Hello Scholae Palatinae! I am still working on the concluding fiction to the Wrath of Zhan, so expect to see it in your emails. It will wrap up the whole Looking Home Campaign, and hopefully give you enough of a teaser for far future things down the road. There will also be a wikipedia page created, much like the other ones seen in the Looking Home Campaign, but with the GJW starting very soon, that may get pushed back until after.

Intel: Brotherhood Wide
By far the most important news is the coming Great Jedi War, starting on the 9th. It will be broken up into two halves. The section will run from the 9th to the 23rd. The second half will run the 26th to February 9th. The short gap will give the DC a chance to release a mid-GJW Fiction and updates. Both halves will feature a Fiction, Graphics, Gaming, and Puzzle. They will obviously differ in both halves. In addition to this, there will be a few competitions running the whole length of the GJW. These are a run-on, a battleplan, and a multimedia competition.

Details for all of these of course will come with the opening of the GJW. Sarin in lead up to the GJW, has been releasing fictions that connect the events of the Dark Crusade, and Fading Light, to what is going to be happening in the GJW. These plot updates are really cool so I hope you check them out. They give a lot of context for the story so far.

As for a second bit of cool news, the tradition of the Herald Style Hanukkah was continued this holiday season with some awesome additions to the Robes and Lightsaber Selectors. You can check out the full listing of these news reports here. There are lots of new goodies for a wide array of different ranks.

Intel: The Imperial News Net
Now on to the results of the Wrath of Zhan! We had a total of 86 different submissions to these events. We had a total of 33 posts to the run- on, making it one of the most posted in run-ons our house has done in a long time. There were 35,467 words written between the fictions and run-on. Clusters of Ice earned has been submitted to the Voice, so expect to see those soon. You guys knocked it out of the park with participation in this. Crescents were able to be upgraded in several cases, including the parent competition! Great work from each you! Lets keep this level of activity up as we go into the GJW!

Nightmare Pumping in my Veins (Long Fiction):
1st - Evant Taelyan
2nd - Lucyeth
3rd - Zagro Fenn
4th - Delak Krennel
5th - Xantros

Acts of Violence (Short Fiction):
1st - Xantros
2nd - Ric “Blade” Hunter
3rd - Kell Palpatine Dante
4th - Evant Taelyan
5th - Zagro Fenn

Ode to an Imperial Hero (Poetry):
1st - Kell Dante Palpatine
2nd - Xantros
3rd - Zagro Fenn
4th - Delak Krennel
5th - Lucyeth

Assault the Palace (Battleplan):
1st - Evant Taelyan
2nd - Kell Palpatine Dante
3rd - Lucyeth
4th - Zagro Fenn

The Ruined Palace (Graphics):
1st - Ric “Blade” Hunter
2nd - Kell Palpatine Dante
3rd - Delak Krennel
4th - Zagro Fenn
5th - Lucyeth

Fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu Zhan (Comic):
1st - Evant Taelyan
2nd - Chrome
3rd - Delak Krennel
4th - Cruise
5th - Kell Palpatine Dante

I’ve blank it with these blanks in my blank-ing Empire (Madlibs):
1st - Zagro Fenn
2nd - Kell Palpatine Dante
3rd - Ulfsark
4th - Cruise
5th - Evant Taelyan

Only one man would DARE give me the raspberry (Decryption):
1st - Delak Krennel
2nd - Evant Taelyan
3rd - Koryn Thraagus
4th - Zagro Fenn
5th - Chrome

The Imperial Knowledge Test (Trivia): 1st - Evant Taelyan
2nd - Xantros

Snapshots of War (Flash Game):
1st - Evant Taelyan
2nd - Shadow Nighthunter
3rd - Koryn Thraagus
4th - Anahorn Dempsey
5th - Xantros

Together We Stand; United We Fall (Run-on):
1st - Zagro Fenn
2nd - Shadow Nighthunter
3rd - Lucyeth
4th - Evant Taelyan
5th - Delak Krennel

Overall Wrath of Zhan Competition:
1st - Evant Taelyan with 225 Points
2nd - Zagro Fenn with 180 Points and all 11 competitions submitted to
3rd - Kell Palpatine Dante with 180 Points and 10 competitions submitted to
4th - Lucyeth with 145 Points and all 11 competitions submitted to
5th - Delak Krennal with 145 Points and 10 competitions submitted to

There were a lot of incredibly well done submissions to these competitions. As you can see, there were several “ties” with points, so placement then went to most competitions submitted to. We had a great mix of old and new members participate to this, and I hope we can keep that trend going when the GJW starts. You can expect to see a couple more messages from me involving the Wrath of Zhan, as I get the fiction and wikipedia page finished for it. I didn’t want to waste any time with the grading of this however, as I know a lot of you were really looking forward to seeing them. I had a great time working through all of the many submissions, and there were a lot of really close calls with the scores here.

Now, time to rest up and brace yourselves. Lets go win this GJW! FOR THE EMPIRE!

Xen'Mordin Vismorsus
Quaestor of Scholae Palatinae