Ship reports will be out in the following format: At the beginning of the month report ‘A’ will be out, containing the previous months stats for bsfs, FCHG, Awards (of the month), medals and so on. Report ‘B’ will be released in the middle of the month, mostly containing news competitions and other important announcements. These things take a heck of a long time to put together, so I am hoping you will all read through them.
If you would like to see any other information, statistics, etc in these ‘A’ editions please let me know.
News:
- Please extend a warm welcome to new SL Ranj'e Lilos who joins Typhoon!
- Multitude of competitions going on, see competitions section
- Stuart writes a report playfully labeled Encyclopedia Challengica (you’re reading it)
- Egroups have been created for the entire wing.
Services:
As your Commodore I can provide many services including, but not limited to the following simple bulleted list:
- Custom Uniform Design
- An ear for problems you are having in your Real Life
- Raining of rewards upon deserving people
- Answers to questions about the ship or command staff on the ship
- An ear for problems you may be having with your commander or ship mates
- BSFing (in certain cases)
Note on Freeworlds and other MMORPGs:
-MMORPGs such as Freeworlds and Star Wars Galaxies do count as weekly activity, however they do NOT excuse you from competitions. If there is a competition running you are expected to put that competition as a higher priority than the MMORPG. Your superior generally has no way of knowing if and how often you play MMORPGs so it is recommended you keep them informed as to your level of activity in that regard.
Recommended Routine:
I would like every member of the ship to attempt to adopt a routine similar to this following example at least once a day, it will benefit everyone.
1. Log in to your Squadron’s selected Instant Messaging Program
2. Check your email
3. Check the TIECorps site for news http://www.ehtiecorps.org/news.asp
4. Check the Ship’s site for news and comps http://isdchallenge.tcbg.net/main.php
5. Check the BG’s site for news and comps http://www.tcbg.net/main.php
6. Check the Wing’s Messageboard http://www.ehnet.org/mb/viewforum.php?f=46
Contact:
I can be contacted via:
Email: sgeers@hotmail.com
MSN: sgeers@hotmail.com
AIM: ltsgeers
IRC: `Stuart
Wing Egroups:
Wing’s : wingx@isdchallenge.tcbg.net
Inferno : inferno@isdchallenge.tcbg.net
Typhoon : typhoon@isdchallenge.tcbg.net
Thunder : thunder@isdchallenge.tcbg.net
Tempest : tempest@isdchallenge.tcbg.net
Funnies/quotes/other assorted fun :) :
THE COMMAND SERGEANT MAJOR had scheduled an inspection of
billets for Friday. Thinking he was unnoticed, he placed a
dime on the door frame of the billets' entrance Thursday
afternoon. The next morning, we were standing at attention,
ready for inspection. In came the CSM, white gloves and all,
and he immediately turned to face the door frame. When he
briskly slid his finger across the top, ten pennies fell to
the floor. The CSM abruptly picked up the coins and left.
Not only did we pass the inspection, we earned a three-
day liberty.
--Contributed to "Humor In Uniform" by Cpl. Harold K. Lewis
Competitions:
TCBG Caption Competition – September:
Ends October 5, 2004
Entries to mell: mell@tcbg.net
This months Caption image is here: http://www.tcbg.net/images/captionsept.jpg participants are to add a clean, yet humerous comment to this. IS-GR to 1st, IS-SR to 2nd and IS-BR to 3rd
Bubba’s Bouncy Battle Ballooza
The Nun Beer Corporation is proud to present "Bubba's Bouncy Battle Ballooza"!!!
The competition details can be found at the above link^, but for those of you who are averse to clicking on links, this is a simple flying comp. It will run for three weeks, starting on October 1st, and ending on October 22nd.
The comp includes three battles, one to be flown each week. For example, the first week's battle may not be submitted for credit in the comp after the second week begins, etc.
The battles to be flown (in order) are:
October 1st – 8th XWA-TC 8: Hammer to Anvil
October 8th – 15th XWA-TC 13: Hammer to Anvil Part II
October 15th – 22nd XWA-TC 35: Hammer to Anvil Part III
Entries are to be send directly to Bubba at animejwc@earthlink.net
Challenge Historic Trivia:
http://www.ehtiecorps.org/competitions/details.asp?ID=1533
After reading through 134 wing and ship reports (hint hint!) I have compiled this list of historic Ship trivia. Each squadron will have until October 11th to answer as many questions as they can and send their answers to ME (sgeers@hotmail.com) with the Subject line “
Finding the answers is not the sole responsibility of the Commander; it is up to the squadron to delegate who will answer what. A suggestion I have is to have each member read through a certain range of archived reports and find as many answers as they can.
