This is… Impossible to describe. All of it. I think we all are struggling to find words to describe your delegacy, Serge. I think I’ll go with unique. You have taken all the enormous legacy of Marra, and have not only settled it strongly, but also developed your ideas in a very harmonic way, so them all have succeeded on the short or the long run. As I felt with Marra, I feel like you have always been the delegate, there’s so much that has happened both IRL and here while you’ve been in charge. When it’s time to work, you bring an aura of both fun and hardwork that turns what could be boring into a great time. That has a name, and it’s called charisma. You are a true leader, also because, even when you try to sometimes, you cannot do things on your own, and you’ve always been surrounded by a perfect team to help you on that, of which I can very proudly say I’ve been part of. So, I’d like to also acknowledge the work of every single of our Cabinet, Ministers and Executive Staffers colleagues, with a special mention to Aivintis, now an OGO, that also showed the great capability he has, even when he constantly denies it. You, Serge, and all these amazing people around you, are what makes TEP be TEP.
When the next term ends, I’ll most probably have finished my degree. Mindblowing. I still remember that afternoon of December 2013, when a boring teen created a nation in some online game. I still remember when I got my first endorsement, who was no other than the Delegate himself, Bachtendekuppen. Today, I administrate the Bachtendekuppen Memorial Library as the Chancellor of UTEP. When I returned in 2016, I got my citizenship application accepted by Xoriet, owner of the most famous ocelots of NS. Today, I’m part of the Citizenship Commission as Vizier, and have received the Order of the Golden Ocelot named after the person that accepted my first step into this place. I really thought at the beginning that this strange game in a foreign language I was still not used to would only suppose fun for some days and I would get off it. I was absolutely wrong, and I cannot be more proud of it.
I’ve done many things here, as the OGO shows, but its value is minimum in relation to what means the most for me in this region. The people. That’s what TEP is, TEPers. Whenever I’m bored, I get into TEP; whenever I’m inspired, TEP; whenever I’m having a good day, share it with TEP; a bad day? TEP is always there. I wish the world would be a bit more like TEP: it’s not perfect, but such a place to be in during these ominous times. This is why the OGO has got me emotional, it’s a recognition to be included among such an incredible group of people, a true Olympus of which now I’m part of and some other amazing people as well, whom I congratulate now in the maximum degree. My only intention here is to make TEP grow better, and I cannot be more proud of that being appreciated in the highest form possible. Thank you from the deepest of my soul.
Salve, Sergius. Salvete, socii. Ex Oriente Lux, Gloriosa et Sempiterna.
