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| ISDII HAMMER REPORT #151 (2020.05) |
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REPORTING OFFICER: Admiral Miles 'Tails' Prower, Commodore |
| INTRODUCTION |
It's been awhile hasn't it, pilots? My apologies for the silence here. The month of March has not been the greatest as far as RL entanglements. Earlier in winter, I had to take time out due to my father's diagnosis and later surgery for Stage IV cancer in the mouth/neck. He got through the surgery and subsequent recovery and had been home for a couple months before coming down with an infection. That infection took his life on 4 March. He was 67 years old and a Vietnam veteran who served in the United States Navy from 1973 to 1980 and also worked as a police officer, sheriff's deputy and correction's officer from 1981 to 2003, and finally as an industrial electrician from 2003 to 2015. March mainly consisted of handling service arrangements and also getting a double gut-punch of a respiratory infection which I may be suffering lingering side effects from. Now that the bad's out of the way, let's get to the good. First off, Fleet Admiral Plif has been instated as our new TCCOM, taking over for High Admiral Pete Mitchell, who gained promotion from Fleet Admiral to High Admiral yesterday as a testament to his excellent work as TCCOM. Pete is now a Flight Member in Kappa Squadron Flight 3 as a Major. He goes to Kappa though with our utmost respect and gratitude for his service to the Emperor's Hammer taking on the heavy mantle of leadership. As I've said in e-mail, we will be in good hands with Fleet Admiral Plif. I have served under him not just as a Commodore but also a Flight Member for him when I returned from my years-long hiatus to fly in Sin Squadron. This man is a legend but also a gentleman and a gunfighter, you can learn a lot from him. Speaking of gentlemen, my esteemed colleage Vice Admiral Hav Antiel was granted promotion to full Admiral as High Admiral Mitchell's final command action. Hav, who is the Commodore of the ISDII Warrior served as Epsilon's Squadron Commander for close to two months before I took command, then for the next year as a Flight Member and Flight Leader respectively before taking over Sin Squadron, then finally taking command of the Warrior itself when Plif was called to action as SOO. We may banter about who's got the better ship but it's all in good fun and we consider ourselves a band of brothers like Nelson's Captains of old. I am immensely proud of Hav's achievement and hope to continue to see more of the excellent work he is doing. Yours truly managed to get some stick time in yeterday alongside Colonel Doyon and Major Araujo of Alpha racking up some Legions of Skirmish and we managed to get a battle in today as well. This has brought me to some thoughts about establishing a multiplayer 'campaign' consisting of creating mission scenarios and fitting the AI side accordingly with objectives in place. Yesterday for instance we had 'Hero Battle' where we fought Luke Skywalker, Porkins, Han Solo & Chewie, Kylo Ren, Darth Vader and that A-Wing that crashed into the Executor. Then we played out a scenario I like to call 'Get Down Mr. President', defending the ISDII Rapier from an onslaught of renegade TIE Bombers and the ISD Glory chaired by none other than disgraced Admiral Zaarin. Yesterday the ATRs managed to break through and take the ship but today we struck back. The ISD Challenge and the ISDII Warrior pounced and Fleet Admiral Plif himself led the charge in an ATR as Major Araujo and I cleared the way to disable the captured Rapier and get the combined Rebel/renegade TIEs off the transports. We successfully retook the ISDII and Plif even managed to capture Luke Skywalker and his X-Wing! Currently we have 4 Flight Member positions and 1 Flight Leader position available. For those looking in from the outside, please follow up via your chain of command by e-mail if you are interested in joining us. |
| COMPETITIONS
AND EVENTS |
| TIE Corps Discord Server TIE Corps Global Competitions 3082 - MP Ace of the TIE Corps 2020 3083 - MP COOP Ace of the TIE Corps 2020 3084 - COO's Star Wars Challenge, Episode VI 3085 - TIE Corps on Recon 2020 3086 - TIE Corps vs AI 2020 3087 - COO Riddle 2020 3088 - TIE Corps On The MP Front 2020 3089 - TIE Corps On The Co-Op Front 2020 3100 - TIE Corps In Battle 2020 3101 - COO Monthly Assignment 2020: SC PvP Efficiency ISDII Hammer Competitions The Commodore's Office is examining new competition opportunities for the ship. Watch this space! Alpha Squadron Competitions 3074 - TIE-Fu (TIE Fighter Edition) 3076 - Alpha PvP Sparring Delta Squadron Competitions 3095 - Delta On Tour 2020 3096 - Delta Trivia Epsilon Squadron Competitions 3080 - Epsilon On Recon 2020 TIE Corps Events Weekly Shootout Faciliator: AD Miles Prower -There has been a tradition of holding a weekly meetup on Discord and GameRanger to play X-Wing vs TIE Fighter or X-Wing Alliance on Thursdays. This is being expanded out to availability in Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Run-On Facilitator: EH Message Boards A Run-On is in progress on the EH Message Boards in the foundation stage. ISDII Hammer Events Planning Survey Facilitator: AD Miles Prower A survey session will be held with the commanders by comm platforms to put together some offerings for a regular ship-wide activity. |
| ROSTER |
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Members: 1 Commodore, 3 Squadron Commanders, 5 Flight Leaders, 22
Flight Members Commodore: Admiral Miles Prower Discord: Admiral Miles Prower#3125 Telegram: @twotailedfox Alpha Squadron Commander: Major Alejandro Araujo Alpha Flight II Leader: Lieutenant Synthroth Alpha Flight III Leader: Colonel Talons Pryde Delta Squadron Commander: General Phoenix Berkana Delta Flight II Leader: Open Delta Flight III Leader: Lieutenant Commander Aval Epsilon Squadron Commander: General Elwood The Brave Epsilon Flight II Leader: Colonel Pellaeon Epsilon Flight III Leader: Colonel Silvius |
| COMMODORE'S ACTIVITY |
 Availability
(Times in US Eastern)
So a curveball got thrown at me here. I was on a schedule change this month that would have me working Sunday-Wednesday from 12:30 PM to 11:30 PM Eastern. However due to Apple's change in operations hours because of COVID-19, I am now working from 10:30 AM to 9:30 PM ET on the same days. Days off are Thursday, Friday and Saturday Operations 16 Legions of Skirmish attained 2 Legions of Combat attained Administration Issued report, completed March evaluation cycle at the start of the month Communications E-Mail, Discord and Telegram Available Platforms X-Wing vs TIE Fighter, X-Wing Alliance, Star Conflict, Empire At War, Forces Of Corruption, Battlefront 2 (Classic), Battlefront (EA), Battlefront 2 (EA) |
| CLOSING COMMENTS |
| Remember
guys, just because Pete's a Major now doesn't mean that you can buzz
Kappa's hangar at leisure. I'm going to close this report out with one
final track for
you two!
AD Miles Prower |
ISDII Hammer Report # 151 (2020-04-12)
This report was submitted by RO/AD Miles Prower/CS-8/D/CRV Phantom
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