SSSD SOVEREIGN NEWS, 2-24-02

COM/VA Proton reporting for the SSSD Sovereign, flagship of the Emperor's Hammer Strike Fleet.

"I know a couple of things are mine. I know my kids are mine. I know my family's mine. My car is mine because I know I paid for that. Nothing else belongs to anybody around here. It's a game. When we're dead and gone somebody else will be playing it, so it's not yours. I'm going to go out and have fun and see what happens." -Marvin Benard, San Francisco Giants outfielder

"Our bodies are machines made for work. You can vacation to death." -Dusty Baker, San Francisco Giants manager

Wing commanders, pass this along to your squadrons.

SOVEREIGN AND FLEET NEWS AND NOTES

-- Imperial Storm III is coming! The Sovereign's task force and tactical team is being assembled (pilots, you will be hearing from your flag officers very soon about this, if you have not already). There will be PLENTY of opportunities for TIE and XWA pilots to participate in Imp Storm III, and we all need to work together to fly the Sovereign to victory!

-- All personnel to your ships! EHTPT: The Emperor's Hammer TIE Pilot Tour, has begun. It is open to all Sovereign pilots. To participate, go here: http://212.242.141.115/ehtpt
This also will be linked from the Sov site as soon as I update it.
The competition is directed by CPT Jens Vigsted and CM Jack Stone; please refer any questions to them.

-- Jack's Ultimate Scramble final results announced by CM Jack:
After a really long and extended period, we are finally ready to present the medals. We have the Final Showdown results after several failed attempts. So without further ado, here are the 2001-2002 Jack's Ultimate Scramble Awards.
First, we have 6 Iron Star-Silver Wings to present. The following pilots earned their wings exceptionally by flying the most in their Wings during the FCHG race. And here are the Wing Champions:
Wing I-LC Andrezj Mezynski
Wing II-CPT Carl Lost
Wing III-CM Tvan'Oris
Wing IV-LCM Kitten-claw (ret.)
Wing V-CM Murkrow Defender
Wing VI-LC Aylius Khan
Unfortunately for Wing IV, LCM Kitten-claw retired to the reserves soon after the competition ended. So COL Torres took his place.
Now for the Final Showdown Awards:
After several failed attempts at an MP contest, it was settled that the Showdown would be a SP contest with XWA-TC 27. The final due date for the battle was kickoff of Super Bowl XXXVI. Only 3 pilots competed and here are the final results.
In third place, with a combined score of 11981, winning an Iron Star-Bronze Wings: COL Torres, the replacement champion of Wing IV
In second place, winning another IS-SW, with a score of 46493: CM Tvan'Oris of Wing III
Drum roll please...
And in first place, winning an IS-GW and the title of JUS Championship, with a total score of 90530...LC Andrezj Mezynski of Wing I.
Thanks to all those who participated. I've decided to make this an annual event. So come November, get ready for another round of JUS.

-- Flag notes for the week: The Bronze Star of the Empire has been awarded to COL Reaper for doing a great job as Wing IV WC and to GN Devin for the current Omega improvement program. Also, congrats to the ship's newest General, Wing II WC Ford Prefect, who was promoted last week!

-- Return of the Rat Pack, Round IV, flying TIE-ID Battle 3. Deadline is Feb. 28 to get pilot files to COL Reaper.

FORCE STRENGTH

SSSD Sovereign [198]
Wing I [39]
Wing II [26]
Wing III [36]
Wing IV [37]
Wing V [31]
Wing VI [28]
Omega Squadron [12]

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CANTINA COMMENTS

" ::sneaking down the Sov's hallway towards Wing V's drinking hole, Airlock21, CPT Jason Hunter darted from one doorway to the next, wearing civilian clothes comprised of a nerf-hide jacket and camo pants. Under one arm, he held an antiquated turntable from a little-known backwater world called Earth. With the other arm, he concealed the square shape of something under his jacket.
Reaching the Airlock, he set the turntable on the deck, took a step inside, and whipped out the original Star Wars soundtrack... on VINYL!!!
Laughing hysterically, Hunter announced in a loud voice about his recent purchase, as every Wing V pilot turned and looked at him with mixed expressions of indifference or the classic "is he sane?" look...all except COL Sickman, who was literaly drunk off his ass and passed out on the floor.
Suddenly halting his laughter, Hunter grabs his turntable and makes a mad dash for his quarters....leaving all in the cantina to stare in amazement, then shrug and turn back to their drinks...
...everyone but Sicky, who was still out cold on the floor.:: " -CPT Jason Hunter

