Thurion Heavenshield said:
In light of a particular, recent, and completely unsactioned event caused by a member of the Order of the Silver Jedi, we've decided that all SJO forces are to pull out of the fray as best they are able.
We concede defeat, and we wish the Sith Order the best of luck. I wish to personally thank their admin team for being such good sports throughout this whole event.
It's sad that it should come to this, but that's what happens when all certain people seem to care about is winning.
I'd like to thank [member="Thurion Heavenshield"] and [member="Coci Heavenshield"] as faction administrators, and [member="Reshmar"] as the primary enemy fleeter, for all their work and cooperation. I never had to worry that the big picture would be anything but clean and aboveboard. Concerns were resolved promptly, and consensus was achieved on major issues. At an OOC faction-lead-to-faction-lead level, this Rebellion was cleaner and more efficient than most Invasions I've seen.
Since the bulk of my focus was on the big-picture strategic fleeting, let me also give my thanks to [member="Sor-Jan Xantha"], [member="Jerek Zenduu"], [member="Reshmar"], [member="Gir Quee"], [member="Darth Prazutis"], [member="Catalys Maijora"], [member="Darth Ignus"], [member="Niysha"], and all the other people who dabbled in, or committed to, fleeting. From my last PM to the SJO Admins:
"I've seen a lot of people on both sides say how much fun they had, and the scale and scope of this thread was something else. We had diplomats covering for fleet movements, fleet movements covering for ground battles, we had PVP, we had NPC hordes, we had sector-level fleeting...and can I just say, props to Reshmar for working with me every step of the way to craft the overarching scenario. Virtually all your fleeters and allied fleeters did a great job and played nice. As a result, we staged the board's first systematic sector-level campaign that worked. I'm aiming to make a GIF of the various map updates, and yeah: working together, we had a consensus-based map charting almost twenty fleets and flotillas. Your guys helped make that possible with good behavior, so my thanks to all of them."
To commemorate this, I'm going to do what I do: Factory. I'll be submitting a special starship component that'll only be usable by a named list of fleeters who participated on both sides. Really, thanks everyone. The fleeting went extremely well.