Tarentum,

In the sections below you will find an address to visitors from Celebration viewing the club for the first time, furthermore I’ve summarized news from across the club, marked several key dates related to our Clan fiction, and release some announcements regarding new developments in our Clan.

Before I begin, I’d like to both address the delay in this report as well as thank some people for their concern. Historically, April is a tough month for the club - its a transition month from winter to spring, school to summer break, and most importantly a shift in schedules. Across the club we have parents working out what their kids will be doing with the extra hours of light, we have university and college students cramming for exams, and we have a variety of personal interests that start up now. For me personally, April is planting season and its been a bit rough this year. As several of you know, this past weekend I was hospitalized for a seizure and while I know this has caused some concern I want to assure people that I’m fine, but I thank you for your concern.

It’s a mark of how great this club is, we create real friendships here and when I wasn’t available for a few days in a row unlike my routine I know a couple of you poked me to see what’s up. We care for each other. We are more than just a group of random SW nerds. We are a group of friends connected by this club.

We are Tarentum.

In Darkness We Trust

SBL Raiju Kang Consul of Tarentum

Clan Tarentum: Who are we?

To those viewing the website for the first time, or anyone in general interested in knowing more about Tarentum, I want to say; Welcome! Likely you have seen or heard much about the Dark Jedi Brotherhood already, but I’d like to share with you the history of Tarentum as written by Dark Jedi Master Sith Bloodfyre-Tarentae :

Tarentum: The Tau House.

Our history starts with that notorious squadron. It was Kaerner and his comrades who breathed life into us. It was Tau who had denied the Grand Master's orders to join a House, even though they were bound in his service as his honor guard; to protect their liege, they needed to remain unbound by oaths of loyalty to others. And yet, the Sith King is relentless, he is commanding, and Kaerner, Tau's commanding officer, was honor bound to obey. Justinisn Khyron, Dark Lord of the Sith and Grand Master of the Brotherhood, the Sith King, had initiated the birth of Tarentum, as brought by his servants. Tau created us. They are our forefathers, and we are their legacy, their heirs. We must not disappoint.

Tarentum was known to be a proud and honorable House, and entirely skilled. It was Tarentum and its Tau fathers who won the first House Wars, claiming the Victory-class Star Destroyer Corsair as prize. It was the skill and experience of notorious Sith such as Master Zero who eradicated their enemies. It was powerful Krath such as the Mad One, Sirrus, who claimed supremacy. The founding days of Tarentum and its youth were filled with glory, honor and prestige. We claimed a legacy of creating a line of Dark Council members, not only Kaerner, and Master Zero, and Sirrus, and Faethor, but many others. That legacy is ours, and while others may try to forget, we remember. We do not forget. We eradicate our detractors, we eliminate our offenders, and we deny the dishonorable a place among us. Tarentum is, if nothing else, a Clan of honor.

As a mark of pride, a badge of our honor, it was Tarentum who stood as Guardians of the Shroud at the call of our Lord Cotelin, the Grand Master of past times. It was he who had led the great Houses to become Clans, and when he ascended the Iron Throne once more, after Firefox, it was he who anointed us to that honored station. It was I as Praetor and Sith High Warrior, Master Bloodfyre, who sealed that bond. The Shroud, the obscure gateway from the rest of the galaxy that sealed off Antei, the home of the Brotherhood, was a barrier, with few pathways through, and those were known to us, and guarded by us. We were the first line of defense to the Dark Council, to the Grand Master, a legacy of Tau and her service to the Dark Lord. We had a place of honor, we took the defense of our Lord Cotelin seriously, but others were jealous. When the Brotherhood fled Antei, other voices ensured that the Grand Master would turn away from us, other voices that whispered we weren't to be trusted.

We were feared; we had bonded with the Keepers, those beings obsessed with darkness and death, and became the Clan of Death. Others denied our loyalty, and we were pushed away. Our loyalty remains to the Sith King, but we wait for the day when the Grand Master will see us as faithful sons and daughters. We never forget; our legacy is to serve our Clan, our liege, and his chosen heir who holds the Iron Throne. We are needed; we must be ready.

