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Intel Division, Academy of Tactics: http://www.minos.net/~rebelkiller/
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Praetorian Homepage: http://praetorian.rawx.net/
Praetorian Message Board: http://www.ehnet.org/mb/viewforum.php?f=112
EH Battle Compendium: http://www.ehtiecorps.org/battles/
The Science Office: http://www.minos.net/~sco/
News:
It's hard to believe it's already been 25 weeks or so as Prae CMDR, time passes by quickly;p.
Jorddyn wishes us to create a run-on which may be used as a plotline for a Praetorian/ID battle which I began (reluctantly I might add) last week. Your participation here would be apreciated:
*Static burst*
[Encryption - Emperor's Hammer, Internal Security Services Standard]
*Static burst*
{Encryption Algorithms Accepted. Begining Decoding Process}
*Static burst*
*Static burst*
-=Begining transmission=-
~A shimmery blue screen sharpens and focuses. A little residue static remains, but the picture is clear, tri-dee and obviously important- the Emperor's Hammer prefers briefings to be sent bi-dee, or even in text.
***A robed figure walks into view, unclips robe and places it carefully on a stool behind itself before addressing the screen.
"Salutations. As you may or may not know, I am an Inquistor of the High Court. As you certainly will not know, I am currently authorized to appropriate any Emperor's Hammer unit as I see fit, in order to... complete... a set of cirumstances that the High Court has become involved with. My authorization identity codes are to be transmitted seperately. Naturally, you are welcome to wait until they arrive before complying with my instructions, but this would be... inadvisable.
To business. In short, the High Court requires possession of a data disc containing a tri-dee hologramatic recording. The nature of this recording is not important. What is, however, is that we require the possession of this disc, and as soon as possible. The disc is currently in transit towards New Republic-held territories, on board a so-called "neutral" diplomatic vessel. The disc must be recovered, it is cared not how. However, Emperor's Hammer involvement must not be made public.
To this end, the High Court has been given access to any unit required. Praetorian Squadron is, and as of Imperial Stardate 05122004-0030GMT has been placed under the High Court's juristriction. Correct, we are appropriating Praetorian. Full command will be restored upon sucessful completetion of the mission.
As I mentioned; full appropriation orders, authorization codes from the Fleet Commander and additional materials will be sent under seperate cover.
For the Empire."
***The figure salutes the screen, and then turns and nods to someone, or something, out of view and the tri-dee image fizzles and snaps to a single point of light which then blinks out, to be replaced with glowing blue text:
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-=Ending Transmission=-
{Encryption - Decoding complete}
LC Malik & CPT Drak looked at one another in surprise. Malik: "Oh &$^%.... We'll looks like the party's over D, It's time to call our pilots back to active duty, go ahead and notify the squadron of the new mission, I'll notify As & Scrier"
Drak: "sure, Mal if we let them take too much leave we'll just drink too much and chase the ID's women all over the Lichtor anyway."
/Malik then commed AD Aseret & VA Scrier telling thier ID superiors of their new mission forwarding them the entire message.
Malik: "um As, Scrier it looks like we'll be away for a little while...."
FA Cyric has begun several comps for the holidays: (lets go win a few IS's if we can) ; )
Tie Corps Christmas Holiday Bash (competition ID #1655)
You can view the competition's details at http://www.ehtiecorps.org/competitions/details.asp?ID=1655
&
Tie Corps Christmas Holidays Jingle (competition ID #1654)
You can view the competition's details at http://www.ehtiecorps.org/competitions/details.asp?ID=1654
several new battles & missions were released by the TAC office: XvT-TC103, XvT-TC104, FXWA114 & FXWA115. (a nice set- FXWA114 features us Prae's too!);p.
Flight Deck:
I'm going to post notices of bugged battles/missions here so nobody wastes their time attemting to fly the incompletable/impossible;p.
XWA-FCHG4 (mission 4 is bugged)- I've reported this to GN Master.
BoP-ID1 (mission 4 is incompletable)- I've reported this to VA Styles
XvT-TC#11... Mission 7 is completable (barely) but still horribly bugged (this just in from MAJ Dolsar Saris a few weeks ago).
and these new FXWA bug reports in from CPT Deimos this week:
XWA Free 25 -> There are not enough points to
match the current high score. I have tried all
difficulty settings, and the best score is only
about half the HS.
XWA Free 26 -> Not only is this mission rather
demanding, but the problem is in the escape buoy:
it is present for only a fraction of a second,
and it doesn't work, meaning the player is stuck
in region #2 and cannot finnish the mission.
I have tried this one on 'hard' only because it
takes a lot of time to finish. I can try playing
it on other settings, but somehow I (GN Master is working on fixing this one).
XWA Free 97 -> There is nothing to do but inspect
the 'exit buoy.' If that mission was supposed to
be a maze, I found myself flying outside of it.
This means the best (and only) score that I can
make is 250 points. I played that one on 'hard'
only.
I encourage the rest of Prae to participate in this section- send in info on known bugged battles/missions of all platforms.
