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"Lag is the pathway to many abilities some consider to be...untiming..." - Darth Penguinius the Unloadable.
"We put the 'Special' in Special Operations" - CM "Falcon Kid" LQC-75-3 (Alpha III-4) -"Finished you say? Master Net-WAN, not even downloaded. The shroud of the low-speed has fallen. Begun, the Bandwidth Wars has". -"See yea then don't let the door hit you on the way out!"
"It isn't the killing, you know. It's the beauty of battles that I love —the choreography and the challenge of executing everything just right—and the challenge of matching your wits against a capable opponent. I guess I carry a little more Thrawn with me than I'd like to believe." |
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7th Special Operations Squadron "Alpha"
I can't believe I'm doing this Weekly again |
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SCOPE: Weekly (or any period established) news, personnel performance evaluation, links of interest and announcements. DISTRIBUTION/AVAILABILITY STATEMENT: Approved for general release; unlimited distribution. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF REPORT: Unclassified |
Pilot Resource CenterSquadron Roster (Current strength: 12/12 pilots) Combat Center (scheduled multiplayer events) Imperial University (EH/TC online classes) GameRanger (multiplayer matchmaking) |
Alpha Squadron Command Staff |
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BGCOM (Ship Commodore): RA Genie (CMDR's direct superior officer, in charge of the whole Battlegroup) WC (Wing Commander): LC Narven Task (Currently, NPC) CMDR (Squadron Commander): LC Alejandro Araujo (Responsible for this unit) SQXO (Squadron Executive Officer): COL Talons Pryde (2nd in command) FL (Flight Leader): COL Horus Blackheart (3rd in command) |
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Please click here for an updated and detailed listing of the 7th SpecOps "Alpha" SSO |
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Alpha Squadron: Into the Abyss #4 - Premonitions |
Soon. After rewriting the last fiction. |
ISDII: Hammer's bridge (from wallpaperset.com) |
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Intro & News |
Well, well, well. Squadron (Re)Mobilization is over. Lots of things happened, lots of things were done. You'll have here the report for this short week as I'm doing the tally for the MSE/NGE as I told you guys... I'm proud of what some of you did and I'm not so proud or rather disappointed at how some were absent. I'd say I'm frustrated about those goals that I could have done but I didn't. Then I recall there were moments where I couldn't cobble together two words out of exhaustion. Couple things are for sure: boy I love the X-W series and I love the Empire. And I truly enjoy flying with fine wings like some of you gents. I also enjoy reading a good story.
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(Fractalsponge's take on the MIS - go check his site at www.fractalsponge.net) |
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Basically (Re)Mob ended, the standings are here: https://tc.emperorshammer.org/comps/remob5.php . Don't be lazy, go there and see how we did. Compare with the top squadrons. Gamma was too busy with (Re)Mob so we'll give them time to rest, then we'll retry the competition with them. Because we are that nice. Highlighted Competitions: So, Alpha's Slumber Party (yes, click here) :v (Brief) Description: Every month, pilots from Alpha squadron will fly PvP matches against pilots of a designated squadron of the TIE Corps. Alpha will fly against every single other unit of the TC, one squadron per month. Performance metrics will determine the winning pilots and the winning squadron. The objective isn’t much to spam LoCs but to create unit cohesion, build unit morale and motivation and obtain field experience against real opponents. Get the ball rolling in terms of training towards participating in other online events. Full details can be found here (click) or here (click) ===Slumber Party will return after some brief advertisement from our sponsors :P === |
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[1:Alpha 1-1] |
