Wing Report XV #6 Major Zippy Hawk

"Space, The Outer Rim. These are the reports of the Imperator Class II Star Destroyer Vanguard... Its continuing mission to suppress strange alien worlds. To wipe out alien life and rebellious populations"


Hi again pilots I hope all goes well for you at this time, I have a lot of news for you this week including new comps and other great things. Last week I promise you medals and promotions but 'I haven't brought them to you but remember medals and stuff are not important having fun is important and this is what this wing all about I think personally that medals get handed out way to much and should have a higher value and with you guys on such high activities im sure some will appear on you're chests soon. anyway on with the report.
.ps. thanks for the great game of xwa Echo boys it was nice playing with you.

Pilot Lounge


(ISD II Vanguard a ship of fun beer and beer)

LT. Boris, the Vanguard’s doctor rushed to the ships main hangar. The boarding team had contacted the ship and informed COMM. Bender that they had injured and thus LT/DOCTOR. Boris was proceeding with all haste to the hanger where the transports would land. When the turbolift doors opened the casualties were already being carried out of the transport. Boris proceeded to the nearest wounded trooper he could find and set his medical-pack down on the deck next to the trooper. The trooper, a young blue-eyed woman had severe blaster burns to her stomach region and was going into shock. “How are you doing Private?” Boris inquired. The trooper looked up at Boris but seemed to be looking past him and said “Fff, ff, fine s sir, its just a scratch…” The young woman fainted as Boris started to treat her he felt a gauntleted hand land on his shoulder. He turned to see the Vanguards master at arms towering over him, “Come on leave her, Maj. Hawk is hurt.” Boris started to protest but was dragged along anyway, he turned his head to look and saw a nurse kneel next to the trooper he was attending to so he willed himself to believe that she would be fine.“We don’t know for sure but we think some kind of grenade went off in a corridor where he was fighting.” The master at arms said. Boris saw Hawk, lying on the deck right next to the transports boarding ramp. He pulled a scanner from his pack and ran it over Hawk. He had suffered major injuries; he was bleeding internally, had ruptured a kidney and broken at least 4 ribs in addition to all the cuts and burns covering his body. “We need to get him to medical now!” Boris said calling the nearest nurse with a repulsor-stretcher over.
Bathed in the soft green glow of the bacta tanks light, Vice-Admiral Ender watched as Maj. Hawk floated up and down in the tank filled with liquid that had saved his life. Doc. Boris stepped up next to him, “We almost lost him this time sir.” Ender looked at Boris’s blood stained service uniform. “Yes we almost did LT. And there were others who were not as lucky as he is.” Boris thought of the blue-eyed trooper and made mental note to attend her funeral service later that day. “Yes sir, I just hope whatever is on that data card was worth it.”
Walking side by side Commanders. Kast and Strahd proceeded past main engineering and into the bowels of the ship, They reached a door to a chamber right behind the primary heat exchangers. On the door there were signs saying : KEEP OUT ! WARNING ! etc. CM. Strahd chimed the door impatiently and turned to Kast. “Why did Bender have to send us down here? Its hot as hell and…” Just then the door slid open to reveal a short ,pale man wearing a heavy purple cloak , he clanced up at the Commanders and something must have clicked in his mind then for he bellowed “LT. Foster slicer/techincian first class reporting for duty sir !!!” behind him in the room were similar people all wearing glasses and very, very pale. ? “Kast pushed his way past the LT. And sat himself down on a repulsor’s sofa. “We are here to check with you on that data card the boarding team brought back LT. Have you had any success decoding it yet?” The LT. Clanced around nervously “Not yet sir but I feel we are getting close it wont be long now you’ll see but sereval files are heavy coded” Eight hours later both Kast and Strahd were asleep somewhere in the room when a tech shouted, “Ive got it! Hey guys check out sector A678 through A696, hurry!” Both Kast and Strahd were behind the techs in a moment intently staring over their shoulders. Prints, data and plans were rolling across the computer terminals. “What are they?” Asked a tech. Strahd answers him, “Plans, plans for some new star fighter.” Kast’s face had turned ashen. He was out of the room and on a dead sprint for Benders office with Strahd and a few of the pale techs behind him. This is not good, no this is not good at all he thought to himself.
"So we got the standard sensor and flight course of the emeny ship from their computer core but was there any news on the Aggressor Hizad" said Vice Admiral Ender.
Turning to the view screen in Ender office Hizad pointed out tactical display "Well Sir as you can see from the view screen the Aggressor after taking heavy damage fled into this ion gas cloud, from information recover the rebels gave up the chase over a week ago" said Hizad.
"Well lets set course for that cloud then Lt Colonel, lets hope we find her intact" said Vice Admiral Ender.

