My poll concluded with amusing results. Of the 50 or so votes, people thought Kuja's Theme (Millenium Mix) was the best theme for me. Inorganic Angel and Obsessive Puppeteer tied for second, and Decadence of God came in dead last. Odd, I thought most people would choose that one :P.

There's a new Brotherhood History out for your reading pleasure. I have already received a couple comments on it, and most people seem to like it despite its lack of fictional magic. I'll wait about a week for more comments, and then I'll turn the History into HTML, and add it into the Dark Side Compendium if it meets Grand Master Firefox's approval. The URL for it is http://www.jpboyce.org/zedar/dbhistory1.rtf.

I'd like to thank all the leaders that replied to my e-mail about how participation in the GJW should be rewarded. Based on the opinions put forth in the e-mails, I've set the matter for deliberation before the Dark Council, and the final ruling on how participation will be rewarded should be announced next week. Stay tuned!

My work on the Brotherhood Survey has begun, and a tentative outline of what I expect the survey to measure and how I'd like to measure the data has been sent to the parties involved. Over the next week I plan on developing the questions, and start to work on the mechanisms used to deploy the survey. With any luck, the survey should be ready to go in early April.

Work on the medal images continues, although only prelimary sketches have been done. I imagine that after the GJW concludes, Gelton and Kethoron should have the images completed in short order, so the medal images should be updated, at the latest, by May.

And finally, there is a problem in the database with awarding Clusters of Fire. CyberGuy doesn't seem to know what the problem is, so before you e-mail me about missing CFs, please check your profiles; I may have had to add them in manually.

That's all the news for this week! Now for the medals.

Medal Requested: Grand Cross of the Dark Side (GC)

Requested for: SBM Frey Gallandro (Sith)

The request was made by: SBL Hades (Sith)

Reason given for request: Frey has been a very active member of the Dark Brotherhood for a very long time now. He has been dedicated in every role he has been placed in from Commander to QUA to Proconsul. He has shown cinsistent motivational activity through email, IRC and Message Boards to help set a good communicative base for Clan Alvaak as a whole. He has been consistently active in Competitions for his Clan very much so in the past, and whenever he is allowed to presently. His role of a leader as well has been exemplory, he will always make the tough decisions even if it will draw spite from his superiors. He will boldly commit actions in the face of this for the progression of his Clan. He as well leads by example and gives a solid personna for members to look at and then strive to become. This recommandation is backed by almost every underling of Frey's which has prompted this action.

Medal Requested: Grand Cross of the Dark Side (GC)

Requested for: OBM Gelton Torr (Obelisk)

The request was made by: KE Ciara Tearnan (Krath)

Reason given for request: Upon pressing by several House Cestus members I'd like to reccomend this award to Gelton Torr. He has served Cestus faithfully for an extended period of time, and during that he has served as Quaestor for nearing five

months. Cestus battled in two feuds under Gelton's leadership, the first being a feud that he personally planned and organized between Cestus and Galares, in which he planned the usual Obelisk events plus some fiction to give the House more variety and improve their skills in those areas. In the three-way Clan Feud Dark Jedi Games Gelton also played an important role in helping to encourage and lead his House. Gelton has kept Cestus busy with competitions including ladders, graphics, motto/quote comps that never left the House with nothing to do. His online presence is excellent, as he is online (irc) almost daily and is always there for his members, be it house issues, or even more personal problems. His weekly reports are consistant, on time, detailed, encouraging, and a great example to the rest of the house. Most recently he created the Council within Cestus which is there to aid members through major competitions like the GJW by picking out strengths and weaknesses. To put it in the words of his apprentice, GRD Rage Maki, "Gelton's unquenchable thirst to improve the House and its systems has to be rewarded."

Medal Requested: Steel Cross (SC)

Requested for: DA Reinthaler (Sith)

The request was made by: SBL Gord Darkonian (Sith)

Reason given for request: DA Reinthaler has recently taken upon himself the duty of AED of house Galthain of CSK, nothing easy considering the high standards his first class QUA requests from every one in the house and especially those in a

command position. Reinthaler has lived up to what was expected of him as second in command of the house both as a leader and a pilot. Among other things he has placed second in Galthain's RR2 round 3 comp, placed third on the mp ladder for the "Worth it ?!" clan combetition, participated in the run on, submitted multiple gfx and flown xwa for the GJW achieving first place in the the graphics open event and getting his clan 15 valuable points, flying TCTIE :29-31 and XWATC : 26 as well as creating splash page images for the DB (with FF atm) and CSK (http://csk.minos.net )sites For his activity both in service of his house as well as the clan i would like to award him the steel cross. Reinthaler your work here is appreciated so keep it up and thanks! :)

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Chancellor of the Dark

Brotherhood
SB/(SC)/(SE)/DC-KC-O-CS/(BN)/CF/(LSAg)/DSS/CoLx2
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