Rho Report # 10 (2022-10-03)

This report was submitted by CMDR/MAJ Westric Davalorn/Rho/Wing II/ISDII Warrior


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RHO SQUADRON REPORT #10

REPORTING OFFICER: Major Westric Davalorn, Squadron Commander

RECIPIENTS: General Gilbert H. Frown, Wing II; cc: Rho Squadron

DATE SUBMITTED: 10.03.2022

SQUADRON COMMANDER'S CORNER

(Major Westric "Dav" Davalorn stands in the simulator room on the ISDII Warrior, shaking his head in amazement.  Nearly every simulator pod is occupied, as the pilots of Wing II give their best effort towards the annual Raise the Flag fleet-wide competition.  The noise of the pods rotating and revolving in simulated dogfights is a beautiful cacophony.  Dav exits out the door and a couple minutes later, enters his office, sits down behind his desk, and begins composing his next report.)

Raise the Flag is upon us!  This competition between all of the active squadrons in the Emperor's Hammer TIE Corps will determine the TIE Corps Commander's Personal Wingman, Escort Squadron, and Flagship for the following year.  All pilots are encouraged to participate in as many ways as possible.  In addition to flying, there are bonus competitions for fiction and graphics.

General Frown thanks the pilots who updated their personnel files.  He is particularly pleased with the records of Lieutenant Colonel Wietu, Lieutenant Commander Marr, Captain Morgan, and Lieutenant Kohark.

Lieutenants Chudan, Vraal Spag, and ReconNine have been transferred to the reserves in order to recuperate to fight another day.  We hope to see them on active duty in the near future.

A couple of these vacancies have been filled by new recruits Jerry low and Augustus Kohark (who has already earned a promotion to Lieutenant).  Please assist me with welcoming these pilots and getting them acclimated to the squadron. 

That's all the news I have for now.

For peace and order throughout the galaxy!  For the Empire!

SQUADRON NEWS
  • RAISE THE FLAG!
  • Thanks to everyone who participated in Rholl Call! Congrats to LC fr0Zen for earning first place!
  • LT Chudan, LT Vraal Spag, and LT ReconNine have been transferred to the reserves and are no longer on our roster.
  • Please welcome SL Jerry low and LT Augustus Kohark!  Congrats to Augustus for the quick promotion to LT!
  • The participation details below represent the range of time since the last report on 09.05.2022. Therefore, the details cover 09.06.2022 - 10.02.2022.
COMPETITIONS

The full list of current competitions can be found here in the Competitions Center.

Raise the Flag

This competition will determine the Flagship of the TIE Corps, the TCCOM’s Escort Squadron, and TCCOM’s Wingman for the next 12 months. Any forms of activity presented by the pilots will grant points to their ships. The TIE Corps Command Staff, Emperor’s Hammer Command Staff, and the Commodores will be participating as Avenger Squadron; points earned by Commodores will also apply to their assigned ships as usual. All disputes will be settled by the TIE Corps Command Staff.

Design the Ship and Squadron Mascots

Create a graphic for a squadron which MUST include its patch and mascot in some capacity (see table below). It is up to you, the designer whether to combine them together in some artistic form, fuse them or outright slap one of top of each other or whatever else you may think of doing. The only restriction is that the squadron patch and some form of the mascot are both in the art design (see mascot list below).

The List of Mascots per Ship / Squadron is as follows:

Challenge: Thunderbird; Hammer: Hamster; Warrior: Charhound

Alpha: Penguin; Avenger: Porg; Beta: Bantha; Delta: Demon Dogs; Eagle: Sam Eagle (Blue Eagle from the Muppet Show); Epsilon: Eopie; Firebird: Phoenix; Gamma: Rancor; Inferno: Firefox; Kappa: Dragon; Lambda: Emu; Raven: Bartraven (Bart as a Raven, see Homer Simpson); Rho: Nightstrike; Sigma: Gundark; SIN: Nexu; Tempest: 00D-LE5 (Homicidal mouse droid); Theta: Kraken; Thunder: Kirin; Vulture: Vulture