"Congrats to Admiral Havoc on being named the new and improved TO. At the moment apps are not being taken for his vacant position of Pri's
bitch...errrrrr I mean Command Attache." -COL Reaper

"you mean after all this time I wasn't supposed to be spit polishing your Guardian or pretending I knew what I was doing when I said I was working on the engine??" -COL Tad

" He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a remote control. He grins over at the Pe squadron sitting across the room as he pushes the button. A large quantity of Zorkian slug slime materializes above the group and falls on them. (It just fell over, it was sight-desensitized at first) He calmly pockets the remote and dons his innocent look." -CM Death Angel

" Lt Bob looks up from his mug of ale... looks around... decides that it is far too much work to clean himself off, so he goes back to his drink - still dripping slug slime. Remember kiddies, if ignorance is bliss, i'm on cloud nine!" -LT Bob

"Another week fly's by. This 1 having a few romantic entanglements, Inky no doubt had the briefing officer showering her with gifts.
The others of us unattached imp pilots just headed on down to the Sov's
brothel and had a good time, drawing our sorrows and getting some much
deserved, well best not go into that." -MAJ Jon Doyle

"Please, do not call me "sir". I work just as hard as the rest of you and as anyone who has been here as long as I have can tell you, "sir" is reserved for the Comodore on up in my book. That is unless you are really in some deep **** :)" -CPT Talons Pryde

"Speaking of encouraging things, Wing II has fallen to 27 members :( Get e-mailing those Cadets! Strip naked and pain Wing II recruitment messages on your body and streak through the Daedalus! Well, maybe just e-mail those Cadets. But do something, by gum! :P" -GN Ford Prefect

"(to COL Gen Es'mith:) Yeah but we don't have the ships to maintain the space. And any way, you aren't in the wing so why you here? Can't live without my insanity?:P" -CM Murkrow Defender

"Because the only way to effectively treat the plague is to study it and find a cure." -COL Gen Es'mith

"As far as women go, here's all you need to understand: The answer to any question involving clothes is, "It makes you look beautiful", when she asks you to do something with her, the answer is never, "I'd rather not.", and last but not least, although some people may say otherwise, all women appreciate having doors held for them and things like that." -LC Jahan Kalar

"When you inspect pipes, you inspect ALL of them... All 80+ kilometers
of main pipe (main pipe being large enough to walk through without
crouching). There are hundreds of kilometers of tributary pipes, but
those are usually shorter and not large enough for a human. We use
the Mini-Fords for that type of stuff ;)
So I do inspect them! And every other squad's pipes! You can call me
Mr. Waste-Pipe-Man... no, wait, on second thought DON'T. :)" -LC Freelancer

"When we are not aloud to call you Mr. Waste-Pipe-Man, are we at least allowed to call you Wasty? Did you inspect the pipes next to wing II, as well? damn, that must have been very hard :)" -CM Dark Viper

"Don't see why? They've all got dissolved colons anyways... And with
all the punishment they (*cough*nodoubt*cough*) get, the latrine
there is the cleanest on the ship!" -LC Freelancer

"**Assigns Freelancer to sewage pipe scrubbling and cleansing duty.
Probe droid hands the pilot a grungy wire brush and a barf bag**" -VA Proton

"Oh YE of little faith!!!
KEEP your barf-bag, Proton! YEARS of sewage pipe inspection have kept
me acclimated to the stench! HAHAHAHAHHA!!! Oooh... feeling
nauseous.... *Keeps barf-bag, just in case* " -LC Freelancer

"After years of kissing Gallows butt, you'd think he'd be able to keep it down with just a little stench. Ah, well. At least it's good to know SOMEONE in the squad's active. :)" -CPT "scrub harder!" Mike

"*Free looks at Proton, gets a nod, and hands Mike a second scrub
brush* " -LC Freelancer

"However, I take a little bit of pity on CPT MIke, because he has the burden of being your commander, Freelancer ... so Mike gets the scrub brush with the little green tassles on the handle ;)" -VA Proton

"WooHoo! Green tassles! Thank you for understanding my predicament, Proton. You're alright." -CPT "Brawny" Mike

"Free for the last time, you are not going to inspect my pipes. I don't care how good of a bottle of wine you can get the answer is still no." -MAJ Nebular

"*Free now needs to use that barf-bag....*
Thank you, Maj "Bad Mental Image" Nebular..." -LC "Are we there yet?" Freelancer

"All I want to know is... where's that battle with Wing II? I demand
blood!!! I want to beat that newly promoted Ford butt." -CPT Mike

Plenty more QotW entries for dpace to permit, on the Sov MB. Go read 'em!

COM/VA Proton/SSSD Sovereign