COM/AD Proton reporting for the SSSD Sovereign, flagship of the Emperor's Hammer Strike Fleet.
SOVEREIGN AND FLEET NEWS AND NOTES
-- Sovereign Squadron League second round nears its conclusion. Deadline is April 11. For full details of the mission assignments and rules, see the Sov Web site at http://sov.minos.net.
Leading after Round One are Teth (TIE), Diamondback (XvT) and Vampire (XWA). Results can be seen on the ship site, including a zipped download of the complete Round One results. Individual medals for Round One were awarded this week.
-- Operation Outrageous Fortune, we still have an operational news blackout. Admiral Pel, what is your pleasure? Should we have the TFAs executed now? ... Heh, heh, just kidding, Jon and Frodo. But, we do need to get this game going and finished. The easiest way to get it done, in my opinion, is for the War Officer to issue a summary of the situation; and, if the left-over ground combat cannot be commenced within three days after the issuance of the summary, ground comabt will be bypassed and the game will finish with space superiority conflict only. This is not ideal, but it is toward the interest of finishing a game that needs to get finished :) .
-- The Flight Officer has lost all his senses. How else do you explain the appointment of, gasp, Reaper as the new FOA!?! LOL, just kidding, congrats to Reaper! I suppose it is a good thing to have someone of his acid wit and questionable flying skills connected to the staid Flight Office ;)
-- CM Sirik Xirok is running the final round of his Sov trivia contest. Deadline is Sunday, April 13.
-- We now have an official alliance with Rebel Squadrons, the EH's "sister" organization. For more information on this, please visit the EH news page (http://www.emperorshammer.org/index1.htm). SovCOM's request to flags and CMDRs considering arranging comps with the Rebel scum: Please cc: me on any agreements or major developments. I would like to track the Sov's interaction with the Rebels, for possible planning of future major operations against the rebellious foo's.
-- Speaking of killing Rebels, GN Stele Pellaeon and COL Jon Doyle in Wing II are cooking up combat vs. the Retribution Fleet. Stay tuned for more, loyal Imperials.
-- Theta Squadron Invitiational under way, a six-round tournament modeled after the NCAA basketball tournament. Questions / comments / participation, please see CMDR/CPT Zekk Terrik.
-- The Rat Pack has suffered its initial defeat in its current round of matches. Wing II's CMDRs fought hard and earned the win:
Rat Pack:
CMDR/COL Sasquatch: 393,038
WC/GN Stele: 369,423
WC/MAJ Mayk Wolverine: 238,178
COM/AD Proton: 235,656
WC/LC Frodo: 93,610
WC/LC Aeishline: DNF
WC/LC Mike: DNF
Average Laserless: 189,986
Wing II CMDRs:
Carl Lost: 562022
Tempest : 528276
Jon Doyle : 435166
Zekk Terrik : 64651
Koriel : DNF
Seth : DNF
Average laserless: 265019
Next up, the Rat Pack vs the Wing III CMDRs. SovCOM has signed an executive order mandating that any Rat who fails to fly this competition this month will immediately serve a minimum one-month sentence in the foulest section of the HGBs.
-- Finally, I would like to re-emphasize adherence to the chain of command in handling disputes and conflicts. If you have some sort of "run in" with a pilot from another squadron, wing or ship, work with your immediate superior to go about resolving the issue. Higher officers may be included depending on the circumstances, and the chain extends. This goes for instances when you are aggrieved, or someone feels aggrieved by you. Also, if a higher-ranking officer from another ship attacks you unjustly, let your superiors and me know, so we can at least be aware of the conflict, or get involved as needed. Best advice: Use your common sense and always first try to resolve little conflicts yourself as much as possible.
FORCE STRENGTH
-- Give a big Sovereign welcome to these new or returning pilots:
FL/LCM Cyrus/Gamma 2-1
FM/SL Zacarias/Sadhe 2-2
FM/SL Tirnan Ruairc/Gamma 3-2
FM/LT Daurathi Ghost/Theta 2-4
SSSD Sovereign [170]
Wing I [30]
Wing II [37]
Wing III [31]
Wing IV [42]
Wing V [29]
Omega Squadron [9]
SHIP COMPETITIONS
-- Sovereign Nighthawk Multiplayer Competition, each Friday night in
#ehcoc on IRC, 3 to 6 p.m. eastern time.
