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* KAPPA SQUADRON REPORT * MAJ Tempest * August 29th, 2003 *
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Welcome to the newest Kappa Squadron report. It has been a nice week
for us, as we have won our comp against Tempest and placed third in
the Sovereign League! :)
More about that in the news section.
With the SL ending, there's no major competition running at the
moment, before Imperial Storm IV and the Sovereign Cup start in
September. I think it's a good time for me to take a little break.
Stop partying there, it's just for one week! :)
Well, it's still my semester break, and I still haven't done anything
non-geekish with my free time, so I'll go on a little bike tour with
some friends, starting tomorrow. If everything goes as planned, I'll
be back next Friday evening.
So if anyone has any business with me during next week, tell them to
wait these few days. It's actually only my second time in two and a
half years that I turn on leave status... kinda scary, if you think
about it. :P

However, back to business. While the Squadron Management course says
that it's usually not necessary to appoint an acting commander for
such a short period like one week, I'd like to take this opportunity
to put LCM Shimir's leading abilities to a test, and appoint him
A-CMDR for the next week, including writing a report next Friday or
Saturday.
Shimir, your performance has been outstanding during the last weeks,
and I think you can do this without problems. :)
If you don't think you can do it, or if you don't have the time, or
whatever reason else might keep you from doing the A-CMDR job, feel
free to pass on the badge to a flight leader of your choice. :)

If you have any questions, Stele or Roasty or Algy will certainly help
you out. :)
'K guys, enjoy the time without me... but try not to sink the Sov, or
put Ninj in command of Kappa... or anything else, for that matter. :P
And now, finally, the news. :)


Squadron News
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- The Sovereign League is over. When it began (gosh, when was that?
*looks it up*) on March 15th, I was actually wondering if it would
be worth to take part in it, as we were only five pilots, with
irregular flying activity. And the best six scores were counted in
every round, as you know.
Still, we did an excellent showing.
Getting help from Jan, who brought us back to six again, and with
mostly good participation, we made third place in the seeding phase,
and defended that position in the playoffs.
For a Squadron with such a glorious past as Kappa has, the third
place might sound unspectacular. But consider our low numbers, and
that we were beaten by the elite squadrons Omega and Praetorian
only, who can recruit their pilots from any squad in the TC, and are
always at a very good strength.
And this was a competition open to all squadrons on this ship, and
even some more. So you may say that this our squad, Kappa, is the
best regular (meaning non-elite) TIE Fighter squadron on the
Sovereign.
Sounds not too bad, eh? I'm proud of you guys. Drinks are on me for
the next week... I'll sell all my stuff (except that infamous piece
of paper Roasty made for me when I joined :P) and pay the bill when
I return. :)
And one fair day in the far future, when a new OPS gets appointed
and Barbarossa leaves the Kyffhäuser, we'll even get some shiny IS-BW
for it. :P
(One free beer for you if you got the joke. Two if you are not
German. Five if you are American.)

- We also won our inter-squad competition against Tempest. Yay us! OK,
our showing was not really *that* glorious (5/7), it could have
become difficult if Tempest had not sent in one TFR less than we
did. But hey, who cares? We won. We rock. Drinks are on me again.
Dang, there goes that piece of paper. :P

- Some bad news, too. It was the third week during which I heard
nothing of our youngest pilot, SL Jules Vega. I dunno if you know
the rules, Jules, so here they are again: Four weeks without
activity of any kind, and you are outta here. Harsh, but the way it
just is. I'm therefore looking forward to finding smething in my
inbox next Friday when I come home.
You know, we are all not really on a flying frenzy here in Kappa
(except Shimir, of course), but an e-mail here and there, or a TFR
when we're in an important comp, that would be good.


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Squadron Orders
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- Behave while I'm gone. :)
Oh, and please treat Shimir as good as me.
/me sees Zyrax preparing the foul tomatoes and powering up the
scramble-o-matic weird-name-generator.
OK. Better, then.