Signal Scramble Infection

Before VA Marenta's time as the Warrior Commodore, she used her faithful TIE Reaper, BESSIE, during a mission in which her com circuitry was corrupted and led to cascading and repetitive damage. Being the brilliant logistician she was, she decided to appropriate her vessel from Inferno Squadron and bring it with her to the ISDII Warrior. Unfortunately, it still has the bug of a strange frequency being transmitted into her ship. The messages are simply random 3, 4, and 5 letter combinations repeated for approximately 2 standard weeks before the letter combinations change again. In an effort to help figure out what the messages mean, Marenta has tasked the Warrior to make up phrases for the letter combinations and polling the fleet to determine which is the most likely. Every 2 weeks VA Marenta will generate 3, 4, and 5 random letter combinations and create a Google Form to allow personnel onboard ISDII Warrior to fill out with a time frame of 2 weeks. After 2 weeks, the responses will be put up in a poll where the Warrior members will vote on the responses provided. The members voting will NOT be able to see which phrase was submitted by which member. After a 2 week voting period, to keep the submissions along the same time period as the voting, VA Marenta will announce the winners. Each season will have 6 full rounds of entries/voting/results. Example: VTK Vocal Tauntauns? Kill! FTWN Free The Wookies Now! VAAAS Vacations At Alderaan Are Stupid

The Challenge with Words

After a particularly bad batch of Chalquilla was distributed by Inferno Squadron, medical was inundated with severely hungover and somewhat illiterate members of the fleet. The tanks had been infected with a spore that ate sugar and spit out alcohol, like yeast. But, this spore also had a side effect, it secreted a neuro inhibitor that ate away people’s knowledge. To help “stimulate” some learning, Inferno, along with the medical crew, have started sending out word puzzles to help the members of the fleet regain some of their lost knowledge.

At the beginning of every month, VA Marenta will generate a word search and post the link along with announcing the previous month’s entrants. Each month, the puzzle will be related to something specific like planets, people, craft, manufacturers, wars, a movie/book/series, etc. Each puzzle will be 50 words and the site will keep track of all submissions.

This competition will utilize the time test on the website in lieu of using the first-entrant on the host site.

TIE Corps in Battle Season Five

Rounds for Season Five are being initiated mid-month to avoid the usual competition cycle. The second round should start on September 15th to get us on a more standard mid-month schedule. Assuming it starts on September 15th, it'll run until the end of October 15th. That means that TCiB will overlap with Raise the Flag, but each of the rounds that overlap with RtF also have half of their runtime outside of RtF.

Assignments for the second round:

TIE-TC 171: Fury of the Colossus https://tc.emperorshammer.org/download.php?id=512&type=info

XvT-TC 25: Wing XV: Echo Squadron https://tc.emperorshammer.org/download.php?id=720&type=info

XWA-TC 43: Wing XVI: Predation https://tc.emperorshammer.org/download.php?id=1156&type=info

Good luck, pilots!

Conundrums in Hyperspace: A Logic Puzzle Series

To help you keep your wit sharp and your skill in hyperspace navigation up to snuff as an elite pilot of the TC, a series of devious logic puzzles will be provided to you, one each month, for a total of four months. These puzzles will require logic, deduction, creativity, and careful observation. One puzzle will be posted at the start of each month, with varying themes of (Star Wars) space travel. Some puzzles will require drawing - either electronically, or printing and using a pencil - in order to complete with the least difficulty. However, each puzzle will solve to either a single word or series of words that can then be entered on the submission site.

While the puzzles will not be easy, the rewards will be great! The fastest correct solver each month will earn 4 points and an IS-GR; the second place 3 points and an IS-SR; the third place 2 points and an IS-BR; and all other correct solvers 1 point each.

At the end of all four months, the top scorer will earn an IS-PR, provided they submitted attempts for all four puzzles. If there is a tie by points, then the IS-PR will go to the one with the lowest overall solving time for all four months. 2nd and 3rd place overall will receive an IS-GR and IS-SR respectively.

