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Introduction
My, it has been a long time, hasn't it? I'd like to start off this report with giving everyone a big apology for my lack of activity lately. With my life making new turns this month and final uni exams coming up in less than two weeks, I've been badly neglecting my much needed to-be-attended-to XO duties. Two more weeks is all I'm asking. Then the news page will continue to see upkeep on a more regular basis, the first sections of the EH Database will be online, and NL #74 will be released promptly. By then, the most difficult final exams will be over, my new laptop will have arrived, and I will once again have time to complete my work.
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EH : Newsletter #73
Admiral Quake has done an excellent job covering for me in HTMLizing many of the sections of NL #73. Unfortunately, many sections were also turned in late. I was going to just hold over NL #73 to next month and just release all of it together with NL #74, but then I would need to cut things from NL #74 due to size and that just wouldn't be fair.
List of Mirrors for NL 73 Download (from http://quake.idleplay.net) (~6 mb)
http://cd.ehonline.org/nl73.zip (UK) [Smokin] - Hosted By The Corporate Division
http://www.idrive.com/silentone/files/NL73.zip (USA) [Smokin] - Hosted by iDrive
http://absolutek.com/nl73.zip (Canada) [Excellent] - Hosted By The Internet Office
http://thunder.prohosting.com/~surefire/NL73.zip (USA) [Fast] - Hosted By Prohosting
http://24.183.44.238/nl/nl73.zip (USA) [Medium] - Hosted by Vice Admiral Ian
http://quake.idleplay.net/nl/nl73.zip (UK) [Slow] - Hosted by Admiral Quake
http://213.122.21.223/nl/nl73.zip (UK) [Slow] - IP Resolved of quake.idleplay.net
List of Mirrors for NL 73 Online
http://absolutek.com/nl73 (Canada) [Excellent] - Hosted By The Internet Office
http://quake.idleplay.net/nl/nl73 (UK) [Slow] - Hosted by Admiral Quake
http://24.183.44.238/nl/ (USA) [Medium] - Hosted by Vice Admiral Ian
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EH : Newsletter Submissions
I noticed mail mysteriously disappearing from my inbox for some reason on America Online on my Newsletter Screen Name. It seems that it has been eating up some submissions that I hadn't had the time to retrieve and now I'm not exactly sure which ones were lost. No submissions were held for NL #74, so if you don't see your submission in NL #73, it wasn't rejected or denied, it was lost. Please resubmit any works that didn't appear in the NL.
LoAs for #72 and #73 will be awarded next week along with the announcement of the new XOA. Please check the CREDITS section of the Newsletter (the link at the very bottom-middle of the NL) to make sure YOUR work isn't being credited to someone else! Report problems to absurefire@aol.com.
SGCOMs, PLEASE encourage your subgroups to start submitting stuff for the EH Newsletter! Submissions are due at the end of the month!
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EH : Counter-Strike at ORW
As many of you now know, Counter-Strike is now being played at Outer-Rim Wars. I encourage all EH members who are skilled in playing this game to come join us and have fun at ORW next week.
NOTE!!! Because Counter-Strike is NOT a Star Wars related game, it is not officially supported by the Emperor's Hammer nor any of its subgroups (unless someone goes out and makes us some Star Wars CS skins... hint hint). This means you can't earn LoCs, DFCs, or EH awards of any kind from playing Counter-Strike. Sorry. If you play, it's just to have fun and kick some Rebel butt!
Fleet Admiral AbsoluteK has put up our own EH:CS practice server at: 24.156.241.193:27015
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EH : EH Database Progress
After putting it on hold for quite some time, I've had the chance to get back to work on developing the new database! As I said earlier, I hope to have something online for members to look at in two weeks. I'll continue to make updates of my progress on my homepage at http://www.kawolski.com
Members of The Fringe are the lucky ones who get to be the first ones added to the database. Their small membership and simplified structure makes adding support for them easiest. The Imperial Senate will shortly follow. After the database is working properly for both groups, the TIE Corps will be added.
