This report was submitted by LC Drake
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Fleet News |
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Squadron Readiness |
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Silentone
bot info |
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Mu Squadron -
CM Absolut Vodka |
66% |
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Team
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Nu Squadron -
CM Darknyte |
83% |
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EH
Meets! |
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Pi Squadron -
CPT Owen Nivarian |
83% |
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NL
#73 Released! |
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Omicron Squadron
- CM Daniel Stephens |
75% |
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Downloadable
Training Manual |
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Iota Squadron
- INACTIVE |
0% |
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Challenge
COM Appointed |
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Eta Squadron -
CPT Devlin |
66% |
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Mr/Miss EH 2001 Underway |
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Imperial Vogue |
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OVERALL
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60% |
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Jedi Con 2001 |
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COL Callista awarded MoH! |
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New Battles available |
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All news
taken from WWW.Tiecorps.org/news.asp |
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Relevant News in Detail |
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Team
Half-Life:Counterstike Server (FA Absolute K) |
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I just put
up a new Half-Life: Counter-Strike server for Team EH. You can
reach it by going to IP Address: 24.156.241.193 (default port).
You will need the latest versions of the Half-Life client(v1.1.0.6)
and Counter-Strike (v1.1b) to play on this server. I will put
a stats generator online soon if people start to use this server
:-). In the mean time, happy fraggin'
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EH Meets! |
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According
to Tiecorps News, there are many EH meets being planned around
the world. Just this week on Tiecorps it was announced of meetings
in Poland, Holland, Britain and St Louis. The links and dates
are below
Poland: (Roughly two months time) Contact: Major Marcin
Syzdlowski (pbmike@klub.chip.pl)
Holland: (12th May) URL: http://www.dutchstarcon.com/eng/druiventroseng.html
Britian: (Friday 27th July
- Sunday 29th) Contacts: Admiral Quake (guyquake@btinternet.com), Colonel Mairin
(mairin@isdchallenge.org)
St Louis: (July) URL: http://ehstlmeet.ehonline.org/ Contact: Lieutenant
Colonel Joe (Noon006@aol.com) |
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Newsletter #73 Released!! |
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SA
Kawolski
has released newsletter #73 to the fleet. At 6mb's, It takes
a while. Fortunently for us with slow connections, AbK
has put it online. Content does vary this month but there are
several quality submissions. Darknyte has his new column
and Troutrooper publishes the definative history of the
Colossus.
You can download
it from any of these sites...
http://cd.ehonline.org/nl73.zip
http://www.idrive.com/silentone/files/NL73.zip
http://absolutek.com/nl73.zip
http://thunder.prohosting.com/~surefire/NL73.zip
http://24.183.44.238/nl/nl73.zip
http://quake.idleplay.net/nl/nl73.zip
http://213.122.21.223/nl/nl73.zip
Or if you don't fancy the 6 meg download..view it Online at..
http://absolutek.com/nl73
http://quake.idleplay.net/nl/nl73
http://24.183.44.238/nl/
I was quite dissapointed to only get a dozen or so mentions :P
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Downloadable Training
Manual |
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The Training
manual has been converted to a downloadable version available
at http://www.imperialacademy.org/files/manual.zip (830KB) It's well worth
it because it gives you an idea of how things are run and what
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Challenge COM Appointed |
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RA Manitsas has been appointed
as the new COM of the ISD Challenge. He succeeds VA Corran
Force who resigned last week. |
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Mr/Miss EH 2001! |
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The first
round has been completed and the shortlist is in. Mell
has been nominated in the Mr EH catagory. Go vote for him at
http://lo.minos.net/ehmrmiss-second.php3 |
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Imperial Vogue (By
COL Mairin) |
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With the
demise of EH Cosmospolitan and Battlecry, Mairin
and Werdna have teamed up to produce the new generation
of EH magazine: Imperial Vogue! We need you! We want articles,
emails, funny IRC logs, everything! This is a magazine for the
EH, so send us in whatever you're interested in. Being the cheap
people we are, we'll take anything! Send submissions to werdna_elbee@emperorshammer.ca and somnia_vacua@yahoo.com |
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Jedi Con 2001 /
Colonel Callista awarded MoH! (By SA Kawolski) |
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All out congratulations
go to the TIE Corps' own Colonel Callista for being awarded
the Emperor's Hammer highest award, the Medal of Honor!
