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Queen's Foundation Awards 2022
« on: October 10, 2022, 05:55:47 PM »

The Queen's Foundation Awards (otherwise known as the Queen's Medals), are a set of awards granted to people each year in acknowledgement of their accomplishments across a variety of different fields, are once more upon us. This year we intend to award prizes for accomplishments in the fields of Chemistry, Physics, Physiology and Medicine, Literature or Journalism, Peace, Economics, Engineering, Archaeology and Anthropology, Mathematics and Climate Science (OOC - this essentially combines various RL awards together). Nominations will be open until the 31st of October with the winners being announced on the 5th of November at a reception hosted by Queen's College of the University of Artaxia.

We look forward to another celebration of humankind's accomplishments.

Charlotte Youngson
Chair of the Queen's Foundation

OOC Explanation

Ok this is essentially modelled on the Nobel Prizes. You can nominate any of your own characters, someone else's character, or even an international organisation if you can justify it in any of the fields. There are some rules regarding nominations explained below. All I ask is that people be reasonable, this is intended as a fun RP event not a competition. Also, on the principle of every prize being awarded on the night I will award prizes without nominations myself.

The Rules

1) The reason for the nomination (I.e. what the nominee has done) must have happened between the 27th of October 2021 and the 31st of October 2022 - i.e. the period between last years nominations closing and this years nominations closing.

2) The reason must be a completed RP event - for example if the SSC Honeybadger was nominated then it must have achieved the speed record and not still be being constructed. This also means it must be something on the forum. The nomination period is deliberately long to give everyone the opportunity to complete RP's that may be relevant.

3) The reason must be feasible (within the RP rules) - self explanatory.

4) The Queen's Foundation reserves the right to reject a nomination should it deem it to be inappropriate.

The Nomination Form

Please fill out the following form to nominate for a prize

Code: [Select]
Name of Nominee: (Link to character profile if they have one desired but not essential, do include titles)
Field Nominated in: Chemistry/Physics/Physiology and Medicine/Literature and Journalism/Peace/Economics/Engineering/Archaeology and Anthropology/Mathematics/Climate - Delete as Appropriate
Reason for Nomination: What have they done to earn the nomination?
Supporting Letter: Why you (the person nominating) think they should be given the award, signed by the person doing the nominating (must not be the nominee and you can nominate someone from another nation).

If anyone has questions get in touch with me on discord or PM.

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Re: Queen's Foundation Awards 2022
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2022, 07:50:16 PM »
Name of Nominee: King David of East Moreland
Field Nominated in: Peace
Reason for Nomination: Putting in place a framework to halt conflicts over historic crimes and bring perpetrators to justice.
Supporting Letter:


In its history Mundus has a bloody heritage. There are still countless criminals at large from decades of conflict that pre-dates the Uppsala Convention. In June 2022 His Majesty King David completed the formation of the Historic Crimes Treaty. A piece of diplomacy that not only prevents the prospect of nations taking matters into their own hand but promotes international co-operation on investigation and education of these past crimes.

The Kingdom of Altona therefore wishes to nominate His Majesty King David for a Queen's Foundation Award.

King Rutger of Altona.

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Re: Queen's Foundation Awards 2022
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2022, 10:56:23 PM »
Name of Nominee: King David of East Moreland
Field Nominated in: Peace
Reason for Nomination: Working towards a fair and open referendum designed to halt tensions between Celtic nations
Supporting Letter:

While many nations across the world took the recent referendum in Eigg as a situation to take sides the Kingdom of East Moreland were the nation to suggest a pathway forward that it is hoped will one day ensure independence for the Kingdom of Eigg in such a manner as friendships with the Federation can be maintained. While this is a work in progress it is clearly worthy of recognition.

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Queen Aoife of Eigg

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Re: Queen's Foundation Awards 2022
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2022, 09:55:38 PM »

It is my honour this year to make the following nominations for the Queen's Foundation Awards. We wish all nominations the best of luck.

Name of Nominee: Dr Thomas Campbell or OsmanTech
Field Nominated in:Physiology and Medicine
Reason for Nomination: We wish to nominate Dr.Campbell and his team for their work creating "micro-brains". The advances made by his team have allowed significant progress to be made in the study of conditions such as dementia and alzheimers. It is our hope that in the coming years their work could lead to cures for these terrible conditions.



Name of Nominee:- Martin Dawson
Field Nominated in: Physics or Engineering
Reason for Nomination: The creation of the Space Canon is in our view a significant achievement in reducing both the cost financially and environmentally of space exploration. While so far we have seen only a handful of tests completed by SmartWar the design and concept are incredibly innovative. It is our belief that winning this award is not only justified but will go a long way to help boost the outcomes of this project.



Name of Nominee:- Dr.Klaus Ragner
Field Nominated In:- Physics
Reason for Nomination: The Illumic Shores Technological Institute (ISTI) have been a leading institute in the development of nuclear energy. While their countryman have come close to igniting plasma in experiments over the last 12 months the process inspired by pistol shirmp has been the most innovative I have seen in recent years. Should they be able to perfect the process we could see a new generation of cheap and accessable energy being developed. I believe that Dr.Ragner and his team are more than worthy of this years prize.



Name of Nominee: Dr. Ekstrom
Field of Nomination: Physiology
Reason for Nomination: Dr.Ekstrom and her team were responsible this year for discovering a new ecosystem in Hygelac. Having first discovered a subterranian waterway beneath the ice the team found a non destructive way to access this. During their study they found several new species of creatures similar to shrimp. The study of these creatures will lead to a greater understanding of how our planets life has adapted to some of the harshest climates on Mundus



Name of Nominee: Valentin Zima
Field of Nomination: Archaeology
Reason for Nomination: The Temple of the Goddess is a wonderous historic location on Mundus that very few people outside the nobility of Lodja have ever seen. Access to the site is so exclusive that even many nobles of Lodja have never set foot inside it however it remains a central piece of the nations folklore and the faith of Sessifet. In recent months Miss Zima and her team have undertaken an ambitious project to map and record every aspect of the Temple and not just digitalise it for the world to see but also recreate it to allow access to a wider audience of interested individuals, scholars and the faithful of Sessifet. While projects of recording archaeology are common througout Mundus attempts to actively recreate in order to preserve are extremly rare.



Name of Nominee: TUNA's Alucard Clean up
Field of Nomination: Climate
Reason for Nomination: The attempts by TUNA to remove plastic from the Alucard have always been a credit to those involved. This year the organisation have added several key logistical aspects to the process to allow them to go even further. We have watched this operation with interest and while it is still a long way from creating a perfectly clean Alucard the attempts should receive the highest possible praise.



Name of Nominee: Peter Simod
Field of Nomination: Physiology
Reason for Nomination: Mr.Simod and his team at ZDS have always been rather innovative with their use of manipulating things from nature. The ability to genetically engineer a thread made from milk of goats is an extremely interesting process that may lead to further processes that yield results for the benefit of all mankind.





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Re: Queen's Foundation Awards 2022
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2022, 01:18:32 AM »
Final 24 hours for nominations.

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Re: Queen's Foundation Awards 2022
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2022, 03:11:14 PM »
Votes for awards with more than one nomination are now up.