Date: August 2, 2014
Nominated by: FA Sienn "The Rot" Sconn
Awarded by: RA Lamin Zykara
Reason for nomination: During Operation Urgent Light, COL Quinal participated in every offered scoring category except for The Old Republic. He flew every legacy ITOD mission, participated heavily in X-Wing minis and Warframe, simmed AND mined diamonds for Minecraft. In addition, he wrote 5 separate narratives. This, in the opinion of the Operations Officer, qualifies as a "tremendous" amount of activity for this particular scoring session and worthy of this high combat award.
Comments by awarding officer: Kimi, I have another award for you, and it is a fairly uncommon award throughout the Republic that is just now starting to appear among the members of Task Force Republic Shield. It is my great pleasure to present you with the Republic Shield Kalidor Crescent. This variant of the Republic's Kalidor Crescent is awarded to members who show tremendous participation in Rebel Squadrons events. During Operation Urgent Light, you flew all legacy ITOD missions, wrote five separate narratives, participated in our Minecraft server, played Warframe, simmed, and played matches of X-Wing Miniatures. In recognition of your outstanding participation in the last session, I am pleased to award you the very first Republic Shield Kalidor Crescent. Congratulations, Kimi!