-Squadron News-
- m'kay, with the overwhelming (Jon) response to Ford's question as to where the Psi messgeboard should go, we're gonna move to TC.org hosting. Any suggestions for colors and overall look?
- AWOL check! AWOL check! To be counted succesfully as having responded, you must reply to each line of this report with something. (evil CMDR laugh). Reply within the week.
- Medals awarded! Congratulations to CM Jon Doyle, recipient of an Iron Star - Bronze Wings, and LT Sunny, who got an Iron Star - Bronze Ribbon for winning the TIE and graphics sections of the Psi Anniversary comp. Ford also got one of thos ISes for winning #tiecorps IRC meeting trivia...bah.
- Speaking of graphics and Psi Anniversary comps, go beat the XO/FSE with titanium bats until he updates the official graphic on TC.org :-P
- Sadly, MAJ Sanj may be forced to leave the squadron shortly, either for the Reserves or an XWA squadron, due to a lack of time and TIE CD. Humbug. :-P
- Psi to Red Alert! Psi to Red Alert! As those of you with interests in Roman history may know, the Ides of March have passed, and with it, FA Kramer's scorpion armistice. Av and Sunny, Otter's going to measure you for the pink bunny suits. Jon, check the armory's status. The rest of you, buy stock in pesticide companies... >:P
- In related news, a scorpion of a chocolate variety seems to have shown up near Psi's doorstep. Ford's going to have to take a few bites...um...samples...to determine...if it's safe. Yes, that's your brave CMDR, always leading by example :-P
- Also, LT Fred the Mighty of Theta's life is in immediate jeopardy for uttering pro-scorpion words, in lyrical form, nonetheless. His head is wanted on a lettuce crisper to be delivered to Ford's desk. Special prizes will be awarded to those who succeed in this new mission :-P
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- TV sucks.
- Ford needs a haircut, looking like Billy Ray Cyrus currently.
- Obviously, not much news this week..
- For about the fourth time...any squads you guys want to challenge in a mano y mano competition? Ford's evil alternate personality is itching for some more blood after Praetorian...
-Wing News-
- The third week of the Wing II Pilot League has ended. Ford moved up to 5th place in Division 1, only a thousand-odd points off the 4th place pilot, and CM Jon snagged 6th place in his first entry to Division 3. LCMs Canen Otter and Nurel Turr fell to 5th and 10th place respectively, both of whom were unable to submit .tfrs for the comp, Nurel because of some oddities with the mission..mission to fly for Week 4 is F-TIE 83.
- The Wing II FCHG race with Wing VI continues on, as does IWATS Sov Madness...12 more days left! :-P
- The Chocolate Gungan Search has begun! (we seem to have a lot of these searches in Wing II, don't we? :-P) All Wing II pilots are ordered to investigate the disappearance of COL Inkwolf's chocolate gungan (We don't know anything about it...right, Psi?), and turn in their findings (i.e., write fiction about the search :P), or, if you're feeling particularly adventurous, create a Free-TIE or TC-TIE about it! Entries are due in by April 15th, and the winner gets an Iron Star - Silver Ribbon.
-Squadron Orders-
- Fly F-TIE 83 for the Wing II Pilot League!
- Fly! Like the beautiful, soaring wind all over this lovely green earth! ::: plays some John Tesh :::
- Pass IWATS courses in multitudes!
- Respond to AWOL check!
- Think of squads you want Psi to challenge!
-Squadron Activity-
CMDR/LC Ford Prefect:
3.16.01 - Completes TC-5
3.16.01 - Completes F-TIE 119
3.16.01 - Finishes revision of TIE Tactics course
3.19.01 - Completes TC-117
FM/LT Solaris Macharius:
3.18.01 - Awarded Iron Star - Bronze Ribbon
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FL/LCM Canen F. Otter:
No Activity - Bad Ott!
FM/LCM Nurel Turr:
Attempts to fly F-TIE 119, is confounded by some truly odd mission wackiness...
FM/MAJ Sanj:
No activity reported, think he made some uniforms for some people :-P
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FL/CM Jon Doyle:
3.18.01 - Awarded Iron Star- Bronze Wings
FM/LT Avatar:
No Activity - Bad Av!
-Misc. / Fleet News-
- LA Quake has been promoted to AD! Yay, kweek.
- CA:XO Slade has been appointed CGM of the Frinage, yay for him. No word yet on how this will affect his status as CA:XO.
- EH Logo Contest! Yay! Design the new, official Emperor's Hammer logo! The requirements:
With the recent letter from LucasFilms to cease and desist using the "Imperial Icon" on Emperor's Hammer Gear, the
Fleet Commander announces a NEW contest open to ALL Members of the Emperor's Hammer. The contest will
center on the design and posting of a new distinctly EH logo for possible use on EH Gear.
The requirements for this new EH Logo are posted as follows:
The design can NOT infringe on any existing LucasFilms copyrights (that means you can't use existing Star
Wars imagery, pics, logos, etc.
The design shall be 600x600 dpi resolution
The design shall have the basic design posted below and shall prominently feature our WWW site address -
www.emperorshammer.org.
The idea here is to be creative and come up with ORIGINAL ideas...NO variants of the Imperial Icon please...:)
Please submit your images to the Fleet Commander (GA Ronin). Due to the importance and prominence of this
logo, the winner, as determined by Fleet Commander (GA Ronin), will be awarded a Grand Order of the
Emperor (GOE) Medal !
Visit TC.org or EH.org to see the basic design. :-P
- Mr. / Ms. EH is open again! Check out http://www.wam.umd.edu/~manesh/ehmrmiss2001.htm to nominate!
- Some Mac news!
Ircle, the most popular Mac IRC client has been updated for the first time in about 2 years! This is the 'Carbonized' version and only
runs on MacOs 9.0.1 and higher, with CarbobLib installed. Check it out at http://www.ircle.com
After downloading the beta of the Quake II Star Wars modification, I am sorry to say it will not work on Macintosh in its current state.
Though the game files appear to be compatible, they are enabled by using BAT and EXE files. If any Mac coder wants to have a look
at them and try to make a conversion (they seem to open as text files) you can get the conversion at
http://www.3ddownloads.com/index.php3?directory=/telefragged/swtc/ The file to download is DM1.zip.
Pong meets Star Wars! Ever wonder what the classic trilogy would be like if Darth Vader and Luke played a game of Pong instead of
saber duelling? For a chuckle or two, try SloppyDisk's PongWars. One or two players, and yes, you can shut the awful music off! You
can download it and other Sloppydisk freeware at http://users.net66.com/~charlesmt/sloppydisk/
- XWA TCCs are being sought by the TAC. Apply to TCC Crix Madine. Applications end...well, tomorrow :-P
- New IO site features! From AbK:
1. Ever wanted to ask the IO a question, but were too lazy to open your email client, or too affraid to ask non-anonymously? Well now
you can "Ask The IO" questions about the EH, Internet, websites, and other related questions by going to the "Ask The IO" page.
2. Got a good idea for an IO Poll? Now you can submit your suggestions for consideration by going to the "Suggest An IO Poll"
page.
Thanks go out to VA Ari for these two ideas! :-)
- EH.org has been updated, woo.
- the IWATS TIE Tactics course has been completely updated! Course notes and tests! Yay! Take it today :-P
'tis all the news from this week. Now go fly! :-P
CMDR-AMB-PROF/LC Lord Twinkalicious/Psi/Wing II/SSSD Sovereign
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[EDE]
Professor of TIE Tactics (www.imperialacademy.org/tietactics)