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After a short and uneventful hyperspace
journey from the Challenge to PLT Daedalus, AD Pete Mitchell maneuvered his TIE
Guardian towards the landing platform.
Even with just his fledgling skill in the Dark Side, Pete could sense
something was off… Pete hopped out of his TIE after landing
and looked around. There was very
little going on in the hangar. While
this was a surprise visit, Pete expected someone to meet him after he
identified himself before landing.
Perhaps everyone was hurrying to be ready for inspection. He began walking towards the CO’s
office. On his way, he didn’t see what
he was used to in his time as a cadet with formations of cadets marching
through the halls or even singles in smart uniforms hurrying to make it
somewhere on time. He saw a few less
people, but those he did see where barely in uniform. They might be wearing
the uniform pants, but they hadn’t seen an iron in ages. They wore their tunics half
unbuttoned. He sensed a general lack
of order and purpose to the place. When Pete made it to Colonel Heatherly’s
office and quarters, he was quite taken aback. There was only a rec room with cadets
playing various table and video games.
“What the…” Pete muttered to
himself. He grabbed the shoulder of
the nearest cadet, just a bit too harshly.
“Where is AD Heatherly?” he asked. “Who’s that?” the cadet replied. “Who’s that?!! He’s the commanding officer of this
platform and training facility!” “Never heard of him.” “How long have you been here, cadet?” “A bit over a year.” “Over a year! Why haven’t you graduated and been
transferred to a squadron? Why haven’t
you heard of Colonel Heatherly? Who is in charge here?!!” “We are.” The cadet replied
matter-of-factly. “Who’s ‘We’?” asked Pete. “The cadets, all of us.” The cadet responded with an inquisitive
look on his face. “How does anyone get trained?” “We have volunteers that have been here
for a few years that train us, and we sign up for the classes we want.” “How do you graduate, and why are you
still here after over a year?” “We graduate when we want to move to the
fleet, or we just go back home.” “This is all news to me. Where is Colonel Heatherly,
though? How have I still been getting
reports where everything is normal?” “I’m not positive, but that may be what
the droid in the corner does…” He
pointed to a C8 model droid in the corner, hooked into a datalink. “I still have no idea who Colonel Heatherly is.” “Wow, well this trip has been more
enlightening than I expected. Thank
you for your help cadet.” ……… After a few days of inspections on Daedalus,
Pete returned to the Challenge to meet up with AD Plif. Pete and Plif met in the small
conference room. They both saluted and
greeted each other. “Good to see you Plif. I certainly had an interesting trip. How about you?” “You could say that” Plif replied “Well I’ll go first, as Daedalus is
first in the process”
Pete proceeded to tell Plif the story of the cadet-run training
program there, for about half an hour.” “The funny thing is it seems to
work. The pilots that want to fly learn
to fly, the pilots that want to concentrate on other things do that. The pilots that never want to leave, stay
and train others. I never could find
any information on what happened to COL Heatherly,
though…” “Well the squadron training was quite
varied. It ranged from handing the
newbies a pilot manual and having them read it, to hazing, to overdosing on
Kappa Hype… For some it works, for
many it didn’t. I think the main thing
is we need to match pilots to the squadron culture a bit better, if possible.” “That’s a good idea, and perhaps, a bit
of standardization would help, with each commander adding their flare. Did you ever find your name plaque?” “You know, I never did find the real
one. I did find about 30 cheap knock offs, though. Just about every pilot in Wing II had one
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First,
congratulations and thank you are in order for LT Kiba,
who has been selected to take command of Sin Squadron and is now CM Kiba! We
also had two new pilots join the fleet this week, both of which have already
made it to LT! Please welcome and
congratulate LT Ravin and LT James379! In
TIE Corps Pilot League, we have a new weekly winner: LC Earnim Branet! He
swept this week! AD
Pickled Yoda has released the first new custom battle in some time:
XvT-TC-146! To celebrate, AD Plif has
created two new competitions around it. One for the highest score, and one
for the best review, so get in that cockpit and fly it! I
have also posted a new competition Top Muse to provide me with ideas for my
report fictions and provide you with some difficult to get IS ribbons! See my previous email or the competition
write up on the database for details.
Basically, email me your ideas.
Oh,
it’s also MSE time again, so let’s make it quick and easy for AD Plif his
first time around as SOO! Also,
I am having some trouble getting email on completed IU courses, so if you
have passed any in the past two weeks, and haven’t seen it added to your
profile, please forward me the email.
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James 379 to LT SL
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TIE Corps on Patrol 2018: Round 16 Assignments: TIE-Free 260: A Station Too Far XvT-Free 188: Protect VIPs for
Recon Officer's party XWA-Free 123: Drak's
Night Out BSF emails/pilot files will be due by 5 pm
Pacific/8 pm Eastern/1 am London on Monday August 13. Rules: It’s a new year, so this will change a
little. Every TWO weeks, there will be
a free mission from each of the major SP platforms (TIE, XvT, XWA)
assigned. Pilots will fly each mission
that they choose and BSF the battles to the TC database and forward the BSF
email to Pete Mitchell. If the pilot
has earned a high score, BSF it and also send the pilot file to Pete Mitchell
in case the BSF is not approved in time.
Each week the pilot with the highest
score in each platform will earn 4 points.
The next highest score will earn 3, the next highest 2, and all other
submissions will earn 1. If the
winning pilot in a platform also earned a high score, that pilot will earn 5
points for that platform. Points will
accumulate for the week, month, and year for more awards. Awards: Annual: IS-PW/GW/SW for 1st 2nd
and 3rd total points for the year.