-- Sovereign Squadron League, round 2 under way. Pilots, fly free missions TIE Free 216, XvT Free 125 and-or XWA Free 94 and send the pilot file(s) to your CMDR by April 11.
-- SBOTM for April: There is none -- the SBOTM is on hiatus for the duration of the Squadron League season. Watch for the return of the SBOTM in September.
SHIP COMMUNICATIONS
IRC channel: #SSSD_Sovereign
Message board:
http://boards.minos.net
The SSSD Sovereign Cantina Song:
http://www.minos.net/~proton/drink.html
TRASH TALK OF THE WEEK
"rat (n.) - Any of a small, verminous rodents under the genus Rattus
with long tails, often carrying diseases such as the plague.
You little vermin were just exterminated like the pests that you
are! OUCH!
265,000 to 189,000,or something like that. Who cares? We won!
I don't even know if I'd use my sports page to hit you guys with.
It'd be a waste of paper.
Don't mess with the Wing II CMDRs, or you'll get EXTERMINATED! Give
it up, guys!" -CPT Zekk Terrik
"Pffffffffffft ... we graciously give a deadline extension to give the
Wing II CMDRs a chance at a fair competition ... just because we're nice
guys by nature, and we don't want to turn away anyone's results or
submission due a small little thing like NOT BEING DONE IN TIME ... and this
is the thanks we get.
Sports page indeed.
On a related note ... Zekkie, have you never played golf with the boss,
man? IF your brave enough to win, you usually don't begin to do victory laps
in the golf cart. You just beat the Rat Pack, and I feel I must point out
that our CMDR is the Commodore. And then when you won, you decided to pour
salt in the wound?
(*Whistles*)
Long story short ... you're guano-bin-bound, baby. I pity the foo' who
don't beat the Rat Pack graciously." -COL Sasquatch
"I would like to point the fact that there are your WCs who are being
laughed at :P :P :P well, I think Pellaeon won't be using the
PROMOTION button for a while and remove the dust from KICKASS button , hehehe." -MAJ Mayk Wolverine
"But be warned Wing II CMDRs....the Rats will grow stronger and this ship
is not so big that Rats can't infest it. >=D
Willard: "Tear it up" -GN Stele Pellaeon
COMMAND RANT OF THE WEEK
"And don't forget, when the going gets tough, the tough get going, and
all that jazz. Besides, we're Omega Squadron ... and we don't need no
stinkin' patches!!! ;-) " -COL Sasquatch
COMBAT DEBRIEFING OF THE WEEK
" Hokay. I'll submit them all next time, no matter that it's been so long since I'm flown XWA that I keep looking around, thinking "what the hell is all this crap around me?" -GN Compton ... ...who can finally turn the graphics up...
"And here I thought that was the after-effect of having about 20 rounds before you fly the mission ... I guess it's just XWA, after all! Looks like I can start drinking again ;-) " -COL Sasquatch
"Well, as much as this mission sucks hairy goats arse, it still has to be
flown,so here's the Brandon Tipfest for CR #2 - ... " -MAJ Brandon
CANTINA COMMENTS
"/me beats Argon with the Sov Trivia Stick
No soup for you, come back one year!" -CM Sirik Xirok
"Word of warning, do not leave your lights and Radio going on your TIE it
leads to a flat battery." -COL Jon Doyle
"I'm beginning to suspect Dweezil is a werewolf.....
tccc.tiecorps.net " -COL Jon
"I'm just poor little base defense warlord." -MAJ Wolvie
"BubbaX walks into his new Office and takes a seat at the desk. Bubba
sorts through some papers and organizes the desk. Then he stands up
walks in circles around the room. Sitting down again, he knocks a few
beer cans off the desk and sees something scratched into the surface of
the desk. "Wulvy wuz heer"..." -CM BubbaX
"BTW. I left my Playboy magazines somewhere in that office. Hand them
over :P " -MAJ Mayk Wolverine
"Hehe...No! You should have brought them with you. They belong to Bubba
now Muahahahahahahaha :) " -CM BubbaX
"-COL Reaper, is the Foo's Ass. (FO's Assistant :P)!