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Communications:Discord, email....smoke signals :V Flight Operations:Regular ActivitiesSingle PlayerFREE_MISSION_COMPLETED: Battles Completed: 0x (0x missions) ===none=== MultiplayerPlayer Vs Environment Extraordinary Activities===none=== Auxiliary Operations:Regular ActivitiesSubmitted Battle/Mission Review: 0xFree Missions Reviewed (0x) Trivia==none== INPR===none===Fictionunknown:* [Fri Jun 30 2023] Submitted a new fiction item: Battle Outline for ReMob * [Tue Jun 27 2023] Submitted a new fiction item: Alpha Squadron: Into the Abyss #3 - Hell Revisited #3 * [Tue Jun 27 2023] Submitted a new fiction item: Alpha Squadron: Into the Abyss - Hell Revisited #3 . Wiki===none=== Extraordinary Activities===none=== Administrative Tasks:Regular ActivitiesSubmitted Reports:NEW_REPORT: Extraordinary ActivitiesUpdated Unit Information on Site: 0 words, 0/200=0 point===none=== Awards & Achievements:NEW_COOP_RATING: NEW_COMBAT_RATING:
Observation:As a TC CMDR, I failed to take us into the top tiers. I need to do better. As a commander of a squadron, I saw that some of our active pilots had some fun moments (I hope...at least for me those moments we shared together were fun and I felt like I am leading a unit of elite pilots; skills, tactics, camaraderie, teamwork) As an individual pilot I did it: top the MP killboards, beat Woody, compete using the classics, proving they can be used to fly and be competitive, broke my own MSE record for PvP (and possibly other TC records) and no, this wouldn't be my first SS haha. It is funny, it is like I began existing for others. As Meat Loaf said: Two out of three ain't bad, I guess.The reasons behind my return to activity lies in the fact I really want the games to be part of the club and I want to create missions and fiction around them. I play other games but I'm on the TC for this purpose...so I kinda promote them. I did the 15+ PvP kills, mission creation, 10k words of fiction, 12...no wait, like14-15 wiki articles, SP free missions and 2 IUs...but I can't do everything. Nor will I burn the few who collaborate. I need to cull the inactivity and fill up the ranks so each pilot has fun performing with high quality in low doses. I think I can specialize in PvP but that will have to wait until I finish focusing on other aspects like squadron lore, campaigns, etc. |
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Communications:===none=== Flight Operations:Regular ActivitiesSingle PlayerFree Missions Completed: 0 ===none=== Battles Completed: 0 (0x missions) ==none== MultiplayerPlayer Vs Environment ===none=== Player Vs Player ===none=== Extraordinary Activities===none=== Auxiliary Operations:Regular ActivitiesSubmitted Battle/Mission Review: 0xFree Missions Reviewed (0x) ===none=== Battles Reviewed (0x) ===none=== Trivia===none=== Wiki===none=== Extraordinary Activities===none=== Administrative Tasks:Regular ActivitiesSubmitted Reports:===none=== Extraordinary ActivitiesUpdated Unit Information on Site: 0 words, 0/200=0 points===none=== Awards & Achievements:===none=== Observation:. None.... |
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[3:Alpha 1-3] |
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Communications:Discord Flight Operations:Regular ActivitiesSingle PlayerFree Missions Completed: 0 ===none=== Battles Completed: 0 (0x missions) ===none=== MultiplayerPlayer Vs Environment ===none=== Player Vs Player ===none=== Extraordinary Activities===none=== Auxiliary Operations:Regular ActivitiesSubmitted Battle/Mission Review: 0xFree Missions Reviewed (0x) ===none=== Battles Reviewed (0x) ===none=== Battle Bug Reported (0x) ===none===
StreamingUploading YouTube videos about TFTC/XWAU gameplay Trivia===none=== Wiki===none=== Extraordinary Activities==none== Administrative Tasks:Regular ActivitiesAssigned:===none=== Extraordinary ActivitiesUpdated Unit Information on Site: 0 words, 0/200=0 points===none=== Awards & Achievements:===none===
Observation: None this short week. |
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[4: Alpha 1-4] |
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Communications:===none=== Flight Operations:Regular ActivitiesSingle Player===none=== Battles Completed: 0 (0x missions) ===none=== MultiplayerPlayer Vs Environment ===none=== Player Vs Player ===none=== Extraordinary Activities===none=== Auxiliary Operations:Regular ActivitiesSubmitted Battle/Mission Review: 0xFree Missions Reviewed (0x) ===none=== Battles Reviewed (0x) ===none=== Trivia===none=== Wiki===none=== Extraordinary Activities===none=== Administrative Tasks:Regular ActivitiesSubmitted Reports:===none=== Extraordinary ActivitiesUpdated Unit Information on Site: 0 words, 0/200=0 points===none=== Awards & Achievements:Observation: Yep, time's up. InvolRSV here. I have pilots wanting to be on this unit. |
