Cethgus sat once more behind his desk, staring at the room around him as he looked down at the desk, wondering what the future truly held in its grasp. Shaking the thought from his head he allowed a small smile to come free from his lips, in the middle of everything that was happening around him, he couldn’t help but feel a thirst once more to see action. Standing up he walked out of the office and down the corridor towards the meeting room. Knowing that the team should have been assembled in there by now.

“Welcome team, its been a while hasn't it” Cethgus spoke as he entered the room to see the members of his team sitting there watching him.

“First of all, I am once more making sure that we do the best of our ability, I know what each of you are capable of, and having trained some of you personally I know that I can expect to see great things, so lets get back into the middle of all of this and do our very best, other than that I wanted to say that I am proud of each of you.” His words were quick and to the point.

Leaving the room after speaking he wandered down the corridor and back towards his office, knowing that each of them had a lot of potential but it was always the case, they had to unleash that on there own he could only push so far. Wandering into his office he sat down once more and allowed time to move by slowly as always.

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_ News _

Right, I know I havent been around that much, but that is about to change right now, we need to get back onto top form, and I know that each of you has great potential, I have seen the work this team can do in times of war, and I expect nothing less now, I will be pushing my self harder than ever and I know that I can count on each of you to do exactly the same. So lets get back into the swing of things people.

Secondly I wanted to quickly cover the fact that the family feud is currently being ran we are now into week three and have got time to participate still, just remember to do the very best that you can and I know that you will all be able to put in some good entries, you have time for this week and I will have the competitions listed a bit further down, just try and do as much as you can on this people. Participation is crucial and I expect to see each of you at least submit for two of these competitions.

Other than that I think I summed everything up, I just want to say that I will be around on IRC and email if you wanna chat etc, but just make sure that you are also entering into events and everything else people we need to keep on top of the game, and I want to see us all around on IRC when possible, ill be around a lot more so come grab me when you can.

_ Medals _

I won’t throw anything fancy in, I have seen a few medals around, but of late I have seen them drop slightly. Remember if you participate in a competition you have a chance of getting a medal its a simple as that. For Clusters of fire also remember that ToR can help you in getting medals, so everything you do gaming, fiction, acc or even ToR you can get rewarded for, so lets see the medals pick up as soon as possible and get going once more, I am sure that we will be able to get a lot of them with this family feud going on.

_ Shadow Academy _

Ok, this week it seems that we have been lacking when it comes to the Shadow Academy, I know most of you think that you don't have to do any exams. But I would like to take the time to encourage you all to participate in the Shadow Academy. It is a great way to learn about the brotherhood, Star Wars or just pick up a talent for HTML coding. So go have fun and take some Academy Exams.

_ Antei Combat Center_

Right, as the family feud has part of the ACC incorporated into it, I wanna see as many of you getting those ACC matches in, since I saw what you were doing in the war I know that you can do the same now, so just make sure that you continue to do the hard work and get involved in this, if you want to evolve your character, and fight with them testing your skill and having fun while doing it, I suggest signing up straight away.

_ Competitions _ [Family Feud] Week 3 - Fiction Specifics: A battle between foes rages in the Throne Room. Two adversaries go toe to toe. A war of wits. Word spreads quickly around the Citadel. Holocam view points flicker to life, depicting the scene unfolding at the heart of the Shadow Clan's home. What happens next?

Write a fitting follow on from this bout. Is your character involved? Is your character powerless in the ensuing chaos? Does a fight break out in the halls?

Be imaginative and create a storyline, working your character into the current story arc.

Grading will be conducted on imagination, ingenuity, spelling & grammar and readability.

All submissions are to be sent to:

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Platforms: Any Brotherhood-wide accepted Word processor.

Awards: 3rd Level Crescents

Comments: Approved by Clan Summit.
[Family Feud] Week 3 - GFX

Specifics: A battle between foes rages in the Throne Room. Two adversaries go toe to toe. A war of wits. Word spreads quickly around the Citadel. Holocam view points flicker to life, depicting the scene unfolding at the heart of the Shadow Clan's home. What happens next?

Graphically depict this scene, in either a single picture, a comic strip or, what one may suggest as 'contemporary art'.

Comedic entries will be counted, as will more serious ones.

All grading will be conducted on skill, ingenuity and detail.

All submissions are to be sent to:

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Platforms: Any Brotherhood-wide accepted graphics platform, including uploaded weblinks.