Tarentum remains the Clan of Death. We study death, we revel in battle, we find honor in service. We are the legacy of Tau, and the faithful of our liege, Justinian Khyron. The Sith King's heirs hold the Iron Throne, and our Lord Pravus demands fealty, but he rewards us with his grace, and uplifts us with his power. He is a bastion of our support, and we will not dishonor him. The Sith King is our father, our master, our creator. His heir, Darth Pravus, is our benefactor. We are his warriors, his defenders, his Clan of Death.

We are Tarentum.

Star Wars / Star Wars Celebration News

• Marvel Unlimited has made digitally available over 500 Star Wars Legends comics along with over 15,000 other Marvel titles. With the first month free, it seems silly not to check this out
• With Star Wars Celebration 2015 ending, tickets are now on sale for Star Wars Celebration 2016: Europe!
• Halc shared some good news for fans of Star Wars books and novels . News of a Lando Calrissian mini-series was enough to get my interest but I’m just as interested in the news about Shattered Empire, Battlefront: Twilight Company, and of course the novelization of The Force Awakens
• Most excitingly for our gamers, a new trailer and new information has been released on Star Wars: Battlefront . There’s plenty of members in Tarentum who have been waiting patiently for this information, and I was not one of them….I was very impatiently waiting for the news ;D In fact, EA sent an email to me yesterday announcing pre-orders for the game will get you early access to one of the new worlds from the new movies. I’ll be seeing you all on Jakku!
• At Celebration 2015 a new trailer of Episode VII was released
• Pravus, Val, & Zed were among many that went to Celebration this year, the past week we saw several celebration related competitions take place, we had a kickass blog sharing their moments (which made me jealous, and I’m happy to see still on the site to the right side--- > ) and most importantly the official club facebook and official twitter account kept up with all their action

Dark Jedi Brotherhood News

• The Office of the Fist has hammered the DJB with a number of reports and updates right before Celebration. For those interested in knowing more about Gaming in the DJB a summary was provided. In the first Gaming Update , Valhavoc outlined new changes for TOR (which I will discuss further below), new JA servers were announced. Furthermore, there was a discussion thread opened up about swaying . The Second Update looked at Star Conflict and shared info on the different guilds and groups of the DJB in various games.
• The Headmaster implemented a new points system for the debated Dark Sage Tactics and Warfare degrees
• The Wiki Tribune released a report where several Wikipedians of the Month (for March) were award - including our own Meleu and looked at a number of useful resources, tips, and tricks that wiki users should keep in mind.
• Finally, the Grand Master recently made mention about a possible change to how Orders/Paths work in the DB. I have discussed this on the whatsapp channel and I will continue to poke and prod in the new Telegram channel about this. Moving forward we need to keep all our options open for Tarentum and I admire how compromising many people have been about the discussion. Nonetheless, the Dark Summit has been discussing it and it looks like the timeline for its release is several months down the road but I will continue to keep you guys in the loop.
• Just over a week ago the club celebrated Exodus, the anniversary of our club’s indepedence from the Emperor’s Hammer. It’s during this celebration and during The Day of the Fox (in November) that we celebrate the most loyal of the club and this year Tarentum has awarded Frosty Romanae Tarentae and Caesar . Furthermore, from the Headmaster’s office we had another Tarenti awarded a SoL, Farrin Xies. Congrats to all three of you.
• Since my last report we had a change in leadership for one of our Battleteams. For those that haven’t heard, please congratulate Meleu Karthdo on taking over command of Battleteam Mortis
• For those that missed the Grand Master’s report Tarentum recieved a shoutout for March for having the largest % of active member increase with 6 new members.

The Old Republic

As was mentioned regarding the Fist’s report, the rules for The Old Republic and Cluster of Fires have changed. Now, you no longer need to be in the DJB guild to earn CFs. This is huge for Tarentum ! A number of our members haven’t been in the DJB guild for awhile, yet have been making themselves available to help rookie members through the content or collect CFs. Their selflessness has been rewarded, and now they too can earn CFs as well as recognition for Tarentum by being active in a platform they were already rocking.

There is a catch though

Members need to have their character names registered with the website or else they will not be counted. In the last week or so since the Fist’s report, we already have had a couple of members nailed for this. It’s unfortunate but these things happen.

