In the interest of not losing any more time...I made dutchfire the King. So, dutchfire now leads the faction also. However, I do think that at some time in the future, we should re-elect our faction's leader, say ahead of the next PF election, based on performance, availability, etc...
What was the driver in my rash decision? The DG has suffered enough, why put it through more pain and delay? dutchfire was one of the first to join this faction, and the only one of the people here, who appeared to have the time to run things.
I apologize to anyone, who may be put off by this turn of events. As a leader, I was feeling very bad and embarrassed by recent events. My RL requirements have simply shocked me with their exponential increase along with the suddenness of the onslaught. I barely had time to try to slap a bandaid of organization for the last turn set.
In short, I could not bare the burden of the harm I felt I was doing. Some may say, well he was only out of the loop for 4 days. That's an eternity in this environment really, and I hope that others who follow in my footsteps learn from this. If you want to lead a faction, and more so, if you want to rule a DG, then you have to be available enough to provide close to real time guidance and organization. I was doing that up until the last couple of weeks, when the (blank) started hitting the fan with my RL.
As we are running under a monarchy government system, and in light of the need for a timely decision, my first recommendation to hold an election was not the right decision. An immediate choice had to be made. This is what I have done, and I believe it was the right one. Let us now give our support to dutchfire, our new King, and our new leader.
@moderator: Is it within your power to give dutchfire the editing rights for my first few posts here that contain the agenda and platform?
@dutchfire: If this cannot be done, then I offer my services to keep those updated for us all, should you request any changes.