REPORTING OFFICER: Colonel Zekk Terrik
DATE SUBMITTED: November 22 2020

It was another quiet night in the Sin bunkroom. Jack was cooking for everyone, like usual. This evening all of Sin was having roasted porg for dinner over a bed of Dantooinian rice. Dantooine was well known for its agricultural exports, as all the galaxy knew. Coremy was in his bunk playing his flight sims. Sin's newest addition, a returning member to the fleet, Colonel Wolfe, was studiously working on one of many projects at his desk. The squadron's XO, LCM Robert Hogan, was busy making sure that his bunk had exactly a three inch fold, even going so far as to get out a tape measure and make sure it was accurate down to the centimeter. LCM Firebreaker was busy carefully cleaning his bowcaster. LC Rando was, unfortunatey, nowhere to be seen. Two days ago he thought he had seen a Republic cruiser outside, and had hopped in his TIE Sinister to chase it down. They really needed to have an intervention soon. Zekk felt bad for the Republic cruiser.

Zekk always did his best to take care of his pilots, and had even managed to tactically acquire a crate of Zekks On The Beach for dinner this evening from Colonel Hav Antiel's quarters. It would be wasted on him; Hav's unrefined palate couldn't appreciate such pure liquor.

As Zekk reclined on the couch, reading the newest issue of Playtwi'lek, the buzzer for the squadron quarters sounded. Without even waiting to be buzzed in, the door opened, and Fleet Admiral Silvius strolled in looking stern.

Zekk leapt to his feet, almost certainly so fast with the aid of the Force. ''Tenshun! Commodore on deck!' Zekk shouted. All of Sin, like a well-disciplined machine, stood at attention. Commander Wynand began sweating furiously, certain that his porg was getting dry.

Zekk saluted. 'Good evening, sir,' said Zekk. 'To what do we the pleasure of the Commodore's presence in our quarters?'

Silvius returned the salute. 'Believe it or not, I'm not here to yell at you,' said Silvius. Zekk relaxed ever so slightly. Finally! Someone else was in trouble! Silvius turned to Zekk's Wookiee friend. 'Lieutenant Commander Firebreaker! Step forward.'

Zekk shot a worried glance to Firebreaker. They had both tactically acquired that liquor from Hav's quarters. 'I swear, if Hav's punk ass snitched on us...........' thought Zekk. Stoically, Firebreaker stepped forward.

'Lieutenant Commander, our rotational evaluations have finally concluded. It is with great pleasure that I am here to present you with your new rank badge, and inform you of your promotion to the rank of full Commander. You will receive back pay commensurate with your new rank back to the beginning of this current rotation, and the personal congratulations of the Commodore. Congratulations, Commander!' said Silvius, this time saluting Firebreaker first. Firebreaker let out a Wookiee war cry that shook through the halls of the Warrior as he returned the Commodore's salute. Unable to maintain military discipline and overjoyed for their comrade, they all piled on Commander Firebreaker, the 10th person finally knocking his massive frame to the floor. Silvius let it go as he slipped it out, not wanting to mingle with the lowly line officers.

The only person who didn't pile on was Commander Wynand, who seriously basted his porg in anticipation of tonight's raucous feast.

• Make sure you catch episode 5 of The TIE Pilot Podcast at this link, where COL Hav Antiel and I interview the founder of the Emperor's Hammer, GA Ronin, and discuss its early history. Thanks to CM Jack Wynand for the excellent editing work! Jack is currently in the process of editing episode 6, where LCM Frenchie6 and CM Bai'et Decol appeared with CM Jack Wynand to discuss SW Squadrons tactics, strategy, and first impressions.
• Congratulations to MAJ Tygra Shadowclaw who took command of Tempest Squadron this week.
• COL Mordechi Wolfe of Sin Squadron will begin a focus group on how to implement a salary system within the TIE Corps. Phase I has begun soon and we are deep into it! I'll keep you posted. Thank you to all that volunteered.
• Today was the first meeting of the TIE Corps leadership, which ran about two hours, the last 30 minutes of which my eyes glazed over a bit. We discussed quite a bit and hope to make this a regular thing to streamline communication and work on issues, and we will likely redesign the TIE Corps logo! Next leadership meeting is December 5th at 11 AM Pacific.
• We'd like to extend our congratulations to LCM Marek Ny`Irfa, who is the 2020 Lord of the TIEs. That battle pissed me off, I don't know how you did it.

