Prefect's Report 9.5.10
Fall is Here
Greetings to those of us still around. As we all know - school has resumed this week or will be resuming fairly shortly (depending on your location). For some of our members that means leaving this place to focus more on your studies - which is sad because we miss our members, but real life must always come first. At any rate - good luck to those pursuing their educational goals. To those of us who have stayed: stay tuned for some exciting new activities.Stormtrooper Corps Academy
For those of you who do not know, our Commander of Training Kanderin Draken is resigning as his role of managing the academy to return to life as a trooper in hopes to free up more time for his demanding university schedule. As I understand, Blackjack is VERY excited to have him in their squad. His replacement will be none other than Corporal Bacardi. Congratulations to him.
While I am sure Bacardi will have his changes to the Academy in the coming weeks, for now he is just settling in; also, due to his low rank yet being on the AHC - he needs to be given the Officer's Exam and bumped up to Second Lieutenant....in due time. He will be on probation for 30 days, at the end of said period he will be given the Officer's Exam and upon passing that he will be promoted. In the meantime I've heard bits and pieces of exciting ideas for the Academy that will be proposed in the coming weeks. In the meantime, the current system will remain in place.
Bacardi has also opted to use the Position of Commander of Training Assistant - much as a Squad Leader opts to choose an Assistant Squad Leader. Bacardi has chosen to make Gunnery Sergeant Brightstar his Assistant - who will quite literally be his second in command for the academy. Good Luck and congratulations to them both!Wildcard Platoon Story
I am sure most of you are aware by now that Chapter 9 will be upon us at some point. Sergeant Major Havock and myself sat down and had a chat about this. Chapter stories are VERY important here in the Vast Empire as they contain major events in our history and are really what advance our time line. They also are typically one thread. Most of our squads are either not used to posting on one thread or don't like to because they had a bad experience from a particular story they did. We decided that they need to have some warm up time to get used to writing in one thread topics with other squads - the entire Army in fact. Therefore, we will be having a couple of these stories between now and then to help prepare for when Field Marshall Fury does roll out with Chapter 9: so all his hard work is well spent. The Story IS up now. It's called Give and Take[Wildcard Platoon]. Currently, only the Squad Leaders may post. Soon it will open to the public and I am sure it will be a lot of fun. Even us Commanders are looking forward to joining in on the fun.
On the matter of platoon news - we have some long-overdue news regarding Sergeant Major Havock. She has been given the Officer's Exam (and passed with flying colors by the way) this weekend. I am happy to announce that we included an extra promotion in addition to the usual one received upon successful completion of the exam. Havock has been promoted to First Lieutenant - a rank that will surely compliment her new found role as Platoon Commander. Congratulations to her on several jobs well done that sometimes go un-rewarded yet she does them anyways with such enthusiasm.Imperial Omega Campaign 2.0
For those who don't know, the second ever Imperial Omega Campaign will be launching on September 26, 2010 - an entire decade to the day from the original one back in 2000. Also, Captain Riqimo has been toiling night and day trying to arrange the perfect competition. He needs input though. The teams need to be worked out THIS WEEK and will be announced at next week's meeting. There are (as of meeting time today) a total of 19 people who still have not registered as participating. IF YOU PLAN TO PARTICIPATE YOU MUST REGISTER SO YOU CAN BE ASSIGNED A TEAM The registration form can be found here so be sure and sign up ASAP!Closing
Congratulations to those who have been promoted or have new jobs. I am sure you'll do us proud. I look forward to reading the new Wildcard Story and how that will pan out on the trooper end. Then when that is done we get to look forward to IOC2.0 - it's gonna be a fun fall. Have a good week everyone!
