From the Desk of Silwar Naiilo

We are halfway through Raise the Flag 2021, and the Challenge and her pilots are performing exactly as expected. The current standings are:

Ships:

1. Challenge: 14,992
2. Hammer: 10,405
3. Warrior: 7,580
4. Aggressor: 82

Squadrons (out of 16):

1. Tempest: 8,180
3. Firebird: 3,452
9. Eagle: 1,148
10. Inferno: 833
14. Thunder: 360

Top Pilots (out of 168, showing top 20):

1. COL Phalk Sturm: 2,465
2. LCM Colo Deste: 2,149
6. MAJ Hermann: 1,270
8. LCM Jaxx Nassin: 1,136
13. VA Silwar Naiilo: 719
15. MAJ Kalve Ryder: 627
16. GN Stryker: 686
17. LCM Xylo Pethtel: 540
18. CPT Honsou: 537

Congratulations on LCM SirCaleb and LT SerenityStar13 on their promotions! Also, welcome to LT Badkid312 who joins Firebird after a few monts in Kappa, and welcome back to CM Turel who rejoins Firebird after some time in the reserves.

'Starship Designers' ends on October 18. This competition is about designing your very own starship, which can be as detailed or simple as you wish. Designs must include the exterior (blueprint style or actual artwork) and interior of any rooms of your choice. The design can be of any kind of ship- fighter, cruiser, etc.

Submissions will be judged on overall composition, art skill, and design. Submissions should be sent to Plif via email.

LCM Xylo Pathtel is running the competition 'Poetic Proficiency'. He posts a subject and format, and you write a poem. Round four has closed, and round five entries can be submitted. Round 5 will challenge you to use a Limerick poem in a funny story about one of your fellow squadronmates. It can be absolutely anything about them, but it must be a pilot from your squadron, who I'm hoping you'll get to know better. It should go without saying but please refrain from overly negative entries, this prompt is meant to be funny and wholesome, not a chance to put down your shipmates, so have fun, talk about it, and share a laugh!

COL Marenta submitted the winning entry for round four:

The sweat rolls off me,
As I lean into the sim,
Pressing buttons fast,
Hoping I win these matches,
For Imperial Storm three.

COL Marenta's Inferno Signal Scramble, a competition where she posts an unknown acronymand you guess what it means has finished its 13th round. You can vote for the 14th round and enter the 15th round until October 24th.

Our next Real Heroes of the Challenge entry will be broken into multiple parts. In Phalk's first-place entry, he describes Roolothe mechanic. This is part three; to see the first, visit the report #9.

VII - HANGAR BAY - ROOLO - PART II

Red wire or blue wire? The quantum field tester showed another loss of quarks in the end of the blue coupling. The wielding had been clearly done in a rush and no one had tested a repeated overload as a precaution. Another thing to do, another thing to fix, bad job, bad job. After rerouting power several times, none of the couplings had melted, and he felt satisfied. The list on his datapad showed 72 couplings had been upgraded and 3 full cable branches of quantic fibre had been replaced. Additionally, standard chromium input terminals in three of the cockpit panels were removed and enhanced with orichalcum-alloy to sustain higher temperatures and voltages. With everything connected, he accessed the diagnose port. Spectre-class Advanced Missile Boat? Check. Serial number 3106853, frameware version 2.0, Terminal Name: Tempest 3-1. All was in order. A self-dignose check. No errors. He was about to check the systems that had been compromised, when a doubt aroused. A stern gaze crossed his mind. It was the inquisitive eyes of the officer, that had stuck in the back of his brain. A custom-made message, not from the original firmware was showing on the datapad. 'Property of P.S.'. Everything halted. No options were available in the previous long menu of systems and subsystems. The only working function was 'Perform FULL SCAN - ALL SYSTEMS AND SUBSYSTEMS'.

'Hmpf, it would take hours. And who had messed with the software? Who was P.S.? Bad job, he thought, and reluctantly initiated the procedure.

Roolo stepped away from the Spectre gunship. The shape was menacing and reminded him of a Velker with broken wings. He had seen those fiercesome beasts while living in the lower levels of Bespin. Their gigantic wings flapping in the clouds and the immediate danger which compelled to find shelter inside the dank, dark tunnels in the sublevels of the massive floating city. Reminiscing the mushrooms he daily ate with his other slave inmates. The genteslug-egg casseroles! What a delight!. The nights of sorrow and grief but also of the relief and nostalgia when he and his kin rememebered the days in freedom on Gentes, Belsuna, before the enslavers came. Enslavers. And Ygloste. A few tears dropped from his eyes and rolled down the deep scars on his nose and cheek. Ygloste. If it wasn't for her, he would not be alive.

