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Executive
Officer
Report #1
01.14.2001
Membership Count: 3132
To the loyal members of the Emperor's Hammer:
This is my first of many reports I hope to deliver to you as your
new Executive Officer!
There are many in the Dark Brotherhood who have been waiting for
my official statement on the current events. The Dark Brotherhood
situation has been monopolizing my time so far and hasn't given
me a chance to settle down in my new office, but it was important
enough to call for my attention. After spending several hours on
IRC collecting the facts and doing interviews and having talks with
various members from the newer Jedi to the Dark Council and Grand
Master Zoraan himself, I now have enough information to make a statement
possible.
First of all, everyone wants to know what's going to happen to Grand
Master Zoraan. Unless he's making up his own retirement plans in
complete secret, he's not going anywhere at the moment.
Most of the complaints I received were in relation to Consul Mav
being removed from his position for leading a revolt (the legitimacy
of the dereliction of duty thing is a really gray area, which is
irrelevant now). Many were confused at how organizing a petition
signing can be seen as treason. Allow me to explain. The petition
being drafted was for the intention of removing the current GM from
his position. There were no reasons for his removal attached to
the signers of petition, only names. Mav has told me that he intended
on e-mailing all people on his petition to gather reasons, but his
topic that he posted in his clan channel shows pretty clearly he
was asking for people to sign his petition for Zoraan's removal.
This was a futile effort destined to fail from the beginning. Grand
Admiral Ronin has made it quite clear that even if all 800 members
of the Dark Brotherhood signed a petition, without any hard evidence
of misconduct or dereliction of duty from the GM, he will not remove
a standing SGCOM. The head leadership position of the Dark Brotherhood
is not a political office where members elect who would hold that
position. GM Zoraan was within his right to remove Mav as Consul
for organizing the petition asking for his removal.
A petition of "no confidence" in Zoraan's leadership would have
been acceptable to show their dissatisfaction with him and the way
he runs the Dark Brotherhood, but that's not what it was, despite
what some people signing it thought. The decision to remove or demote
a Subgroup Commander is not one that is up to membership to decide.
As for Mav, he was placed back into his clan with a small position
demotion in the interest of making peace and moving on to start
to make amends with the displeased membership and begin to address
other concerns that people may have about Zoraan's current leadership.
Mav can consider himself lucky. The Grand Admiral would not have
been as forgiving. Mav is getting a second chance.
Blade's open action of insulting Grand Master Zoraan on the Dark
Brotherhood news page was wrong and his inappropriate conduct in
the Dark Brotherhood channel following a few days after where he
continued to insult the GM in front of the general membership with
crude profanity was inexcusable as well and he deserved whatever
punished was delivered.
So...how does one properly complain or "gather evidence"?
One of the biggest complaints I received about Zoraan is that he
doesn't reply to e-mails fast enough or at all. I don't have as
large of volume of e-mails as he probably does and I don't even
reply to all of them. People make suggestions for the TC Database
or report bugs and I'm rushing so I just write down the problem/suggestion
in my little notebook and move to the next e-mail, especially if
I'm checking my e-mail away from home. I've made personal reforms
to fix this in myself to at least say "thank you" or *something*
to every e-mail I get, but sometimes during really busy periods
of my life, even that's not possible for me.
If you wrote an e-mail to the Grand Master or any superior officer
and you don't get a reply within a few days, send another one and
state specifically in your e-mail that this is your second letter
and you would like a reply. If you still don't get a reply, send
another and CC his/her commanding officer and say politely that
you sent two e-mails on this date and this date and you still didn't
get a reply and you would like one now. If that doesn't work, send
a fourth, CCing his/her commanding officer and the commanding officer's
commanding officer. And this goes on until you read the top of the
chain-of-command. Yes, it is slow and painful to do this, but it's
the system we have and the system we use. The collection of e-mails
would also be considered "evidence" of officers neglecting duties.
So far, nobody has been able to provide me with this sort of evidence,
even though there is no shortage of accusations. Keep in mind, though,
that being rude and insulting through your correspondence won't
help your case.
Grand Master Zoraan isn't perfect, none of us are, but we do what
we can to better and improve ourselves. If there's something wrong,
let him know. If a DC member if giving you problems, let that member
know. And if you feel you're not getting across, follow the procedure
I said before. IRC logs, dates, saved e-mails, specific incidents...very
very few members have been able to give me anything like these and
those that did I have addressed to proper parties involved. I have
already given the GM a few suggestions and some future expectations.
There are a few things that members have pointed out to me that
I will be watching to see if they're corrected.
In the meantime, I will now be focusing the next week with getting
better acquainted with the other subgroups. I also have LoAs to
award, the Fiction Compendium to complete, the TC Database to upgrade
and repair (those poor FCHG listings), the IS Medal system implementation,
EH Senate updates, the finishing touches on kawolski.com, and several
other things as well.
I would like to ask all of the members of the Emperor's Hammer to
be strong, faithful, and loyal during this brief moment of turbulence
as I assure you the negative incidents of the days past will be
nothing more than a faded sour memory that will be remembered as
an example of how the Emperor's Hammer and its Dark Brotherhood
can remain strong and resolute even in moments of seemingly great
peril.
Ahead, a great and brilliant future awaits us. It's a future I am
greatly honored, blessed, and thankful to be the one to help lead
the brave men and women of this organization through. I cannot do
this alone, however, and I call upon you to take the initiative
to perform your best in your appointed duties and expand your horizons
if necessary so we can secure our position in the Internet community
as THE largest Star Wars gaming organization in the entire galaxy!
Glory to the Empire…
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