Hutt Cartel Newsletter: January 19th, 2015

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G'day guys. This is Cartel Newsletter Number Eleven (11).

If this is your first time to reading one of these things, I'd like to apologize on behalf of the Hutt Cartel Leadership Team. We're a lot crazy. So as it stands there are four of us; Cassanova(who's MIA!!!one!) Kyle the Drop Bear and Fat Possum work alongside our newly-promoted Faction Leader, Insoulent in the hopes of bringing you guys the best possible experience you can have on TheStarWarsRP.com. And that would obviously mean being a part of the Cartel.

This newsletter serves as a periodic update for members of our Faction, and from around the site, of what is going on inside the Hutt Cartel. Sit down, grab a jawa juice and cue the music. Oh, and Happy New Year!

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NEW LOOK ROSTER
So as a lot of you guys know, Cassa did a pretty new update to the Roster a few weeks ago, and FP's been great enough to do some minor tweaks and works on it and given you the final product of the Member Roster. Essentially; if your character is an Enforcer or higher, you get a pretty picture on the roster! Yay!

This comes from a combination of ingrained loathing towards the old format, and yet another incentive for your character to pursue a promotion from Kung up to Enforcer. To my knowledge, the Roster is up to date and accurate, so don't hesitate to PM any of us if that's not the case, and I'll look at getting that fixed up for you as soon as possible!

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HUTT KAJIDICS
So one of the major changes we'll be doing in the Cartel is dividing up the member bases into sort of "families", or Kajidics. Now, site-officially, there's five major Kajidics but we only have the numbers to really work three families. So, two of the families (Velora and Kormtha) will be kept off-limits and used for story purposes in the future. Captains will have some NPC control over their Kajidic Leader, as well as be the more accessible leader to reach for - instead of our Con Lorda and Granee Lorda.

So, you're probably wondering what this means for you and the rest of the Cartel? Well, it just means now you'll officially belong to a major family and anything/everything you do will be to the glory of your Clan. Now, if you're wondering which clan you're in, and who else is in there with you, feel free to check out the Dramatis Personae, which also has some information about your Clan Leader. Now, just because you belong to one Kajidic doesn't mean you can't work with someone of another Kajidic - just know that your projects and pacts might be effected (or even effect) the future of all parties involved.

Each Kajidic will specialize in certain types of crime, but this doesn't mean it doesn't hire other types of criminals into their ranks - diversity is key to survival of course. But if you're unhappy with your Kajidic choice, feel free to PM me and I'll try and work something out in moving you into another.

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AESTHETIC UPDATE & PROMOTIONS
Fat Possum's been awesome enough to work on some aesthetic changes in the Cartel Database. Most of the information has been kept, but he's made it a hellavalot nicer looking so please be sure to tell him thanks! If you have any assets to add - PM me and along with the rest of the team we'll find a way to get approved and posted as soon as possible. It'll probably be a bit easier if you also, y'know, have some threads to back up it's creation.

I want to congratulate: Mjolla Varneslan and Tylas Zel who've both been promoted from Enforcers to Captains! Arok Vasadii has also been promoted from Familiar to Enforcer! Congratulations to the three of them - and anyone looking to move on up the ranks all you have to do is have some threads under your belt and apply.

By the time of the next newsletter I hope to have the History updated to recent events as well so if you have any information you might want to see in the faction storyline to be added (that's happened) please let me know so I can get it in there.

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NEW BOUNTY BOARD
So, a New Year - a new reset! Starting January 15th, 2015, we'll be resetting the Bounty Boards and "retiring" our previous Grand Hunt Event Winner and Bounty Hunter leader Vica Veszk - and starting our new one! The Grand Hunt proved to be a major boon for the Cartel's activity, or at least a showcase for some of our best and more ambitious writers. Personally, I loved it.

Anyway, along with the reset, we've also updated and changed the look of the Bounter Hunter Leaderboards. If you've liked to be added to the new leaderboards you'll have to acquire five tallies as well as a list of your bounty targets. We haven't decided on a date just yet, but we're looking at around May or summer time, which should give us a big boost once school lets out and life becomes slightly more relaxed. We'll be working on new bounty additions but we still want you guys to take it easy with 'em - there's only so many Star Wars pictures on the internet.

