skin, bone, and arrogance
Hello! As most of you know, I have recently been dragooned into service elected Faction Owner of the First Order, and as such it is my privilege to do what I can to continue to improve our faction in whatever way I can. I have a lot of ideas for how to improve the faction, but due to time constraints and lack of ability, some I am unable to do on my own. But that's the joy of having a team -- we can work together, and many hands make light work. While I would like to start gathering YOUR ideas about some ways to improve the faction, I do have a few projects in mind that I'd like your help with -- some of which are already underway.
I'm not just looking for free labor here. I'm a very strong believer that every member should own the faction, and feel responsibility for it. We should all have a stake in its survival and growth. I feel that by expanding these projects to everyone in the group, everyone will feel that much more connected to the faction and fellow members. Also, I like slavery -- sue me.
Feel free to sign up for one of the projects below. You can contact the members tagged under each heading. If you don't see a member tagged there, and you'd like to take the lead on the project, either post here or shoot me a PM.
NAVAL REFURBISHMENT
Key Contacts: [member="Valessia Brentioch"] | [member="Roderik von Brinkerhoff"] | [member="Asharad Graush"]
We've begun to update our Navy with additional starships to fill out some roles that our fleet has been missing. In addition, [member="Roderik von Brinkerhoff"] suggested taking our canon vessels and updating them with submissions, bringing them to "Mark II" status and updating their weapons loadouts to be within SWRP's current level of firepower -- this project is for Star Destroyers on down to TIE fighters, so this will require more eyes on. If you think this might be of interest to you, please contact one of the three above. Many of these projects are already underway, so in order to avoid duplicating efforts, it would be best to coordinate with others already working on the projects.
GROUND FORCES REFURBISHMENT
Key Contacts: [member="Ludolf Vaas"] | [member="Asharad Graush"]
Just as a note, the above two did not volunteer for this, but they are fairly high-ranking members of the army/stormtrooper group, so they should be able to tell us what kind of ground vehicles/deployment methods could be helpful. Essentially I'd like to see the same thing happening here: both an expansion of what's available to us as well as an update of any existing 'canon' resources to be on par with current tech.
GOVERNMENT & DIPLOMATIC SERVICES REFURBISHMENT
Key Contacts: [member="Natasi Fortan"]
This one is my baby, and I admit that I have neglected it for awhile. I've been wanting to streamline the ranks and roles, as well as add in equivalent diplomatic roles. I did a poll a few months back asking who would be interested in joining an OOC committee to help with this, and got some positive response. We've had some new members since then, so I thought I'd open the doors to anyone else. I imagine us having a Skype chat to discuss it and could reflect the changes on the board. Let me know if you're interested in this, and we can set something up.
WORLDBUILDING & MILITARY ASSETS
Key Contacts: [member="Valessia Brentioch"] | [member="Natasi Fortan"] | [member="Asharad Graush"]
We need cities, and fortresses, and military bases, and space stations, and satellites, and listening stations, and training outposts, and all sorts of other "places" to populate our empire. If you're good at these types of codex submissions, please let me know what type of structures you'd like to build and where. We can coordinate efforts to avoid duplication of effort and get you working on things that you're interested. We can tackle any development thread requirements as a group, making things go smoooooth.
LORE, HISTORY, AND CULTURE
Key Contacts: [member="Aram Kalast"] | [member="Natasi Fortan"]
Again, Aram is being 'volunteered' for this (sorry, friend) as the founder of the faction. I'd like to get our history, lore, and culture squared away, so that we can have all the information packaged nicely and easily digestable by new members (and old members). One thing there seems to be some confusion about is the role of the Knights of Ren (h/t [member="Ciardha Ren"]) and their interplay with the rest of the faction (or lack thereof). I'd like to get all of us on the same page, on the KoR and everything else, so if you think this is something you'd be interested in tackling, please let me know!
GRAPHICS, BLING, ETC.
Key Contacts: [member="Natasi Fortan"]
We've had some fabulous bling made by [member="Valessia Brentioch"], [member="Marzena Choi"], and [member="Boo Chiyo"] (big thank you to you!) and we have a lot of great graphics out there. What I'd like to see is for us to switch to one unified set of graphics -- for instance, I'm using Guy's old "Grand Moff" tag in my signature, while others are using a thinner, sleeker looking rank tag. I think it would be cool if we all had a similar "style" of graphics -- i.e. similarly shaped, similar aesthetic. Ideally we could get a small selection of options and have the membership vote on which option would be preferable, but we can certainly discuss it.
Also along this line, [member="Ludolf Vaas"] has requested some medals and service ribbons and the like. If you're interested in contributing to this effort, please let us know.
Last, I wonder if it might not be time to update the faction's banners, etc. I love them dearly -- they make the place feel like home -- but I don't want to cling to tradition if everyone else thinks it's time to move on. Another topic for discussion.
ADDITIONAL PROJECTS?
Key Contacts: You?
What do you think we should do to improve? If you don't see anything here that catches your fancy, what would you be interested in?