Each participating member of the winning squadron will receive an IS-SR. Each participating member of the second place squadron will receive an IS-BR. The commander is responsible for informing me of who helped (answering question(s) or otherwise).
1.Which Thunder Commander has served the longest term in the position?
2.In what month and year was the last time Thunder has been at full capacity in the past three years?
3.On what date was it reported the Challenge was up at 63 members?
4.Which month was the landmark 1 year in the position of COM of the ISD Challenge for VA Corran Force?
5.How many Commodores were appointed to the Challenge in 2002?
6.How many Wing Commanders were appointed on the Challenge in 2002?
7.How many Commander changes were made in 2002?
8.What is the current official Challenge IRC channel?
9.What was the former official Challenge IRC channel?
10.Name one way that was suggested to keep former-COM Sephiroth happy.
11.How many different COMs has the Challenge had in the past 4 years?
12.What current command staff member served as a Flight Leader in Tempest?
13.What month and year was it decided Tornado Squadron was to be shut down?
14.What squadron was the WC’s Own for November 2000?
15.Which 5 members of the Challenge are the top 5 Message Board posters?
16.What are the 3 domains the Challenge has had their webpage on?
17.What is the location of the old ISD Challenge sickbay site which was revamped into the old Battlegroup medical centre?
18.What squadron is infamous for fictional pranks for each promotion gained by one of their members?
19.Where was Beef's mother born?
20.What is RA Manitsas' favorite color?
21.Who and what is the mascot of Thunder? (Spelling counts!)
22.Who or what is the mascot of Wing X?
23.Where does former COM Sephiroth live?
24.Who painted the Challenge briefing room orange around the end of April 2003?
25.What is the current Challenge COM’s weapon of choice?
26.What was the final score of the Wing X vs Wing XX “Who is the true X competition?”
27.What is the name of the IW ship that the Challenge trounced in August of 2003?
“What to do with the empty room” Results:
My comments: This competition was almost completely swept by Thunder (seeing as they were the main contributors of entries for this WING WIDE competition) however, the second place textual entry was a near tie. I would like to make special mention of Karce’s idea, which nearly beat out Daniel’s. Of course, I have a soft spot for torturing Master, so the choice wasn’t impossible. ;)
Winning GFX (IS-SR): LCM Azurin Luna
Here is what I want to do with the empty room.
I would make it a place where our mascots could stay. They will have a sleeping place and place to do what they like.
For Fluffy will there be trunks and for Jeager a puchbag for the cow will there be hay and milkcans to store the milk.
And there will be enough carrots for the animals
Second Place GFX (IS-BR): LCM Ryuu
Winning Text (IS-SR): COL Beef
PROPOSITION |\/|OO
It has come to my attention that there is a vacant room aboard the Challenge. How wise of you to seek my advice. And in my wisdom I warn you to use the bathroom now, because I simply won’t stand for interruptions whilst I expound upon what should be done with this empty space.
If I remember correctly, and I always do, the vacant office in question is on deck 23. Construction should first begin on the deck directly above the office, deck 22. Using those old-fashioned hand-operated can-openers, sub-lieutenants will cut away the floor of the deck 22 along the walls of the office on deck 23 below. This will provide easy access for the workers who will follow.
Back down on deck 23, crew members will need to seal the door to the office from the outside using bubble gum and Scotch® tape. All furniture and any personal belongings General Master forgot to remove will remain in the office for aesthetic value.
The room is now prepped and ready to be filled with hot water. All crew members with quarters on deck 22, primarily the Infernites, must attach a rubber hose to their shower faucets to direct all their hot water into the office. Of course this will prevent said crew members from showering for quite some time as the office fills, but sacrifices must be made for this greater good that I propose.
Once the office is filled to capacity, the environmental controls for that room must be used to achieve and maintain the water’s boiling point while members of the Intel Division interrogate Bill Cosby as to the whereabouts of large caches of raspberry-flavor Jell-O brand instant gelatin. After a brief operation to seize said caches, the gelatin will be brought to the Challenge and poured into the boiling water. The office water must then be cooled allowing the gelatin to firm and harden as all Jell-O should.
Then will our labors appear complete and our enemies think the room a harmless example of a bizarre mind with too much time and money on his hands. But they will be wrong! For the gelatin pool will be a mere facade! A fake, a distraction, to hide the interdimensional portal we will have the Dark Brotherhood create for us in the office leading to a small planet whose surface is made entirely of chocolate cake and contains a core of slightly chilled whole milk enriched with vitamin D!