(at least 5 participants) IS-GW/SW/BW for 1st 2nd
and 3rd total points for the year in each platform (at least 4
participants) Monthly: IS-GW/SW/BW for 1st 2nd
and 3rd total points for the month (at least 3 participants). Weekly: IS-SW/BW for 1st and 2nd
total points for the week (at least 3 participants). IS-SW/BW for 1st and 2nd
in each platform (at least 2 participants). TIE Corps Pilot League 2018: Round 15
Results: TIE-Free 61: Horn #1 – Current HS = 56,135
XvT-Free 24: Arrival of VA Priyum to ISD Grey Wolf – Current HS = 58,360
XWA-Free 30: Capture the M/FRG
Hound – Current HS = 13,685
Overall:
Round 16 Assignments: TIE-Free 66: The Battle of Yavin – Current HS = 56,346 XvT-Free 25: Steal Rebel Warheads
– Current HS
= 129,770 XWA-Free 35: Routine Patrol
– Current HS
= 15,660 Rules: This competition is similar to TIE Corps
on patrol, but it is handicapped to make it accessible to more pilots. Every TWO weeks, there will be a free
mission from each of the major SP platforms (TIE, XvT, XWA) assigned. Pilots will fly each mission that they
choose and BSF the battles to the TC database and forward the BSF email to
Pete Mitchell. If the pilot has earned
a high score, BSF it and also send the pilot file to Pete Mitchell in case
the BSF is not approved in time. BSF emails/pilot files will be due by 5 pm
Pacific/8 pm Eastern/1 am London on August 20. Each week the pilot with the highest
handicap score (expressed as a % of the high score) in each platform will
earn 4 points. The next highest score
will earn 3, the next highest 2, and all other submissions will earn 1. If the winning pilot in a platform also
beat the high score (without the handicap added), that pilot will earn 5
points for that platform. It is
possible for a pilot to be the only pilot to beat the high score, and not win
that platform. If for example, pilot A
got 90% of the high score and has a 25% handicap for a total of 115%, and
pilot B got 105% of the existing HS (and earned a new HS) with a handicap of
5% for a total of 110%, Pilot A would win the platform for the week for 4
points and pilot 3 would only earn 3 points. Points will accumulate for the
week, month, and year for more awards. Handicaps will be calculated as follows: The average score in the platform as a
percent of the high scores will be calculated as an average of all scores on
that platform since the beginning of the League (avg). The handicap will be calculated as the
difference between the average and 100%.
For example, if a pilot’s average score in TIE is 75% of the HS, his
handicap will be 100%-75%=25%. If a
pilot then scored 85,000 pts on a mission with an existing HS of 100,000
points, his handicap score would be 85% + 25% = 110%. *The first round any pilot flies in any
platform will not have a handicap added as the pilot will not have an
average. Therefore, the first round,
there are no handicaps, only scratch scores.
**I reserve the right to create a maximum
handicap. At this point, it is
75%. Awards: Annual: IS-PW/GW/SW for 1st 2nd
and 3rd total points for the year.
(at least 5 participants) IS-GW/SW/BW for 1st 2nd
and 3rd total points for the year in each platform (at least 4
participants) IS-GW/SW/BW for 1st 2nd
and 3rd most improved averages over the year in each platform (at least
4 participants, must have flown at least 10 missions) Monthly: IS-GW/SW/BW for 1st 2nd
and 3rd total points for the month (at least 3 participants). Weekly: IS-SW/BW for 1st and 2nd
total points for the week (at least 3 participants). IS-SW/BW for 1st and 2nd
in each platform (at least 2 participants). Top
Muse: Competition runtime:
Through the end of the year. Units involved: All active TC members Competition medals: IS-PR/GR/SR for the remainder of the
year (4+ entries) IS-GR/SR/BR for the month (4+ entries) IS-SR/BR weekly (3+ entries) Description: This is the easiest fiction competition
ever! You only need to come up with an idea, not write a whole fiction out.
Each week, please submit your idea for the short weekly fiction in the TCCOM
report each week by Sunday at midnight GMT. Your idea can be as simple as a
sentence or more of an outline. Do NOT write a whole fiction. The winning
idea will be turned into a work of fiction by the TCCOM for his report. The
author of the winning idea will win an IS-SR and 2 points towards the annual
and monthly standings. The second best idea will earn 1 point towards the
annual and monthly standings. Ideas will be judged on criteria such
as: originality, relevance to recent events and previous TCCOM fictions, ease
of turning into a short fiction, and other whims of the TCCOM. Any ties for
the monthly or annual totals will be broken by selecting the best idea over
the time period as judged by 3 members of the TIE Corps Admiralty Board that
are not part of the tie. How to participate: Each week, email your idea directly to
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MP Co-Op Ace of the TIE Corps 2018 TIE Corps Vs. AI 2018 TIE Corps on Patrol
2018 TIE Corps Pilot
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COO's Monthly
Challenge 2018 - January EH vs RS – We’re
still Fighting! Weekly Hammer PvP Shootout Weekly TC PvP Shootout |
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Medals recommended: 8 SP Missions: 0 (0 MTD) MP Matches: 20(20 MTD) EABF2 – MP Mail activity Discord |
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Time for shineys! Get your
MSE’s in! Ace of the TIE Corps 2017 |
TCCOM Report # 5 (2018-08-09)
This report was submitted by TCCOM-IOA/AD Pete Mitchell/TC-1/ISDII Challenge
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