Into Battle

The naked earth is warm with Spring

And with green grass and bursting trees

Leans to the sun's gaze glorying,

And quivers in the sunny breeze;

And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light,

And a striving evermore for these;

And he is dead who will not fight;

And who dies fighting has increase.

The fighting man shall from the sun

Take warmth, and life from the glowing earth;

Speed with the light-foot winds to run,

And with the trees to newer birth;

And find, when fighting shall be done,

Great rest, and fullness after dearth.

All the bright company of Heaven

Hold him in their high comradeship,

The Dog-Star and the Sisters Seven,

Orion's Belt and sworded hip.

The woodland trees that stand together,

They stand to him each one a friend,

They gently speak in the windy weather;

They guide to valley and ridges' end.

The kestrel hovering by day,

And the little owls that call by night,

Bid him be swift and keen as they,

As keen of ear, as swift of sight.

The blackbird sings to him 'Brother,brother,

'If this be the last song you shall sing

'Sing well, for you may not sing another;

Brother, sing'.

In dreary, doubtful, waiting hours,

Before the brazen frenzy starts,

The horses show him the nobler powers;

O patient eyes, courageous hearts!

And when the burning moment breaks,

And all things else are out of mind,

And only Joy of Battle takes

Him by the throat, and makes him blind.

Through joy and blindness he shall know,

Not caring much to know, that still

Nor lead nor steel shall reach him, so

That it be not the Destined Will.

The thundering line of battle stands,

And in the air Death moans and sings;

But Day shall clasp him with strong hands,

And Night shall fold him in soft wings.

Julian Grenfell

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Dark greetings Alvaakians !

This report will be a very special one, so lean back and enjoy reading :)

NEWS

Earlier this week, we all received Keirans mail. To see him go made me sad. Keiran was always the one that I looked up to. His leadership was the best I have ever seen. He will be greatly missed.

Fortunatly will he stay as an active member of House Dominatus.

Also, KE Bant Komad resigned today from his position as AED of House Dominatus, applications aren`t taken at the moment.

On some better news:

JH SavageAz and JH Wisal Pol-Jo, for your excellent activity, your dedication to your Battle Teams and your service to your House, for your high participation in Competitions and your all around performance as Sith I herewith evaluate you to the rank of Dark Jedi Knights.

Wear your sabers with pride and let everyone out there know, Clan Alvaak is coming !

My congratulations !

We also welcome back some long served members in our lines, such as PRT Maiko Spince and SBM Wil Striker ! Welcome back !

Also, a new Consul is already choosen and appointed, it is me :)

The position of PCON will also stay open for the next time. Applications aren`t taken.

That’s it so far for the news.

COMPETITIONS

The Great Jedi War.

You should all have received my mail about our performance in the Turn 2 of Phase 2.

The 3 Clan Alliance of Alvaak/CSP/Tarentum got defeated by Naga Sadow, BUT :)

We got no losses and we won 4 of 5 MP matches. All were won by our Obelisk House, great work !

We also took 2 terretory hexes and control them now. So we are still in a good position :)

About the rules:

I know they are very confusing, so I will try to explain them as good as possible.

I move our fleet(s). They are moved in a map of hexes.

You can take a look at the map here:

http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.org/dbjedi/dgm/index.htm

Thats the basic, we move our forces and the others do, if we hit anyones terretory we fight them or we withdraw.

If we hit an enemy terretory we have to fight in the turn we hit them.

This means, Krath’s (Krath Task Force) will do trivia to gain intelligence power, means, we can request infos about the place were other fleets are at the moment.

We fight them following way, direct results (win or loss) will be fought in MP Battles at the channel #shadowacademy

Those MP Battles makes the difference.

SP Missions for Sith are just to reduce possible losses of our own fleet.

So you see, MP Battles are the basic of the wargame, so if we hit an enemy, we will blast them in #shadowacademy !

If you are in the channel, you have to make sure that your nick reflects your Clan, in my case this is AL-Frey. Also, be just in the channel when you are up for a game. If anyone catches you there and you refuse to fight him he will have a win, no matter if you fight him or not.

So be carefully out there.

Our current partners are Clan Scholae Palatinae and Clan Tarentum

So please don`t kick them, they fight for us ;)

That’s already it for this turn, I would suggest that you check the DJB.org news site daily for any updates.

If you have any more questions about it, don`t hesitate to mail me or to catch me on IRC.

ROSTER

The Roster is up to 40 Dark Jedi’s, we are making our way back :)

STATUS

Well,

I wil ltry my best to continue Keiran’s way, but I`m not Keiran. Keiran had his very own style of leading, but I must also say that I prefer to be a 1st version of myself instead of being a lame copy of someone else. Means, I have my own style.

I`m doing what I think that it would be the very best for the Clan and the aim I set myself. I already stated a few times that Alvaak is something special for me, but at the moment we are still fighting for being respected as normal Clan and far, far away from being something special. However, we will make our way back to the top, as a team, and not as 3 individual Houses that fight for themselves.

I have now access to the logs of our channel bot, and what I saw there makes me think that some hasnt realised this yet, and the latestdiscussions over the Alvaak egroup just support this, so let this be a warning for all of you, I wont tolerate the showing of disrespect to any other member of this Clan, and I will punish it with all the power I have, so if you have complains, then complain to the one you have a problem with or his superior.

I hope this was clear enough.

If you have any problems or questions or comments, feel free to mail me.

Respectfully,

SBM Frey Gallandro (SITH)/CON/Clan Alvaak

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