Greetings Folks, We've got another round of the Crusades coming up starting this weekend, so get your fingers brushed off, your spellchecks primed, and your copies of MSPaint fired up, because we're going back into the breach once more. Below you'll find a primer for what is coming in the future, and as much information as I can give you right now. I leave it up to you to do as much or as little research on what information we do have on your own time.

Planetary Target Name: Ashas Ree, Stygian Caldera, Outer Rim Territories

Planetary Target Information: Little is currently known about Ashas Ree. A planet that had been shrouded in mystery for many years, it has nonetheless been the home to many pivotal events throughout the history of the Sith Empire. It was here that the Sith Lord Garu abandoned the Holocron of an Ancient Purebred Sith King named Adas, before he perished in the Great Hyperspace War. This same Holocron would be the pivotal item in the saga of the fallen Jedi Freedon Nadd. After recovering King Adas' Holocron, Nadd would use the knowledge he acquired about the Dark Side of the Force in his successful bid to subjugate Onderon.

Known Brotherhood Opponents: It has been revealed by our sources within the Taldryan Intelligence Directorate that strong contingents of warriors from both House Tarentum, and House Scholae Palatinae will also be embarking on the mission to conquer Ashas Ree under the Brotherhood's Aegis. While we are nominally working together against the One Sith in this endeavour, the summit of House Taldryan will not hold you responsible should any member of these rival clans fall under your blades in an unfortunate incident of friendly fire.

Advanced Scouting Party (The A-Team): As requested by the Dark Council, small teams of Dark Jedi from all of its Houses and Clans have been gathered together to spearhead the assaults on all of the planets that the allied Brotherhood forces will be invading in this wave of battle. The Summit of Taldryan, after great deliberation has come together on a decision to select our members who shall represent us in this endeavour. Rian and I will be contacting the members of our advanced force in the coming hours, as we continue the preparation for this next stage in the crusades.

What needs to noted here and emphasised more than any level of this so called elite force, is that they're not even close to the most important part of Taldryan's forces in the coming conflict. While the Dark Council will judge the winner of the planet based off a small piece of Taldryan's efforts, we the members of Taldryan's Summit will be judging our success off a different metric, and that continues to be participation. Participation, and coming together as a team is the most important part of any Brotherhood wide vendetta event, and Taldryan now as in years past, lives and dies by the efforts of her membership. Every effort matters to the members of Taldryan's summit, and we thank you for all the work you do for us, and all we ask is that you try your hardest.

We've lost a round in these Dark Crusades by a single entry. I want to let that sink in. One entry. How many of us can say we didn't have time to do one more event, or just try to get something completed? If you can confidently say that you couldn't, then that is all we can ask. But if you can't say that, I would plead with you to try to put just a little more effort in, and help out your fellow members of Taldryan.

Anyways, more information is going to be coming fast and thick in the coming days, so keep your eyes peeled, and gird your loins for battle, because this one is where we take Taldryan back to winning ways.

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OK, wall of text complete. I'd like to remind folks that Retden is still running a competition that everyone can submit to, and I personally think that it's one of the best flash game comps we've had in the DB in a while, so give it a whirl. Competition link is: http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/dbjedi/competition.php?id=6923

And more medals and promotions and such to list out that have been awarded or happened since... Sunday. Been a busy week for us here in Tal.

Medals: Itchy (Malfrost):Scroll of Indoctrination Yacks: Crescent with Sapphire Star, Pendant of Blood Rian: Crescent with Topaz Star Kazmir: Pendant of Blood x2, Cluster of Fire x10 Howie: Crescent with Emerald Star, Legion of the Scholar x2 Chaos: Legion of the Scholar x2 Lokasena: Legion of the Scholar

New Joins: Saren Al'Thane Serian Vera

Promos: Saren Al'Thane to NOV Serian Vera to NOV Bendak Talasar to ACO

Congrats to all the recipients, and welcome to our new members. That's it from me today.

Your Cranky Neighbourhood Aedile, Dark Jedi Master Keirdagh Taldrya Cantor