It is in this tasty planet that the greatness of my ingenious plan resides. We will mine the moist cake-earth through the Jell-O-concealed portal and distribute it throughout the galaxy. The cake being already made and also soft and easy to mine will keep overhead production costs extremely low. Profits will be achieved easily.
The number of vendors will be small at the start, obviously. The cake will be available exclusively at classy restaurants in the beginning, where it will become “high-class” simply because it is expensive. Then we will have the Science Office run some “studies” finding the cake extremely healthy. Advertisements calling the cake “all-natural” and “organic” roll out over millions of holoscreens. Soon, middle- to lower-class cake-eaters will become ravenous and plead for the cake-earth to be accessible to them. But we will refuse them for many years until they can contain themselves no longer. Just before the riots breakout, we begin to sell the cake over the internet complete with home delivery in under twelve parsecs or less. Our wonderful cake will flood the market. Our profits will be staggering.
With these staggering wads of money, we would produce a cheap, poor-quality children’s cartoon. The animation would be ugly and choppy, the voice acting would be done by splicing in random words recorded from strangers in public places, and every episode would be nearly identical in plot. No talent whatsoever would need to be hired. The show will be called “You’re Too Young to Know this Show is Crap” and it will undoubtedly be a huge success (the title is all too accurate).
By the time our new cartoon goes on the air, galactic milk supplies will have run drastically low due to the sudden increase in cake consumption. People choking on mouthfuls of cake will be stumbling around their kitchens desperately looking for any drop of refreshing milk to clear their throats. Fortunately our extreme cake-mining crews will have by now reached the cake-planet’s milk-core and established a massive pipeline back through the portal. And just as the people flailing about in terror over the lack milk and excess cake in their mouths collapse on the floor in despair, their slightly-focused eyes will settle on their holoscreens where their children sit zombie-like watching a certain crappy cartoon. There they see a commercial interrupt the banality to tell them of the only milk left in existence brought to them by the cake-earth people. The price of one gallon? “Only the dedication of every moment of your waking life to Colonel Sahmuel Beef,” says the commercial. “A high price,” the prone people spew through the cake, “But I can’t give up this delicious cake, and I can’t eat cake without milk...” That settles it. They order the milk and Beef becomes the undisputed master of the entire galaxy!
But then what do we do with the room...?
Second place Text (IS-BR): CM Daniel Bonini
"Well, for starters, General Master didn't just choose to
move to Tornado quarters because he's a crippled old
man...well, that too, but..... as much as us, members of
Tempest, are glad to have such an officer in our beloved
squadron, we just COULDN'T STAND any more talks about that
time he was the best Wing Commander, and what marvelous
things he did for the Wing....or, or, that time he
massacrated an entire new republic fleet with a Tie
Fighter....or, or, or, that time he received his Gold Star of
the Empire....THREE TIMES....or, or, or,
or.........GAAAAARGH...cof......./me hits his head in the air
lock twice......gasp....oh, well........cof......so, WE THREW
HIM OUT..... :)
So, as I CAN'T STAND his medal and/or titanium bones
polishing......AND.......as Tornado's quarters are just next
to Cyclone's, I say let's do a huge remodeling of the
Cyclone's quarters......into a studio.....only, without any
sound proof at all........and, and.......when it's 2:00
am........we go and play drums, and, and, and, when Master
comes dragging his metal butt to complain about the
noise.....we take the sticks and the cymbals, and BEAT THE
CRAP OUT OF HIM.
But that's just me talking crazy, we could just leave
Cyclone's quarters untouched and beat him anyways....with his
shiny annoying GN shield, or his Gold Stars, or, or, his
Flying Cross, or, or, or, , or......GAAAAAAAAAAAAA....... /me
throws himself OUT of the airlock."
Other entries:
***
To: ISD Challenge Command Staff
Subject: Authorization of the use of unused space.
I would like to propose that the currently unused quarters
of Cyclone Squadron's Commanding officer be changed into a
display for my Intergalactic super powered spaceship
models. I have hand crafted each and every starship to
exactly 1:72 scale and they are really cool, they fly and
everything. Since I have started my hobby I have gotten in
trouble by my own Squadron commander, he believes that
putting miniature droid brains into my models give them too
much 'freedom' and the fact that my miniature TIE Fighter
incinerated Stuart's favorite carrot just before lunch.
Stuart was not pleased. The resulting chase through the
Thunder barracks left more then a small mess that I was
required to clean, in addition to the 10 million credits
worth of damage I was required to pay.
