Resignation of Emperor Connel

Edits to the orginal text are marked by color and brackets.

The message was posted to the Imperial News Grid (ING) and preserved in an email of Count Uebles to the Imperial Core mailinglist (which also explains the odd formating, I may clean this up at some later point.)

		
	Von: 	Michael Ortmann [= Count Uebles; mail address deleted]
	Betreff: 	[imperialcore] Communique HC-UE 101
	Datum: 	22. Februar 2001 00:54:06 MEZ
	An: 	imperialcore@listbot.com
	
	
From: R. Adm. Count Uebles
To: Imperial Core

A message of interest to all of you from the ING:

                                
Resignation
                                
6:43 PM EST - Connel

                                
Greetings members of the Empire. It's
been no secret that since my return, I
                                have not been like my old self. What I
went through IRL just proved to be too
                                much, and my motivation and interest
towards the Combine has been
                                non-existant, and never allowed me to
be able to get back into character.
                                Therefore, I am leaving the Combine for
good. I will be posting my resignation
                                on the ING and the Combine Imperial
news page Tuesday. I will spend my
                                time until Tuesday distributing my
Combine points and/or credits to all of my
                                friends, and will turn over any and all
personal items/ships/vehicles to the
                                Empire. I will then have my good friend
LawrenceO delete my character from
                                the Combine Database...Trey Connel will
NOT be returning to the Combine.

                                
What I WILL be doing is starting over
fresh, putting my efforts into the coming
                                Star Wars Galaxies game, specifically,
in the Imperial group I am arranging
                                for that game. To all of my friends in
the Combine, if you are interested in the
                                SWG Group, you can go to "The Imperial
Order" page at
                                www.imperialnewsgrid.com and check it
out. If you want to join, just let me
                                know and I'll get you on the list. The
page isn't much now, but the real page is
                                almost done and ready for posting. Note
that no one will have to quit the
                                combine if you wish to join. Sometime
next week I will be sending out
                                invitations for friends in the Combine
to join, and anyone that I happen to
                                forget to contact, or have outdated
email addresses, consider this an open
                                invitation. I hope you consider it, as
we can use much help in setting the
                                foundation for this new organization.

                                
Before I finish, I just want to say
thank you to Veynom and Ranma for all the
                                time and effort they have put into
their work on the Combine. I'd also like to
                                thank Drayson, Vodo, Spytek, Piett,
Mccarthur, and Nlyn....Serving you all
                                when you were Emperor, and Nlyn as my
mentor Army Commander, has led
                                to a most memorable time in the
SWSim/SWCombine. Last, but DEFINATELY
                                not least, I'd like the thank the
thousands of people that have come, gone, and
                                stayed over these last 4 years that I
can still call my friends today. I've known
                                most of you for a LONG time, and your
friendships mean a lot to me. My
                                loyalty to you is the reason I came
back even while I was still dealing with my
                                personal problems, and you are also the
reason why it is so difficult to leave
                                now. I'm going to use my current ICQ
number for Star Wars Galaxies, so I
                                hope many of you will stay in touch
when I'm gone, whether or not you join
                                my Galaxies Player Group, a different
Galaxies Player Group, or just stay with
                                the Combine. With that, here ends this
transmission.

The official stance of the Imperial Core will be published soon. Until
then this is not to be commented or discussed outside the Core.

--
Rear Admiral Count Uebles
Imperial Core
Admiral of the Navy
[NIAA] [INIS] [ETD3]
[LOC] [1 Year]
ICQ: 50586418

To turn and look upon its face,
Brought fear I'd never known --
The shadow has ever haunted me,
As I walk the Earth so alone--
And when I turned, No face I saw,
For the Shadow was my own.
Death Angel's Shadow.

      Karl Edward Wagner