A new Logistics Officer and Chancellor of the Senate have been appointed. The lucky people were Ian Jackson () and Osan`gar () respectively. Both candidates were selected on their meeting of the criteria. This is something important to remember when people want to moan and complain about a CO appointment - the people I pick are generally the best out of the lot and there is always sound, solid logic behind those appointments. So baseless complaining about CO appointments is counterproductive. What is much better is supporting these COs and helping them reach their maximum potential, especially in the case of subgroup commanders. Other open CO positions include LA and ISP, from memory.

Newsletter 83 has been released (finally). This is the Jedi Outcast "special edition" newsletter. It features five reviews of the game, an editoral piece by myself about Lucasarts possibly getting their act together and all the other usual stuff we come to know and love in the newsletter. The next newsletter will be focussed around Attack of the Clones, so if you have a review of the movie or an opinion piece or whatever, send it in so it can get added. The sooner I get a bunch of reviews in, the sooner I can release it and get the newsletters back on schedule.

Due to real life issues, my Command Attache Jade has decided to move to the reserves. She did a good job as CA and managed to get a good newsletter out, even while going through the fun of exams. Newsletter 83 will be her last one, and as such, CA:XO is open for applications. Details are on the TIE News page, and for the sake of repeating, here they are:

• Ability to produce standards-based HTML either by hand or via a proper editor such as Dreamweaver
• Ability to work to deadlines consistantly
• Must be able to work with various levels of command officers within the EH
• Some online chat ability (IRC, AIM) to receive instruction

At this point in time, the position deals pretty much exclusively with making most of the newsletter. However, these duties may be expanded at a later date. If you think you have what it takes, email your application to jpboyce@indigo.net.au Make sure it includes three references, at least one being a current commanding officer.

There's a bunch of email virii going around at the moment and it seems a lot of people are confused. The main issue is these virii appear to be sent from the emperorshammer.org email aliases. The simple fact is these are relays or aliases. That means mail can be sent to them (and then passed on to the real address) but mail cannot be sent from them. This leads to the obvious conclusion that these virii are forging the email header information, including the from field. The only real way to be sure of who sent the virus is to check for the sending IP in the header information. This is technical stuff most people don't know about or care to do, but I'm sure the more technically inclined people are doing it on a regular basis. The biggest thing members can do to stop this is get an virus scanner, preferably a well-known one such as Nortons or McAfee, that includes a dedicated email scanning function. Then make sure you keep it up to date. A $50 investiment is a small price to pay to keep your PC free of this sort of rubbish.

Prelude to Andevia results were finally announced this week. Thanks to the Tactical Officer, FA Striker, for reviewing the pilot files for me and picking out the cheats. While the number of entries were low, some of the fiction ones were quite good. Of special note is Philo, the CMDR of Yod squadron, who came award with a staggering 5 placings (out of a total of 12 events). We need more guys like him in all areas of the EH. You can get the results at http://www.emperorshammer.net/to/andeviaresults.htm

Membership-wise, things are varied. The TIE Corps lost nearly 200, presumably from an AWOL check. This was offset by increasing growth in most of the other subgroups. These more or less balanced each other out and the total EH tally is sitting on 4,261. This represents about a 300 member increase in the last 2 months. Hopefully this trend will continue or accelerate.

Subgroup Person of the Month
This week's person is a DB and here's what SBM Frey Gallandro had to say:
I would highly recommandate our Sith High Warrior Keirdagh Cantor, for his work as SHW and especially for his hard work to host the Sith War. Equal how it will end, it increased activity and motivated the members in every Sith House (as you can see in the results). He is an example to all Sith and well, i would also say that his hard work should be honorated.