Greetings members of the TC Battlegroups!
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Greetings from Aurora Prime! Whoaaa.... keep the tank closed on the Challenge, the pilots are drunk again! Well, that is typcial, but now key members of the Battlegroups are addicited to some sort of fake reality they can access on the HoloNet. Bigest addect- Colonel Ricaud. When asked why he loves this new simulation so much he only relpied, "Well.. its f#$&*@g cool!"
In other, less important news, the New Repbulic takes back about five-hundred or so former systems of stupid Imperal Warlords, news at 11.
Battlegroup News and Updates:
Battlegroup MUD:
Yes, the Battlegroups has a MUD now! Well... it isn't complete yet, not Battlegroup or Emperor's Hammer specific yet. Still its great, and very very addicting! A special thanks to Captain Dan Malaktos of the Relentless for whipping it together. If you have a MUD client then all you have to do is long onto server enforcer.raptor.nu and in port: 4000 and your MUDing away! If you have questions, ask Dan. Enjoy!
Battlegroups Auxiliary Positions:
The following are the currently assigned auxiliary officers in the TC Battlegroups:
Battlegroups Executive Officer: Vice Admiral Ari
Task- To maintain control of the Battlegroups when the BGCOM is on leave or away. The Executive will sometines fill in for Battlegroup Reports or help with administration of lower-end BGCOM functions when needed.
Battlegroups Communications Officer: Colonel Darklord
Task- The overseer and maintainer of the COMBOT WlydeFyre and all BG IRC Channels. Responds to any complaints or issues involving the bot and makes necessary repairs.
Battlegrops Internet Officer: Commander Quake
Task- To maintain and oversee the Battlegroups Website on a regular basis. Maintains and repairs the site and updates any news information or any other section when necessary.
Battlegroup Commander's Advisor: Colonel Kessler
Task- Being a former BGCOM and/or FO, the Advisor will apply his knowledge of procedure to helping the Battlegroup Commander in times of need.
Battlegroups Ace Pilot League:
Colonel Oldham, Captain Kane, and Captain Xyrryc are still duking it out for the right to be Battlegroups Ace Champion! This action should round up by tomorrow, so be ready for news. More BGAPL updates will be relased by the Battlegroup Commander and Baron Administrator, all-knowing VA Jarak Maldon, tomorrow :)
News from the ISD Immortal, Submitted by Colonel Mell (11/10/00):
Wing XIII ISD Greywolf vs. Wing XI ISD Immortal
Duration : Friday, 10/11/2000 - Friday, 29/11/2000 (3 weeks)
Fiction - 10/11/2000 - 24/11/2000 (judging finishing by Nov.29)
Pilots will write a piece of fiction based on either the ISD Greywolf or the ISD Immortal. Submissions should be 500-5000 words long and will be judged by high ranking officials outside both our wings. Each squadron will be limited to 2 submissions per squad. Points will be as follows :
Best submission - 10 points
best submission on other ship - 5 points
All other submissions - 2 points
Best submission on each ship will also receive a PC
Second best submissions on each ship will receive an ISM
Flying 10/11/2000 - 17/11/2000 (XWA singleplayer)
FREE-XWA 20 will be flown by all pilots within a 1 week period. The total of the top 12 scores will be taken from each ship to determine the winner of this phase. Each pilot who's score counts in the top 12 of the winning ship will receive an ISM , with the top scorer on each ship receiving a PC.
Points -
highest overall score - 10 points
second highest score - 7 points
third highest score - 5 points
fourth highest score - 3 points
As well, any squad with 100% participation earns 4 bonus points for the ship
Multiplayer 18/11/2000
The top 10 pilots on each ship from the single player competition will be eligible to compete in the Multiplayer tourney on November 18th. The comp will run for 2 hours on irc channel #isd_immortal and will be a double elimination style tournament.
