Prometheus

Prometheus, formerly known as Napoleon Bonaparte, often shortened to just Prome, is a Promagistrate, Bot Developer, former Consul, and former Senator of KhAnubia. He is notable for having what is commonly considered the shortest time from being elected Senator to becoming Consul, and for creating the custom bot KhAnuBot.

Joining the server
Joining the server on 12 April 2020, he was a moderately active member of the server. Eager to participate in server politics, he joined the PFK on 26 April 2020. Not long after joining the party, Prometheus declared candidacy for the Senate on 20 May 2020, with the following message:"Today, I, the deposed consul/emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, would like to announce my intentions to run for the Senate and improve the prestige of the Khanubia server. I also solemnly swear that I will merely act as a member of hte senare and act on behalf of the citizenry and will not overthrow it. I will be running as one of the PFK candidates."

Running against more established server members, Prometheus won a seat on behalf of the PFK, being among the two new Senators that were elected, along with Happyboi, and was sworn in on 4 June 2020.

Senator term
Prometheus served one term as a senator of the Second KhAnubian Senate, during which he was involved in the passing of several prominent suggestions, such as the creation of a discussion channel for server suggestions, the merging of several channels into #media-chat, and the end of Carl-bot's management of server suggestions. It was during his term in the senate that Prometheus wrote code enabling KhAnuBot to handle suggestions, as well as later pass them to the senate for voting. This system of voting would stay, with multiple modifications following various protocol changes.

During the later half of his term as senator, the server's mods let him know that he might be eligible to become a server mods, based on his contributions to the server. Therefore, Prometheus decided against pursuing reelection in favour of becoming a server moderator.

Quaestor period
On 4 August 2020, Prometheus was promoted to Quaestor to begin serving his term as Quaestor, in accordance with the tradition for new moderators to undergo training before being sworn in as full moderators. At the time, this made it the 5th concurrent discord server that he was a moderator in. As a Quaestor, some of the major discussions he was involved in involve the formalization of the general guideline to have 1 server moderator for every 100 server members. the general allocation of powers among moderators when it comes to server suggestions (instead of the previous system of dedicated Princeps Senatii) and the gradual demotion and banning of controversial member Talthiel.

During this term, he started establishing his general reputation as a compromiser, trying to please two opposing extremes. This was demonstrated in the Talthiel case, where he advocated for a more forgiving punishment scheme for Talthiel.

Praetor period
On 4 October 2020, in contrast to usual protocol, Prometheus was promoted to Praetor instead of Aedile. This was down to enabling Prometheus to have more autonomy and powers to manage his KhAnuBot needs on his own, without needing to be dependent on the Consuls. They also felt Prometheus had displayed the necessary competence needed for a Praetor. During his short praetorship, he was involved in the creation of a system to monitor potential offenders based on their past record, as well as a modified Patrician system, where users are given the role not for longevity on the server, but as recognition for substantial changes they have brought to the server. Coincidentally, Prometheus became the last person to get Patrician under the old system, as merely days after passing the 6 month requirement for Patrician status, this reform passed.

During the later parts of the Praetorship, Prometheus and kanji both were frustrated with the lack of activity from Artificial Gravitas and his co-consul Nightmare, as despite being admins, it is expected that Praetors consult with Consuls before doing anything major.

Ascension to Consul
Recognizing their lack of activity, Artificial Gravitas and Nightmare decided to step down together and on 27 October 2020, Prometheus and kanji were promoted to the position of Consul, which now makes them the new highest authorities on the server. In his resignation message, Gravitas said:"Nightmare and I have decided that we will be resigning as we both have become fairly inactive More crucially however, is that we now feel that we have successors up to the task There will be no uncertainty regarding the succession this time: our two Praetors are up to the task and have been running things in our absence already, we have requested of KhAnubis that they be made Consuls along with our dismissal So Congratulations @kanji_d and @Prometheus! We leave the server in your capable hands and keyboards, although we will stick around should you need us, do the server well!"Gravitas and Nightmare stepped down to the position of Praetor for a brief period to ease the Consuls in adjusting to their new authority, eventually resigning from the staff team as a whole to enjoy their retirement.

Server theme change debacle
On 30 October 2020, an opinion poll was created, which sought to change the theme of the server from the existing Roman theme to an alternative theme. Following popular approval, several themes were submitted, and a popular vote was held on the theme that would replace the Roman theme. Amidst the heated discussion about the themes, on 7 November, KhAnubis himself, in a rare exercise of executive power, vetoed the proceedings, as he felt that the Roman theme would be most representative of his channel's content, and some of the contesting themes rarely had any mention at all on his channel, making them unsuitable to base his server around.

