It's a HUGE week here for me here! I've been doing alot for the past 2-3 weeks, and it's almost all ready to go. Where to start....lets go with this:

The NEW Combat Operations Center

The Emperor's Hammer Combat Operations Center (EHCOC) is located at http://www.ehcoc.net. It is now your link to anything multiplayer in the EH! It's still got alot under construction, but is operable at the moment. It should be getting finished up within the next week, but my work schedule has me working almost 50 hours this week, so I'll do what I can.

In addition to the creation of the EHCOC site, we now have the EHCOC channel! #EHCOC on Undernet has been approved by the COMM for official use for ALL multiplayer competitions. This means, within the next week or two, we will phase out the use of #EH_ASF, #Tempest, #WingXIII, and the others, to this centralized location. There IS additional reasoning behind this, with the creation of the Combat Operations Staff, I now have a list of people to give access to on the new "Competition Management Bot", which I have lovingly named "WillyB0T" (yes, its an ego thing). Full instructions on the use of WillyB0T and #EHCOC will be included in the new Combat Manual.

Speaking of the Combat Manual, it is still under revision. I was simply going to add a few things to the old version two, but with the creation of #EHCOC, the COS, and so many other changes going on, it is impossible, and will need to be almost completely rewritten. This is about 40% done so far, but the ehcoc.net has the older version up for reference needs.

New Competitions!

Well, one new, one revived, but its a start. Zone Sunday will be restarting at its previous time and place (1:00 PM EST in the XWA Melee room) under the moderation of LT Sharp of Rage Squadron! The new competition is a long awaited competition to accommodate those who live in Australia, the new competition will take place on Fridays, at 5:00 AM EST in #AusLoC until it is moved into #EHCOC with the rest of the comps. MAJ Enahropes Entar is now the permenent host for this competition, and will be in charge of running it.

Combat Operations Officer Assistants

I have finally decided on a few new slaves...I mean, assistants to help me out with running the office. Congratulations are to go out to CM Dae Cam (COOA1) and LCM Kyle Katarn (COOA2), I will be training the two of them very soon, and they will be able to help me with the running of the office.

LoCs and DFCs Awarded!

Yes, I've finally gotten mostly caught up with my backlog of medals. The WoW medals are still pending due to some messed up coding with BSC, after they gave me access to create competitions, I could no longer see results for comps which I was not the creator of. Those will be one of my assistant's first assignment. Also, the ORW medals will be getting done tomorrow. If you are still missing medals for any competition, please contact me, and I'll look into the matter immediately. (Please wait on ORW and WoW medal requests, as per the explaination above)

Avenger vs Red Squadron

After I took over planning this, there was little to do, I thank AD Keiran for his work. I almost have this completely set up. Avenger is going to need all the good pilots they can get, so if you think you have the talent, you might want to contact Tarkin, but don't tell him I said that. ;-)

Thats about it, stay tuned for the integration of the EHCOC, and hopefully it will help things run much smoother with multiplayer competitions.