GM_Kadann | Welcome all to another Vast Empire meeting |
GM_Kadann | I don't have much to report today myself |
GM_Kadann | I'm still working on some new features for the VE |
GM_Kadann | So more information to come later about all that |
GM_Kadann | We still have a long way to go for the 1,000 Reasons to Love Star Wars |
GM_Kadann | So keep posting all of you |
GM_Kadann | Glad to see there are a few of you that started posting on it again |
GM_Kadann | Let's go ahead and move into some division reports |
GM_Kadann | Fury, you have something from the Army today? |
GG_Fury | I do. |
GG_Fury | I did not receive a whole lot of reports this week but what I did receive contained some accolades to pass down to our troopers. |
GG_Fury | First off, Rogueboy requested a medal specifically for Leon and Dante given their efforts in their squad seeing as not a whole lot else is going on there. |
GG_Fury | I, too, want to congratulate them for keeping their heads up when things look bad. |
GG_Fury | For that I award them the Red Crescent of Devotion [RCoD] - A medal for the members of the Army that have increased morale and activity by keeping the attitude of the Army during hard times light and energetic. |
GG_Fury | Blackout is promoted to Corporal for his efforts and is also awarded the Emperor's Will, First Class. |
GG_Fury | Baretz has jumped right in and contributed a lot of activity as is promoted to Lance Corporal and awarded the Emperor's Will, Second Class. |
GG_Fury | In the words of Giovanni Bryden, "It should be noted that Baretz is an animal. He has done around 6 specialty posts this week, created a VE Wiki page for himself and is involved in a personal story with another Army recruit. The guy cannot be stopped." |
GG_Fury | Not bad for a new trooper so much congrats for that. |
GG_Fury | It is also noted that Alater has completed Heavy Weapons specialty training so good to see our troopers continuing to hone their skills |
GG_Fury | I have also been told Baretz is running a trivia contest on Comnet. Gee, hard to nail some of you down. |
GG_Fury | Major Dez is back in our fold and is already generating ideas and projects for himself. Buy him a beer and try to avoid looking at the hentai playing on his datapad. |
GG_Fury | Only one other thing to pass along and I'm not sure how much of this I even want to talk about. |
GG_Fury | To put it concisely, I have been accused of actively trying to much with a trooper's service based solely on their smug attitude here on IRC. |
GG_Fury | I'd like to assure you that I don't have to be your pal to be your superior officer and I have always given people enough rope to either save themselves or, alternately, hang themselves with in this division. |
GG_Fury | That said, this individual has been a tad bloviated in their conduct here and I'm advised not to do so, at least in my presence. |
GG_Fury | This came to a head Friday and then an active campaign to either bring charges against me or to put me in as bad a light as possible with as many people as possible. |
GG_Fury | Frankly, I really don't care as long as I'm sure I haven't broken any rules. |
GG_Fury | That said, I don't like games being played to pit people against others. |
GG_Fury | So, while I'm willing to let it go and let any further issues (if any) be dealt with at the squad level - where they should be - I'm also not going to sit around and let charges be thrown at me. |
GG_Fury | You do your job well, and I have no reason to get in your way. If you need to know anything about me, know that. |
GG_Fury | That's all from me this week. |
GM_Kadann | Thanks Fury |
GM_Kadann | Shazam, you have something from the Navy this week? |
LCP_Shazam | Ah |
LCP_Shazam | Indeed |
LCP_Shazam | As some of you may or may not have noticed, I was pretty active there for about two or three weeks and then I just kind of disappeared for a month? |
LCP_Shazam | I should probably explain :) |
LCP_Shazam | Essentially, when our new Tactical Officer joined us, I was kind of relieved because I knew I would be taking a lot of time off, and I told the NHC that it would happen; coincidentally, my time was freed up almost immedietly thereafter. |
LCP_Shazam | However, that is no longer true and my schedule is filled up as it has been in the past and the plans that were made previously are being put into effect now; essentially- I'm on during the weekends and try to stop in for academy work every other evening. |
LCP_Shazam | That means that there is far more work being done by the Academy staff itself; they are not figureheads- they do work that you see and do not see; they are very active. |
LCP_Shazam | With that in mind, I thought I'd just officially mention that Tomas is no longer an Operator but a full-out Trainer: this means he can pass people between Chapters without any need to check with me. He's been doing this for a while per my instruction, but its official now. |
LCP_Shazam | Since the Basic Training front is pretty much covered by my trainer and operator, this means that I'm going to be spending the majority of my time working on the wiki: I've already begun, actually. |
LCP_Shazam | This isn't writing up new pages or large scale change as has been done in the last year and a half to two years: no, now we're just tweaking the system... This means that I'm going to be going through all of our pages, re-writing some of them so that the words roll of the tongue a bit easier, and just to make them look better overall. |
LCP_Shazam | However, in this whole editing business comes with it the need to make sure the academy's written word is actually necessary- we have some rather extraneous material that can be both misleading and confusing; more-over, I don't feel it's a produce of the Navy so much as information we found from other sites and not necessarilly applicable to our Navy. |
LCP_Shazam | Still, I think there's some hammering out of the very, very fine details of all of out systems to do, but I'll also be going back and looking at our Skills and Studies program to make sure that, should we decide to integrate it, it will actually perform and not be some troublesome, encumbering mess where we kick the dead horse rather than ride it. |
LCP_Shazam | In terms of squadron activity- still hashing a few details out. Primarilly- what should we be expecting? |
LCP_Shazam | There's all this hubra-ha about "wow- everything's in a rut," but we really don't know that unless we know what to expect. If everyone has all this time on thier hands and no one is posting- we need to correct something. If everyone is doing exactly as much time as they've said they have to offer- we're doing spectacular. So which is it? |
LCP_Shazam | Trevor was telling me that there were some technical difficulties in terms of computers and whatnot on his side of things, and Tomas simply needs to make sure his members are helping to re-inforce one another; but both groups are really doing pretty well considering we just had to disband Kaph Squadron. |
LCP_Shazam | Also, I think it was Nazgul that just completed another story and we've been having to discuss where to go next- I think the majority of our operations, (hopefully I'm not putting my foot in my mouth- Riel is the one who actually decides this), is going to remain at the squadron level. |
LCP_Shazam | Not sure how we did on reports this week, but I thought I'd mention that there is a general outcry for the lack of reports, and the Academy is going to try and curb it a bit by actually askin our recruits to make reports right from the get-go, so maybe it'll be better instilled by the time they get to a squadron. |
LCP_Shazam | For those members waiting for test results, I'll be getting to that here shortly. |
LCP_Shazam | That's about all I got for now |
| * LCP_Shazam disapparates |
GM_Kadann | Thanks Shazam |
GM_Kadann | That's all I have for today |
GM_Kadann | Thanks to all who came |
GM_Kadann | Dismissed! |
| * LCP_Shazam shoots pistols into the air |