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Wednesday · January 09 · 2002

Resignation as XO
23:06 - SA Kawolski [absurefire@aol.com]
Effective immedately, Sector Admiral Kawolski has resigned as Executive Officer and is offically retiring from the Emperor's Hammer. Sector Admiral Astatine is now the new Executive Officer. For more information, visit: http://www.kawolski.com

and from the above link...

<SALUTE>

The will most likely be the last time I address the fleet in this matter. As many of you may have been aware, there has been an extremely sharp decline in my activity and response time in the past month. I have to confess that I no longer have had the time nor will to continue or fulfill my duties as Executive Officer and have been planning my retirement plans and working out key issues over that period of time.

My reasons for leaving are simple: lack of time and interest. Over the last month, my workload in my real life job has increased tenfold. What free time I do have has diminished sharply after deciding to return to university. Instead of taking up space and being inactive, I have chosen to finally retire from the Emperor's Hammer in its entirety and move on with my life. This time, I don't have an interest in future positions. GA Ronin has asked me to stay on as Fleet Systems Engineer temporarily until I finish moving stuff off my server.

Taking my place will be the Training Officer, HA Astatine (jpboyce@indigo.net.au). He has been a member of this club for many years and I'm sure he'll make an excellent replacement. The TIE Corps Database, website, and data will all be transferred to GA Ronin over the next month and Astatine will be able to make code updates. If all goes well, the TC will not lose anything except perhaps suffer a little bit of downtime. CA:XO VA Canta Jade will remain to finish up the overdue Newsletter (November 2001 Issue) and hopefully be around to help Astatine compile the December 2001 Issue as well. The EH Database system, however, will need to be reconstructed. For legal reasons, I cannot give out the code that I used for the EH Database. I'll keep it online for a month or two to allow the Fringe, Corporate Division, and Senate to use the old system while they eventually migrate to another database system that somebody else in the fleet can construct. The operational costs for keeping the domain up is about $70 a month for me and they're getting higher as the domain requires more and more bandwidth.

I've been rather pleased with my tour of duty here in the club. I have managed to bring the TIE Corps from the dead as FO, resurrect a dysfunctional Tactical Office as TAC, and hopefully have made some sort of difference for many as XO. I have managed to earn every medal in the TC (with the exception of some of the newer Iron Stars and obsolete MoCs), I have made many good friends in this club, and I have really enjoyed my time here. While I believe there is a lot more I could do for and offer to this club, I sadly must hang up my uniform and call it quits. The club will continue to do fine without me and I will stop by every now and then to say hello.

Take care, everyone, and good luck in the future! :)

Retired Sector Admiral Kawolski

:(( Good luck to XO/SA Astatine!!!

Anyway on with the rest of the news...

Sunday · January 13 · 2002 Project Hawkeye Voice Auditions 03:31 - SA Astatine [jpboyce@indigo.net.au] For those of you who are unaware, Project Hawkeye is the first Internet Office Competition ever and promises to be full of surprises and excitement. Heavy work is being put into thorough plot development. Part of this plot requires some voice acting. Now you can help us out and take part in this top-secret IO Project. Details can be found at http://hawkeye.jedijawa.net/hawkeye-voice.html -IO/AD Ari/CS-5/SSSD Sovereign The Holonet Journals, Issue #2 03:29 - SA Astatine [jpboyce@indigo.net.au] It's back folks! The Internet Office's online magazine of witty and twisted humor has returned for a second helping! Issue #2, subtitled #include is full of laughs, surprises, and articles that are sure to keep you interested. Thanks to Editor-in-chief Darkfire's marvelous and continued dedication, the Internet Office was able to produce this fantastic production which is guaranteed to have you laughing! Also, for her hard dedication and work on THJ, I am bestowing upon my Command Attaché Darkfire the rank of Vice Admiral, so congrats to her pending FO approval! Here it is, THJ#2, in all its glory: http://www.ehnet.org/thj/ Issue #1 can still be found at http://www.ehnet.org/thj/archive/thj1/ for all those interested! Enjoy!   Saturday · January 12 · 2002 New TCS and TCT sought for XvT 11:53 - FA Striker [striker@tiecorps.org] The Tactical Office is looking for additional playtesters and correctors for XvT and BoP. Please check the Tactical Manual for the job's description, and send your applications to TCC:XvT Drako and TCHC Marcin Szydlowski.   Thursday · January 10 · 2002 Clone Ban 10:03 - FA Priyum Patel [spellfire@btinternet.com] For the benefit of those that didn't bother reading my last report, there is currently a ban on ALL new clones within the TIE Corps (this won't affect any existing clones). This also serves as a timely reminder that clones must be registered with the Flight Office. If you do have a clone and are unsure as to whether or not it's been registered, then just send me an email with all the relevant details (clone information will be kept confidential if desired). Remember that illegal clones are treated as AoW violations.

Monday · January 07 · 2002

FCHG Contest #2 Results
16:57 - FA Striker [striker@tiecorps.org]
Happy Birthday Emperor's Hammer, and here are some new FCHG Battles for your glory ! The second edition of the FCHG Mission Creation Contest is now over, with the results hereby released; the winning submissions which become new official FCHG Battles are:

• TIE-FCHG Battle 4: Nomads and Superlasers, by LCM Talas (awarded IS-PR)
• TIE-FCHG Battle 5: Attack from Within, by LCM Dujhod (awarded IS-SR)
• XvT-FCHG Battle 2: Eye for an Eye, by LCM Kittenclaw and LC Halcyon (awarded IS-PR)
• XWA-FCHG Battle 3: Ronin's Deception, by MAJ RogueWing (awarded IS-PR)

Thanks to these who took the time to enter the competition, the winning submissions are once more of greater quality. The only disappointement is the low participation compared to the first edition, though more time was given and more advertisement was made. I guess December is not an as good as time for activty than during summer, but I can't change the date of the EH's Birthday ;) The next edition will take place during July, results to be released for the FC's Birthday. Rating of the submissions was made prior any correction, TIE and XWA submissions were reviewed and corrected by TAC/FA Striker, XvT ones by CA:TAC/VA Marcin Szydlowski, and no tug was harmed during the testing. See you next summer for the third edition of the competition !

BATTLEGROUP ROCKS!!!!! >:P

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