To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

[Adrienne]

"To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal." - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

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Dear Friends and Enemies of Orbis,

I’m writing to you all today with some important news. Our devoted king, Canbec, has decided to retire. I’m sure this news has not already been circulating all last night and today and will come as a complete and total shock to all.

Whether you love him a lot or only a little, Canbec has been an incredible part of both our alliance and Orbis. He’s served The Knights Radiant with great love and devotion since July 2021, when he joined gov as a High Prince of War and began moving up through the ranks. He’s led the alliance since January 2023 and has done an amazing job. He saw us through five wars, two blocs, and one very successful merger. He helped raise two protectorates to allies. He served on the development team. And, arguably most impressive of all, he achieved what many thought was impossible: convincing TKR to move from Slack to Discord.

Canbec, you’ve been an amazing leader for the last year and an even more amazing friend for the last three, and I’m grateful you’ll be sticking around as a Shard. Thank you for everything you’ve done for TKR and thank you for the trust you’ve put in me and in Ben to continue moving TKR forward. You’ve left us some big shoes to fill, and I hope we’ll do you justice.

I also want to thank our allies, Grumpy Old Bastards, The Immortals, The Forgotten Realms, and Space Engineers, for supporting us during this transition. I look forward to working more with you in the coming months.

Lastly, thank you to our members for believing in us and trusting us to serve you. I look forward to seeing what we can accomplish together.

 

All the best,
Adrienne, Queen of the Heralds

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Dear Frenemies Orbis Wide:

You can’t get rid of me forever!

It is a sad occasion with Canbec’s retirement. Our game and community are better for all that Canbec has achieved and we appreciate everything he poured into it. Thanks for bringing us into the 21st century on Discord, designing some beautiful war badges, and seeming to answer DMs at all hours. You should be proud of all that you accomplished in milcom, growth in econ, implementing new tech, and making us some wonderful new friends in FA.

Enjoy the best role in the game: retired former leader, advisor, and shard. You’ve earned your rest. Looking forward to your nitpicking of our future decisions!

 

I’ll Leave the Rocking Chair Warm for Ya,
Benfro, Prince of the Heralds

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tl;dr:

Spoiler

[MasterChief]

Long live TKR! ❤️ Congrats on your retirement!

[Who Me]

Let the hate begin.

[Themonia]

Congrats on the retirement, Canbec. My condolences for having to work with Latsu, Adrienne.

[Presidential]

Happy retirement to my dear friend and fellow lawyer,@Canbec! I can't wait to see what you, Adrienne, and Benfro do leading TKR (again)!

[Benfro]

 

Watch out. The old people are BACK!
(Thanks again @Canbec - you will be missed greatly.)

[RagnarBuliwyf]

Congrats to Canbec on the retirement. 

[Dark Shinji]

Long live TKR!

[Velyni Vas]

A sign of the times when these two come back into circulation. Looking forward to see what you two bring to the game.

[James T Kirk]

And just like that, a titan went on to rest. 

Thank you @Canbec for everything. And ofc, thank you for putting up with me. I know I can be an ass. But your service to our alliance was massive. Sincerely, thank you. A proper TKR Legend. 

Curiously awaiting to see how these new kids do, whoever they are. 

Edited February 13 by James T Kirk

[Kurdanak]

6 minutes ago, Benfro said:

Watch out. The old people are BACK!

Let it be known that I did it before it was cool.

Enjoy the rest, Canbec. Adrienne, enjoy your time as leader before the GPA coup in TKR and Rose is activated.

[nill]

Congrats and rest easy! UWU

[Kyubnyan]

5 minutes ago, Kurdanak said:

Let it be known that I did it before it was cool.

Enjoy the rest, Canbec. Adrienne, enjoy your time as leader before the GPA coup in TKR and Rose is activated.

The neutral menace playing the long game I see. 

[Kim]

Nice

[Keza Purple]

Does this mean @Lordshipis returning too? 

But congrats to both you 

 

pls dont start a war over me again ❤️

[Latsu]

49 minutes ago, Themonia said:

Congrats on the retirement, Canbec. My condolences for having to work with Latsu, Adrienne.

Can I start charging rent at some point?

[Lord of Puns]

I am very happy to see our rightful leadership reinstated to power. [insert nation name here] is better for it, I - [insert leader name here] am also better for it. 
 

Dont forget to post this message to the OWF in order to qualify for your monthly rations. Long live the Queen!

[Darth Ataxia]

The Jeans of TKR are back

[Ben Zene]

Actually Canbec retired so he could go back to playing 8000 baseball games a day

[Canbec]

1 hour ago, Latsu said:

Can I start charging rent at some point?

I hate to be the joke police, but technically he should be charging you.

[The Titan]

Well, even with the ups and downs, it was an honor to work alongside Canbec. I wish you truly the best in retirement.
As for Rienne and Ben - LOSERS YOU HAVE TO LEAD AGAIN!

But I do look forward to potentially working with the two of you again if it comes up <3.

[Insert Name Here]

Adrienne led TKR during their toughest period, where they lost a bunch of wars, and kept them together through it all. They're a much better alliance for it, and tremedously resilient - one of pnw's historic giants with t$, Rose and more recently Eclipse.

I'm sure you'll do a great job. Congrats to the retired Canbec and condolences to the new leadership. 

[Jesus Prime]

Bye!

[Floating Hippo]

Back again?

\o/ Some people just love the abuse.

[SleepingNinja]

Congrats on retirement Canbec.

My condolences to Adri. She just can't escape.