1st place - 10 points
2nd place - 7 points
3rd place - 5 points
4th place - 3 points
all other pilots that place - 1 point
Congratulations to Phantom Flight Group 3 for their recent victory against Falcon Flight Group 2! The final average scores were : Phantom 10642 to Falcon 6211. Great flying by everyone, and congratulations to CM Spearhawk for earning an ISM for being the top scorer!
Congratulations to CM Lito Rendal for becoming the Immortals new BGAPL Champ by defeating COL Mell at FREE-XWA 13! (i forgot about this, my bad!!!)
The honor list is filling up with now 3 members holding the Golden Batallion! Want to see your name in 'lights'? .. fly all XWA battles and free missions (including the IW ones).. check out the site http://immortal.stardestroyer.org/honor.html
Tribe Wars is over tomorrow! Fly Yellow Tribe's mission- Chiefs are to report to me tomorrow night with scores and pilot files compiled. Good luck everyone, and remember, winning tribe each gets a PC! more details.. are on the site.. http://immortal.stardestroyer.org/tribe.html
Demon is facing off against Ghost Squadron!! All pilots are busy flying FREE-XWA 21 for 2 weeks, and are using averages to decide the winner and if the squad gets 100% participation, 1000 points are added to the average! ISM will be awarded to the highest scorer.
LC Badlands has returned his 2 week leave. Welcome back Colonel, hey, nice tan! -- you must've had a good time :) Thanks to CM Spearhawk for going above and beyond the call of duty as Phantom's Acting Commander while Badlands was on leave.
I urge all of you to please reply to the TO's comunique that asked anyone that wants to see TO5 restarted! The High Admiral Mr. Astatine will not run it unless he sees a stronger response.. so far. .not that good. I've attached the email. These comps are great for individual pilots as well as squadrons to prove themselves to the entire TC, as was proven by Falcon Squadron in TO 4! Lots of great medals and an excellent battle to play (made by our very own COL Dras Hempor - XWA 9).
As my personal Escort Squadron of the month, I have sent Ranger Squadron out on a little recon mission for me to a remote system where there is rumor of great snowfall and giant peaks. They are to go investigate and report any rebel activity in the area. Once the area is secured, I will be commencing my Winterfest activities :) More details will be released once Ranger has reported back.
CMDR Sanj of Falcon Squadron is making some nice progress with the Falcon site and has been spending a lot of time learning php. Check out what he's made so that the pilots can upload their pilot files directly to him via the site. Great Work Sanj! http://falcon.squadron.org/php/bsf.php.
CM Roth has written a nice piece of fiction here. If everyone didn't receive a copy via email, be sure to check out this attachment for some entertaining reading. While I'm on this topic, I would like to remind anyone that has fiction or graphics that they would like to see published in the next Battlecry issue, to email their submissions to CPT Werdna Elbee werdna_elbee@ehnet.org
http://battlecry.ehnet.org/battlecry.html go here -- "battlecry newsletter", "how to submit work". I know a lot of you have some great talents to show off. .so get your submissions in.
News from the ISD Colossus, Submitted by Vice Admiral Ari (11/12/00):
It's been a pretty good week, flying is up which is nice to see. We've got a few more days left to fly the Colossus vs. Avenger comp (TC-TIE 138), and then we'll see who will be the victor. CPT Jay Urick of Pi has AWOLed out and CM Kromtal Stormfyld of Omicron has resigned, leading to a search for new CMDRs. I'd like to congratulate Owen Nivarian on Pi CMDR and Devin McCloud on Omicron CMDR! The Colossus Recruiting Office is going steady, with LCM Dall Star leading it. In the COM's office, things have been quite busy with a top secret project undergoing construction. This project promises to be a dynamically new and exciting thing. Project Advisor CPT Drake and myself have been working hard on it and we have announced a release date of November 19th. That's one week folks...guess you'll just have to wait a bit!
