On Season 80's Theme

I'd like to take season 80 as a time of consolidation.

Let me share with you my thoughts ahead of the new season.

Firstly, our structure.

We have a very unique leadership structure.

Now, I'm not Catholic, but there is one organisation of close to 1 billion members that has stood the test of time and that must be something worth learning from.

The catholic church has a structure that has shown it can handle such large numbers in such a consistent way theologically and organisationally speaking over so many centuries.

They also have clear rules for appointing a new supreme leader (pope) that prevents fragmentation of the organisation.

Consider the mess at Øutlaws and Z Empire. This season has taught us that they have numbers but no coherence.

Cardinals will have the job of not just leading battles, enforcing rules and providing lands but also to actively guide our players to have our culture.

They will help to set up our sub alliances (Ignis, Glacis, Militem, Academy and maybe more to come) and they will be known as the Bishops (crown) of these sub alliances.

Cardinals must also agree to follow a set of guiding principles which I will share on later.

Cardinals must also pledge to be 100% loyal to whoever replaces me as Patriarch one day.

Even if you don't like the new Patriarch or have a different view, this guy whom we elect from among ourselves to replace me (one day) is our majority agreed choice and *must* command our absolute loyalty.

Cardinals this season (season 80) will not spend time recruiting (unless people want to join) but rather build on what we have already achieved. Build on our culture.

I will organise a list of [DS]  tagged players who have not joined us this season and track them till season 82 (3 seasons). If they are still 'dead', we won't invite them subsequently.

We need to consolidate every 10 seasons or so, and season 80, 90, 100, etc.. will be good milestones to do a stocktake on our progress, culture, numbers and overall direction.

So the theme of season 80 is "Consolidation - of culture and numbers".

The history of Dson Sinespa.

The alliance was first started by a dude called Sintholas and Esplanade (Smorg's first acct).

He suggested Dson SinEspla but that had too many characters. So it became Dson SinEspa.

Smorg asked him what Dson meant. He said "The Great". So Dson SinEspa meant "The Great Sintholas and Esplanade".

Now we have "The Great Fire Alliance", "The Great Ice Alliance", "The Great Knighthood" and "The Great Academy".

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Exploring Closer Collaboration

Okay guys and gals. Here the season 79 briefing.

Apologies for taking so long to set up. This season we trying something new.

We have two families of alliances we are exploring a closer collaboration with. Z Empire (ZE) and the Outlaws (Ø).

The way I put it is: Work together.. get to know each other.. and maybe one day merge if we all fall in love with each other.

So, you may freely raid the LANDS of the ZE alliances and the Ø alliances. No capping and no raiding of their garrisons.

Any raiding of friendly garrisons MUST have prior permission.

Also, be active on League Chat.. let's impress these fellas with our Dson culture.

VP Mission Accomplished

There was a bit of a secret mission going on in Season 75.

We put together a few of our Dson members to see how high we could go in the world rankings.

We are proud to announce that we managed to get 6th place world-wide with over 5 million Victory Points.

The team consisted of:

Gong
Dust
Para
Espla
Zectohar
Smorg
Naga
Evilswan
Noel
TakeOver