For about a year now, the Internet Office has been working (and primarily taking breaks in working) on a site redirection service for the Emperor's Hammer, similar to TSX and CJB.net. Well, that service is now a reality.

Stardestroyer.org, my domain, now hosts this service. Any EH member can apply for a http:// yourname.stardestroyer.org redirect, free-of-charge and free-of-porn-banners. Since TSX redirects will soon be banned by the EH, I suggest you switch over now. The sign-up takes 2 seconds, and your account is activated immediately!

Take a few moments of your time to check it out:
Stardestroyer.org Redirection Service

There's another new IWATS course out, BitchX. Take it today at http://www.imperialacademy.org/bitchx/!

Six months after the Recon Office brought you the Halloween Prank Banner comp, it brings you the April Fool's Prank Banner Comp. This is the same as the Halloween one, pick a rival ship, wing, or squadron banner and put a brank on it. Good luck!

BEGINNING: 3.23.2002
ENDING: 4.4.2002

Awards:
1st - IS-GR
2nd - IS-SR
3rd - IS-BR

Please send your submissions to Fleet Admiral Keiran Idanian.

Your favorite CS is back to active duty !... BSFs and custom submissions have been all processed, things are back to normal in the Tactical Office. Thanks to the TAC Office members for keeping the place clean while I was away.

Just a reminder that submissions for the Newsletter will be accepted up until the 1st of April this time. This is due to the release of Jedi Outcast and I would just love some reviews of the game. If you want to write a review, you'll need the following information in it:

• Your ID line, obviously
• Your system's specs (at least include CPU, RAM, video card and operating system. If you want to be picky and include more, that's up to you)
• Areas you might want to consider when writing your review would be sound, graphics, plot/storyline, control and how much the lightsaber kicks ass (or doesn't if that's the case)
• A final summary and/or score
• Some pictures would be nice too

Also, if you have a more general article idea relating to Jedi Outcast, the original Jedi Knight or Lucasarts/Star Wars games in general, send them in too.

After consultation with the Flight Officer, the following ops levels have been decided at regarding the #tiecorps channel.

Position	Ops level
Wing Commanders	100
Commodores	200
Battleground Commanders	300

If you want ops and hold one of these positions, please contact myself or the Flight Officer via email.

After 3 weeks, Project Hawkeye is finally completed. Many of you are curious what it was all about. You can find all the information you need at the Hawkeye Aftermath site now, including answers to the qualification test, the winners and other agents, the datapad, and of course, both EH and NIF sets of missions - all 10 missions for each side include solutions and some contain excerpts from selected agents' responses. Please make use of these extremely valuable site, especially if you plan on applying for Hawkeye II. We've learned a lot from this run and many of the missions you see on the site may be repeated in some form or another in the next episode. I'd also like to thank the Hawkeye Admin and Dev Staff who all put up with me when I tried to make sure everything went perfect. Indeed, it did - everything went really well, and I hope the agents enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed putting it together.

The Project Hawkeye Aftermath site can be found here.

FO's note: Congrats to Ari on his promotion to Fleet Admiral!

FYI, ATF Battlegroup Commander, Admiral Jeff Loruss has updated his email address to tiger01@cableone.net. The Battlegroups Commander, Admiral Mell, has also updated his email address to mell@tiecorps.org.

For any Star Wars fans in Scotland, there is currently an Exhibition of Star Wars art work, models and costumes. It is at the City Arts Centre on
Market Street in Edinburgh. It is open from 10am to 6pm Mon, Tues, Fri and Sat,
10am to 8pm Wed and Thur, noon to 5pm on Sunday. Price is £6, £4.50 concs.
It is on now until Sep 8th. It contains things like conceptual drawings,
artwork of sets (The Hoth landscape is amazing), Production models
(including X-Wings, Star Destroyers and Super Star Destroyers as well as
the Millennium Falcon!). Also on display are costumes, the droids, Darth
Vader, a shop, software room and in the entrance hall a full size version of
Anakin's Pod Racer. So if you are in the Edinburgh area and want to see
Yoda, a Jawa and a surprisingly large Ewok, go and have look.

BSC cleaned out all players from club rosters that have been inactive for more than 90 days. This affects a large number of people that were on the EH roster :) So just a note, if you have been inactive on BSC for more than 90 days, you will have to sign up for the EH again. Your BSC profile will still exist, however.

Activity on BSC does not necessarily have to be participating in a game. You can also edit your profile information or post a message on one of the BSC message boards to reset the inactivity counter.

One more thing to note... Your player name on BSC should just be your callsign. Don't use your whole ID line, and don't put in the prefix EH_ yourself (BSC will do that for you). So, if EH_SomeGuy signs up, he'll use the name SomeGuy, not EH_SomeGuy or LT SomeGuy, etc, both of which I have seen :) You can always change that by logging in and editing your BSC profile.

