Alpha Report # 94 (2020-05-26)

This report was submitted by CMDR-ROA/LC Alejandro Araujo/Alpha/Wing I/ISDII Hammer


Alpha Squadron Weekly Report

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7th HEAVY ASSAULT 'ALPHA' SQUADRON WEEKLY REPORT #87

 

REPORTING OFFICER:

Lieutenant Colonel Alejandro Araujo, PIN #11929

DATE SUBMITTED:

2020.05.12.00:00:00
(Week 56-May's Week #1: 2020.05.12.0:00:00 – 2020.05.25:59:59)

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ROSTER

 

***12 Strong***

 

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FLIGHT I- Spectre Advanced Missile Boat

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FLIGHT II- Spectre Advanced Missile Boat

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FLIGHT III- TIE Defender

 

[1: Alpha 1-1] LC Alejandro Araujo
     
(ah.pin11929@gmail.com)
[2: Alpha 1-2LCM Milo Antu
      (ehtcantu@gmail.com)
[3: Alpha 1-3]  LT Shawn Erso
      (spc12342100@hotmail.com)
[4: Alpha 1-4]  LT James379
      (Hrmjames99@gmail.com)

[5: Alpha 2-1] LT Syntroth
      (davidsanchezguerrero@gmail.com)  
[6: Alpha 2-2] LT Riz       (josh_rohrer@yahoo.com)
[7: Alpha 2-3]
SL Shello N'yan
      (stephenvk@zoho.com)
[8: Alpha 2-4]
LT Andedude (damemefactory@gmail.com)                             

[9: Alpha 3-1] COL Talons Pryde
     
(Talonspryde@gmail.com)
[10: Alpha 3-2] LT Aaron Cremel
      (dolekanov@yandex.ru)

[11: Alpha 3-3]
MAJ Gustan
      (arzona4499rangers@yahoo.com)
[12: Alpha 3-4
MAJ Nebular
      (the.nebular@gmail.com)

 

INTRO

 

Good day pilots.

On this time period, there has not been going much around flight operations. However , that doesn't mean there has not been activity at all.

Imperial Storm begun this saturday.
Since it is a wargame, it is important to avoid sharing information with personnel from the Warrior. Command is accelerating the initial steps so we have battle events sooner. When the time comes, we'll fly a designated battle and do as much LoS and LoCs as possible. Until then, we use our spare time elsewhere (yes, I admit so). 

While I know it has been a quiet time, I'd like to hear from you as some have been too quiet even for my tastes. I hope no one goes AWOL this month but if that's the case, I'll have to do my job.

I've finished the general outlines of a plot I'm working on for a large fan fiction which would be the source for missions and campaigns on BoP and XWA. It does involve new ships and I've spent several hours relearning , doing trial and error, tinkering with the utilities needed. I use wings 3d as it is quite easy to handle real quick. However after you have a model you need to export it as 3ds, then convert to an obscure format called OPZ which will be opened by OPTech, one of the two (Ace DFX doesn't run here) programs that can add hardpoints, hitzones, engines to a model and export to either XvT OPT or as XWA OPT model. Main issue are the textures and UV mapping. I did it right once and produced a TIE Hunter model but its been a decade now. Applying textures on Wings3d? well so far I've managed to use previously made textures and more or less use them on kitbashes (which is what I've been doing mainly). The issue lies on ther 3ds to OPZ conversion as even when OPTech fixees, they're still oddly applied and one has to re-apply them with the lmited tools present there. I found out how to reduce the number of edges (and faces , when they share same plane) but this is undone on the OPZ format. Anyways , I've a number of projects in mind, namely what would be Sin Squadron's TIE SIlencer, a new custom TIE based off the TIE Advanced and my take on how'd I modifiy an AW (thinkin' on it from a Star Conflict perspective: enhancing the hull and upgrading the energy systems so it can use more and more powerful engines, adding maneuvering thrusters and a pair of extra laser canons (XWA turbolasers, which sounds and looks the same but does a bit more damage, to represent 'upgraded' weapon systems - capital ships uses 'superlasers'). As soon as I get the texturing issue solved, I'll submit those to the SCO with the custom AW being my personal craft.

As for missions, I found out on AlliED, the order to rendezvous at a waypoint can lead to somewhere else other than 0,0,0 but you have to specify it on the Start 3? waypoint. Subtle, yet important. Anyways, I've been asking what are the most important aspects to make a mission interesting. I do have my own criteria but I wanted to ask a few experts as I'm aiming for a mature audience. I've seen a lot of different things on the compendium and only a few people got the right idea on delivering proper storylines. I think storyline, technical aspects, skill and tactical challenges are the main variables: mission has to be well designed, should challenge your piloting skills, should lead you to exert your tactical awareness and should deliver a good storyline and generally I could say this is the criteria.As an interesting additional note, I must point out that while trying to get a rendezvous order done, I realized no matter what, the ships' rendezcous is at 0,0,0. Indeed, no matter what the move waypoints were set to, it ignored them all and always attempted to move to 0.00 0.00 coordinates. After much tinkering and noticing the order description is 'Fly to Rendezvous WP' implying a specific waypoint type, I finally discovered this could be changed by altering the co-ordinates of the Start 3 ? option (regardless of it being enabled or not).

The storyline itself is now on the process where I fill out the details from the general outline. I can say it is a gray stroy where there's not absolute good or evil and I have the intention on actually telling a number of things I want to deal with, using sci fi as a vehicle for it.

Now, we have some bad news: out of the 3 ships we proposed as a reward for us after ReMob only one was accepted, the TIE Revenant. It was an interesting exchange where I learned something I can't share just yet hehe.