This story was brought to you by Commander Damon Kast. 'with a few bits added by Major Hawk'
It would be nice to see some more pilots or CMDR adding a bit to this story line but I do hold the right to read and not accpect it :)

Vanguard Sensors

This week we going to be having a look at the NCA patch for XWA which is one of the best just behind the XWAU guys anyway on with the review.

(makers of the NCA patch)
The NCA patch contains a craft addon which includes 14 figthers and 10 captial ships and 5 other class ships which you have to say is very impressive, some of these ships include the Mc90 and Deathseed fighter 'from rogue sq novels' and other great fighters and ships from novels comics and even the odd board game :)
For all you budding Imps atleast half the new craft are Imperial and pirate ship while rest belong to the rebel scum there are even the odd naboo and sith ships in there, The patch comes in a 8mb start and a 3mb addon which can be found here http://www.ghostriderjlp.cjb.net/ in bottem left hand corner.
Soon the third patch in series should be finish will include new ships and updated opts for the old ones anyway here the addy for the NCA site which is SFA Techologies http://www.the-sfa.org/SFATech/index.html.
ps. you can update the nca opts with JMs new onews fom here http://www.btinternet.com/%7Ejmdare/.

Game Of The Week

Well this get harder and harder every week Game of the week this section reviews three games from beta testers to the shop self's boxes you got love this job or die a old sad man 'where did that come from' ok ok before i start moaning lets get this section rolling, Dont even tell me this is a StarWars club and not a Star Trek club:P. First game is,

Star Trek Dominion Wars publish by SSI, Those of you who tuned in your febrile minds to the last two series of Star Trek Deep space nine will be aware of the hugh war that raged throughout the Alpha quadrant. Dominion Wars allows you to replay that particular interstellar disagreement in a shiny real time format. You can choose to play any of the four races that engage in the war and take teir ships into humungous space combat. You'll be in charge of your highly detailed starship for 30 missions spread over three massive campaigns. Your real-time battles can also be conducted with team-mates, as Dominion Wars plans to allow mutli-pklayer fleet battles with support for sophisticated real time voice communications. The game been releash in other countrys and bug reports are flooding in but im sure that they may iron bugs out for 6th july releash in UK or there have a patch waiting but as some of you now the game releash with Warp2 ship creater in every other country but not UK damm them.


Star Trek Elite Force-Mission Pack by Raven, Yes as you notice there be a few Star Trek games im reviewing anyway this mission pack offers a chance for you to explore all the decks of Voyager while carrying out mini missions and task for the crew of voyager of which you are part of, you have to poke you're nose around every corner of the ship to complete the task while unlocking hidden features like mucking with transports to setting off the self destruct. In additions to this the addon offers extra mssions from paris's famous holodeck program to a new emeny for the hazard team. while for the multiplayers there new death atch maps and last man standing and kind team fortess game and lovely speacil cleed assimlate where bunch feds play asganst a borg who goes round assimilating feds ganing his side numbers a bit like bristish bulldog. anyway should be a good add on pack for a already good game.


Virtual Pool 3, what more can I say its crap and you're out the wing if you got it only kidding but its one of those games you shouldnt be paying for but im not telling you to go out and steal it becuase it not even worth doing that for but you must not steal things that bad and if you do il report you my self you hear me.

Wing & ASF News

1. Site Moved 'from Ender', I think I've fixed all the links that were outdated on the site by now. Might you see any outdated links or anything that don't work - please contact me with the information.
2. Commorder On Shore Leave 'from Ender', I'll be at me parents this weekend - so be good, try to keep the ISD in one piece please? ;)
3.New Comp, Look this comp jas not been ok yet but as soon as it is il put the attact mission on and you lot get flying ok:
If you desire to accept this comp I would like to fly "FREE-XvT Battle #11 - The Test of Skill" for the comp. It looks to be a good enough mission to fly for something such as this. We could have the top 12 scoring pilots be used in the average. Then take the average of the 12 to be the deciding factor of the wining Wing to take the overall win. Of course there would be a couple of medals awarded for this. Might I suggest that there be an IS-SW for the top gun and the IS-BW for the 2nd place pilot.
I've attached the mission to be flown and if you accept it then I will place the comp on-line for the TO to approve it so we can get the medals approved so they can be awarded to those pilots. Well thats should about do it. I hope you will accept this comp request, unless of course your to busy to accept, in which I'll understand. I do look forward to hearing from you, and really hope you accept. Thanks in advance for your time and above all have a good day!
4. PSI comp, Echo will be taking part in the PSI comp arrange by Mr Ford where they will be taking part against squadrons from all over the fleet told the truth i dont now much about the comp but im sure Echo check some ass for the Vanguard.
5. XvT WoW, Has started once again i know its xvt and not XWA one but go out and play it boys and lets bring back some bacon and kick some ass.

