GEN_Rizzit	Good afternoon and welcome to this week's special edition of the Vast Empire's Meeting.
GEN_Rizzit	I'm going to start the ball rolling and give the Army Report.
GEN_Rizzit	So, we've just about wrapped up the Elite Squad Competition and its looking like we surprised a good number of you with the NPC portion of the competition. Hopefully, most of you did not panic, and were slightly surprised.
GEN_Rizzit	As I said, we are almost at the close so try to get in every last point you can this week: as the competition will end next sunday at the meeting. During which time we will go back to normal activity. This is the final stretch of the competition...no more surprises so good luck to you all!
GEN_Rizzit	As usual...here are the current stats
GEN_Rizzit	Blackjack is in first place with 90.5%
GEN_Rizzit	RAIDERS are in second place with 85%
GEN_Rizzit	Jester is in third with 24.1%
GEN_Rizzit	Iron Horse is pulling fourth with 22.8%
GEN_Rizzit	Paladin has fifth with 19.5%
GEN_Rizzit	and in dead last is Wraith with 18.6%
GEN_Rizzit	before I close, I would like to welcome back one of our older members Verkur who has returned to us under the name of "Edge" so welcome back to him.
GEN_Rizzit	That is all from me this week, I will now pass the torch to Ensign Tyrol for the Navy report
ESN_Tyrol	Greetings everyone
ESN_Tyrol	Unfortunatly I'm a bit unprepared this week as I've just gotten back from covering GamesCom in Germany, so bear with me
ESN_Tyrol	It was a load of fun, for anyone that cares
ESN_Tyrol	It's been a bit of a slow week, all things considered.
ESN_Tyrol	NAzgul and Viper are now concentrating fully on their stories, so everything is pretty much status quo on that end.
ESN_Tyrol	Recruit numbers have been down this week, and Nazgul recently AWOL'd some inactives
ESN_Tyrol	No announcements or plans from the High Command as far as I can see, so the Navy is probably going to be in 'holding pattern' for a while. Will let you know as soon as something interesting happens.
ESN_Tyrol	That's all from me this week, back to you Rizzit.
GEN_Rizzit	thanks
GEN_Rizzit	if there is anything else, please message menow
GEN_Rizzit	okay, this concludes this week's meeting go out and buy lots of birthday cake for Ferris tomorrow!