She has been responsible for several magazine article mentions
and was the coordinator of running the Emperor's Hammer booth
at Jedi Con 2001 in Germany, which will be featured in
Newsletter #74! You can check out some images at her new homepage
at: http://www.geocities.com/callista111/ |
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New Battles Available |
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- Several
new battles have been uploaded to the mission compendium this
week.
- TC-TIE #171,
"Fury of the Colossus"
FREE-TIE #153, "Drake in Trouble"
FREE-XWA #25, "Sneaky"
FREE-TIE #154, "Khadgar #1"
FREE-TIE #155, "Khadgar #2"
FREE-TIE #156, "Dark Apprentice"
Dunno
who made those first two :P
(Note: I checked a little while ago and Free-Tie #153 has
an error on it's database page and is currently inaccessable) |
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Wing News |
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NEW! - Enhanced Colossus Reports |
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This week
I have been a little busy updating and uploading all my previous
reports in HTML format to the database. You can read previous
weeks reports at http://www.tiecorps.org/reports/tcreports.asp?wingid=8
It doesn't stop there however. I am working on doing an
enhanced weekly wing report in HTML. This (mailed) report will
therefore be the simpler version, the online system going more
in-depth. (He says after doing all that relevant news :P) |
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Nu Graphics competition
(forgive the pun :P) |
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Darknyte wants a new Nu
graphic and has thrown open the competition to all of the wing.
He wants it to be roughly the same size as the one they
have at the moment. The closing date for this competition isn't
far away at May 7th and the winner will be awarded an
IS-SR by me! Submissions need to be in JPEG format. |
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Colossus Pilots
reigning supreme.. |
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This week
Darknyte passed into the FCHG rank of Paladin in only
his second month aboard. Night Grue is second only to
Mini-Minkus on the high score list. Our pilots are the
best around!! |
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New poll available |
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Darknyte
has done a poll on the Egroup. Find out what's the Colossus's
favourite SW Flick.. Vote today!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/isdcolossus/polls |
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Reviews |
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Egroups |
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Devlin revealed TPM characters
reactions to the question "Why did the chicken cross
the road?", Someone called Drake revealed some
interesting points about the forthcoming UK Census, A couple
of graphics from Night Grue and Kodiak Kereban
were banded about. During this week I made all commanders
moderators of the Egroup. They are in charge of adding their
pilots to that list themselves. |
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IRC |
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It's good
to see a lot of newer faces on IRC this week, A lot of chat has
been going on too.. I passed 30,000 words but am not catching
Darknyte one bit. Mell, Kyle Katarn and Absolut
Vodka are closing in on me..
Some strange conversations this week.. Darknyte
revealed he was a member of Mensa, until he quit which prompted
me and Mell to go and find some online tests. I
have nothing to prove however, I'm already a member :P
Me and new recruit Zeratul had an argument
over Starcraft. 80 Carriers..Possible?.. He says no, I
say Yes (I know cos i've used that against my brother)
- Quote of the
week comes
from RA Mell
- <`M> you knnow me, i'm not dumb
- Oh really?
So how come you can't spell 'Know' :P
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Message Boards |
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Not much
activity :( |
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Colossus Website |
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Not much
going on.. Though it appears to be a funky purple now.. |
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Academics |
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- Only
4 courses passed by Colossus Crew this week...
- Owen Nivarian ICQ
McCrae Tie Mission Creation
Kodiak Kereban Tie Mission Creation
Trideo Arkson Tie Tactics
- Are we
running out of things to take tests on?