Fleet News

1. Wing Commanders appointed, Many congratulations to former Chaos CMDR, Colonel Smitrock, who has been appointed as the first Wing Commander for Wing XX.
Also congratulations to Major Jesseb Skyrauch, who takes over from LC Joe as the new Wing Commander for Wing VI.
2. Imperial Storm II, The start date for the wargame, Imperial Storm II, has been announced: Monday 25th June.
For the rules of the game and other information, please go to the Imperial Storm II page.
3. Tie Corps Homepage Download, The TIE Corps homepage and affiliated homepages will be offline on Sunday, June 17, at midnight EST. The change is being done to swap a defective hard drive at CrystalTech and the downtime should be minimal.
4.XvT WoWs, XvT Week of Wars started today! Go out and fly for the EH!!! (win too :P)
5.New Mutliplayer Competitions, Begining Monday, there will be a new weekly MP comp! The new Tempest Storm competition is hosted by CM Sephiroth (sephiroth@isdchallenge.org) and takes place on Mondays from 7 to 10 pm EST in #Tempest on IRC. Everyone is welcome, so join in!

Promonitions
- Some of you pilos are well on the way to promotions and im very proud of you


Medals
- Im going through some of the MSE and I may just hand some out ;)

IWATS test completed
- Lt Johnann Glorick completed IWATS test HTLM 2


War Room

XvT/XWA] Greenwich Wolf Comp
Time: Wednesdays at 1:00 PM EST - 4:30 PM EST.
Place: Channel #WingXIII on IRC.
Awards: LoC per victory, PC for first place, ISM for second place.


[XvT/XWA] ASF Wednesday Comp
Time: Wednesdays at 7:00 PM EST - 10:30 PM EST.
Place: Channel #WingXIII on IRC.
Awards: LoC per victory, DFC for the winner.


[XvT/XWA] Thursday Night Training
Time: Thursdays at 8:00 PM EST - 11:00 PM EST.
Place: Channel #WingXIII on IRC.
Awards: LoC per victory, DFC for the winner.


[XvT/XWA] EuroComp
Time: Fridays at 10:00 AM EST - 11:30 AM EST.
Place: Channel #EuroLoC on IRC.
Awards: LoC per victory, DFC for the winner.


[XWA] Kampfergemetzel
Time: Fridays 2:30 PM EST - 4:00 PM EST.
Place: XWA melee skirmish room on the Zone.
Awards: LoC per victory, DFC for the winner.


[XWA] Zone Sunday
Time: Sundays at 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EST.
Place: XWA melee skirmish room on the Zone.
Awards: LoC per victory, DFC for the winner.


[XvT/XWA] Praetorian Comp
Time: Mondays at 19:00 - 22:00 EST
Place: Channel #Praetorian on IRC.
Awards: LoC per victory, DFC for the winner.


[XvT/XWA/JK] Outer Rim War
Time: Sundays at 2:00 PM - 11:00 PM EST.
Place: Channel #OuterRim on IRC.
Awards: LoC per victory, DFC for the winners of each platform

Message Boards and Meetings

Message boards.
- Emperor's Hammer Message Board - http://www.tiecorps.org/ehmb.asp
- TIE Corps Message Board – http://www.tiecorps.org/mb
- Aggressor Strike Force Message Board - http://www.tiecorps.org/mb/view.asp?b=21&v=0&s=0
- ISD Vanguard/Wing XV Message Board - http://tiecorps.org/mb/view.asp?b=38&v=0
Meetings.
- Fleet-wide meeting on IRC-Undernet channel #emperor's_hammer (every Saturday at 5PM GMT)
- TIE Corps meeting on IRC-Undernet channel #tiecorps (It's every Sunday at 9PM GMT)
- Meet other ASF people on IRC-Undernet channel #EH_ASF
- Don't forget our own IRC-Undernet channel #Vanguard it's a fun place to be after all:)
Additional for if you do not know what IRC is: IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat and it's a protocol specially for chatting. Easiest way to get on IRC is to go to http://www.mirc.com and download mIRC free. The Emperor's Hammer is based on the Undernet servers, but if you need any more help setting up, don't hesitate to call in help from either your squad mates or me.



God the pilots I employ as my CMDRs HERES JDFI1984

From you're loving Wing Commander Major Zippy Hawk

WC/MAJ Zippy Hawk/Wing XV/ISD Vanguard
PCx5/ISMx4/MoI/IS-1SR/LoC-PSx69/CoL/CoB/OV [CNTR] {IWATS-GFX-M/1-RT-SM/2}




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Flag Officers - 1
Echo - 11
Scorpion - 6
Mantis - 10
Wasp - 10
Hornet - 0
Python - 6
Total: 44