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Communications:Discord Flight Operations:Regular ActivitiesSingle PlayerFree Missions Completed: 0 ===none=== Battles Completed: 0 (0 missions) ===none=== MultiplayerPlayer Vs Environment ===none=== Player Vs Player ===none=== Extraordinary Activities===none=== Auxiliary Operations:Regular ActivitiesSubmitted Battle/Mission Review: 0xFree Missions Reviewed (0x) ===none=== Battles Reviewed (0x) ===none=== Trivia===none=== Secondary GamesGoH Fiction===none===Wiki===none=== Extraordinary Activities===none=== Administrative Tasks:Regular ActivitiesSubmitted Reports:===none=== Extraordinary ActivitiesUpdated Unit Information on Site: 0 words, 0/200=0 points===none=== Awards & Achievements:===none=== Observation: none this week. |
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[6:Alpha 2-2] |
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Communications:===None=== Flight Operations:Regular ActivitiesSingle PlayerFree Missions Completed: 0 ===none=== Battles Completed: 0 (0x missions)
MultiplayerPlayer Vs Environment ===none=== Player Vs Player ===none=== Extraordinary Activities===none=== Auxiliary Operations:Regular ActivitiesSubmitted Battle/Mission Review: 0xFree Missions Reviewed (0x) ===none=== Battles Reviewed (0x) ===none=== IU Courses Passed (0x) ===none=== Uniform update ===none=== Trivia===none=== Wiki===none=== Extraordinary Activities===none=== Administrative Tasks:Regular ActivitiesSubmitted Reports:===none=== Extraordinary ActivitiesUpdated Unit Information on Site: 0 words, 0/200=0 points===none=== Awards & Achievements:===none=== Observation: Well, he has 1 month left for InvolRSV. |
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Communications:Discord Flight Operations:Regular ActivitiesSingle PlayerFree Missions Completed: 0 ===none=== Battles Completed: 0 (0x missions) ===none=== MultiplayerPlayer Vs Environment ===none=== Player Vs Player ===none=== Extraordinary Activities===none=== Auxiliary Operations:Regular ActivitiesSubmitted Battle/Mission Review: 0xFree Missions Reviewed (0x) ===none=== Battles Reviewed (0x) ===none=== Uniform update ===none=== Trivia===none=== Wiki===none=== Extraordinary ActivitiesParticipation in Sausage Week 2023. Administrative Tasks:Regular ActivitiesSubmitted Reports:===none=== Extraordinary ActivitiesUpdated Unit Information on Site: 0 words, 0/200=0 points===none=== Awards & Achievements:MEDALS_AWARDED: Observation: Yeah, not even a single point here. I'm going to propose InvolRSV here. |
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Communications:=== None=== Flight Operations:Regular ActivitiesSingle PlayerFree Missions Completed: 0 ===none=== Battles Completed: 0 (0 missions) ===none=== MultiplayerPlayer Vs Environment ===none=== Player Vs Player ===none=== Extraordinary Activities===none=== Auxiliary Operations:Regular ActivitiesSubmitted Battle/Mission Review: 0xFree Missions Reviewed (0x) ===none=== Battles Reviewed (0x) ===none=== Trivia===none=== Wiki===none=== Extraordinary Activities===none=== Administrative Tasks:Regular ActivitiesSubmitted Reports:===none=== Extraordinary ActivitiesUpdated Unit Information on Site: 0 words, 0/200=0 points===none=== Awards & Achievements:===none=== Observation:Well, you did your part. My wishes are that you participate more...but we get what we get. |
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Communications:Discord Flight Operations:Regular ActivitiesSingle PlayerFree Missions Completed: 0 ===none=== Battles Completed: 0 (0 missions) ===none=== MultiplayerPlayer Vs Environment ===none=== Player Vs Player ===none=== Extraordinary Activities===none=== Auxiliary Operations:Regular ActivitiesSubmitted Battle/Mission Review: 0xFree Missions Reviewed (0x) ===none=== Battles Reviewed (0x) ===none=== Trivia===none=== Wiki===none=== Extraordinary Activities===none=== Administrative Tasks:Regular ActivitiesSubmitted Reports:===none=== Extraordinary ActivitiesUpdated Unit Information on Site: 0 words, 0/200=0 points===none=== Awards & Achievements:===none=== Observation:none this week. |
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Communications:===None=== Flight Operations:Regular ActivitiesSingle PlayerFree Missions Completed: 0 ===none=== Battles Completed: 0 (0 missions) ===none=== MultiplayerPlayer Vs Environment ===none=== Player Vs Player ===none=== Extraordinary Activities===none=== Auxiliary Operations:Regular ActivitiesSubmitted Battle/Mission Review: 0xFree Missions Reviewed (0x) ===none=== Battles Reviewed (0x) ===none=== Trivia===none=== Wiki===none=== Extraordinary Activities===none=== Administrative Tasks:Regular ActivitiesSubmitted Reports:===none=== Extraordinary ActivitiesUpdated Unit Information on Site: 0 words, 0/200=0 points===none=== Awards & Achievements:===none=== Observation: as agreed, InvolRSV. |
