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Hello everyone. As many of you know, Frank has chosen to step down as the faction leader of the Hutt Cartel. We have yet to appoint a new faction leader for a key reason that I want to lay out to you all, as well as what we would like to do about it.
The staff considers the Hutt Cartel, to date, something of a failed experiment. Throughout this timeline, we've tried to introduce wildcard factions into the mix that weren't Jedi, Sith/Imperial, or Alliance/Rebels. The first was the Chiss Ascendancy, which was a decidedly failed faction. The second, of course, is the Hutt Cartel. The idea of the faction was that it could potentially play both sides and influence the war in greedy ways, by profiting from and even attacking both sides of the war. The direction of the faction would ultimately be up to its members.
Unfortunately, that never went anywhere, and we're left with a faction whose place in the timeline remains a mystery to us and, probably, most people. While the Jedi, the Sith, and the Rebellion have certainly had their fair share of activity issues, they all have clear places in the timeline where they can have an obvious impact on the war. The Hutts never found that place, so we're left wondering if it still makes sense for the Hutts to be a main faction or of it's time to call it a day and make the Hutt Cartel an independent faction.
Before we do that, however, we want to offer the members of the Hutt Cartel the opportunity to submit a plan for how the Hutts can be a legitimate war-based presence in the timeline, which we anticipate will be ending by the end of the year. The person with a plan for what the final four months or so of the Hutt Cartel could look like will likely become the new faction leader, with the expectation that they implement that plan immediately. You will be expected to hit the ground running, without much of a honeymoon period.
I do have to emphasize that we're serious about potentially making the Hutt Cartel an independent faction. If we don't think any of the submitted plans are credible, we won't simply choose the best of the worst. If none of them can credibly lead to a faction that is involved in the war, we will make it an independent faction.
Please submit your plans to me no later than the end of this Wednesday, August 19th. Thanks!
The staff considers the Hutt Cartel, to date, something of a failed experiment. Throughout this timeline, we've tried to introduce wildcard factions into the mix that weren't Jedi, Sith/Imperial, or Alliance/Rebels. The first was the Chiss Ascendancy, which was a decidedly failed faction. The second, of course, is the Hutt Cartel. The idea of the faction was that it could potentially play both sides and influence the war in greedy ways, by profiting from and even attacking both sides of the war. The direction of the faction would ultimately be up to its members.
Unfortunately, that never went anywhere, and we're left with a faction whose place in the timeline remains a mystery to us and, probably, most people. While the Jedi, the Sith, and the Rebellion have certainly had their fair share of activity issues, they all have clear places in the timeline where they can have an obvious impact on the war. The Hutts never found that place, so we're left wondering if it still makes sense for the Hutts to be a main faction or of it's time to call it a day and make the Hutt Cartel an independent faction.
Before we do that, however, we want to offer the members of the Hutt Cartel the opportunity to submit a plan for how the Hutts can be a legitimate war-based presence in the timeline, which we anticipate will be ending by the end of the year. The person with a plan for what the final four months or so of the Hutt Cartel could look like will likely become the new faction leader, with the expectation that they implement that plan immediately. You will be expected to hit the ground running, without much of a honeymoon period.
I do have to emphasize that we're serious about potentially making the Hutt Cartel an independent faction. If we don't think any of the submitted plans are credible, we won't simply choose the best of the worst. If none of them can credibly lead to a faction that is involved in the war, we will make it an independent faction.
Please submit your plans to me no later than the end of this Wednesday, August 19th. Thanks!