• The next Sin On Patrol mission is XvT Free 30, and the next TIE Golf mission is XvT Free 31. This will be due at 11:59 PM PST on November 29th.
So far I have received only a SoP submission for LCM Favdaukar.
• The next edition of Sin Trivia can be found here. This will begin Monday.
• The missions for the Sin Citation Bonanza are TIE TC 3, XvT TC, and XWA TC 3. Click on the competition link below to see how the competition is scored, it's more than just simple flying!
• Congratulations to LCM Robert Hogan for winning last week's trivia with a perfect 5/5 in 37 seconds, holy cow!
• We should have all received our shinies this week. Congratulations to the newly promoted CM Firebreaker Terrik!

Here’s some fleet-wide competitions currently going on:

Star Wars Squadrons competitions:

TIE Corps Space Superiority 2020

• The goal of this competition is to award activity in Star Wars Squadrons Dogfight Mode
• During every month pilots will submit notations of the highest number of kills from submitting pilots with screenshot proof by email to the COO Office akin to TIE Corps on the MP Front 2020.
• At the end of the month participants will be awarded 5, 4, 3, 2 or one point (minimum) based on their placing. If less than five pilots participate the maximum monthly points awarded will be reduced to match this number.
• At the end of the year these points will be added up, rewarding the highest scoring pilot with an IS-PW, runner-up with an IS-GW and third with an IS-BW.

TIE Corps Capital Strike vs AI 2020 (PvE)

TIE Corps Capital Strike 2020 (PvP Fleet Battles)

Single players competitions:

TCiB assignments for November

• TIE-TC battle 114: Stop the press!
• XvT-TC battle 92: Wing VIII: Prelude
• XWA-TC battle 46: The Rescue of Anna Darksaber

Everyone's a Critic

Ace of the TIE Corps 2020

Multiplayer competitions:

TIE Corps on the CoOp-Front - 2020

TIE Corps on the MP-Front - 2020

Art creation competitions:

Firebird Banner Competition

Those weirdos that fly the alphabet fighters need a banner now, let's help them out! Try to make it too, ugh, Rebel....

The TIE Pilot Podcast

The podcast created by TIE pilots, for TIE pilots. Interested in being on, or have an idea for the show? Tell us! Please contact COL Zekk Terrik or CM Jack Wynand ASAP!

Hammer Patch Competition

The Hammer needs a patch! You have until the end of November to design one - with the winner taking either a IS-SR or IS-BR depending on the number of entries.

For a full list of the current competitions:

Flight I

[1-1] COL Zekk Terrik

• Comms: Email, Discord
• Activity: Administrative work, did quite a bit of flying and Legions. Attended TC leadership meeting.

[1-2] CPT Coremy Jertese

• Comms: Email, Discord
• Activity: Cranked out Legions!

[1-3] COL Mordechi Wolfe

• Comms: Discord, Email
• Activity: Trivia, was active in getting the Project Sov focus group going.

[1-4] GN Earnim Branet

• Comms: None
• Activity: Earned a ridiculous amount of Legions.

Flight II

[2-1] LC Rando

• Comms: Email, Discord
• Activity: Did some flying.

[2-3] LCM Favdaukar

• Comms: Email, Discord
• Activity: Trivia, lots of flying too. Is someone due for a promotion soon???

[2-4] LT Dune Thrallick

• Comms: Discord, sorta.
• Activity: Nada

Flight III

[3-1] LCM Robert Hogan

• Comms: Discord
• Activity: Earned Legions, submitted his XO report, updated his INPR and uniform.

[3-2] CM Jack Wynand

• Comms: Discord
• Activity: Busy editing TTPP #6

[3-3] CM Firebreaker Terrik

• Comms: Discord
• Activity: Did trivia

[3-4] GN Exar Kit

• Comms: Nada
• Activity: Nada

A lot of us earned shinies this week and I see a bit of increased activity...nice work folks! Make Sin proud!

COL Zekk Terrik