The banner approval/denial scripts now work properly, so your banners can now be approved (assuming they meet proper standards, of course).

I will be on leave as of tomorrow (23rd March) until the 8th April. My Command Attaché, RA Keldorn shall be dealing with ALL Security Office related matters. ISB will be dealt with by him, as well as all case assignments and while I am away he speaks with my full authority. Please see to it that he gets the respect you would give me.

The COO will be out of town from March 22 to April 1. During this time, any COO related matters should be addressed to COOA Kyle Katarn, but also sent to COO Khadgar so that he can read them upon his return.

I've made some minor code updates, mostly changing all the TC.org URL references in generated emails to the emperorshammer.net domain. Also, the redirection functionality for stuff like PINs (ie. PIN.domain.com) have been changed to emperorshammer.net. If you encounter any errors or problems, let me know.

Thats right, theres a new IWATS course to take, IWATS XML. Do the Course today at http://www.imperialacademy.org/xml/!

Congratulations to IO/AD Ari, who today turns 16! w00t!

Congratulations to the following people on their recent Flag appointments:

Colonel Arso Slyth - new Wing XI WC
Rear Admiral Azazel - new Grey Wolf Commodore
Lieutenant Colonel Wes Janson - new Wing XIII WC

Also congratulations go out to the Vanguard Commodore, Rear Admiral Bevel Leeson, who has been promoted to the rank of Vice Admiral.

Since things are a bit slow and I wanted to see if the survey feature actually still worked. :P It's about my performance as XO so far, so login and vote.

The online pilot viewer for BSFs is still out of service, thus high scores will not be processed until this is repaired... please be patient... And I'm on leave for those who don't read reports, news headers etc.

Today, XvT Week of War started. Pilots will have until next Friday to fly matches on the Zone against other clubs to win LoCs. Last time around, a lot of matches were played, and many awards were distributed. I hope to see many pilots come out and help the EH to once again rank amongst the top ten clubs participating. As an added incentive to participate, I intend to keep my predecessor's Iron Star rewards system for WoW Comeptitions:

The system depends on how many players are ranked from the EH. To be ranked, you must have flown at least ten matches.

If 1-4 EH pilots are ranked, the top EH pilot gets an IS-BW.
If 5-9 EH pilots are ranked, the top EH pilot gets an IS-SW, second place IS-BW.
If 10+ EH pilots are ranked, the top EH pilot gets an IS-GW, second place IS-SW, third place IS-BW.

Similar rewards will be given out to XWA WoW winners. The Competition details and URL can be found on the Combat Calendar at http://www.emperorshammer.net/combat/event.asp?record=1648. Like usual, you will be required to be registered with Battlestats. If you have any questions about Battlestats or anything about WoWs in general, please feel free to contact me at khadgar1@shaw.ca.

As you may have seen on the EH News page, the Fleet Commander has selected a new Combat Operations Officer. Many congratulations to Vice Admiral Khadgar!

Note: For the time-being, please do not apply for the position of Grey Wolf Commodore

The error message "Could not allocate space for
object 'tc_IPActivityTracking' in database emperorshammerdb' because the 'PRIMARY' filegroup is full" has been resolved and most parts of the domain should be working again.

I'm very pleased to be able to announce that with the Fleet Commmander's approval, Battlegroup Commanders Vice Admiral Mell and Vice Admiral Jeff 'Tiger' Loruss, have both been promoted to the rank of full Admiral! Both of these Officers are without doubt amongst the hardest working in the EH, and these promotions are extremely deserved. Congrats guys! :)

I'll take a leave until March 31st, my Command Attaché Vice Admiral Marcin Szydlowski will be in charge of the office in the meantime. Email both of us for any TAC-related stuff. I will be around though, taking care of BSFs but not on a daily basis. Right now I can't process them due to some remaining bugs with the database move. See you later...

At the end of last week, Vice Admiral Toran Dan announced his resignation as Commodore of the ISD Immortal, and transferred to the Reserves. Toran was not only an excellent COM, but a respected member of the Fleet, and his presence will be missed. In recognition of the tireless support he gave his Ship and Battlegroup, he has been awarded with the Gold Star of the Empire.

Without wasting any time, a new COM has already been selected. Many congratulations go out to the now former Immortal WC, Rear Admiral Darksaber!

The following Sovereign Wing Commanders have been promoted for their hard work over the course of the past several months:

Lieutenant Colonel Jahan Kalar, Wing III WC - promoted to Colonel
Colonel Reaper, Wing IV WC - promoted to General
Colonel Sickman, Wing V WC - promoted to General

Congrats! :)

Following the removal of the previous Wing Commander, VA Proton has selected a new WC for Wing VI. Congratulations go out to Colonel Gen Es'mith!

