Shar Dakhan Quaestor Report - Sapphire & Steel.
Yet Another Fiction
Arquitens Cruiser Satyr
Aeoetheran Low Orbit
Orian System.
“Are your people in place Malik?”
The Neti Adept glanced at the Aedile and then back at the screen in front of him. “They are ready and willing,” he replied calmly.
Sanguinius nodded. “Then proceed.”
Malik nodded. “This is Sapphire Command to all operatives. You have your orders and briefing details of the target has been relayed to your data pads. The target is live and the threat is unconfirmed. Detaining them alive is preferable, however if necessary a termination is authorised. Command out.”
His fellow Adept hummed. “I am not sure whether a capture or termination is most desirable in this case Malik, considering the target.”
A slight smile touched the Neti’s lips. “The parameters of this operation were authorised by the Quaestor, Sanguinius,” he replied, “we will follow his wishes.”
Aeotheran Security Force Headquarters
Seng Karash
The tall Augur stood calmly watching the screens in front of him. Raistlin glanced down at the corporal sat at the desk. “Timing is of the essence here,” he said firmly, “you have been supplied with the best equipment available, you had better not disappoint.”
“We are searching sir,” the man replied as the screens continued to flicker, scanning each person walking down the street for height and weight and any distinguishing features. Then it suddenly focused in on an individual figure, and numbers appeared next to them, followed by the word “match”. “There sir.”
Raistlin nodded. He raised his communicator. “Command, Krenth here. Target has been acquired on ninth street, coordinates 369,146. Relaying them to you now.”
“Acknowledged Krenth, relaying them to ground agents. Keep watching them.”
Introduction.
Hello Shar Dakhan (and friends).
This is another report from your Quaestor. How are you all doing? Personally I am doing well, the lockdown rules change again here tomorrow so we can visit people in their homes, eat and drink inside restaurants and pubs/bars and hug people again. I'm very enthusiastic about the first two of those things. Currently I'm looking for a nice restaurant to take my parents out to and also looking in some online Goth shops for a waistcoat with spikes on it. Anyway hope you and your friends and family are doing well.
So what's been happening?
Firstly we've just had the Unchained Melody competition which our Summit put together with Clan Taldryan. Personally I enjoyed the events and looking at the figures for submissions from HSD I'm pleased to see lots of you had a go at the events and I'm sure when the results come out we'll be seeing some crescents coming our way. Also interested to see how the official fiction works out and affects our House and Clan. Personally I'm hoping our Marakith Skyhook survived following it being taken over by the Unchained. Apparently someone accidentally lost it once before and it caused no end of trouble.
Secondly following lots of discussion the Disciples of Dakhan are closed and the new and hopefully interesting Sapphire Squadron is now open. In addition to creating the new team on the roster with help from Bentre, we've updated the wiki articles as below, both creating the new Sapphire Squadron wiki and moving the old Sapphire Squadron History to a new article. Hope you like the text, it just needs some images now which I'll mention later. In the time being we've already got some great members in Sapphire but there's space for couple more. Had two members ask me to put them in since it reopened and more are welcome so let me know.
I'd also like to thank Aedile Sanguinius, Battleteam Leader Malik Sadow, and former Sapphire Squadron Leader Kristeva for their help and feedback with this, it was most appreciated.
Thirdly and perhaps most importantly we've had two great promotions in HSD since my last report. Firstly long time CNS legend Raistlin Sadow has been promoted to Augur! Raistlin has always been one of those great members who keeps active and has a go at competitions and you can rely on to take part for himself and his Clan and I'm very happy to add to his promotion recommendation.
Also our Aedile Sanguinius is now an Elder. He is one of the most active DB members I have ever seen, from gaming, Shadow Academy work, his work here in Shar Dakhan, entering competitions and now helping out the Regent as a magistrate. I don't think there was any doubt he deserved promotion to the elders and again I'm very happy it happened.
Lastly I'd like to say welcome or welcome back to the following who have joined or rejoined our House since my last report in February.
All of you are very welcome and I am always happy to have a growing membership that keeps our House alive. If any of you want any help or advice on promotion requirements or things you can get involved in send us an email or catch us in telegram.
Fictional Development
As ever we're hoping to improve our fictional existance on the wiki. This has been going on since we took Orian back and since then we've updated out planet, our houses rule on it and details on our military, and we moved to Mount Dakhan. There's lots of great detail written, however there is one thing generally missing which I'm coming to you with an request about.