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BSF's |
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Some of you
may remember how awful the flying was last week, This week we
have done even worse. Some of you have got it into your
heads that I like tonnes of BSF's hitting my inbox. Well let
me tell you, It's not funny, It's not clever.. SO KEEP DOING
IT!! :P
Right up until friday, It didn't look like anyone else
apart from CM Absolut Vodka was doing anything, then a
swarm of BSF's hit my inbox. A swarm is probably the wrong
word.. Lets try an avalanche!
No fewer than 148 BSF's went through my inbox this
week! which puts us on 298 for the month. We have smashed
last months total with a week to spare. If we have another
week just like this week we'll be on 400 by the end of
the month!!
Just to put that in perspective thats THREE for
every pilot aboard! |
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1st |
CM Absolut
Vodka |
(Mu Squadron) |
29 BSF's |
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2nd |
CM Wap
Eal |
(Eta Squadron) |
28 BSF's |
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3rd |
LCM Andrew
Strinder |
(Eta Squadron) |
15 BSF's |
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LT Kodiak
Kereban |
(Nu Squadron) |
10 BSF's |
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CPT Owen
Nivarian |
(Pi Squadron) |
10 BSF's |
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LT Daniel
Klivian |
(Mu Squadron) |
10 BSF's |
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Once again
Double Figures were required to get on the Top 5 List.
CM Absolut Vodka has been flying like mad recently,
as has CM Wap Eal and equal fourth placed CPT Owen
Nivarian. Others that deserve a mention that didn't
get on this list were Alain Dindareanu (7), Darknyte
(7) Kyle Katarn (6) and Night Grue (5) All
of these pilots did their squadrons proud, even if it was one
of those strange weeks.
Winner of Pilot
of the Week?
CM Absolut Vodka gets the nod because of his all round
general activity, Not just is out-standing flight skills. |
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This was
a lot closer to call. Eta have been top for some weeks
now, Would they still be top dogs? |
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1st |
ETA SQUADRON |
58 BSF's |
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2nd |
Mu Squadron |
50 BSF's |
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3rd |
Nu Squadron |
19 BSF's |
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Pi Squadron |
18 BSF's |
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Omicron
Squadron |
3 BSF's |
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Eta hold top spot once
more but were pushed all the way by Mu. The fast-improving
Pi lose out by 1 to Nu, who are hungry to
get back to the top. As for Omicron.. If you do double
figures next week I'll give you Squadron of the Week! |
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Medals |
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The following
medals were awarded to our brave pilots this week. My congratulations
to them |
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Imperial
Security Medal:- |
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Alain
Dindareanu, Wap Eal, Kodiak Kereban |
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Medal
of Tactics- Blue Hammer:- |
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Kyle Katarn |
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Medal
of Instruction:- |
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Darknyte |
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Iron Star
- Bronze Wings:- |
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Kyle Katarn |
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Promotions |
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SL Maru
Ki> LT!!
SL Trideo Arkson > LT!!
SL Pit Viper > LT!!
SL Zeratul > LT!! |
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Transfers |
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Transfers
In |
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SL Pit
Viper
Daedulus > Nu 3-2 |
Welcome aboard!! |
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Transfers
Out |
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LCM Kalve
Ryder
Mu > Reserves |
Hope to see
you again soon! |
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CM Bradtack
Mu >
Nun CMDR |
Good luck!! |
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Mu (-2)
Nu (+1) Pi (-)
Omicron (-) Eta (-) |
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Net loss
of one pilot... Doh!! |
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Squadron Summaries |
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Mu
Squadron
have been working hard to prove they were more than a training
ground for Darknyte. So far it's working as the dramatic
rise in BSF's shows. CM Absolut Vodka is doing a fantastic
job, as is CM Kyle Katarn his understudy. They lost two
pilots this week, LCM Kalve Ryder left for the reserves
and CM Bradtack got the commanders job at Nun Squadron,
but it didn't stop them being the most-improved squadron
aboard this week. They are my pick as Squadron of the Week! |
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Nu
Squadron's commander, CM Darknyte
made a bo-bo this week by sending his report out in pure HTML.