I believe that transforming the currently inactive Cyclone
quarters would be the perfect location for my flying
miniatures where they will not cause anymore damage or me
anymore credits. All that will be required to do so is to
paint the walls, floor and ceiling in black blaster
reflective paint with the addition of painted stars.
By Karce
***
Ice: *runs into Stuarts office* Stuart Stuart somethings wrong
Stuart: now now Ice calm down, what's wrong
Ice: something at cantina no time to explain *Ice runs off again*
Stuart: hmmmm I better go have a look then. *Stuart get's out of his lazy
chair and slowly walks to
the cantina*
Fritz: *singing* Ohhh yeah, all the peeps in tha house
Stuart: *thinks* OMG not this again, Fritz is drunk
Ice: Stuart what can we do to stop him?
Stuart: Ok people the show is over *grabs Fritz and tries to get him from
the table he was dancing
on*
Fritz: No Stuart let me go *and Fritz tries to get lose from Stuarts grip*
Ice: Lemme help Stuart *lifts both Stuart and Fritz in the air* where to
Stuart?
Stuart: Hmmmmm we need a room where he can't destroy everything he sees, he
usually gets
destructive when he's drunk
Ice: Oh I know let me handle it *Ice walks off with a still singing and
dancing Fritz*
Stuart: Ice wait up *runs after Ice* What are you going to do?
Ice: Well you told me off this empty room remember, we fill the walls with
pillows and then put Fritz
in it, after he's not drunk anymore we can take him out of there. And
we can keep the room
for locking someone in that's been really bad, an isolation chamber.
Stuart: Hmmmm that's not a bad idea at all
*Ice and Stuart walked on and arrived at the empty chamber*
Stuart: So now for those pillows *waves his arm*
*Suddenly pillows start appearing and sticked themselfs to the wall*
Stuart: Ahhhh it's good to have frocepowers
Mell: Stuart what are you doing here? You don't know this is the empty room?
Oh and I see you
brouhgt your little lizzard. *gives Ice an Icy look* Oh hahahaha and
what do we have here,
Fritz drunk again?
Stuart: *with an Icy cool voice* Hello admiral Kerrigan. I know this room is
empty, but Ice came
with a great idea. We're going to use it as isolation chamber, to
put our pilots that have
misbehaved them in. And yes, it pains me to say Fritz is drunk
again.
Mell: Ahhhh so the lizzard does have a single braincell afterall. Verywell a
isolation chamber it is *mell
walks away*
Stuart: yeah we pulled it off, wh00t now let's finish this.
*so Ice and Stuart finished the room and put Fritz in it. Then they went
back to the cantina to tell everyone the news.*
By Ice
***
I would like to officially propose that we do nothing to the room. In fact,
stormtroopers should be posted permanently outside the door to make sure
nothing happens to the room.
Hopefully these precautions will prevent anyone from entering or wanting to
enter the room. The less people want to enter, the less of a chance they'll
find out about all the ice cream baths I've been having in there.
By Shadow
***
I propose a very valid, real legal sounding use of the room that happens to be empty at the time.
We take several of Stuart's crazy competition ideas and line the room with them. This will give it a cushioning and bouncyness to prevent any harm and it will also soundproof the room.
*Stop thinking what I know you're thinking!*
Then, we take a oversized jacket and put it on Stuart backwards, wrapping him up in it and locking it so he can't get out. We then throw Stuart into the room really hard. The padding will cause Stuart to bounce around the room constantly. After a few days, he'll have built up enough speed to that he breaks through the door and goes flying across the hall into the convienently placed garbage shute. Stuart will then fly through the garbage shoot and travel through a series of pipes, getting him covered in a nice unhealthy layer of slime. The pipes will suddenly open up on Mell's bed quarters, which are usually occupied by Mell *Stop thinking what I know you're thinking!*. With luck, Stuart will then fall on top of Mell, getting him covered in the slimy sewer trash.
Stuart will then spend the rest of his days paiting and repainting the hulls of the fleet's Star Destroyers with a tooth brush.
Sound like a good idea?
By Alexi Stukov
***
Here's what I'd do with that room.
First, if there's any walls in the room, they are
gone! We need them knocked out because I want as
large a room as possible. Next, I'd put in a couple
stripper poles... yes these are necessary, because of
the strippers which will be shuttled in. ;) As you
probably realize, now we need a bar. I'm well aware
(WELL...haha) that we've already got a bar on ship,
but I'm sure no one is going to object to another!
For good measure, we'll put viewscreens in prime
locations and stream porn or sports...depending on the
situation. Idally, wev'e still got enough room left
to throw in a table or two for the card sharks out
there.
and that's what i'd do. please?