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Communications:===none=== Flight Operations:Regular ActivitiesSingle PlayerFree Missions Completed: 0 ===none=== Battles Completed: 0 (0x missions) ==none== MultiplayerPlayer Vs Environment ===none=== Player Vs Player ===none=== Extraordinary Activities===none=== Auxiliary Operations:Regular ActivitiesSubmitted Battle/Mission Review: 8xFree Missions Reviewed (0x) ===none=== Battles Reviewed (0x) ===none===Trivia===none=== Wiki===none=== Extraordinary Activities===none=== Administrative Tasks:Regular ActivitiesSubmitted Reports:===none=== Created INPR===none=== Extraordinary ActivitiesUpdated Unit Information on Site: 0 words, 0/200=0 points===none=== Awards & Achievements:FLIGHT_CERTIFICATION_WINGS: MEDALS_AWARDED: Observation: You will be missed my dude. |
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Communications:Discord Flight Operations:Regular ActivitiesSingle PlayerFree Missions Completed: 0x ===none=== Battles Completed: 0 (0x missions) ===none=== MultiplayerPlayer Vs Environment MEDALS_AWARDED: Player Vs Player ===none=== Extraordinary Activities===none=== Auxiliary Operations:Regular ActivitiesSubmitted Battle/Mission Review: 0xFree Missions Reviewed (0x) ===none=== Battles Reviewed (0x) ===none=== Trivia===none=== Wiki===none=== Extraordinary Activities===none=== Administrative Tasks:Regular ActivitiesSubmitted Reports:===none=== Created INPR===none=== Extraordinary ActivitiesUpdated Unit Information on Site: 0 words, 0/200=0 points===none=== Awards & Achievements:===none===
Observation: You know, like those cavalry charges he came in and lend me a hand when I was too tired. I need to be careful about not burning him out. We had an interesting set of matches tho... |
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Praise be the Lag! |
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Schedule Planning:Have some rest for the nxt couple weeks while I sort things out.GoG XW SeriesThe classic Star Wars games (TIE Fighter, XvT, XWA, etc.) are available for digital sale at https://www.gog.com/ and http://steampowered.com/. The GOG version is generally preferred by most members for ease of patching with custom EH game content.TCCOREThis basic IU course will help you familiarize with EHTC's procedures. I highly recommend you take it in case you haven't. Update uniform, INPR and wiki character article!:This goes for me as well. Each time you get promoted or receive an award you should update your uniform. Yea, I'll update mine. |
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Commander's Analysis |
Ranks need to be replenished with more like-minded pilots while we build our lore, rules, drills, etc. |
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Closing |
The classics are unconventional and specialized platforms. Unlike most folks, we are focusing on the art of dogfighting and employing tactics to be efficient -not just effective, but efficient, notice my wording.If you are effective, you do a job properly; if you are efficient, you do it quickly and easily. Skill is needed for this and experience is what you obtain. You use this experience in new challenges and improve yourself continuously, one struggle after another. Again, I have an urge to downshift the rhythm and focus on those little details that make a difference so I'm taking my damn sweet time to choose my words for you. Therefore, mark my words: Those of you who did something, even if it was constant communication and moral support, have my appreciation,respect, gratitude and I feel proud of leading you. Pryde, LPhoenix, LQC, Horus, Milo, Cremel. To Ty: I'll always remember you as a good pilot that followed orders. You were a great asset to the squadron, the ship and the club in general. I want to thank you for being so kind to provide feedback on your way out. I will take it to the brass as they'll appreciate the input. For the rest. Yea, you can always redeem yourselves while the system allows it. That means, for as long as you do not fall under the AWOL / InvolRSV rules you can make a comeback. I want to see actions,not just words. This unit has a reputation to rebuild and that won't be built by itself, we have to practice, communicate, coordinate and develop efforts, tactics, backstory. Also: we owe it to each other. We are a team, remember it. Those who know me are aware I don't say things just for the protocol. I'm being sincere here. I may be harsh and blunt, but I'm honest. I'm not perfect either. I didn't