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Squadron Activity
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MAJ Tempest/Kappa 1-1

08-25-03 Flew TIE-Free 229 for the comp against Tempest
08-27-03 Won IS-BW for top-scoring in that comp
- IRC and mail activity
- CMDR stuff
- On leave until next Friday

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LT Zyrax/Kappa 1-2

- IRC activity

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COL Astarosta/Kappa 2-1

08-22-03 Submitted TIE-TC 194 for the SL
08-23-03 Submitted TIE-Free 229 for the comp against Tempest

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LCM Shimir Sheerelk/Kappa 2-2

08-24-03 Submitted TIE-Free 229 for the comp against Tempest
- Finished Stele's Summer Patrol and earned himself an IS-GW.
- Won an IS-BW in the Summer Caption Contest last week. Sorry again
for missing it in the report. And grats. :)
- Working on fiction for the Apostasy comp. Btw, thanks to all Wing
members who gave advice on the swearing matter... and for reading
the report this far, of course. :)

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COL Jan Wemmel/Kappa 2-3

No activity reported - second week in a row.

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MAJ Algaron/Kappa 3-1

08-22-03 Submitted TIE-TC 194 for the SL
08-24-03 Submitted TIE-Free 229 for the comp against Tempest

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SL Jules Vega/Kappa 3-2

No activity reported - third week in a row. AWOL warning!
Please report in until next week at about this time.

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Miscellaneous / TC News
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- EH Racing League (AD Keldorn Cochrane)
An announcement for Lieutenant Commander Rem Somnos:

Announcing the EH Racing League. On September 1st DarkFyre on #ehcoc
will be able to handle XWA multi-player racing. Players will be able
to participate in one on one to free for all heats. DarkFyre will of
course handle the scoring.

Check out the EH Racing League website at
www.ehracingleague.minos.net for details. Bot commands can be found
on the RULES page, and also check out the tournament schedule. WCs,
and BGCOMs have the opportunity to create a graphics comp for the
floating cup for their respective Wings and Battle groups. *hint
hint*

- Virus warning (FA Marcin Szydlowski)
If you have been receiving a lot of emails recently with "returned
mail" in topic, then you can be infected with W32/Sobig-F virus. I
have been infected myself, so if you have received any emails from
pbmike@klub.chip.pl, ingore them and delete them right away (I never
send from this addy).

I have visited Sophos website and they have simple cure. Download
their latest patch and run C:\SOPHTEMP\RESOLVE.COM -DF=SOBIG.DAT
-NOC (unzip patch to SOPHTEMP directory on C:. (win9x).
To find out more, visit their website.

- Open Commodore Positions (HA Priyum Patel)
Vice Admiral Jahan Kalar has decided to retire as Commodore of the
ISD Relentless. As with former ImmCOM, COL RogueWing, Kalar was a
fine Flag Office who's presence will be missed.

This means that applications are now being accepted for two
Commodore positions in the Battlegroups (Immortal & Relentless).
Applicants should be able to meet the following requirements:

- Good online presence - e-mail, MBs, and some IRC (particularly
meetings if possible)
- No HCI convictions within the past 12 months
- A successful command history in the TIE Corps (to include a tour
of at least two months as a Wing Commander or six consecutive
months as a Squadron Commander with two different Squadrons)
- Ability to work with the entire Chain of Command
- Excellent working knowledge of all EH & TC protocols and policies
(including the Fleet Standing Orders)
- Specific long and short term goals for your ship, Battlegroup and
constructive contribution towards the TIE Corps as a whole
- Technical skills (HTML, mission design etc) are beneficial but not
mandatory

You may include up to two references, at least one from a current or
former superior (obtain permission from these individuals first. No,
you can't ask me or Krax). As a Commodore, it will be your task to
look out for your ship's long term welfare including it's growth and
activity. You will be required to work with the Wing Commander on an
almost daily business handling ship affairs. A good COM can mean the
difference between the ship's success or failure and is not a job to
be entered into lightly.

Applications should be sent to High Admiral Priyum and Admiral Krax
Tarnisar before Tuesday 2nd September and should have the subject
"Rel/Imm COM Application".

- 'Apostasy' Competition (AD Keldorn Cochrane)
The small-scale 'Apostasy' competition is still underway;
submissions shall continue to be accepted until Friday 12th
September 2003.

Full details can be found at:
http://www.emperorshammer.ca/comps_apoastasy.html

This is an excellent opportunity to showcase those sterling talents
I know you all secretly harbour - while also being rewarded for
them.

