Hey Squadron Report for March 27th through April 8th 2002.

Hey Hey! It's time for another Hey Squadron report. We've got a lot to cover, so let's do it!

SQUADRON NEWS
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SL Razor has been promoted to LT after completing his first TC battle. Congratulations! Drinks are on you!

CM Tvan'Oris has transferred to Diamondback Squadron. Good luck, Tvan! There's always a spot for you in Hey!

With Tvan's transfer, there's an open Flight Leader position. Anyone who has completed SM/2 is encouraged to apply. Send me an application with your ideas for the flight and/or squadron, with an emphasis on recruiting or mentoring.

LCM Alhana Creed is on leave until the 14th.

WING NEWS
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Aleth Squadron is in need of a new CMDR after an HCI conviction. Send your applications to Jahan.

On a brighter note, Daleth has a new CMDR. Welcome to Wing III CM Ayudanter de la Clars! Good luck with Daleth!

Major Nurel Turr has rejoined Wing III. You were here before my time, but welcome back!

Vav Squadron's reopening as the Wing III Veteran's Squadron inches ever closer! Yay!

FLEET NEWS
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Imperial Technology Commission Site Layout Competition
04:31 - HA Keiran Idanian [ROKeiranIdanian@aol.com]
In conjunction with the Imperial Technology Commission (ITC) Banner comp, a new comp is being created to make the best design for the new ITC database.

You may make your site designs in HTML, Java, whichever you know how to do. If it's in asp or php it would be even better!

Also, if you can put the layout onto a site to be viewed, it would be excellent!

The winner's design will be used for the ITC database page.

BEGINNING: 4.1.2002
ENDING: 4.20.2002

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

Please send your submissions to Rear Admiral Aylius Khan and High Admiral Keiran Idanian.

Imperial Technology Commission Banner Competition
04:29 - HA Keiran Idanian [ROKeiranIdanian@aol.com]
For the newly created Imperial Technology Commission, a division that will serve the EH with downloads of demos and some programs as well as reviews for the EH's members.

The comp is to design a banner for the website, a normal banner (400x40 pixels). Try to have it reflect technology...

BEGINNING: 4.1.2002
ENDING: 5.1.2002

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

Please send your submissions to Rear Admiral Aylius Khan and High Admiral Keiran Idanian.

EH Memorium
04:26 - HA Keiran Idanian [ROKeiranIdanian@aol.com]
Greetings,

This is a subject I don't particularly like bringing up, but I really feel strongly that we should remember our friends that have pasted away from this world.

We are currently working on compiling a list of members that have passed away called the EH Memorium - as some of you may know.

I would like to ask that if you know anyone from the Emperor's Hammer that has ever past away from this world, please e-mail me! ROKeiranIdanian@aol.com Thank you!

New HCI site
04:22 - FA Chi-Long [chilong@gmx.net]
It is with great pleasure I announce that the new HCI site is ready to go completely public.

The URL is http://hci.mental-case.com

Please update any links to the HCI site so that they point there.

I'd like to specially thank INQ Moreco for his hard work and dedication to the php side of this project. Without him, the site wouldn't be anywhere near as dynamic as it is.

New Multiplayer Competitions
04:19 - VA Khadgar [khadgar1@shaw.ca]
The Combat Operations Office is proud to announce the release of two new weekly Multiplayer competitions for pilots to participate in. The first is the Sovereign Nighthawk Competition, which will take place Fridays from 3:00 PM EST - 6:00 PM EST in #EHCOC. Second, the popular competition Thursday Night Training will be returning in a new form, Saturday Night Training, which will be held on Saturdays from 8:00 PM EST - 11:00 PM EST in #EHCOC. I hope to see everyone there to help make these new competitions a success!

EH Day Update
04:18 - CPT PhoenixMan [GMFPhoenix@aol.com]
10 people have signed up already to attend EH Day at Kennywood Park in Pittsburgh, PA. The target total is 25, so we can get a group discount.

The people who have been to Kennywood say, on average, that your first visit is worth a 6 hour drive. If you live inside a 6 hour radius of Pittsburgh, you should attend. For information on the rides, and some excellent Pictures, Visit http://www.kennywood.com

If you can attend, or need more info, contact CPT PhoenixMan at GMFPhoenix@aol.com Hope to see you there!!

Sunday · April 07 · 2002
Mission Design...
07:12 - FA Striker [striker@tiecorps.org]
A little thing to remember when creating a custom mission: there is a maximum number of crafts the game can support at one time ! This limit is 28/32 for TIE Fighter (TIE Disk/TIECD-95), 32 for Xwing vs TIE Fighter, 96 per region in X-Wing Alliance...

Saturday · April 06 · 2002
COO Competition Times
09:22 - COL Brucmack [bjmacken@engmail.uwaterloo.ca]
There was some confusion this morning over the time of the COO-run comp. The confusion is based on the fact that North America has not yet gone to Daylight Saving Time, and the rest of the world has :)

As of tomorrow, we will be on DST though, so consider all competition times on TC.org to be Eastern Daylight Time. In other words, comps are now at GMT -4. For most people, this will mean the comps are at the same time as they were prior to this week. For anyone in zones that do not switch to DST, the comps will be one hour earlier.

