The Empire is a roleplay group, and a roleplay group is only alive when people turn up. So each week asks something of everyone, it is counted from what hosts mark, and a member who cannot be there for a while says so in advance and is excused. Nothing here is a punishment; it is how command knows who is there.

The quota

1. 01Two events attended a week.Attended means marked present by the host after the event; saying you are coming counts for nothing. Any event counts: a training, a patrol, a meeting on Discord. The week runs Monday to Sunday, by UTC.
2. 02For officers, one event hosted a week as well.Command in the Empire group, rank 8, and High Command. An event counts as hosted once you have marked who came. Staff and the throne have no hosting quota.
3. 03Your account shows where you stand.Your week, on the Account screen: attended so far, hosted so far, days left. The home screen says the same when you are short. Ask the search: my quota.
4. 04A week on leave does not count, nor the week you arrived.Approved leave covering any day of the week excuses the whole week. So does the week your account was made.
5. 05Command sees the whole list.The Quota screen, under Command in the sidebar, lists everyone against the week, short first, this week or last, by division, with the leave requests and who is on leave above it. Each group's Leave tab in the Command Center has its own. Monday's report to High Command names who was short.
6. 06Being short is a conversation, not a sanction.What follows from a quiet week is command's to decide, inside the division. The site records; it does not demote.

Leave of absence

1. 01Leave is a division's business.It is asked of a division's command, so it is for members of the Crownguard, the Military Police, the Special Forces, Intelligence or the Political Council. A Recruit in the Cyrannus Army and in no branch has no command to ask, and the Leave screen says so. In more than one division, you say which the leave is for.
2. 02Ask on the Leave screen, under You, for a reason.Which division. What kind: personal, school or exams, work, health, travel, or something else. From when, until when: a day at the least, two weeks at the most, up to sixty days ahead. Why, in a few words; health needs no detail beyond that.
3. 03A month allows two weeks of leave in all.In one leave or several: a day here and there is fine, and two weeks at once is the whole month's allowance, so nothing more until the next month. A leave over the turn of a month spends from each. The Leave screen says how much of the month is left.
4. 04Three days or fewer is noted on the spot.No decision needed. You are on leave from the start date and it shows beside your name at once.
5. 05Longer waits on your division's command.The command of the division the leave is filed with decides, on that group's Leave tab in the Command Center: General, Commander, Section Chief, Councilor and Delegate and above in that division's own group. Nobody from another division can, nobody decides their own, and the throne always can. Until they do, nothing is held against you either, and the request is visible to them. A request nobody decided by the day it begins is approved by the clock.
6. 06Declined, you are told why.The word they leave is on the Leave screen. You can ask again with different dates.
7. 07Back early, say so.I am back on the Leave screen ends the leave that day. Withdraw takes back a request that is still waiting.
8. 08One at a time.A leave that stands or waits has to end before another is asked for. Longer than two weeks away is a word with your command, not a leave.

Leave requests, approvals, declines and endings are told to #loa-logs on the Discord server, and the roster, the Quota screen, the Command Center and your profile all show On leave while it stands.