Wilhelmine controversy
Controversial member Wilhelmine had racked up a reputation of being unpleasant to interact with, and received several warns due to that. Following several complaints, Prometheus initiated a discussion on unseating Wilhelmine from the senate, a discussion which ended in the removal of a Senator by the Staff for the very first time. However, under the new STV system of elections, Wilhelmine won the most votes in the next election, despite popular backlash against this. This led many to speculate that there was intentional voter manipulation. The rumours were dispelled after several rechecks of submitted votes by Prometheus and kanji. Eventually, Wilhelmine was banned from the server, but the backlash established a popular bias against the STV voting method among the populace, as they felt that the method would allow unpopular candidates to ascend to the Senate.

Disbandment of the senate
Following a scandal, where a former Senator revealed some sneaky dealings behind the scenes involving prominent senators, who conspired to hijack the suggestions system by forming a voting bloc. As a result, the senate's powers were reduced slowly, eventually leading to the abolishment of the body on 22 January 2021. Since then, suggestions have been voted on by direct popular vote, rather than a two-step voting process with the Senate. On 17 March 2021, this decision was reaffirmed. In both instances, a popular vote was used to determine the fate of the Senate. Prometheus was a notable critic of the Senate, seeing it as an inefficient middleman, and made the necessary adjustments to KhAnuBot to remove the Senate system.

Other major contributions
Prometheus was fundamental in the creation of the staff approval survey, which allows the public to critique on the moderation abilities of staff members, and give them feedback. Prometheus was notably the highest-rated staff member in all those surveys, and the only one not to have inactivity as a major concern.

Prometheus worked with the first Praesides to establish the foundations for the Praesides' powers, with future relationships established in subsequent councils.

Prometheus also worked with kanji to create a Promagistrate role for retired senior members of the staff team, namely Praetors and Consuls.

Resignation
On 2 August 2021, after 10 months as Consul, Prometheus stepped down from the position, briefly staying as Aedile for 2 days so that on the 4 August 2021, he can resign after spending exactly 1 year as a staff member, from the time he was appointed as Quaestor. He was succeeded by MarK, and resigned ahead of his co-consul kanji, who would follow suit in around a month. Contrary to most Consuls, who resign due to inactivity or controversy, Prometheus resigned on his own. Privately, several server members' attitudes were at fault for making the resignation happen early, but faced with his upcoming military service in 2021, he resigned to oversee a smooth transition to the next administration. Prometheus had created his own Bot Developer role during his term as Consul, foreseeing his future resignation, and closer to his recognition, he gave himself the necessary permissions he felt he wanted.

Praeses term
Deciding to have one more shot at an elected office before going inactive, Prometheus ran for Praeses twice and was voted overwhelmingly to assume office both times. Hence, he served two terms, one starting on 1 September 2021, and another on 1 November 2021. During his term, he was noted to have a pro-Staff bias in his policies, and was frequently called out for being pro-establishment rather than pro-change.

Taking in co-Bot developers
On 13 December, Prometheus announced that he will be taking in Taffee and on the following day, Zach_C as co-developers of KhAnuBot, after more than 1.5 years of developing KhAnuBot on his own, which was done so that KhAnuBot could be maintained even after Prometheus becomes inactive after he starts his military service.

Notable contributions
While not the one to suggest it, Prometheus was involved in the structuring of Daily Stuff, which was a channel which published daily tidbits of information. This included suggesting specific Interrogators to be in charge of posting it and separating the channel into a main channel and a discussion channel.

Prometheus also started the Event Ministry, which was in charge of all in-server events. This includes events to engage the populace, the senatorial elections propaganda event and initially, the praesidian elections propaganda event. He would also play a major part in organizing and executing these events.

Prometheus also suggested for the creation of a dedicated categorical chat category for specific topic-based discussion channels, including #politics-chat, #religion-philosophy-chat, #food-chat, etc., and while some channels were added and removed, the category stayed intact. This is in contrast to previously when #politics-chat and #religion-chat were grouped with the other text channels.

He also helped in the management of the KhAnubian Chronicle, which was a short-lived attempt at making a monthly newspaper for the server. Though initially suggested by Braygun, Prometheus was instrumental in the publishing and editorial review of the paper, as well as directly contributing articles to the paper. Prometheus also suggested for the revision of colours of the level roles, which made level roles follow a sort of colour gradient, rather than haphazard colouring.

Besides these, Prometheus has also made several emojis for the server, editing his images using Powerpoint and remove.bg, with several examples being :KhThink:, :true:, :KhApproved:, :KhAmmer:, :KhOmrade:, etc.

Trivia

 * Prometheus was born on 29 May 2003.
 * He is born in Singapore, with Indian ancestry.
 * He coded KhAnuBot using the Python programming language, but also knows HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, C++ and C to varying extents.
 * Prometheus has the most roles of any server member, with 27 roles as of writing the article.
 * "Some of these role are defunct, and therefore he is cheating." ~Ryan
 * He is a notable fan of the science education channel, Kurzgesagt, and has used art featured in their videos in his avatar.
 * He also decided to waste an hour of his time writing this wiki page and reference himself in 3rd person.