This is the Reconnaissance Office Report of 01.05.01:

Office News

- Now, I'm sure many are curious as to the status of the Reconnaissance Office Domain (http://www.reconoffice.com). Right now, High Admiral Astatine is developing an entirely new database to replace the old design of Fleet Admiral Arcon Telf (ret.). As it may be, the new domain will include several features that were not in the old one, but will still hold the same purpose: To represent the Reconnaissance Office in a suitable manner. In addition, when the new domain is launched, I will certainly contact the Emperor's Hammer and let it's members know, but the URL will still be the same (http://www.reconoffice.com).

Office Activities

- I'll now address the issue of PC World, a leading magazine of Personal Computer software, hardware, and Internet-related sorts of things, all beneficial to the every-day PC user. Here's my e-mail to the Letters Editor of PC World, Stephen Compton:

I am writing to you on the behalf of the Emperor's
Hammer Strike Fleet, an organization of Imperial Pilots,
Politicians, Strategists, and others, who come together on
the Internet to form the greatest Star Wars club in
existence. In all, our total membership equals over 3,600
members, and if you do not believe me on this, please visit
http://www.tiecorps.org/ and http://www.darkbrotherhood.com,
two subgroup home pages which each have approximately 1,300
members each, and have membership profiles for each member,
active or retired. With that explained, I would first like
to inform you of the popularity PC World has in our
organization. We recognize it as the top computer review
magazine, and would like to thank the staff for doing such
a wonderful job, and for giving the members of the
Emperor's Hammer (EH) the benefit of reviews and updates,
which our organization is based upon!

However, besides writing to you to congratulate PC
World on its success, I would also like to ask of you to
feature the Emperor's Hammer in an article. If this is too
much to ask, please disregard the e-mail. We here only wish
to interact with magazines as a fun and interesting way to
get involved in a magazine, and we feel that by doing this,
you can be the first to explain the phenomenon of several
thousand people from all over the world coming together and
forming one organization. Please, give this some
consideration, and even visit the homepage
(http://www.emperorshammer.org) and take a look!

One more final thing, I am not the leader of the
Emperor's Hammer; Grand Admiral Ronin (GARonin@aol.com) is.
This is simply a clarification to you if you are confused.
(In the EH, I serve as a sort of "scout," looking for new
avenues of explansion for the fleet.) If you have any
questions, I encourage you to ask, and if this e-mail should
have been sent to another staff member, I kindly ask of you
to forward it to them. :)

I thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Admiral Slage Kal Fas
Emperor's Hammer Reconnaissance Officer

Consequentially, here's his reply:

Thank you for your kind words about PC World. I am
forwarding your letter to our Webmaster, in case your
proposal fits in with some of our plans for increasing the
interactivity of our site. The print magazine, however, is
pretty tightly focused on work-related products and services
for end users, rather than on gaming or activities like
online alternate-reality communities. Occasionally, though,
we will look at games and gaming hardware, as in our
December buying guide issue.

Again, thanks for letting us know you enjoy PC World.

Sincerely,
Stephen Compton
Letters Editor
PC World

Unfortunately, the webmaster has yet to contact me, but when he does, I will be sure to let everyone know on the status of PC World and Emperor's Hammer relations.

- Regarding the Reconnaissance Office Competition #1 (RO Comp. #1), which is being developed right now by my new ROA, Captain Aylius Khan. He has already designed most of the competition, and there will most likely be an award. Of course, when it begins [officially], everyone will be notified.

Non-EH Site of the Week

http://www.darkstarpublishing.com/jedimasteryoda/html/ie.html

The Jedi Center.. a place with tons of cool stuff. Also a nicely developed website.

Comments

Happy New Year, all! (By the way, information in this composition was taken from the RO's NL 70 submission.)

Respectfully,

=-|[Admiral/Dark Jedi Knight Slage "Desdinova" Kal Fas]|-=
RO/AD Slage/CS-12/SSSD Sovereign - R-41 "Vigilante"
GS/SS/PC/ISMx2/LoC-ISx10/DFC/OV [GREN] {IWATS-CBX-IIC/1/2-M/1-SM/2}
DJK Slage (Sith)/RM/Galthain of Satal Keto