Awards: 3rd Level Crescents

Comments: Approved by Clan Summit
[Family Feud] Week 3 - Epic Poem

Specifics: A battle between foes rages in the Throne Room. Two adversaries go toe to toe. A war of wits. Word spreads quickly around the Citadel. Holocam view points flicker to life, depicting the scene unfolding at the heart of the Shadow Clan's home.

The war wages on. Families at odds. A Clan divided.

Using the following cue, write an epic poem of at least five stanzas explaining the developments of the Feud. You are welcome to write about the start, middle, or apparent end of the Feud. Be imaginative.

Cue: "It was a division of three parts..."

Grading will be conducted on poetic referencing, writing style, grammar & punctuation and ingenuity.

All submissions are to be sent to:

[Log in to view e-mail addresses] [Log in to view e-mail addresses] [Log in to view e-mail addresses] Running Time: From Jan 19, 2012 until Jan 28, 2012 Unit: Clan Arcona

Platforms: Any Brotherhood-wide accepted Word platform

Awards: 3rd Level Crescents

Comments: Approved by Clan Summit

[Family Feud] Week 3 - Multimedia

Specifics: A battle between foes rages in the Throne Room. Two adversaries go toe to toe. A war of wits. Word spreads quickly around the Citadel. Holocam view points flicker to life, depicting the scene unfolding at the heart of the Shadow Clan's home.

How did it end up like this?

You may use any form of accepted multimedia, including but not limited to video and sound/song.

Grading will be conducted on quality of multimedia and ingenuity.

All submissions are to be sent to:

[Log in to view e-mail addresses] [Log in to view e-mail addresses] [Log in to view e-mail addresses] Running Time: From Jan 19, 2012 until Jan 28, 2012 Unit: Clan Arcona

Platforms: Any form of accepted multimedia platform

(Youtube, Minus.com, attachment, etcetera.)

Awards: 3rd Level Crescents

Comments: Approved by Clan Summit
[Family Feud] Week 3 - Initialisation Specifics: 1.) SBBALGW 2.) DERP 3.) WATWTF 4.) ILUM 5.) ADEFPR

Create a sentence from which the acronyms above may be shortened. Must relate to the Star Wars universe, #arcona references, and/or the Dark Jedi Brotherhood.

For example.

1.) AI

• Arcona Invicta

Graded on creativity...can be comedic and/or coherent.

All entries are to be sent to:

[Log in to view e-mail addresses], [Log in to view e-mail addresses] and [Log in to view e-mail addresses] Running Time: From Jan 19, 2012 until Jan 28, 2012 Unit: Clan Arcona

Platforms: Any Brotherhood-wide accepted Word platform

Awards: 4th Level Crescents

Comments: Approved by Clan Houses
[Arcona Family Feud] Weeks 2 & 3 - ACC

Specifics: The Lord Consul has declared that anyone wishing to take out aggression towards another member must do so in sanctioned combat. Similar to the last War, you will sign up to participate in a match and will then be paired against a member of an opposing family.

You can request as many fights as you want, but only if you do not have any pending. Keep in mind, there will be a 24 hour limit on posts in an attempt to make the fights quicker.

These matches will be for sport and glory, and I'd love to get the concept of an "honor duel" going were matches are fought in holo-sims, or if they are real-time to not fight to the death. I'd like for fights to become cannon to character history, with scars being optional at the end of the match to be taken away to help build future rivalries and such.

The matches will be graded by Dash's new staff of ACC staff. You will get 3 points for a victory, 1 for a loss and -2 points for a TO. No middle grounds on how many posts you do, ect.

All matches will be 2+2.

Sing ups can be done here: http://goo.gl/oiznq

At the end, the participants will be ranked from 1st to last and thenapplied to a similar grading scale as the rest of the feud. Running Time: From Jan 12, 2012 until Jan 27, 2012 Unit: Clan Arcona

Platforms: ACC/Signup form

Awards: 3rd Level Crescents for top three combatants and Clusters of Ice are to be awarded in their standard fashion

Comments: Approved by Clan Summit

The above are all competitions out at the moment for the Family Feud I suggest you try and do as many as possible so you get participation in as well as possibly winning a medal. Have fun with these guys as I have had fun doing them so far.

_ End Though _

Right so now that we are back into the swing of things, I want to see you all do as many competitions as possible, there is stuff out there people just make sure you do it and you get rewarded for activity, we need to get back on top and it will be something we can do with time and effort, so I wanna see all of you on IRC at some point just make sure you have a good time and do as much as possible. Any problems catch me on IRC or Via Email.

Cethgus Entar