A lot of our articles, including the ones for Sapphire Squadron, Mount Dakhan and our Shar Dakhan Armed Forces pages are a bit dull image wise. I'm the first person to admit that in addition to being graphically inept (I can't draw to save my life) I'm not big on imagination when it comes to images. My spreadsheets and reports at work often get praised for being simple to understand and precise and criticised for being dull and colourless. So what I am asking is if you fancy drawing an image for the our wiki articles or finding some great ones online, so long as you credit them correctly as someone else's work, then this would be greatly appreciated. In addition though we can't specifically promise anything, for your next recognition helping your House by improving its wiki is a great thing for us to write about and send to the MAA and adds weight to any recommendation. So have a think how you can help please.
Also now Sapphire is sorted out our next target is fleshing out our planets a bit more. I've mentioned this in the past but expanding them to have a more realistic population what supports our military forces and expands our territory beyond just being a planet with a few isolated locations. So I am going to be doing a basic add up of our population as it is now from Seng Karash, San Korinar and Kel Rasha, and then working with anyone in HSD who is interested to flesh it out, both in upgrading those locations, adding others like removing the mines my character put on the Gilded Archipelago and beginning to redevelop that, and maybe creating descriptions of some more generic locations across Aeotheran like population and mining hubs. This is likely to be a great project we can build on and again if you want to get involved you're more than welcome
Member Activity
Since my last report in February you've all been up to the following.
DA Malik Sadow – 4 competitions entered.
DA Sanguinius Tsucrya Entar – 10 competitions entered, 39 courses graded, Sapphire Blade, 1 Crescent with Amethyst Star, 1 Crescent with Sapphire Star, 500 Clusters of Earth, appointed as M:RGT, promoted to Dark Adept.
SWL Etah Obsidian - 6 competitions entered.
SWL Malisane Sadow – 1 competition organised, 18 competitions entered, 12,156 words of fiction, 4 Crescents with Amethyst Star, 2 Crescents with Sapphire Star, 2 Crescents with Emerald Star, 24 Clusters of Ice, 5 Clusters of Grapphite, 1 Seal of Loyalty.
Augur Raistlin Sadow – 24 competitions entered, 6 Clusters of Graphite, promoted to Augur.
Savant Scarlet Agna - 1 competition entered.
Warrior Jashashi "Vesh" Zaes - 1 competition entered.
Mystic Kristeva - 2 competitions entered,
Knight Rivio Rosan - 1 competition entered, 1 Crescent with Sapphire Star.
Knight Jinius Griffin - 3 competitions entered, 7,293 words of fiction, 2 courses passed, 1 degree earned, 2 Crescents with Ruby Star, 15 Clusters of Ice.
Acolyte Quentinshadows - 11 competitions entered, 7 courses passed, 2 degrees earned, promoted to Acolyte.
Neophyte Rosh Athan - 1 competition entered, 1 Crescent with Diamon Star.
Novice Annika Anthos - 1 PVE activity, promoted to Novice
Apprentice Var Zarr - 1 course passed.
So well done everyone and keep up the good work. I'm sure we'll be seeing more in the near future.
And Finally.
If you're keeping up to date with events you'll be aware there's a Right of Supremacy in a few weeks time. You can read a bit of fictional development from the GM here and a newspost from the FIST here about signups for gaming. Based on my experience last year in the GJW its important to make sure not only are you signed up correctly but if you are gaming make sure your game is up to date and you're ready to go. For example I wanted to play Hearthstone and realised in addition to installing the game i had to qualify first. So make sure you're ready to avoid disappointment. I'm looking forward to this Vendetta and hope you are too. Myself and the rest of the Shar Dakhan Summit will be doing our best to keep you up to date with information about it and encourage you, but its down to each of us to give it a go.
Also as a shameless plug, my fiction comp The Holiday Building Siege is up until the 29th so if you've ever wanted to go the full John McClane in Mount Dakhan or Kar Alabrek here is your chance!
So that's it from me. I hope those of you who got this far enjoyed it or at least found it useful in some way. As above if you need any help or advice about DB matters let us know and we will do our best to help or point you in the right direction.
Take care of yourself, and each other.
Malisane Sadow
Quaestor of Shar Dakhan.
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Excellent Report Sir! Great fiction and great work by HSD!
BOOYA!!!!
Sapphire Squadron returns! Nice.
Also, looking forward to seeing how House Shar Dakhan positively rocks the Rite of Supremacy alongside all of Clan Naga Sadow!