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COMPETITIONS

 

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WEEKLY EVALUATION #87

 

Pilot

SP Missions Flown

LoSs

LoCs

Other Activity/Awards/Comments

 






[1: Alpha 1-1]

 MAJ Alejandro Araujo
      (ah.pin11929@gmail.com)






0





3





0


Communications: Telegram/Discord/email/Message Boards.

Flight Operations: 3x LoS

Non-flight Operations: fiction, OPTing, missign design. @13-05 awarded MoC-doc

Administrative Tasks: Collecting data for WSR and MSE. @13-05 submitted WSR.

Observation:  There are things I'm trying to write up that...woa, a trip into the realms of what bothers me A fantastic experience dealing with my inner demons. Won't say more.

 




[2: Alpha 1-2]

LCM Milo Antu
      (ehtcantu@gmail.com)


0

0

0


Communications: None.

Flight Operations: None. 

Non-flight Operations: @13-05 MoC-poc.

Administrative Tasks: none.

Observation:  Milo will be busy with RL job so no pressure  here.



 



[3: Alpha 1-3]

 LT Shawn Erso
      (spc12342100@hotmail.com)

0

0

0


Communications: none.

Flight Operations: none.

Non-flight Operations: @13-05 awarded MoC-soc.

Administrative Tasks: none.

Observation: none.



 



[4: Alpha 1-4]
 LT James379
      (Hrmjames99@gmail.com)

0

0

0


Communications: none.

Flight Operations: none.

Non-flight Operations: @13-05 awarded MoC-goc.

Administrative Tasks: none.

Observation:  Risking AWOL here... 


 



 

0

0

0


Communications: none.

Flight Operations: none.

Non-flight Operations: @13-05 awarded MoC-boc.

Administrative Tasks: none.

Observation: Still busy with job.

 



[6: Alpha 2-2]
LT Riz
(josh_rohrer@yahoo.com)

0

0

2


Communications:  none.

Flight Operations: @11-05 2x LoCs

Non-flight Operations: @13-05 awarded MoC-boc.
Administrative Tasks: none.

Observation: none.

 


[7: Alpha 2-3]
SL Shello N'yan  (stephenvk@zoho.com)

0

0

0


Communications: none.

Flight Operations: none.

Non-flight Operations: @13-05 awarded MoC-boc.

Administrative Tasks: none.

Observation: Possible dereliction of duty, close to AWOL. A last attempt for contact will be made this week. Zero interaction.


 



0

0

0


Communications: none.

Flight Operations: none.

Non-flight Operations: @13-05 awarded MoC-boc.

Administrative Tasks: none.

Observation: Possible dereliction of duty, close to AWOL. A last attempt for contact will be made this week. Zero interaction.

 


0

0

0


Communications: email, Discord

Flight Operations: none.

Non-flight Operations: Trivia,  TOR, @13-05 awarded MoC-boc.

Administrative Tasks: Colecting data for his flight's evaluation. Pryde periodically sends a report on his flight's activity which I take for reference on my evaluations.

Observation: Constant communication, active on TOR. 


 

[10: Alpha 3-2]
LT Aaron Cremel
      (dolekanov@yandex.ru)

6

0

0


Communications: Telegram/Discord/email.

Flight Operations: @16-05 flew XWA-free 83, @19-05 flew XWA-free 43, @22-05 flew XWA-TC 65 (4x missions)

Non-flight Operations: @13-05 awarded MoC-boc, @16-05 completed IU course XWAI (92%), @19-05 submitted review for XWA-free 43. @22-05 submitted review for XWA-TC 65, @24-05 completed IU course TCCORE (89%).

Administrative Tasks: none.

Observation: Quite a decent activity.


 


[11: Alpha 3-3]
 MAJ Gustan      (arzona4499rangers@yahoo.com)

18

0

0


Communications: Discord/email.

Flight Operations: @13-05 flew BoP-TC 7 (4x missions),  @17-07 flew XvT-TC 1 (6x missions),  @25-05 flew BoP-TC 11 (4x missions), @26-05 flew XvT-TC 77 (4x missions)

Non-flight Operations: @13-05 awarded MoC-soc, @26-05 achieved FCHG rank: Knight

Administrative Tasks: none.

Observation: Active as well, good communication. 


 




[12: Alpha 3-4]
  MAJ Nebular
 (the.nebular@gmail.com)

0

0

0


Communications: none.

Flight Operations: none.

Non-flight Operations: none.

Observation: none...bingo! Possible dereliction of duty, close to AWOL. A last attempt for contact will be made this month. Really, who is this guy?

 

PROMOTIONS/TRANSFERS.

 

  • None.

MISCELLANEOUS.

 

If you like it and can spare some time, get involved on the runon story on Discord or else I'll write us all lol.
Working on setting up full gaming status on windows 8, then we start playing the XvT/BoP gaming campaigns which I'll stream.

Once I get the XWA mod working, I'll upload it so we can share same install. 
Hit me up on Telegram/Discord/Facebook or Whatsapp. I’m usually able to respond 24/7.

 

COMMANDER’S ANALYSIS

 

Imperial Storm has started. We're waiting on the first battle event to start the fight operations.  Dismissed!

 

SIGNOFF

 

Respectfully submitted:

Lieutenant Colonel Alejandro Araujo
CMDR-ROA/LC Alejandro Araujo/Alpha/Wing I/ISDII Hammer
email:
ah.pin11929@gmail.com , Discord: LC Alejandro Araujo#5400, Message Boards

Telegram: @AA_11929

 


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