Over the course of its development, my staff and I will be putting together an EH Database Manual for people to review to learn how to use the new database and preview what the new features are going to be.
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EH : Aaron Allston interview
Our Recon Officer AD Keiran has arranged for the EH to have an e-mail interview with Star Wars author Aaron Allston. If you have some questions to suggest we should ask,
e-mail them to KeiranIdanian@aol.com and absurefire@aol.com. Please, no questions about future upcoming New Jedi Order books because Mr. Allston is bound by a nondisclosure agreement that prevents him from talking about them.
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TC: New Combat Operations Officer
Former COO Zsinj has stepped down from his position as Combat Operations Officer. In his place, Vice Admiral Wet Willy is now in charge of the office. His first duties along with learning to use the TC Database will be to find us some other Star Wars clubs (particularly Zone Clans) to play against, so be sure to keep an eye on the news page and Combat Calendar for more than the usual weekly matches.
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TC : TC Pilot earns the MoH
If you haven't read the domain yet, Grand Admiral Ronin has given Flight Member Colonel Callista the Medal of Honor! She has done much for promoting the Emperor's Hammer out in the real world and her recent success at organizing the EH booth at Jedi Con 2001 in Germany this month along with several other EHers who came down to help! So I'd like to take the time to personally congratulate my darling wife for receiving this award she deserves so much. Calli: I love you sweetie! ;)
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IS: Command Change
The Chancellor of the Imperial Senate, CHS Vyacheslav Tiberius Slegr
, has stepped down from his position. A new Chancellor will be appointed shortly upon Ronin's final approval.
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IW: IW opens Support Division
The Infiltrator Wing (http://www.infiltratorwing.org) has opened the IWSD, the IW Support Division (http://iwsd.tsx.org) today to provide a home for members who want to fly something other than the usual fighters.
Commanded by High Admiral "Pappy" Renegade, who is returning from retirement, the IWSD uses the following craft (with X-Wing: Alliance as a game platform):
- Corellian Gunboats
- Corellian Corvettes
- YT2000 Corellian Transport
- YT1300 Corellian Transport
- Firespray Attack Ship
For more details on the IWSD, please refer to http://iwmanual.tsx.org and http://www.iwft.org/roster.
Every member of the Emperor's Hammer, and everyone else of course, is invited to join the IWSD or the IW Strike Fleet at http://www.iwft.org/join.
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HF: UT:EH needs your help!
With the closure of Half-Life: Imperial Battles and Quake II's Star Wars: Call of the Force, it seems the only promising future SW mod around is Prefect Ares' Unreal Tournament mod. It's badly in need of talent in the graphics department! Models, textures, skins, etc. If you have any experience in this, apply to: alduin@jps.net
Unreal Tournament: Emperor's Hammer - http://www.jps.net/vulpine/UTEH/
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DIR: GMF Karva resigns
Grand Moff Karva has resigned from his position due to real life issues and commitments.
Applications or recommendations for the new GMF should go to myself (absurefire@aol.com) and GA Ronin (garonin@aol.com).
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Conclusion
OK, I've spent enough time writing up this report...time for me to get back to work on the database and other XO-like things. :P
= Sector Admiral Kawolski, Executive Officer and Fleet Systems Engineer =
- XO-FSE/SA Kawolski/CS-2/VSD Stalwart (#691)
- MoH/ICx2/OoR/GOE/GSx4/SSx3/BSx2/PCx6/ISMx6 [EXCR]
- MoI-DC/MoT-7rh-1gh-89bh/LoC-CSx7/MoC-1BoC
- CoSx3/CoE/CoL/CoB/LoAx3/OV-3E
- {IWATS-GFX-IIC/1/2/3-M/1/2-NS-SM/1/2-TM}
- http://www.kawolski.com - http://www.tiecorps.org