The new Star Wars Episode II Trailer called "Clone War" airs March 10 on FOX and starwars.com between original episodes of "Malcolm in the Middle" (8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT) and "The X-Files" (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT).

The trailer will also begin playing in cinemas on March 15, exclusively with the animated feature Ice Age, and other films thereafter.

In a competition using TIE-FCHG Battle 3, COL Reaper's pilots bested the Wing V bunch led by COL SickMan. LC Halcyon of Teth and MAJ Yoman of Mem were the individual top pilots for their respective wings. Congratulations to Wing IV and the medal winners! Oh, one more thing: Because his wing lost, CM Murkrow Defender had to give up his infamous prank monkey. Wing IV promptly barbecued the pest and enjoyed the fixin's as a cantina snack.

The web server software that this site runs on usually gives very detailed error messages as to what the problem is relating to an error. However, by default, Internet Explorer suppresses these detailed reports, instead displaying a generic "Error 500" message. In IE 6, to turn on these detailed messages, go to Tools>Internet Options. Then select the Advanced tab. Under the Browsing heading is an item called "Show friendly HTTP error messages". You want that unchecked if you want the detailed error reports to come up.

The tiecorps.org domain and contents have been moved over to emperorshammer.net. Please update your bookmarks. Report any errors you encounter to SA Astatine and SA Kawolski

(People with tiecorps.org e-mail addresses: your accounts have NOT changed. You address is still yourname@tiecorps.org.)

Congratulations go today to Fleet Admiral Priyum Patel who has been awarded the highest medal of the Emperor's Hammer, the Medal of Honor, for his great work as Flight Officer ! Go Pri ;-)

Major Talek Pter Dei has been selected as the new Wing Commander for Wing XVIII on the SSD Avenger. Congrats Talek!

A second trailer for Jedi Knight 2 has been released and this one is pretty good. Twice the length of the one on the Lucasarts site, it gives a very nice indication of the scale of the levels we can expect, the gameplay and what multiplayer will look like. The good thing is it doesn't seem to play like a Quake 3 mod. You can get it at http://files.ausgamers.com/?agn=details&id=1621. The trailer is 14.6megs and a zipped AVI file, using the Divx codec.

In an effort to get some multiplatform combat going, LT Akira Vorsahyer has put together a small website containing links to Star Wars mods for games running on Windows, Mac, and even a few on Linux. The site can be found at http://homepage.mac.com/richpizor/xplat/

The February XVT WoW has ended with the EH finishing in 8th Place out of 40 Clubs. The top performing units from the Tie Corps were:
1. Avenger Squadron 5,522,282 Points
2. Tau 1,500,314 Points
3. Wing XX 1,034,432 Points

The individual top performers were:
1. CM BlackHero 103 Wins
2. SL Heinrich Margul 14 Wins
3. GN Kaerner 13 Wins
3. MAJ Sarin 13 Wins

Congrats to all those who participated and did a great job representing the Tie Corps.

The Fleet Medical Corps is now taking again applications. Much has changed and you are encouraged to browse http://www.medcorps.de to have a glance at what's now symbolized by the three letters "FMC". All new applicants are welcome!

Just had to let you all know--Aspyr's newsletter has released more information on the upcoming Mac version of Battlegrounds, including tentative system requirements.

(Skipping all the boring junk....) Preliminary Minimum System Requirements (These may change before the game's release):

• Mac OS 8.6, Mac OS X 10.1
• CarbonLib 1.4 or higher
• 64 MB built-in memory
• stock G3 or G4 of 333 MHz or greater
• 4x CD-ROM compatible drive

The Adavanced Gaurd Banner comp is now officially open. The comp will be running from 3/04/02 to 3/18/02. All submissions must be in tasteful size, and should be sent to jacobvannowak@aol.com Awards will be:
IS-GR- First place
IS-SR- Second Place
IS-BR- Third Place

This comp. is open to the whole fleet, so have fun 8-)

Prelude to Andevia's closing date has been extended by one week, to 14th March 2002. The competition really needs entries in the fiction, design and other category sections. Most of the fiction events have been updated so you can now work in teams on them if you so wish. Also, some rules have been updated, so be sure to check the competition's site for details on this. Tip on fiction stuff - one of your main goals with your fiction is to give some sort of explanation for what's happened on Andevia. So, for example, when doing an alien species entry, it'd be a good idea to include some sort of characteristic that would result in the events so far.

The competition website is http://www.imperialacademy.org/comps/prelude/.