Edict #96
“So no IOA… No television program about dancing with supposed celebrities?”
“Actually that part was real.”
“How very disturbing.”
“Mm hm.”
“Yeah.”
This is one of those long boring ones where I extoll virtues endlessly to make a point :P
There are a few very special people in the club who have had the patience, good humour and stubbornness to remain my friend through my many tantrums, rants, odd segue’s into the realm of madness and general incomprehensible waffle. Our next recipient has done that and still manages to quip his way through life despite his carrotly god complex. We’ve been through a great deal together in the last five years, our occasionally concurrent stints as FComm-5 and FComm-6 have given us frequent discussions about crossover sims and permanently extended invitations to visit each others flagships (there’s a double entendre in there somewhere). Between us, in a moment of madness we managed to kickstart the animal nickname tradition with our beastially (read it twice) animal personas and the constant war between Carrotism and the Dark Hordes of Wolfeania (I was young, gimme a break) have generated much oddity and mirth through the years.
In the eight years that he has been foisting himself upon us, he has served as commanding officer aboard the Agamemnon (Vanguard), Bonaventure, Discovery and Olympic. He has been Vice President, Fleet One Commander, Academy Commandant, Gamemaster Director and has twice been Fleet Six Commander. He is the author of the Academy’s Commanding Officer Course, Executive Officer Course and Department Head Course. In recent times he has been responsible for the rebranding of Fleet Six and the continued work developing a unique fleet identity for one of our finest fleets. By far though, his best work was done in the four years he spent as Governor of OED V. When Sy first took over, OED V was a relatively standard attempt at an alt-rpg that had gone through multiple rewrites, relaunches and still kept sliding down the scale. He relaunched the OED, wrote a new charter, packed the roster with outstanding up and coming players (such as our beloved Tribble, the only man who could fill those Bunny shoes as Governor… Mostly because tribbles have no feet..) and turned OED into one of the most odd, quirky and fun places in the club. His name is synonymous with the OED and his Bunny prints can still be seen there now.
Occasionally he has had to leave us for that most cruel of mistresses (real life, not Jack) but he has always returned with a vengeance and I’m proud to call him my friend.
It is with humble Wolfely pleasure that I hereby Promote Symon “Bunny” Silvester to the rank of Rear Admiral, with all the rights and mocking privileges therein.
Congratulations, you sexy golden carroted Bunny you!
Fleet Admiral Andrew “Wolfe” Robinson
STF President
6th December 2009