as normal. At the end of the three weeks I will be able to see all the gaming numbers for members in the house and be able to award based off of that. So game as normal with anyone and everyone you can in the DB. Fictionally I will be taking this event as killing the lower levels of "The Cause", so try to get as high of a body count as you can get.

The second event long activity is a Run-on. This is a every important factor in the fiction of this event so I hope you all can participate in it. This is also an excellent opportunity to earn CIs outside of the ACC. The run-on is located here. This is now officially open and it will end at 11:59 PM EST on February 7th. The official plot of this is to obtain information on "The Shadow" (which I already have and will be releasing after you work to find it) and then it will focus on you eliminating him. Remember when enough time has passed and the plot has proceeded far enough I will release the needed information for you to take out "The Shadow" in a post. I really hope people get into this run-on. It has been a long time since we had a run-on here in HSP so I hope you take advantage of the opportunity. If you don't know how these work please feel free to email me about how to go about participating.

Now here are this week's events: A Call to Action: The call has come from the House Summit and you must answer it. Rather then risk Civil War in the system, The Empire has issued a rapid military action to squash any chances the terror group "The Cause" has of leading a open rebellion. As you prepare for the coming frenzy, you have a brief moment to reflect on your feelings of this resent news and the past months of rising terrorist attacks. This is a short Journal Style fiction. 1 page min about how your character feels about being cast into conflict to prevent this Civil War. (Side note: Silly me was distracted when submitting this one and forgot the rest of the title for it. Later on when you are looking it is the one listed as just [HSP Neutral] with nothing else.)

Hack the Sense: You have been put in command of taking down "The Sense". It is well known that Grax von Kepper has been in hiding on Barbatos and has locked himself into a secure location. You must hack your way into his safety bunker and capture or kill him. Be aware that he will attempt to prevent you from entering and is considered Armed and Dangerous. This is a simple little flash game found here. Just send in a screenshot of your score.

Stop the Gears: Julir Brasada aka "The Mechanic" is on the run on Caina. It is up to you to stop him from reaching the Starport and disappearing. This is a graphics competition. Draw something, Paint something, Do a montage of photos you find from the internet. Just make sure to give any credit to images you use. Do NOT plagiarize anything.

IMPORTANT: For all of The Neutralization I set up a special email address. Make sure to send all of your submissions to [Log in to view e-mail addresses] I will also try to make sure to send verification emails when I receive a submission so you know I got it.

Terrorist Dossiers: These are the available dossiers on those whom you will be facing off against this first week of The Neutralization.

Name: Grax Von Kepper Alias: The Sense Position: Recon/Infiltration Sex: Male Species: Human Age: 37 Last Known Location: Barbatos Status: Wanted Dead or Alive Expertise: Intelligence Gathering and Hacking Notes: It has been widely know to the system security administrators of Scholae Palatinae that there have been several large scale breaches, which considerable amounts of classified intel stolen. It has been established that Grax was behind these attacks and continues to pick away at the House's security. The information he acquires has been instrumental in aiding "The Cause" with their attack plans. His death or capture would severely hinder the terrorist group's ability to pick targets and make it near impossible for them to know troop and security movements.

Name: Julir Brasada Alias: The Mechanic Position: Engineer and Vehicle Maintenance Sex: Male Species: Duros Age: 30 Last Known Location: Caina Status: Wanted Dead or Alive Expertise: Machines Notes: Julir is a widely known mechanic prodigy. His work on the droids and vehicles of "The Cause" have led to many deaths for Scholae Palatinae. He is responsible for outfitting the civilian ships and turning them in to incredibly fast and weaponized transports. Due to his careful maintenance of "The Cause's" ships, they have run in pristine condition continuously. His death or capture would lead to serious degradation to the transports of this terrorist group, as well as hinder their abilities to add new powerful modified ships to their fleet.

For those of you who want to be able to check on information on each of the individuals you will be facing for this event please visit the Terrorist Dossier page on the Event website. As more information is released you can return there for information. I will make sure to email said information, as it is needed for next week's events. Also importantly, those who place FIRST in an event with an associated Cause leader will receive the credit for the kill or capture of that individual.

I know that was a lot, but it was needed. I really do hope you all enjoy this event. I know it may seem like I haven't been doing much these last few months following Disorder, and this is what I have been focusing on. Beyond advancing the house fictionally (And attempting to rid ourselves of an annoying terrorist group) it is an excellent opportunity to not only earn some medals, but stay ready for the coming major DB events. With that I leave you to it. There is a lot of opportunity for you to do things here so don't waste it. And Good Luck.

-XenMordin Vismorsus Aedile of Scholae Palatinae