TAC Report # 1 (2016-09-18)

This report was submitted by TAC/AD Xavier Sienar/CS-6/VSDII Sinister



Sienar gazed out the viewport of the VSD Sinister, smirking momentarily until his sight fell upon Jacen Talmora, the INN reporter sitting at his desk. Sienar's expression changed to vehement hostility as he addressed the reporter. "Tell me, Mister Talmora, didn't INN agree to cease reporting on fleet operations?!"

Talmora swallowed hard and started to respond, but was cut off as Sienar continued his interrogation. "Then why was it that an INN comm-sat was able to give away the position of our personnel transfer?!" Talmora managed to get out the words, "We were hacked, sir," before his own datapad flew past his ear and shattered against the wall behind him.

"Hacked?! That doesn't explain why you were gathering such information in the first place! Had you not logged those coordinates, the Rebel hackers would not have been able to find them! You've put countless officers at risk with your insubordination... or shall I say, 'treason'." Talmora nearly fainted at the mention of treason.

Sienar hit a button on his desk as he continued. "We will see what the Imperial Court has to say about this. For now, you will be my guest. I've arranged the appropriate quarters for your stay." Two stormtroopers entered the office to haul Talmora off to the brig. "These fine gentlemen will show you to your room."

Sienar turned to face the viewport as Talmora tried in vain to wrestle free of the stormtroopers. The grin crept back onto his face. 'Finally,' he thought, 'Now I can truly make a difference.' A light on his desk flickered, pulling his gaze from the Sinister's bow. As he pressed the button, the voice of the Sinister's captain, Colonel Toriae Impera called out. "Sir, we've reached stable orbit and have deployed Test Squadron. Awaiting your orders."






The TAC Office has been a non-stop hustle since I took command.

HA Dempsey has completed corrections to the last of the missions she had in queue.

My own XWA-FREE mission was pushed through 2 rounds of testing and correcting before being released. Thanks to Dempsey, Mark Schueler, and Jedi Eclipse for testing this quickly enough for me to get this out by my first report.

COO Hawkins currently is dominating the battle queue with his "X-Wing in TIE Fighter" series. The first 4 parts of this series should be done before my next report. Currently these represent all but 1 of the battles in the queue.

We also had a cheating scare which turned out to be the result of a pilot failing to properly uninstall some patches which altered score values. The pilot in question has been scolded and promised to be more careful in the future.
Since this issue cropped up, I've been in talks with Pickled Yoda about getting his TIE Mission Analyzer ported to work with XvT and XWA. Once that is done, the Tactical Office will have a tool that will make cheat detection on our core platforms the easiest it has ever been.

With all this going on I haven't had time to get very far into the process, but I've started rewriting the TAC Manual to drastically reduce its size without losing important content. So far I've condensed 3 full pages to just over 2.




Battles Tested

XWA-FREE "Dempsey: The End of an Era"

TIE-TC "X-Wing in TIE Fighter: Tour 2, part 1"

TIE-TC "X-Wing in TIE Fighter: Tour 2, part 2"

Battles Corrected

XWA-FREE "Dempsey: The End of an Era"

XW-IW "Mereen Insurgency - The Saga Continues"

TIE-TC "X-Wing in TIE Fighter: Tour 1, part 1" (awaiting final check)

Battles Released

XW-IW 13 "Mereen Insurgency - The Saga Continues"

XWA-FREE 157 "Dempsey: The End of an Era"

Battles Repaired

TIE-FREE 209 "Historic Mission #1367"

TIE-FREE 151 "The Patrol - Return of Psi Squadron"

XW-IW 12 "Mereen Insurgency"

WAV Packs Released

TIE-FREE 290 "X-wing in TIE Fighter: The Kadorto Rescue"




Competitions

TIE-FREE 209 "Historic Mission #1367" was repaired to fix bugs allowing for ridiculously high scores (among other things). The high score set by LC Tempest [493,444 (05/26/2014)] is no longer obtainable. Therefore we need to set a new one. Will Tempest retain his crown or be dethroned?

Rewards: IS-GW - highest score, IS-SW - 2nd highest, IS-BW - 3rd highest

Dempsey: The End of an Era
HA Dempsey has retired as Tactical Officer. Only the best pilots are wanted to escort her and her successor to their new stations.
Set a highscore for newly released XWA-FREE 157 "Dempsey: The End of an Era".

Rewards: IS-GW - highest score, IS-SW - 2nd highest, IS-BW - 3rd highest
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TAC/RA Xavier Sienar/CS-6/VSDII Sinister (#13088)

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CoS/CoB/OV-16E [PLDN] [Officer 4th] {IWATS-BOT-CBX-GFX-IIC/1/2/3-PHP-RT-SM/2-TM/1-XAM-
XTM/1/2}

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