- Tactical Officer back from leave (FA Marcin Szydlowski)
Yes, I'm back. Report on Friday. Next few days I will spend catching
up. Expect HSs approved very soon, more competitions, some results,
etc :)

- Sovereign Squadron League Results! (HA Priyum Patel)
The SSSD Sovereign Squadron League 2003 has concluded after several
months of heavy competition and now it is time for the winners to
celebrate their victories and collect their rewards. The champions
are the elite Omega Squadron in the TIE and XWA divisions, and
Diamondback Squadron in the XvT division. Many congratulations to
General Sasquatch and Lieutenant Colonel Gidda and their pilots for
registering these outstanding accomplishments. Also, thanks to all
pilots of all TC ships who participated in this exciting
competition. Finally, thanks to the tireless judges of the SSL,
Lieutenant Colonels Todbringer and Gidda and Major Artyis, for their
hard work throughout the event. Complete results of the SSL will be
posted on the Sov Web site at http://sov.minos.net

- Flight Officer Back (HA Priyum Patel)
Ok, wipe away those tears folks, I'm back. First off, my sincere
apologies for this unexpected absence...a culmination of deadlines
and serious computer problems all conspired to keep me off line for
the past week.

Anyway, the majority of updates are now complete. Those that aren't,
I'm afraid will need to be resent to me since I ended up losing a
significant portion of my HD during the troubles. Again my apologies
for this.

In other news, I'm sorry to report that Vice Admiral RogueWing has
decided to step down as Commodore of the ISD Immortal and take up a
FM's position in Ghost Squadron. RW was one of the finest Flag
Officers to grace the TIE Corps and I'm very sorry to see him go.
The Flight Office extends its thanks for all the work he's put into
his Battlegroup and Ship.

- Starshatter (VA Kyle Katarn)
I know this is a bit off topic, but look at this site.
http://www.starshatter.com

After this Game is finished, then there could be an Imperial MOD
made for Star Wars. This game is especially made for MODers. The MOD
that comes with Starshatter itself seems a bit superficially!
However if there is a good Imp. SW MOD made this could help the EH
very much!

- The Make A New mIRC Function Competition (Fleet Admiral Aiden Cantor
Karias)
I have started yet another COMM competition (this must be a record
for COMM ;). Its called the "Make a new mIRC function" competition.
The idea is to make a simple function that provides a useful way to
do a task in mIRC. Entries do not have to be massive full fledged
scripts like P&P, rather a simple paragraph of code that will do
something useful.

Rewards are as follows:
1st Place: IS-GR
2nd Place: IS-SR
3rd Place: IS-BR

I'm hoping to promote mIRC scripting in the EH, and perhaps find a
few good coders to help make an "EH Script" package. The contest
will end at 12 midnight EST 2003/09/05. Please send all submissions
to io@absolutek.ca.


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Squadron Roster
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KAPPA SQUADRON OF WING II : Escort
COMMANDER: MAJ Tempest (EH_Tempest@gmx.net)
NICKNAME: The Dragons of Wing II
BANNER: kappa.jpg
MOTTO: Honor sit mihi lux, et draco sit mihi dux
HOMEPAGE: http://kappa.squadron.org/

FLIGHT I - MISSILE BOAT
Nickname: Wyvern Flight
Motto: Potius mori quam foedari
1) MAJ Tempest (EH_Tempest@gmx.net)
2) LT Zyrax (zyrax@freenet.de)
3) TBA
4) TBA

FLIGHT II - MISSILE BOAT
Nickname: Gryphon Flight
Motto: Virtute et armis
1) COL Astarosta (astarosta@copetel.com.ar)
2) LCM Shimir Sheerelk (pantherjumper@yahoo.com)
3) COL Jan Wemmel (Jan1506@gmx.de)
4) TBA

FLIGHT III - TIE DEFENDER
Nickname: Midgard Flight
Motto: Mors ipsa nos refugit
1) MAJ Algaron (algaronx@btopenworld.com)
2) SL Jules Vega (braunjonas@web.de)
3) TBA
4) TBA

Total: 7


Respectfully,
CMDR-OPSA/MAJ Tempest/Kappa/Wing II/SSSD Sovereign
GOE/GS/SSx2/BSx3/PCx3/ISM/MoI/IS-2BW-2BR-4SW-2SR-2GW-2GR-1PR/CoL/CoB/LoA/OV-2E
[CNTR] {IWATS-CBX-GFX-M/1/2-SM/2/3-TM-TT}
RSV/WO Tempest/CD [CoL/SoA/BoMx2/CSS/CDMx2]