So, in other words, just consider the times listed in this database as being GMT -4 now :)

Friday · April 05 · 2002
Internet guidelines
15:46 - FA Ari [ari@tiecorps.org]
I have written up a list of Internet Guidelines for the entire fleet. You can always check them out at http://www.ehnet.org/guidelines.php. Sites MUST follow the rules laid out in the guidelines, and we at the Internet Office highly recommend considering the suggestions.

Rules:

Sites MUST have links to the EH Disclaimers (http://www.emperorshammer.org/disclaim.htm) and EH Privacy Policy (http://www.emperorshammer.org/privacy.htm) pages displayed on the main page of their site or on the navbar.
Sites may NOT use tsx.org as a redirection service.
Obviously, all sites must abide by Bylaws and AoWs.
Sites who do not obey these rules will not be linked to by any major EH site. Webmasters who do not comply after being asked to may be subject to Security Officer action.
The Internet Officer reserves the right to add rules to these at any time.
Strong Suggestions:

Sites with excessively long URLs should consider domain redirection provided by http://www.stardestroyer.org.
All sites should be compatible with the latest version of major browsers (IE 6 and Netscape 6).
Sites should preferably be optimized for 800x600 resolution, but if it is necessary, 1024x768 is also acceptable.
A good idea is to run your site through the W3C HTML Validator (http://validator.w3.org/) and CSS Validator (http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/).
Do not have unnecessary large images, popups, or Java applets on your page. They slow down loading time tremendously.
A warning about using MS Word and older versions of Frontpage to create websites: they add in large amounts of unnecessary tags, which slow down loading times.
These aren't too much to ask for I hope, but all EH sites MUST follow these rules.

SQUADRON ACTIVITY
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CPT Josh Popelka: Attended IRC meeting briefly yesterday
E-mail and MB Activity

LCM Dan Jenkins: Returned from leave

CM Tvan'Oris: Flew TIE-FREE #166-180, 182-189, 192-195
XvT-TC #22, 23, 24, 26
E-mail and MB activity
Transferred to Diamondback Squadron

LCM Alhana Creed: Awarded two MoT-ghs for creating two official
XWA free missions
On leave until the 14th of April

LCM Maw'la: Flew XWA-TC #12
XWA-FREE #63 for WRT
E-mail and MB activity

LT Razor: Flew XWA-TC #1, 2
XWA-FREE #63 for WRT
Promoted to LT Congrats!
E-mail activity
Completed IWATS FLASH, BitchX, IIC/1/2

SQUADRON ORDERS
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Fly XWA-FREE #63 for the Wing Readiness Test

Fly XWA-FREE #62 (Alhana created it and #63) Very well done!

Communicate! Use the messageboard, send e-mail to me and the squadron as a whole. I love getting e-mail, be it questions or just to shoot the breeze.

Take IWATS Courses! They look good on your ID-Line and you learn stuff too.

Attend the Wing meetings on Sunday afternoons from 1 to whenever. I can't remember the GMT time and too lazy to calculate it. :)

SQUADRON ROSTER
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HEY SQUADRON OF WING III : Interdiction
COMMANDER: CPT Josh Popelka (ehj_popelka@hotmail.com)
NICKNAME: The Demon Guard
MOTTO: Darkness is our element.
HOMEPAGE: http://www.hey.wing3.net/
MESSAGE BOARD: http://www.tiecorps.org/mb/view.asp?b=26&v=0&s=0

FLIGHT I - TIE ADVANCED
Nickname: The Enraged
Motto: You play with fire, you're gonna get burned!
1) CPT Josh Popelka (ehj_popelka@hotmail.com)
2) LCM Dan Jenkins (4jenkins@prodigy.net)
3) TBA
4) TBA

FLIGHT II - TIE ADVANCED
Nickname: The Hot Hands
Motto: So good we ought to be illegal
1) TBA
2) TBA
3) TBA
4) TBA

FLIGHT III - ASSAULT GUNBOAT
Nickname: Blades of Desire
Motto: Beautiful to behold, sweet to the touch, death to our enemies!
1) LCM Alhana Creed (vanryan@wp.pl)
2) LCM Maw'la (abxywing@netzero.net)
3) LT Razor (razor_master@hotmail.com)
4) TBA

MISCELLANEOUS
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I bought JK2, as most of you know. It rocks! I do hate the box though. It's too small. Like you said Dan, they could have cut the price back a bit.

New video drivers solved my little XWA problem, so I'll be back in the cockpit again. Got a bit of flying to do. Some interesting battles and free missions out there.

I think that's it for this report.

Thanks,

Captain Josh Popelka
Hey Squadron Commander
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CMDR/CPT Josh Popelka/Hey/Wing III/SSSD Sovereign
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