Orders:
-Monthly flying requirements will be implemented after New Year's in January: It'll be a mandatory requirement to fly at least one battle or four free missions a month, I will allow you to fly MP matches in place of the missions if you wish (I'm easy to work with after all);p.
-Help create some Praetorian Trivia questions for AD Aseret the SDIR! (As needs some Prae related trivia for an ID comp- any help would be apreciated).
-Participate in the new round of Praetorian Trivia: (http://www.ehtiecorps.org/competitions/details.asp?ID=1610).
alright guys time to restart the traditional Praetorian Trivia comp. Standard rules apply: you have one week to answer all round one questions before I begin round II, send all answers directly to me at my e-mail addy (ezwill@famvid.com), and all wrong answers equal -1 off your round total.
Round III questions: (no participation so far)
1. Mara Jade infiltrated Jabba's palace in the hopes of assassinating Luke Skywalker, what alias did she use?
2. Of all the inhabitants of Jabba's palace, this Chevin was an actual friend of Jabba's. Who was this?
3. Where is the element Malium located?
4. Who hid the protoype Eidolon Strike-class cruiser on Tatooine?
5. Targeter is an alias of who?
6. This Shyriiwook word is used as a prefix to many Wookie names. It translates into basic as "gree", "Beautiful" or "
"valued" and is combined with one or more suffixes to form a complete Wookie name. What is this word?
7. This Shyriiwook word is used as the suffix to many Wookiee names. It translates into Basic as "music" or "singer".
It can be attached to a prefix by itself, or combined with other suffixes to form a complete Wookiee name.
What is this word?
8. What does this phrase mean? "Tee ava un puffee lumpa?"
9. What does Waroo mean?
10. Waroopa is a common name among the what species race?
good-luck to you all!
participation results so far:
COL Morgan had 14/20 correct
MAJ Evo Sarnojk had 7/20 correct
(I ignored the -1 for each incorrect answer this round due to low participation).
There's still plenty of opportunitys in Round III to catch up!
-RECRUIT, our numbers are dwindling fast, remember our requirements for being accepted to take the Prae trials are the rank of LCM with 400 FCHG; however, for a full status Prae it's still CM with at least 500 FCHG.
http://praetorian.rawx.net/join.php (the only exception to this rule I'm allowing is former Prae's who served more than three months; however, they must still have the min required FCHG of 500). We are elite after all.
-work on improving your own personal FCHG levels- remember we do have a few squadron specific rewards related to this! ;p.
For every 10 squadron citations you earn for Prae I will recommend you for a ISM.
current citations listings:
LC Malik 16 citations
COL Frodo 1 citation
CPT Deimos 1 citation
CPT Drak 5 citations (down to 5 after earning a new ISM).
MAJ Chris Cox 1 citation
COL Morgan 1 citation
LC Dolsar Saris 0 (back to zero after earning 10 citations & a new ISM).
MAJ Evo Sarnok 7 citations
current citation assignments:
(1-1)LC Abel Malik = TIE-TC 31, TIE-TC 32, TIE-TC 34, TIE-TC 38, TIE-TC 40, TIE-TC 42,
(1-2)COL Frodo March = n/a, fly what you want to.
(1-4)CPT Deimos = n/a the only XWA battle left is the bugged XWA-FCHG4. fly what you feel like.
(2-1)CPT Drak = XWA-DB 4, TIE-TC 11, TIE-TC 33, TIE-TC 36, TIE-TC 50,
(2-2)GN Andrzej Mezynski = TIE-TC 133, XvT-TC 7, XvT-TC 8, XvT-TC 9, XvT-TC 10,
(2-3)MAJ Chris Cox = TIE-TC 4, TIE-TC 6, TIE-TC 10, TIE-TC 13, TIE-TC 14,
(3-1)COL Benjamin Jahou Morgan = TIE-TC 48, XvT-TC 12, XvT-TC 14, XvT-TC 15, XvT-TC 16,
(3-2)LC Dolsar Saris = XvT-TC 27, XvT-TC 32, XvT-TC 45, XvT-TC 55, XvT-TC 56,
(3-3)MAJ Evo Sarnok = TIE-TC 78, TIE-TC 171, TIE-TC 185, TIE-DB 15, XvT-TC 28,
These assignments will earn some citations (I'm aproximating since this citeboard program is about as useless as a vibroblade in a lightsaber duel);p.
Only one Prae needs to complete the following battles in order to gain a squadron citation:
TIE-TC 78
TIE-DB 15
XvT-TC 17
XvT-TC 28
XvT-TC 33
XvT-TC 39
XvT-TC 45
XvT-TC 47
XvT-IW 10
XWA-TC 34
XWA-TC 36
XWA-IW 7
XWA-IW 8
XWA-DB 3
Prae Activity:
AD Gelton Torr- "Soulforged"- mIrc activity
LC Malik "Irek"- CMDR stuff, this report, started off Jorddyn's Prae run-on, flew FXvT30 & 41 for FA Cyric's X-Mas comp, flew XvT-TC103, XvT-TC104, FXWA114, FXWA115, TIE-TC41, TIE-TC82, TIE-TC92, TIE-TC93, TIE-TC94, TIE-TC98. final check: [TC] Subjugator in the Unknown Territoris (XvT), final check: [TC] ASF:341 (XvT), final check: [FREE] Moshes Diversion (XWA). e-group, e-mail & mIrc activity.
