SM_Fury	Welcome to another Vast Empire meeting
SM_Fury	Thanks to those of you who showed up today.
SM_Fury	As you may notice, GM Kadann is lost in the void, Talon remains under the sea and Japheth likely is buried in a book.
SM_Fury	That leaves you with me. Deal with it.
SM_Fury	As is my perogative, we'll start with the army.
SM_Fury	Anyone feel free to PM me to add additional information.
SM_Fury	The competition is beginning to wind down and we have learned a few things from it.
SM_Fury	First, many of you are eager troopers and we need to get you together.
SM_Fury	Second, our primary squads (that's WildCard platoon) are weakened and need help.
SM_Fury	I don't want to break up any happy families but we expanded into Storm platoon because we had the active membership at the time.
SM_Fury	That said, I don't want eight half-filled squads when I can have one solid platoon's worth.
SM_Fury	With that, I want to make an open call for volunteers in Storm to move over to our squads in WildCard.
SM_Fury	We can try to keep fire teams together, but please consider this for the good of the Corps.
SM_Fury	Once we grow again, you can have dibs on your old squad if it gets inactivated in this process.
SM_Fury	I hope you take this seriously and that we get a good response.
SM_Fury	Talk to your current SLs and your potential ones about it. This is coming as a surprise announcement to all of you.
SM_Fury	But I'd like to see matters come to a successful end than just arbitrarily shut down a squad here and there.
SM_Fury	Other news.
SM_Fury	As you know, Battlefront II is out and I have no idea what the response has been seeing as I've been away on business but I picked it up and am having fun playing it.
SM_Fury	Hopefully we can conjure up a competition for this new game, maybe pick up some new members in the process.
SM_Fury	I don't have a lot else to add.
SM_Fury	Cosmic has been doing website work and the new academy is up.
SM_Fury	You can find it here: http://academy.stormtroopercorps.com/
SM_Fury	I need to get the main link to that fixed. Sorry Cosmic
SM_Fury	Keep up the good work folks and have a good week. Art, you have the Navy report?
ESN_Arturus	Thank you Fury.
ESN_Arturus	Alright, the big news of the week in the navy is that we welcomed back Jmac to active duty. He is also the new XO of Aegis so a big welcome back to him!
ESN_Arturus	As for activity, Nazgul and Kaph both have stories under way. In the work done so far, Nazgul's story is now set for the main part and from what I heard from Shazam, it appears that this is going to promote individual creativity. Aegis has begun discussing possible story plots.
ESN_Arturus	Other than that, the navy continues to see new members filling the ranks and activity appears to have begun to stabilize and become more regular.
	* ESN_Arturus steps back
SM_Fury	Thanks Art.
SM_Fury	I am being told we were to have a lottery this week.
SM_Fury	I have no instructions on how to handle that.
SM_Fury	I will leave the decision up to Kad to roll the pot or to have a drawing tomorrow.
SM_Fury	I apologize for the inconvenience.
SM_Fury	Anything else I can
SM_Fury	or can't take care of?
SM_Fury	Hmm?
SM_Fury	Well, let's try the script then
SM_Fury	Volunteers?
SCPO_Willtconq	!lotterypick
Kadann	LOTTERY NUMBER: 19
LPCL_Darr-Rann|SCRW_Demonic	!lotterypick
Kadann	LOTTERY NUMBER: 23
ESN_Arturus	!lotterypick
Kadann	LOTTERY NUMBER: 6
SM_Fury	Alright
SM_Fury	There ya go.
LPCL_Darr-Rann|SCRW_Demonic	damn, I forgot my tickets and I think I had those numbers
SM_Fury	6-19-23
	* LPCL_Darr-Rann|SCRW_Demonic cries
SCPO_Willtconq	lol
SM_Fury	There ya go. Have a good week folks.
SM_Fury	Meeting adjourned