Ygloste was Roolo's sister. Never such joy and energy impersonated an Uglett as Ygloste. On Gentes, Ygloste, Roolo and their parents lived as a normal family in the settlments around the swamps. His tribe was one of the lesser families of the Insorat tribe. Their tribal profession was farming and the family had been running that establishment for countless generations. But Roolo, was not an ordinary Ughnaught.

He was no skilled craftman of any kind. Much less of his blood profession. Since a young age, however, he had a strong interest for weapons and longed to be a strong warrior. One of those legendary Sith warlocks that where told in whispered stories by the bonfires. Roolo was never around when the crops came, or when someone had to

harvest the eggs of genteslugs in the swamps.

Growing up, he connected with the wrong people. Many young Ughnaughts, who were also rebellious to the stern structure of their society, just started to group around isolated campfires in the swamps, at night, to tell stories, brag about their improvised weapons, and yes, fight for the thrill of being the strongest in the gang. Roolo was no exception. In fact, he was good at it, and quickly he found himself expelled from his family's farm and scorned from his father and the tribe. It mattered not to him. Only seeing his sister, from time to time, was a burden, but very much a price he gladly paid for having endless nights of brawls, inebriation and the thrill of escaping the occasional tribal watchmen, when stealing their cattle, jewelry or anything they could lay hands on.

In fact, at the age of 20, Roolo rejected his blood profession. He claimed in front of a full-gathered tribe that he would kill anyone who wanted to test his skill, and no one dared to cross tusks with him. He walked away laughing and it brought his relation with his family to a clear end.

He settled however, close to the swamps. He was an avid learner, and races became another of his passions. His gang, -he found himself leading, after all-, assumed a given nickname. The Warthogs. Along with them and some skilled pilots, the gang was now in the illegal swamp racing business. An elder Ughnaught, a former slave that escaped Lothal, was his mentor and friend now. This older Ughnaught never spoke his name to Roolo, even if they spent day after day, night after night, building up pod-racers, for years, until he finally passed away, with only a 'Hmpf' for an answer.

His life was always full of adrenaline. The races, the money, the duels. One day, the planet was invaded.

Ship Stats

• Missions completed: 1799
• Reviews submitted: 161
• IU courses completed: 2
• LoCs earned: 386
• LoSs earned: 981

Promotions

• LT -> LCM SirCaleb
• SL -> LT SerenityStar13

Medals

Combat Ratings Advancements

PvP Rating Advancements

• COL Marenta: Veteran 4th
• LCM Colo Delste: Officer 1st
• MAJ Kalve Ryder: Marksman 2nd
• COL Impulse: Veteran 3rd
• LT Ryuzokin: Certified

Co-Op Rating Advancements

• CPT Graf D‘Jinn: Private 1st, Private 2nd
• LCM Xylo Pethtel: Gunner's Mate 4th
• LCM Critical Hit: Private 3rd
• GN Stryker: Gunner's Mate 1st
• LCM Taurus: Private 4th
• LCM Jaxx Nassin: Campaigner 1st
• LCM Sylas Pitt: Qualified
• LT Mosey: Qualified
• CPT Honsou: Gunner's Mate 1st, Gunner's Mate 2nd
• LCM Colo Delste: Gunner's Mate 1st, Gunner's Mate 2nd
• CPT Richlet: Private 2nd, Private 3rd
• LT Hawksniper: Qualified, Beginner
• LT SerenityStar13: Qualified, Beginner

Transfers

• LT Badkid312 to FM/LT Badkid312/Firebird 2-2/Wing X/ISDII Challenge
• CM Turel to FM/CM Turel/Firebird 2-4/Wing X/ISDII Challenge

Competitions

Activity for VA Silwar Naiilo

Communication:

Email, Discord

Flight Activity:

Squadrons PvP, Squadrons PvE, Star Conflict PvP

Completed Battles:

XWA-TC 59, XvT-TC 124, XvT-TC 123, TIE-free 4, XvT-TC 112, XvT-TC 122, TIE-free 5, XvT-TC 115, XvT-TC 114

Submitted Reviews:

XvT-TC 112, XvT-TC 122, XvT-TC 115, XvT-TC 114

Other:

Fiction for RtF, Art for RtF

Medals Awarded: 19x LoC; 52x LoS; 1x OV-14E

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