News from the Reletnelss, Submitted by Colonel Val Ricaud:
1. OLDIES VERSUS NEWBIES
The Relentless Staff of '99 vs. Relentless Staff of 2000 got underway this week, albeit after a brief false start involving a buggy first selection of mission (FREE-TIE#130) which required a switch to something which would actually work on people's computers
(FREE-TIE #104). The competition sees six CMDRs+ from the 1999 crew of the ISD Relentless going up against our current staff, plus BGCOM/VA Jarak Maldon to help make up numbers (I feel obliged to fly with the old guys :P). Feel free to get behind either set of staff and show your support at http://relentless.stardestroyer.org/cgi-bin/board/topic.cgi?forum=1&topic=10
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2. SSS WITHDRAWAL
You have all already been e-mailed on this matter, and there is currently a topic running on the ISD Relentless Message Board for any discussion or comments. I'm pleased to see that everybody has gotten behind the decision to take Wing IX out of the Supreme Squadron Series (though in some cases a little understandably grudgingly :P). CMDR/CM Ted settled the matter best when he reminded everybody of our motto: "Stength in Unity". We have one of the closest wing communities in the TIE Corps, and I don't think anybody here is willing to sacrifice that sense of closeness and camaraderie by driving a vicious competetive wedge between squadrons just because people like LC Ace Pilot want their contests to be a bloody, exciting affair of rivalry, rather than a show of co-operation and unity. The forum for discussion is still up at
http://relentless.stardestroyer.org/cgi-bin/board/topic.cgi?forum=1&topic=13
3. RELENTLESS BOARDS UPDATE
The new ISD Relentless Message Board (http://relentless.stardestroyer.org/cgi-bin/board/ikonboard.cgi) has proven to be a stunning success, simply going from success to startling success over the course of the last week. The Board is now at a total of 354 posts, which beats any other ship or wing board in the Battlegroups. All of our squadrons (Sword, Dagger, Spear, and Shield) now have their own boards, with 33 people signed up for Message Board membership (more people than we actually have in the
wing!), and more external involvement has been brought on-board, with the hosting of boards for parts of the Hammer's Fist now in place. Who said these new boards would be out-of-the-way and attract nobody else's attention? :P
4. BATTLEGROUPS MUD
Work is proceeding apace on the TC Battlegroups MUD, with the ISD Relentless leading from the front under the supervision of Captain Dan Malaktos. For those of you who still don't know what a MUD (Multi-User Dungeon), it's essentially an on-line roleplaying game which is text-based. Think of the old "Zork" adventure games, add proper stats, interactive locations, decent NPCs (Non-Player Characters), dynamic plotlines, and several dozen players, put it on the Internet to play, and hey-presto, you've got yourself a MUD. The Battlegroups MUD will (we hope) allow players to roam at will not only around the Star Destroyers of the TIE Corps Battlegroups, but also provide an immersive roleplaying environment in which ships and starfighters can be flown and piloted, battles fought, and drinks imbibed at various cantinas. :P If you'd like to help out in any way, simply contact cloud88ff7@aol.com.
News from the ISD Challenge, Submitted by Colonel Darklord:
Colonel Darklord will be on leave until Monday... go away!!!
Current Orders:
Stay up in activity, and recruit! We have a bit of a shore-out in munbers so it may help to brush them up abit. This section is a bit thin this week, I'm a bit pressed for time tonite :) Oh yes, try out the MUD and give sugestions and coments before we EH-ize it. I hope you are awaiting the new Battlegroups Story-Driven comp, coming hopefully around Thanksgiving... maybe. Until next week, good luck!
Quote of the Week:
"Well, you don't have to get all snippy about it!" -Vice President Al Gore, responding to a question from Governer George W. Bush.
Vice Admiral Jarak Maldon
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BGCOM/VA Jarak Maldon/ISD Immortal/TIE Corps Battlegroups
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KAP (Krath)/Rogue
Battlegroups Ace Pilot League- Former ISD Colossus Ace Champion