What you need to do:

• Go to the admin page of the website
• Click edit dossier
• Scroll down the page until you see the section marked “Contact Methods”
• Fill out the form to include all your active TOR characters
• Repeat any time you start a new TOR character ( Like you might be for Meleu’s competitions

As many know, the fiction from my last report ,Half Past Midnight, was turned into a Run-On competition that concluded at the end of March. Unfortunately other matters have been a priority which delayed its conclusion for being posted but I have some exciting news and deadlines below:

April 23 (tomorrow)

Both the conclusion for the Run-on and the Winners of the event will be announced

April 24th

Will begin a mini-series competition of 3 competitions following up the conclusion of Half Past Midnight that will carry us to the first chapter of the new storyline. Important notice: Should a member place 1st in all three competitions, they will be additionally awarded command of an upcoming new Tarentum addition to the Tarentum military structure

April 27th

An update will be released detailing some special information on the Clan Summit, specifically the nature of the relationship between Raiju and Darth Aeternus and how this will influence Tarentum.

April 29th

Another short, quick update will be released from the perspective of the winner of Half Past Midnight

May 1st

Launch Day of the new Clan storyline

In total we will have 3 new plot updates from different perspectives over the course of the next week, then will have the launch of the new storyline with its first Chapter and its own full length update.

Current Projects:

Recruitment/Social Media Team

If you will recall my Clan Address you will remember that recruitment is a priority for the clan. In fact, with a solid foundation being rolled out in the next week (see below) that means our focus needs to be on bringing in more people. Already we have been doing well with Caesar’s management of the social media accounts - but we can’t stop here. We need a team of people looking after these accounts to insure timely and lively discussion, offer more than one personality in the clan, and to get some more ideas on the table. Furthermore, we need to look other areas for recruitment than the social media accounts.

Recruitment should be a responsibility of every member. However, this team will be responsible for setting up a clan-wide recruitment strategy for everyone to follow. Therefore as our highest priority and the level of responsibility required, this is a huge opportunity to earn merit for awards/promos for those getting involved.

Necromancy Cookbook

• Project Manager: Samael
• Summit Liaison: Darth Aeternus
• Current Group members: Levathan (Krath liaison), Aynar (Obelisk liaison)
• Description: A general guide on necromancy, with annotations by the three different orders on how best the dark art can be used from their perspection.

Planetary/Population Project:

• Project Manager: Aynar
• Summit Liaison: Raiju
• Current Group members: Caesar, Meleu, Farrin, Bloodfyre
• Description: An in depth look at Yridia system, aligning and updating the related wiki articles and also developing the socio-political system we live in. Perhaps possible reform and renovation for the planets and the socio-political system under the new clan storyline.

Wiki Update:

• Project Manager: Meleu
• Summit Liaison: Farrin
• Current Group members:
• Description: Complete overhaul and update of all existing wiki articles, bringing them up to standards, archiving those that need to be, creating new ones with the coming changes, and other general details. Member, planets, socio-political system, and military articles will all be reviewed under this process.

Communication Guidelines and Policies

• Project Manager: Caesar

New Storyline:

• Project Manager: Samael
• Summit Liaison: Raiju
• Current Group Members: Meleu
• Description: New clan storyline, redeveloping clan theme, introducing new NPC, villians, and long term story arcs. Will also introduce the new BTs and involve the membership storylines as much as possible. Not looking for group members in the traditional sense, but Raiju is looking for guest writers (both in and outside the clan).

Want to be a group member? Contact one of the listed Project Managers above.
Want to be a Project Member? Keep an eye out for upcoming projects, or if you have an idea or concept of your own submit a proposal to the Clan Summit.

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Summit Feedback Form

When I launched this tool it received a fair bit of use. I have dealt with the BT questions during their launch. A couple our submissions were private requests for contact. Since then, we have unfortunately had some spam submissions to the form from a disgruntled member who had left the unit. I want to remind everyone that this is a resource for productive member feedback and criticism, not a space for naming-calling, belittling, or simply trying to goad the summit.

Summit Feedback Form

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Upcoming Releases

My next report will be out on May 1st, this report will be a collection of announcements on the mailing list over the next week and a half about new documents, policies, and structure changes about to hit the clan (plus will also include the launch of the new clan storyline). What to watch for over the next week:

• New Master Student Program
• Communication Guidelines and Policies
• Monthly Promoting/Awarding Program
• Clan Summit Structure, Duties, and Responsibilities

Each of these will be released over the next week, and once they are announced and later included in my next report they will be uploaded to the wiki.

~RK~