Post by Lucklife on May 29, 2022 15:01:00 GMT
News From The Nest: Stuff Since September 2021
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Council of Hawks
Commander-In-Chief Red Back
Colonel Miravana, Co-Overseer of Terra Corps
Colonel Rai, Co-Overseer of Talon Corps
Major Drexlore, Co-Overseer of Terra Corps
Major Steak, Co-Overseer of Talon Corps
Lieutenant Wasc, Overseer of Blade Corps
Council Advisors
General Ever-Wandering Souls
Major Pterodaxyl
Council Statement
The Black Hawks greatly appreciate the many different regions that have supported and worked with us for the last year since our last Foreign Affairs report. The end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022 have seen vast success in The Black Hawks, whether that be from raiding operations alongside our allies, cultural events, growth in both our Reserves Program and Active Duty. Within our own ranks there have been a lot of new promotions, awards, and additions to the Council of Hawks and the Council Advisory Board.
For our last major operations, we have worked with a number of different regions and organizations. One of those regions is The Communist Bloc who we have signed a treaty with. We hope to continue to grow our relationship with them and all our allies, and we are very excited to see what the future brings!
Raids
The last few months have seen a number of important and historic occupations. The first was the region A Liberal Haven, jointly led by ourselves and Lone Wolves United. This operation was conducted in early January and involved a 5+ year sleeper, 207 pilers, and 9 organizations. Additionally, it saw over 100 TBH-aligned pilers, and 70 direct TBH members, making it the largest operation in our history. A Liberal Haven saw our reservist program flourishing under the direction of our newest leader, President of The Reserves, Hwan. Due to his efforts in building and leading the reserves program, Hwan was awarded the Sword of Leadership by the Council of Hawks.
Another major occupation that took place was The Mystical Council which involved 15 orgs and 260 pilers in early February. Led by the resurgent The Brotherhood of Malice, this operation was a huge success for raiderdom and is considered a largely collaborative effort which resulted in the first highly contested refound in many years. Projects such as Queue Stalling, Anthill Approvals, and overall operation were all carried out in part by TBH members. We congratulate our friends in BoM, as well as the entirety of raiderdom for this monumental accomplishment which will go down as one of (if not THE) most successful raid of all time.
After the operation, our very talented friend, The Gilded Flame, made a beautiful drawing to represent what the command floor totally looked like throughout this operation. We thought it was pretty cool, so we are sharing it with you!
Pictured (From Left to Right): Hazel, Koth, Miravana (bird), Rax, Souls (Math Prisoner), Venico
Promotions and Rewards
The beginning of 2022 paved the way for a number of new promotions, council changes, council advisory board changes, and rewards.
This began with the addition of Wascoitan to TBH Council. Wasc has been an electric member of TBH in recent times, and has been an integral part of our return to glory. We are excited to see what she does with the Blade program. Along with this change, Steak will be moving to Talon and Miravana will be moving to Terra. Drexlore and Miravana were both promoted, to Major and Colonel respectively, with Miravana also earning the medal Deaths Grin for his work leading recent occupations. Additionally, Dax took an advisory role in the region by joining Souls on the Council Advisory Board to provide more support as we look to maintain the progress we have made in recent months! We are excited to see how the region continues to grow with this Council changeup, but it is not just top-level changes for the Hawks!
Alongside Council changes, Lucklife was promoted to Lieutenant. Lucklife has been a great leader in the war room since returning to active duty. Alongside Ray, Devi and Ziz, who were also promoted to Lieutenant, Lucklife has joined our amazing officers as growing leaders in the region. With these Sergeants being promoted, we figured we needed some new ones. Dawn, Durm and Baedan all reached the rank of Sergeant, joining our war room! Congrats to all our newly promoted hawks, this is most definitely a time of great growth and success, both individually and as a region!
Culture
Recently, The Black Hawks have seen a lot more than just raiding however!
Off the battlefield, the Nest has had a couple of community events.
This past week, we had our third TBH Hunger Games where hawks were pitted against each other to see who would come out on top. The nine days in the arena were gruesome, filled with tributes cheerfully singing songs, Mira killing a bunch of people except Devi, Holor opting to steal other tribute’s possessions from home instead of his own, Zhdun blessing people with medical attention, only to get ambushed by a group of tributes, and a bunch of people dying from berries after not listening to their mentors advise them to visit the “edible plants” training station before the games.
Devi, however, fueled by spite after Mira refused to kill her, opted to be a menace, breaking Steak’s nose over bread, fighting Eis over raw meat, destroying Ray’s supplies, stealing from Wasc, and snuggling with everyone before killing the last two survivors and being crowned victor of TBH’s Third-Not-Annual Hunger Games
Additionally, we’ve started Tolkien Tuesdays where we watch one Hobbit and Lord of the Rings movie each week with our new allies in The Communist Bloc! We’ve finished 4 already, and the next movie will be The Two Towers in our discord on Tuesday! (8pm EST)
This is the end of the report! We look forward to seeing what the rest of this year brings and we hope to get back to you soon with some top tier raiding for your enjoyment.