My client (Outlook Express) showed it exactly as it was
written! However, I did manage to read his online report. Nu
are placing the building blocks to become a more consistent
squadron. The talent is there, the passion and commitment
needs to be improved. LT McCrea is working on their
new website, and looking at his INPR I eagerly await the
results.. |
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Pi
Squadron
has improved immensely since the arrival back of both CPT
Owen Nivarian and MAJ Zystem Fryar. Both are determined
to push Pi back to the top. Certain pilots are holding them back
and unfortunently, it's the most experienced ones. A squadron
wide AWOL Check is in force, Pi need to get rid
of the dead-weight before bringing in fresh blood. |
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Omicron
Squadron
unfortunently lost to Dagger squadron and CM Daniel Stephens
is working hard to restore Omicron to it's former glory.
You new guys must have seen Eta and Mu's (and to
a lesser extent Nu and Pi) achievements by now.
Lets see you give it all you've got next week! |
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- I was
extremely tempted to give the Squadron of the Week award yet again to Eta Squadron,
but decided against it because..well basically no-one likes
a show off :P Eta are the Battlegroup Squadron of the Month
and the Wing Commander's Own ...
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two new recruits need to become active for the squadron to start
to dominate everywhere. Night Grue is a graphical genius,
- as his hallway
graphic for the forthcoming Eta website proves.
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Miscellanous |
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The 'Manchester
United' Principle |
- Ever
since I took this job I have been figuring out ways to make better
pilots that remain active who have the determination to
succeed at the highest level and the loyalty to
the cause while getting there. This week I had a revelation which
I like to call the Manchester United Principle.
I know what your thinking, "What the hell is he talking
about?" or "Man U? Erggh!".. Manchester United
being the English football team that has dominated preceedings
throughout the nineties and look set to keep doing so for many
seasons to come. To be honest, (Being a Tottenham Fan)
I don't particularly like them either but just take a look for
a moment without bias at the way they do things.
Most of their team is brought up through the ranks and
have been installed with a passion and commitment
to club to the extent that they don't want to leave it
and would rather be a sub than play for anyone else. Look at
Ole Gunnar Solksjear, He could walk into any first team
of any team in the country, but he doesn't.. He's happy to sit
on the bench and be a bit-part player in the greater scheme of
things. They all have it, heck even David Beckham was left
out of several crucial matches this week.
Not only do they have that but they also have bags and
bags of skill. They are determined to improve their game
no matter the cost and will spend hours upon hours on the
training ground practising the very-same moves over and over
again. David Beckham spends hours practicing crosses and
free-kicks, Result? He's the best crosser and set-piece specialist
in the world.
Then of course you have the reknowned leadership
within their ranks and their strength and depth. Roy Keane
is club captain, but in reality they play with 11 captains,
week in, week out because every player knows that if he doesn't
perform, he'll get replaced with an equally-good player
for the next match. They go out to win every match because
their place in the team is at stake.
And lastly they have the desire to win everything
going. Right through from the Champions league to the Premier
League to the
- FA Cup.
Even the kids they play for the League Cup ties are out there
because they want to win it.
That strikes me as a damn fine way to run a football club..
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Wing Commander's
Leave |
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I *hope*
to be going on holiday during the last week of May/ First
week of June. Consider this a pre-warning. Mell
will be in charge of wing operations until I come back
to repair what damage he did :P |
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Respectfully
Submitted
Drake
WC/ LC
Drake/ Wing VIII/ ISD Colossus
Flying T/A Doombringer
ISD Colossus - FC's Own 2000
Project Uprising- Keeping the dream alive
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