do all the IUs as I expected to... I couldn't coordinate you guys to fly PvEs or PvPs between each other, let alone manage to get us a game with Gamma. Also I still have a lot of pending tasks so I'll use this time to get to it. For that reason and to give Gamma some rest before flying us, we won't have a Slumber Party at least for a couple weeks. As you can see, during the month some were active, some weren't active. That is a fact. The reasons are many but the effects are the same. We could've done more. I don't want you to endlessly grind. I would have been more than happy if we flew a couple fun PvEs or 2v2s so those zeros in the MSE are truly disappointing. To you I say: consider your options if you really want to be active on the TC. No shame in requesting a transfer to RSV. Be honest to the squadron, your CMDR and more important, to yourself. Again, I'm happy for what we did not because I'm obliged to say so, but because I enjoyed reading Pryde's work and I can use it as a source for my own fictions and because I loved winging LPhoenix and LQC. I truly felt as the CMDR of a SO unit. I also appreciate Horus and Pryde's support: In hard times you need friends that are blunt and give you insight and ask the right questions. And I enjoyed winging Milo as well. I'm also glad to see Cremel is back...sort of... I truly wanted to do more,but I also wanted to be active during a competition and show the TC what I can do using the platforms virtually no one uses anymore. That's for another, larger bittersweet discussion. The fact is, I topped the MP killboards during a fleet-wide competition. Yea, finally beat Woody. Proof that anyone can gain points by flying the good old games we learned to love. On this topic, flying against newbies allows you to try new tactics but if you overextend your interaction, you risk losing skills due to hubris and lack of a real challenge. Flying between us, against each other is the solution. Yea, do the casual game with new folks and test your maneuvers before going against seasoned players. Everything in life is about balance. Allow yourself to lose against your squadmate, learn the lessons, find joy in the game itself, forget the outcome and focus on achieving the kill or evading. Eventually, you'll get it, even under laggy weather. To be honest, towards the proposed goals, we didn't do well. That is, in terms of quantity. But in terms of fun moments well, we did have good moments. We also had lessons to learn. Biggest lesson is to understand there has to be doses on the amount of gaming we do and purposes. Some found purpose in a medal, some others in victory and well I personally enjoy the game per se, pretty much like the aforementioned statement from Pellaeon. Those moments when we wrote fiction or when I figured out the right template for our character sheets on the wiki or when we flew PvEs on XvT were priceless. Fiction is a window to get to know more about your squad mates and yourself. It also helps sorting out ideas in your head. I want to focus on this. So, in terms of quality, we did have good moments I value. I hope you do find the value as well. And I'll add something Genie mentioned about not limiting ourselves to ReMob for doing these things. Yea, our project will take us into building our characters, maintaining operational readiness via SP/PvE/PvP training and eventually we'll fly the campaigns, one step at time. Do we want to change our ships? not really, we found they do have potential. Granted, I'd work on the design of the SPEC but that's for another discussion.
All in all, we did something, we took a step towards our strategic goals and now the new generations of the TC are aware of what we can do. We are no strangers to the club , we were just dormant and we have our own rhythm. Don't encourage us; we encourage ourselves hehe. They expect us to have the same levels of activity on future events. Well, we expect them to participate more in MP on the classics. Slumber Party will continue later and we will visit each unit and attempt to share fun matches with them, regardless of the winner, the aim is to play on the platforms that inspired the TC to exist. For now, we regroup, rest, rearm, re-train and continue moving towards our goals one step at time. Dismissed!
Yea, that's from Magadascar Penguins, not intending copyright things here, just a reference.. . March to victory my penguins! |
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Signoff |
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Respectfully submitted: Lieutenant Colonel Alejandro Araujo
Alpha Squadron/Wing I/ISDII: Hammer |