By Ponda
***
Alright the first thing i would do to the room is knock down a couple walls and invade the surrounding rooms (now empty of course) giving us some room in there. Then I would set up the ONE, the ONLY, Challenge kareoke (sp?) bar. We will have all of the empire's greatest hits: I wanna be a stormtrooper, living on the death star and the remix DS2, and of course, get off my tie fool. Additionally, MAJ Calvin of Inferno FL3 would sing traditional sullustan folk songs every friday night. Of course there would have to be an open bar so we could all tolerate the Major's native folk songs which sound surprisingly like someone drowning in a bowl of soup (it kind of looks like that too but dont tell him that). Anyway, we could set up some large holovids so we could watch Umgul blog racing! Maybe get a few games of Sabaac going and every pilot in the fleet will be wanting to join the ranks of the Challenge! But thats just my 2 credits.
By Alexander Anderson
***
Well, with an old commander's room, it is only fitting that the room be converted to something that the commander's not only don't allow, but won't be able to participate with. The room will secretly be divided in half. The first half will have a dart board on one wall, a foos-ball table, and a half bar without alcohol. A moral room that no one will use... A secret door, known only to the pilots, will open into the secret room where the pilots can hide from their commanders. The secret room will have gambling tables, a bar stocked with the universes best alcohol, and all other forms of debauchery. Enjoy all!
By Jeffery Domm
***
Roster Changes:
CM Dulcatos RSVs ->Inferno 2-1
CPT Dujhod RSVs -> Inferno 3-2
CM Jamiek Thunder 3-4 -> RSVs
MAJ Jeffery Domm Thunder 3-3 -> RSVs
CT Ranj'e Lilos -> SL Ranj'e Lilos
SL Ranj'e Lilos -> Typhoon 1-2
LT Deckard Typhoon 2-1 -> RSVs
LT Narraku Typhoon 1-2 -> Typhoon 2-1
Statistics:
SPAM:
Top 5 of the
The top 5 spammers of the TIECorps are all Wing Xerz, officially making Wing X the wing of SPAM!
Updated top 5 standings:
BubbaX 2906
sgeers 2844
AlexiS 2825
Ice 2811
Azurin 2220
Please note that such 2000+ post spamming is done by professionals only, no one should attempt such a dirty stunt.
Medals:
Thunder: 6
Typhoon: 7
Inferno: 3
Tempest: 1
Missions Flown:
Ship:
Thunder: 34
Typhoon: 26
Inferno: 225
Tempest: 117
IWATS Taken:
Thunder: 1
Typhoon: 2
Inferno: 3
Tempest: 1
Citations:
Thunder: 42
Typhoon: -
Inferno: 28
Tempest: -
FCHG:
TOP 5:
Torres Templar [TMPR] 2279
Elwood the Brave Archon [ARCN] 1718
Calvin Senzin Gladiator [GLDR] 1271
Stuart Gladiator [GLDR] 1197
Master Gladiator [GLDR] 1190
COM: Stuart Gladiator [GLDR] 1197
WC: BubbaX Legionnaire [LGNR] 569
Thunder:
Name FCHG Rank Points
Beef Legionnaire [LGNR] 727
Karce Knight [KNGT] 276
Shadow Paladin [PLDN] 369
Fritz Von Stukart Paladin [PLDN] 308
Ice Knight [KNGT] 285
Ryuu Cavalier [CAVL] 169
Azurin Luna Grenadier [GREN] 10
Alexi Stukov Executor [EXCR] 752
Average - 362
Typhoon:
Name FCHG Rank Points
Dirty Vader Legionnaire [LGNR] 638
Ranj’e Lilos none 0
Narraku Grenadier [GREN] 12
Ponda Jarret Knight [KNGT] 259
Elwood the Brave Archon [ARCN] 1718
Average - 525
Inferno:
Name FCHG Rank Points
Alexander Anderson Knight [KNGT] 270
Torres Templar [TMPR] 2279
Dulcatos Paladin [PLDN] 342
Great Griffin Dragoon [DRAG] 110
Nomphosumos none 0
Calvin Senzin Gladiator [GLDR] 1271
Dujhod Paladin [PLDN] 370
Average - 663
Tempest:
Name FCHG Rank Points
Master Gladiator [GLDR] 1190
Sephiroth Dragoon [DRAG] 133
Rover Paladin [PLDN] 399
Daniel Bonini Legionnaire [LGNR] 589
Prost Varsis Hussar [HUSS] 73
Average - 477