Congrats Reaper!" -MAJ Nurel Turr
"Oh no, Bilbo is now in league with the Balrog! Come back to the Light
Side, Bilbo! :P" -LCM Gandalf
"Lol! And hand over the Ring!" -MAJ Mayk Wolverine
"The ring is mine, my precious, it is! >:P I need it to work out the controls of my TIE, darn it! >:P " -LCM HicRic
"ANother week, another Sov report free of my ranting...
"This is an outrage! I demand that a goat and three chickens be sacraficed to convince to the gods to smite Proton and deliver me to the cantina comments!! /me wanders around the cantina randomly spattering people with an unknown substance that smells like cat urine while muttering something about rats' ovaries, monkey tails, and the end of the world ;P " -MAJ Argon Viper
"Cat urine smell, meet Freelancer's foot smell."
Mike watched as his three socktroopers entered the room violently,
throwing random SLs around the cantina as they tore through the room,
where they quickly picked up Argon, rolled him in a ball, and began to
play catch with him." -LC Mike "Muhahahaha" Chistu
" /me throws the cat urine bottle at one of the socktroopers where it explodes and covers most of the cantina (look up the physics, we're pretty close to the walls here and I threw it away from that one ;)). During the ensuing chaos, Argon makes a break for it.
Dang, now I need a new cat urine bottle... ;P " -MAJ Argon Viper
"oooooooooo, chafage!! If those were introduced I expect the MedCorps
would have seen the true horrors of our war against the New Republic....groin
blisters. I expect the fleet would have been subjected to a 300% increase
in wedgie-esque injuries too, which is a shame, 'cause nothing quite has
the comedic value of a wedgie. Except maybe Compton. Or drunk Spider
monkeys." -MAJ Brandon, referring to the ill-fated proposal to add crotch straps to TC uniforms
"Hey gang,
We got a new pilot, LCM Cyrus, fresh from the Security Office. Welcome, here is you clothes and meal.
/me hands French Maid outfit and Grey Lumps with Brown Sauce " -CM Sirik Xirok
"`Hobbit> I have to go Shovel my Canadian snow...In April...
*** `Hobbit is now known as Fro|Shove
*** Fro|Shove is now known as FroSHOvEL
Aeolus> why?
Aeolus> just melt it
Aeolus> :P
Aeolus> a little napalm on the driveway"
"What? A big storm? Don't you mean a Major Tempest?" -LC Mike "booed of the stage" Chistu
"Why, is that a bad strategy to treat superiors?
/me should have known that before setting that "fishnet tights" topic
on the Airlock. :P" -CPT Tempest
"fishnet Tights???
*cough* what about thongs *cough* " -COL Jon
"Welcome Cyrus!
*high fives Sirik*
Yay! More lunch money! :P
*gets out the poking/bully stick* " -CM Ras Kronar
OFF-TOPIC DEPARTMENT
-- WELLINGTON, New Zealand (April 3, 2003 6:32 a.m. EST) - Fishermen working in Antarctic waters have made an extremely rare catch - a colossal squid with eyes as big as dinner plates and razor-sharp hooks on its tentacles, a marine researcher said Thursday.
The 330-pound, 16-foot-long specimen was caught in the Ross Sea, said Steve O'Shea, a research fellow with the Auckland University of Technology. He said the squid was a young female; adults are much bigger.
Going by the scientific name Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, the animal is unrelated to the smaller and more common giant squid, O'Shea said.
"This animal is formidable," he told New Zealand's National Radio.
While the giant squid eats "quite small prey," the colossal squid eats large prey like the Patagonian toothfish, which can grow more than six feet long.
Fully grown, the colossal squid would be "larger than any giant squid I have seen, and I've seen 105 of them," O'Shea said.
Only one other colossal squid has ever been caught before. Scientists knew of their existence because their beaks have been found in the stomachs of sperm whales.
"All we know is that it can move through the water ... to a depth of 2,000 meters (6,561 feet) and it is an extremely active and extremely aggressive killer," O'Shea said.
It differs from the giant squid "by having enormous hooks arming the tentacles and the arms," he said.
The creature makes up three-quarters of the diet of large sperm whales, which suggests there are large numbers of them in Antarctic waters, O'Shea said. He said the squid was caught near the surface of the ocean.
Photo of squid attached to report.
LYNYRD SKYNYRD LYRICS OF THE WEEK
Sweet talkin' people done ran me out of town
And I drank enough whiskey to float a battleship around
But I'm leavin' this game one step ahead of you
And you will not hear me cry 'cause I do not sing the blues
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