COL Frodo March "Frothy"- final check: [TC] Subjugator in the Unknown Territoris (XvT), final check: [TC] ASF:341 (XvT), flew BoP-TC22 earning Prae one squadron citation. e-group, e-mail & mIrc activity.
CPT Deimos- e-mail activity.
CPT Drak "Drak" - mIrc activity.
GN Andrzej Mezynski "Ice"- mIrc activity.
MAJ Chris Cox - mIrc activity.
COL Morgan "Ballabal"- XvT-TC71 awaiting a possible hs. e-group & e-mail activity.
LC Dolsar Saris "Black Sheep"- flew XvT-TC103, FXWA114 (103 & 114 awaiting hs approval), FXvT30 & FXvT41 for FA Cyric's X-Mas comp. hard test [TC] Wing IX: Up and At Em"(XvT). e-group, e-mail & mIrc activity.
MAJ Evo Sarnok "Raven"- e-group, e-mail & mIrc activity.
Competitions:
Participate in FA Cyric's comps.
Participate in Praetorian Trivia hosted by me;p.
Participate in Intel meeting trivia Sunday if you can attend, trivia is held every week and PoC's (usually a PoC gl for 1st, PoC-sl for 2nd & PoC-bl for 3rd) are offered to the top 3 trivia participants. Most likely the trivia is held by RA Scrier, on occasion CPT Mandalore (aka Slowbacca) will host the comp.
Transfers:
n/a this week
Medals/Awards/promotions:
COL Frodo March earned a Iron Star - Bronze Ribbon from comp #1635.
LC Dolsar Saris earned a Force of the Emperor's Will (FoEW) from VA Scrier as a November mse award.
LC Malik earned two Letter of Achievement (LoA's) from gfx submissions to EH Newsletter 105.
http://www16.brinkster.com/intshire/maltemplate.JPG Frodo awarded me a upgrade for trying to make BubbaX give back the TIE Praetor he has...appropriated;p.
Prae Roster:
FLIGHT I - TIE PRAETOR
Nickname: Styx Flight
1) LC Abel Malik (ezwill@famvid.com)
2) COL Frodo March (fcjt914@yahoo.ca)
3) TBA
4) CPT Deimos (deimos_001@yahoo.com)
FLIGHT II - TIE PRAETOR
Nickname: Charon Flight
1) CPT Drak (drak18_uk@yahoo.com)
2) GN Andrzej Mezynski (morgoth@op.pl)
3) MAJ Chris Cox (dodgygeeza98@hotmail.com)
4) TBA aka the Traitors spot (ask Frodo this is kind of a TAC related joke);p.
FLIGHT III - TIE PRAETOR
Nickname: Hades Flight
1) COL Benjamin Jahou Morgan (w.j.aigner@netway.at)
2) LC Dolsar Saris (darkfinn@hotmail.com)
3) MAJ Evo Sarnok (mmilli_esq@hotmail.com)
4) TBA
Squadron Citations: up to 121 citations after the efforts of myself & COL Frodo (LC Saris tried to help too).
Optional:
The new Clone Wars story: Yoda- Dark Rendezvous has been released this week along with Republic#71 (where Anakin defeats Dooku's henchwoman the lethal Assaj Ventress with the dark side I might add- one more step down the path towards Vader);p.
Tired of Affectations Am I.
What's with Yoda's syntax? Sure, he talks backward, but not nearly as often as the prequels would indicate. His Empire Strikes Back line "I am wondering, why are you here?" is much clearer than the scrambled alternative. ("Wondering, am I. Why here are you?) I think Yoda started to go a bit senile during his hermitage on Dagobah. :D.
This concludes our report for this week.
In Respect, LC Malik Praetorian CMDR. Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducunt (Where ever Right and Glory Lead)
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[SSx4/BSx11/PCx10/ISMx15/IS-5BW-6BR-3SW-4SR-3GW-6GR/LoC-CSx5-Rx3/CoL/CoB/LoAx65/OV-3E][TMPR]
[GMoF][FoEWx2][MoAx2][ISC][CSMx3][PoC-gl-slx5-blx3-rlx2][OE][AoT-SPAG]
{IWATS-AIM-CBX-FZ-GFX-IBX-ICQ-IIc/1/2-M/1/2-MP-SM/2/3-TACS-WPN}
[TIE Praetor: Severence]
"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads & empty hearts can do that."
BTM/SBM Abel Malik/Black Omega/Ronin/Alvaak; P:DGM
GC/SCx2/SEx6/DCx12/BNx6/CR-2D-3R-3A-7S-3E-2T/CF-Rx1/LSSx2/DSSx31/CoL/OV
{SA-ESET-ISET-LDR-OBELISK-SFT-SITH}
Don't be all down on the darkside, y'know what I mean? ;p.