[Kevin]

Professional recruiters? That would have been nice! Our organization has been pretty supportive before and after we earned our charter. Probably actually more supportive after. As a colony -- I think we were under a new director and this has changed since... They did send the director of expansion to my school, he recruited some guys trained them and left us with books on how to run a colony. As far as a petetition we recieved one from a colony that had just rechartered to model ours off of.

It took us 3 years to figure out what the hell was going on and we finally got the charter. HQ and the local alums have been riding us about not having a post-charter slump (which you might argue that we had but you'd have a tough time quantifying it). The reason for me starting the thread was that I was curious as to if others had experienced this phenomenon?