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MISSION UPDATES
The Kajidic change will also bring about changes to how the missions will operate. Each family will have their own specific missions. These missions will effect the future of the roleplay - not only to the faction, but the rest of the forum too - so please make sure to get 'em completed. Some will be Kajidic-specific only, meaning only members of that Kajidic can participate (these will be foreshadowing the next set of missions) and will be higher-priority as they usually involve sabotaging or working against another family. Some missions will be directly influencing the Kajidic it falls under, but will be open to any member of any Kajidic. More information can be found in the Mission Database.

The previous missions were removed - saved - but won't be in use anymore. If you've signed-up for a scrapped mission, or currently trying to finish one - feel free to finish it up and it'll still be counted towards your promotion. We also want to encourage to check out some of the mission packs some of the members have provided: The Onderon Heist by Fat Possum, Cristophsis by Kyle the Drop Bear, and Thoughts of a Mad Hutt by Tiberius Semper. Tib has a Ryloth arc that I think will also bring some good criminal activity - and we welcome you guys to submit your idea to us so we can promote it in these newsletters in a more official capacity.

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FINAL REMARKS
I wanted to use this as my corner to sort of give my thoughts - as faction leader - to the rest of the faction and site as a whole. I know the holidays were a bit weird in terms of activity, but that time's over and I'd love to see each and every one of you do some great storywriting. The team's worked a lot for these changes, and I want to give a special thanks to Fat Possum who's done the majority of the work, and helped me bring the changes that we as a team wanted to see the Cartel go through. Also want to thank you guys for having patience while we got all these changes underway. We still have a lot of changes in mind, and we're working on them with the other factions, but they'll take just a little bit longer to see them blossom. Still, I do want you guys to have an open space and neat canvas for you guys to completely change and alter the story - but you can't do it alone! Work with the staff, and other members to get the changes you want to see brought to the story. Any ideas you guys want to bring, even if you think they might get declined, bring them to me or any member of the team and we'll see what we can do to see them brought up. We have the connections and responsibility to help you guys push the story further. It's all a team effort, it really is. And we can't bring change if you don't voice yourself. We're not mindreaders after all.

I want to invite both Rebel and Imperial members (or all ranks) to especially come forth to the Cartel and initiate conversation with our members. Of course this invitation is welcome to Indie members, and the Force-using factions (Jedi/Sith/Dark Jedi). Form bonds, have talks, plan whatever you need to. Use the Cartel's operations and find a way to exploit them and use them as your own - in the near future we'll have more official and endorsed missions revolving around the future of the Roleplay, but you're all welcome to lay the groundwork.


Thanks for coming and having a read, guys.
If you have any questions, queries or suggestions, feel free to post here!

Thanks peeps,
Kevin/Insoulent

 

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Congratulations to Kyle/Mjollah and FP/Tylas on your promotion!!!!
Waaaay to go guys - looking forward to seeing what happens next!

Oh - and nice newsletter!!! looking good!
 

Nor'baal

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I am in love with the Kajadic I have been put in :D

Totally not editing Nor'baals history to reflect these changes :) Really, really good work guys!
 

KrakenDaWhip

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Ah, damn, Velora is off limits? Ah well, everything looks awesome!
 

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Sheeba Dogi best Hutt Lorda. Such art. Very class. Wow.
 

The Kyzer

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Sheeba Dogi best Hutt Lorda. Such art. Very class. Wow.

You know....I've been reading and re-reading that name over and over again while screaming "REALLY BEE? U SRS RITE NAO?"
 

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I'm not MIA... Just lacking Internet and moved across the country.

But congrats on the promo, Kev. :)
 

Gaja

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Looks terrific! :D

Also hi everybody.

And FU Cassa for having the same timing to drop in as I do. :jawdrop:
 

Cassanova

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Shaddap, Pete. Stop copying me.

Tell Sanja I miss her.
 

Gaja

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If only it was intentional... >_>

Also same to Emma! ^_^
 

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So those text messages you sent me weren't to secretly plan our return in unison?
Dammit.

Oh well.

<3
 

Gaja

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And I missed you Matt. Not Cassa, he poops everywhere.
 

Gaja

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I never knew it was my job to clean up after him, that explains certain things....

Anyway! *hugs Kyle* Missed you too buddy! : D
 
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