SSSD SOVEREIGN NEWS, 12-16-01

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

Wing commanders, pass this along to your squadrons.

FROM THE SSSD SOVEREIGN SOURCEBOOK

This week, the final in a series of SSSD Sovereign fact sheets by COL Sasquatch of Omega Squadron:

- It is suspected that the Sov's sister ships, if they are still operational, do not possess the power to destroy a planet (Speculation, based on original SSSD superlaser power levels, unmodified).

- The Sov has never had to use its superlaser at full charge for the purpose of destroying a planet ... yet (Speculation, based on the fact that I can find no records of the EH ever destroying a world outright).

- The Emperor's original vision was an entire fleet of SSSDs, with the ESSD Eclipse to lead them (Confirmed)

- Given the wasteful Anti-Empire sentiment of the Mon Mothma administation within the New Republic, we can assume that any of the Sov's sister ships captured by the Rebellion have been either scuttled or destroyed. Any SSSDs still in service are doing so in factions that are not aligned with the EH. For all intents and purposes, the Sov is probably the last of her kind. (Speculation, based on actions of the New Republic in the 'Black Fleet Crisis' books, in which they did not have enough warships because they had been destroying all Imperial ships they found instead of capturing them. Mon Mothma really had this thing against ISDs and SSDs ... also based on the Jedi Academy Source Book, which claims that all SSSDs had been destroyed by the time of the Jedi Academy books written by KJA.)

- Designer of the SSSD is currently unknown. (Confirmed by the fact that no records of the SSSD or ESSD class bother to mention who designed them)

- Lira Wessex designed the ISD and the SSD (Confirmed by various sources)

- Given her involvement in Imperial warship design, and the fact that it would have been chronologically possible, it is reasonable to assume that Lira Wessex either designed the SSSD and ESSD classes or had considerable input into their designs. (Speculation, based on info cited above)

- Given the inclusion of a superlaser into the SSSD and ESSD classes, a weapon that was not originally intended to be equipped on a ship of the line, it becomes even more likely that Bevel Lemelisk would have been included in the SSSD and ESSD projects. Lemelisk was the man who designed the Death Star and the original superlaser (source : "DarkSaber", by KJA). (Speculation, based on the fact that Lemelisk was the Empire's foremost researcher on superlaser technology).

- Even though no designer for the SSSD class is ever mentioned (classified?), we can assume that the SSSD was a Wessex / Lemelisk design (Speculation, based on all the techno-babble listed above ;-)

- The Sov is currently assigned to 'Patrol and Peacekeeping of EH Territories', thanks to the lobbying of former COM/FA Kramer before the Flight Office, the Grand Admiral, and (presumably) the Imperial Senate. The past duty of 'Homeguard of the Aurora System' has been stripped away, in favor of a mission statement more suiting of the most powerful Imperial warship still known to be in operation.

SOVEREIGN NEWS AND NOTES

-- LCM Jack Stone's Ultimate Scramble nears its conclusion. Jack also is cooking up another (non-flight this time) comp for January.

-- Mascot Power Battles, fiction and TIE mission design currently running.

-- COL Reaper and I are putting the finishing touches on the Return of the Rat Pack tour of the Sovereign and Omega Squadron. It starts Jan. 1. First round: Rat Pack vs. Wing I CMDRs. Reaper will announce the battle, terms and deadlines, etc., in a couple of weeks.

-- Return of the Rat Pack site up:
http://sov.imperialmight.com/ratpack/rat-enter.htm

-- LC Kalar cooking up recruitment and banner design competitions in Wing III.

-- CM Murkrow Defender, CMDR of Pe, presents this (fitting?) sanity test for Sovereign pilots -- turn down your speakers then go to this page and follow the instructions:
http://iqx.ionichost.com/other/instest.html

FLEET NEWS

-- VA_Motti, in the EH IRC meeting Saturday: I believe that the new automated MoC process is completed, so go to the main EH MB and enter your TC PIN # in your MB profile. this will allow your posts to automatically be counted, and you will be automatically rewarded for your posts.

-- VA_Motti, also in the EH IRC meeting: Haven't done much yet about the drug policy getting into the CoC, that's this upcoming week. (COM's note: I think this has to do with a prohibition against drug-use talk in IRC channels)

FORCE STRENGTH

SSSD Sovereign [206]
Wing I [35]
Wing II [32]
Wing III [42]
Wing IV [40]
Wing V [30]
Wing VI [26]
Omega Squadon [12]

CANTINA COMMENTS

"Yes, the mascot does have to be in it, even if he hypers in a shuttle, calls everyone a bunch of "pansy wankers" and then hypers out again." -GN Devin

"Well, my rodents and starships are on stand-by and are ready for anything." -CM Face Loran

"You mean of course the blood count in your alcohol stream, right? :)" -LC Kalar

"It's God's responsibility to forgive Bin Laden. It's our responsibility to arrange the meeting..." -United States Marine Corps (contributed by LC Joe of Omega Squadron)

"The bullet entered the victim's left thigh and exited near his left kneecap, then blew off the tip of the man's left little finger." -News item

"In a country of blind men, the one-eyed man is king." -Rick Majerus

COM/VA Proton/SSSD Sovereign