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Excerpt from Medal of Honor Citation Released By: The Admiralty, Azure Sector Forces Location of Announcement: Grand Piazza, Anaxes Citadel Month 5, Day 3, 951 ARR Rank and organization: Commander, A.S.V. PG-013, Azure Sector Forces. Place and date: Navigational Waypoint, Azure Sector, Month 4, 951 ARR. Entered service in: 936 ARR. Citation: For extraordinarily heroism and gallantry above and beyond the call of duty during action against enemy Death Watch forces in Month 4, 951 ARR. Among the first to arrive as enemy forces possessing superior firepower and armor, rapidly approached, and undaunted by enemy fire and damage sustained, CAPT Linani Herrin (posthumous) unhesitatingly directed her command to join others of her group to provide fire support during subsequent attacks. While participating in operations in the face of furious and continued bombardment she paid the ultimate price, after having directed the placement of A.S.V. PG-013 between a Jedi vessel and a Munifex-class Cruiser to shield the former from a full broadside that would have otherwise resulted in a complete loss of all aboard. Her courageous initiative, inspiring leadership, and foresight in a crisis of grave responsibility were in keeping with the finest traditions of the Azure Sector Forces.

This is the next post I need to make, let's address some things. First, re: Icedsquirrel. Do I think I handled this situation? Kind of, I handled it exactly how I wanted to, and how I felt I needed to. Does that make it the right decision? Fuck if I know. One thing for sure, is judging by his Discord interactions, I am 100% convinced that he was attempting to gaslight the situation and blame the community instead of taking responsibility for his own actions. I, as the only active admin on the site, should have handled it more diplomatically though. Which brings us into our next point: I am finding it more and more difficult to handle these types of situations diplomatically. Let's address some of the reasons. First, there's the fact that I deal with horrible people on a daily basis and have to do so in order to keep my job, so that takes most of my energy to deal with bullshit. Second, I can't ignore the fact that I am the only caregiver to both of my disabled parents now, so that is exhausting. Finally, the fact that for years I seem to be the only person who is willing to step up and run this game, and then stay, is exhausting. Feeling like I am the only one willing to do so for so long has worn me out, and has made it exceedingly difficult to manage interactions with people I don't particularly like, and has gotten to the point where I don't want to anymore. This isn't the way a community should be run though. So what I'm going to do to address this, is quite simply, take a step back from the SWD Discord. I won't be actively participating in discussions there for the near future at the very least. I am still on Discord a lot, so if anyone needs anything, they can message me privately or ping me. Other than that though, I'm going to do my best to avoid getting tangled into discussions that turn into arguments. I encourage the rest of you to continue using it though, and the Mods are still there to make sure it stays peaceful. For now, that's everything. I am going to be posting a couple very spicy articles today, which is why I paused the clock, so stay tuned for those. Let's continue the round and continue to have fun.

The Glassing of Plaeree The situation on Devaron has apparently gone from bad to worse. While the infestation around the Jedi Temple has been dealt with by the Tapani forces, the infected continue to spread across the planet. The city of Plaeree has been under siege by the infected for the last several days, with defenders falling back to defend several key locations in the city. The Tapani have responded to this, by sending evacuation forces to the city, and extracting as many of the survivors as possible. What they did next shocked the planet. Devaron has been under a partial communication blackout since the beginning of operations. However, that blackout ended as the largest vessels of the Tapani force entered orbit over Plaeree. A final broadcast to evacuate the city was sent, and within minutes, the Tapani opened fire from orbit. Their target was the city of Plaeree itself, utilizing their heaviest weapons to perform a large scale orbital strike on the city, with the goal of "sterilizing" the area from infected individuals. Within three hours of beginning their fire mission, an area 20 km from the city center in all directions was turned into a sheet of molten ground and glass. While it is expected that many of the infected were killed in the attack, there are also reports of large groups of infected fleeing from the attack. As the naval ships opened fire, several civilian vessels used the break in jamming to coordinate a rapid escape from the planet, resulting in five light freighters being destroyed by Tapani forces and ten more escaping from the planet. The capital city of Montellian Serat has been reinforced by the bulk of the Tapani Forces and remaining Devaron defense forces. They have constructed defensive structures and are pushing infected out of the city. Reports indicate that as many as a million infected are still roaming around the world, taking over small population centers.

Clock is paused for 24 hours while I clear up some of these responses that are building up. Actions are open.

The "let's randomly delete people's military" bug is still a thing and is apparently not caused by the issue I thought it was. I recommend you take regular screenshots so we can rebuild your military if/when it happens.