COO Report # 17 (2016-01-25)

This report was submitted by COO-TCT-TCS/RA Hawkins/TC-4/VSDII Aggressor


COO REPORT
COO REPORT #17
FROM: COO/RA Hawkins
DATE SUBMITTED: 14th January 2016
TALES FROM THE AGGRESSOR
THE ENDLESS IMPERIUM - PART 2


The bulky mass hung motionless, it's existence only shown by the black, empty patch of space that should otherwise have been filled with stars and nebulae.

It was an immense object, easily the size of a small planetoid, but with no such regularity of form. Exact details would have been impossible to determine, had anyone even been present to observe it. Had there been, the object would have seemed dead. No lights illuminated its surface, no energy flairs could be spotted. Only on powerful sensors would the fainest trace of an energy reading even be detecable, but that may have been explained away by the forces of gravity interfearing with readings, or ghosts of energy feebly trailing through otherwise dead systems.

The small, unintelligible signals unintelligible form the object could easily have been dismissed as interference patterns, or some echo of a pulsar discharge distorted as it bounced from the uneven surface of the object.

The object would, if known about, been of no interest to anyone save a salvage corporation with the infrastructure to handle such a large object, or perhaps a few dedicated technology scavengers willing to invest some time exploring the dark mass. Certainly nothing to draw the attentions of the great and powerful of the galaxy.

No, certainly not that.

Submitted by RA Hawkins

NEWS
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Star Conflict Updates

Two bits of SC News.

Firstly, bot matches. The latest update has made T1 pilots who have to wait a long time end up in matches against all bots. These matches are not PvP, and so cannot count for Legions of Combat. However, they will still count for Legions of Skirmish.

If you are not sure if it is a bot match, there are a few indicators. The main one is that on the result screen, the enemy pilots will be missing the 'thumbs up' logo that indicates a human player. Other indicators are that the opposing team will esentially have almost no kills, and the match will have been desperately easy.

Make sure you submit the match correctly, else you will feel the wrath opf the denial email...

Secondly, and the literally BIG news, is destoryers! These massive ships cannot be bought, only constructed in the workshop. Dempsey is running a competition to see who can get theirs the quickest:

Build Your Own Destroyer - Entire TC

I've already seen one screen incorrectly submitted as a match report, so the TC has new ships under it's command already!


Thanks

My thanks go out to CM Silvius, MAJ Drachen, COL Rau Aznable, COL Dan Stephens and LT Turel for their help in pulling together a COO IWATS course through allowing their IDs to be used in screenshots that will feature in the test.


COO COMPETITIONS
This Month's Competitions:

COMBAT EVENTS

COO Monthly Challenge 2016: - whole TC
Combat Events will run a little differently this year, for the COO Challege.

Each month, a new event will be organised, allowing us to switch between Star Conflict and BattleFront. Battelfront is up first, and so at the end of January we'll be awarding the 1st DFC for an SW game in as long as I've been COO. Must do more of that! To win, simply get the highest number of Kills + half AI Kills. Best of luck!


January Standings:
Top 3 ranked pilots:

1st - LT Junazee
2nd - COL D Stephens
3rd - LT K. Bleu


COMPETITIONS

MP Ace Of The TIE Corps 2016 - whole TC
The Multiplayer Kill Board will used to keep track of points. Each LoC earns you a point for the competition, and a DFC counts for 5 points. Whoever scores most points win. The numbers on the MP KillBoard at the end of the month are the numbers that are tallied. If there are three participants then IS-GW/SW/BW, if only two IS-SW/BW, etc. At the end of the year the top 3 pilots with the most points will receive IS-PW/GW/SW.

January Standings:
Top 3 ranked pilots:

1st - CM Silvius
2nd - FA Elwood
3rd - MAJ Drachen


MP Co-op Ace Of The TIE Corps 2016 - whole TC
The Co-op Kill Board will used to keep track of points. Each LoS earns you a point for the competition. Whoever scores most points win. The numbers on the MP Co-Op KillBoard at the end of the month are the numbers that are tallied. If there are three participants then IS-GW/SW/BW, if only two IS-SW/BW, etc. At the end of the year the top 3 pilots with the most points will receive IS-PW/GW/SW.

January Standings:
Top 3 ranked pilots:

1st - HA Dempsey
2nd - FA Elwood
3rd - CM Silvius


Star Conflict: PvP Average Kills - whole TC
This competition will be for the highest average kill score achieved across all Star Conflict PvP game modes. This competition will count Kills only. Assits will NOT be counted for this competition.

Each pilot must submit at least 5 matches to qualify for the competition, (as tracked by the MP Killboard, minus any points awarded to a pilot for gaining a DFC).

All normal submission requirements apply. Submissions will be processed manually by the COO and COOA through the normal MP submission process.

January Standings:
Top 3 ranked pilots:

1st - LC Wraith
2nd - COL John T Clark
3rd - FA Elwood the Brave

(Not to be goading anyone, but Woody only holds his place as the person who would be in 3rd place has only flown 4 matches and needs a minimum of 5...)


OTHER COMBAT COMPETITIONS
Ruler of the Stars (MP & MP Coop) - Kappa Squadron
Kappa's KMDR's Challenge - Kappa Squadron
Sinner's Delight 2016 - Sin Squadron
Hammer's MP Pilot of the Month - ISD Hammer
TIE Corps on Recon - Entire TC
The Hammer's February Frenzy - ISD Hammer
Epsilon MP Ace of the Month 2016 - Epsilon Squadron
Build Your Own Destroyer - Entire TC

COO'S ACTIVITIES
Recieved a IS-SW for TCoR
Played a number of SC matches
Mail/telegram activity
Processed LoC and LoS (a bit over 130 in total)
Continued writing IWATS Course
Some work on XWiTF project (mission design and audio processing)
AND FINALLY...
Bit of a longer and finally this week.

In the mail discussions the matter of whether the TC should update the timeline came up, to bring us into line with the new films.

For myself, I have no strong feelings either way, but do feel that the loss of the old expanded universe presents us with an opportunity to forge some new story of our own. Super Weapons and new designs of SD don't pop out of nowhere. What was the EH doing whilst these things were happening? Were we able to maintain our level of advanced fighter production? The fact the First Order still use modified TIE Fighter designs is no spoiler given their presence in the marketing, but what about the EH? What would we be using 20+ years after Yavin?

Would love to hear some thoughts.


respectfully submitted

RA Hawkins


COO-TCT-TCS/RA Hawkins/TC-4/VSDII Aggressor
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