ROSTER

Rho Squadron - Deep Strike
The Steam Rhollers || 'Strike First, Strike Hard, No Mercy'
Wing II - ISDII Warrior

Flight I - TIE Avenger
Antiel's Aces || 'Remember the Past, Forge the Future'
[1-1] MAJ Westric Davalorn
[1-2] LT Skwidjm
[1-3] CM Cray Xerious
[1-4] LCM Bronx Bluar

Flight II - TIE Avenger
Dagger Flight || 'Death Comes on Dagger Wings'
[2-1] CPT Alexandre “ossusplayz” Morgan
[2-2] SL Jerry low
[2-3] CPT FamePlane
[2-4] LT Augustus Kohark

Flight III - TIE Avenger
Emperor's Will || 'In Peace, Vigilance - In War, Victory - In Death, Sacrifice'
[3-1] LCM Tiran Marr
[3-2] LC fr0Zen
[3-3] Vacant
[3-4] LT Rotarg Kradak

ACTIVITY

Flight I

[1-1] MAJ Westric Davalorn

  • Flying: 186 LoS
  • Non-flying: Flight Certification Wings awarded: 15th Echelon; New Combat Rating (MP PvE) rank achieved: Ranger 1st; Updated uniform; Competitions: Signal Scramble Infection, Just Another Patrol, Protect the COM
  • Communication: Email, Discord

[1-2] LT Skwidjm

  • Flying: 4 LoC
  • Non-flying: None
  • Communication: Discord

[1-3] CM Cray Xerious

  • Flying: None
  • Non-flying: Competitions: Signal Scramble Infection
  • Communication: Discord

[1-4] LCM Bronx Bluar

  • Flying: None
  • Non-flying: None
  • Communication: Discord

Flight II

[2-1] CPT Alexandre “ossusplayz” Morgan

  • Flying: 2 LoC, 180 LoS
  • Non-flying: Flight Certification Wings awarded: 14th Echelon; IU Courses passed: Superweapons [SPW] - 98%,  Star Conflict [SC] - 100%, Wookiee Studies [WKS] - 96%, Unit Leadership [UL] - 100%, Systems: Thor [THR] - 100%, Systems: Osiris [OSS] - 88%, Systems: Hades [HAD] - 100%, Systems: Ghenna [GHA] - 92%, Y-Wing Advanced Knowledge Course [YWAK] - 90%, B-Wing Advanced Knowledge [BWAK] - 97%, Extrajudicial Execution [EJE] - 80%, A-Wing Advanced Knowledge [AWAK] - 93%, The Tarkin Doctrine [TD] - 98%; Updated INPR; Updated uniform; Competitions: Rholl Call, Protect the COM
  • Communication: Discord

[2-2] SL Jerry low

  • Flying: None
  • Non-flying: None
  • Communication: None

[2-3] CPT FamePlane

  • Flying: 3 LoC
  • Non-flying: Squadrons Championship League Staff; Squadrons Championship League Twitch Caster
  • Communication: Discord

[2-4] LT Augustus Kohark

  • Flying: None
  • Non-flying: New promotion: Lieutenant (LT); Updated INPR; Updated uniform; Competitions: Signal Scramble Infection, Rholl Call
  • Communication: Discord

Flight III

[3-1] LCM Tiran Marr

  • Flying: None
  • Non-flying: Updated INPR; Updated uniform; Competitions: Rholl Call
  • Communication: Discord

[3-2] LC fr0Zen

  • Flying: 29 LoC, 1 LoS
  • Non-flying: Updated INPR; Updated uniform; Competitions: Rholl Call; Squadrons Championship League Team Captain
  • Communication: Discord

[3-3] Vacant

[3-4] LT Rotarg Kradak

  • Flying: 2 LoC
  • Non-flying: Competitions: Protect the COM
  • Communication: Discord 
CLOSING COMMENTS

Raise the Flag is the last big competition of the year, so let's all give it our best effort!

MAJ Westric Davalorn
CMDR/MAJ Westric Davalorn/Rho/Wing II/ISDII Warrior


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