TCCOM Report # 23 (2021-01-11)

This report was submitted by TCCOM-IOA-EDR/FA Plif/TC-1/ISDII Warrior


TCCOM REPORT #23

REPORTING OFFICER: Fleet Admiral Plif, TIE Corps Commander
DATE SUBMITTED: 10 Jan 21
ACTIVE DUTY ROSTER COUNT: 151 (+3) Including 3 NPCs

NEWS

The roster is up three from last time, picked up a few new recruits from various social media posts we've been putting out there and via flying in Star Wars Squadrons.

Since last time, two Wardens of the Imperial Archives (WARDs) were appointed. Congratulations to COL Stryker and CPT Genie! Their first project is leading a team that'll be designing an official TIE Corps logo, which seems to be going pretty well so far whenever I've peeked in on their Discord channel.

Also in the space between TCCOM reports, RA Zekk Terrik became the new COM of the Warrior, CM Robert Hogan is the new CMDR of Sin Squadron, and CM acetiepilot is the new CMDR of Rho Squadron. Good luck in your new roles!

The TC Squadrons League's Chalquilla Cup kicks off soon with team formation ending on the 14th. Organized by COL Silwar Naiilo and CPT Genie, it's a 3v3 dogfighting team event for Star Wars Squadrons. More details in #chalquilla-cup on Discord.

The TIE Corps has officially ended our support for Imperial Alliance (IA), Freeworlds (FW), Galactic Starfighter (GS) in SW:TOR, and Classic Battlefront II (CBF2). IA was an EH project that fell out of development a long time ago, FW stopped running its servers recently after spending a long time no longer being developed, and GS and CBF2 are still have live servers but don't see activity from the TIE Corps regularly enough for us to claim that we're active in them. GS and CBF2 still appear on the MP screenshot submission forms for now, but they'll be removed soon. The big idea here is to focus our attention on the eight games remaining in our lineup: the four classic Star Wars flight sims, Star Conflict, the two EA Battlefronts, and Squadrons.

Episode 7 of the TIE Pilot Podcast was released by RA Zekk Terrik and CM Jack Wynand, check that out on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6lLhnBTCUw.

Courtesy of the Fleet Commander, there's a new way to email the TCCS all at once. tccs@emperorshammer.org now delivers messages sent to it into all three of our Inboxes, a handy shortcut for anyone that has occasion to contact the TCCS all at once. As a reminder, you should go ahead and email all three of us anytime you're emailing two of us. Also, this new eh.org address is a forward as opposed to an account of its own, you won't see replies coming back from that same address.

TITLE HOLDERS

The Raise the Flag event each year confers three titles to recognize the top ship, squadron, and individual pilot from the competition. These are the current holders of those titles.

TIE Corps Flagship: ISDII Warrior

TCCOM's Escort Squadron: Rho

TCCOM's Wingman: GN Pickled Yoda

TCCOM'S COMPETITIONS

Everyone's a Critic is a wrap for now. Congratulations to LC Phalk Sturm, RA Zekk Terrik, and COL Stryker for claiming the top three spots in December.

TIE Corps in Battle also completed its 2020 run, congratulations to CPT SL8c8 for claiming the title for a second year in a row! TCiB had squadron and ship components this year as well, congratulations to Tempest Squadron and the ISDII Warrior for winning their respective divisions. The 2021 edition of TCiB will kick off in February.

The Trivia Grand Tour had a short holiday run. Congratulations to GN Pickled Yoda, GN Hav Antiel, LCM TI-40026, and CM Witcher for their podium-level times. TGT will return for a full season soon.

SP Ace of the TIE Corps is now a TCCOM-run competition and awards for December and 2020 went out. Congratulations to MAJ Hermann for finishing in the top spot and earning his first IS-PW!

TRANSFERS
  • RA Zekk Terrik, formerly Sin CMDR, is now the Commodore of the ISDII Warrior
  • GN Hav Antiel, formerly Rho CMDR, is now a FM in Rho Squadron
  • COL Daniel Stephens was moved from a FL role in Kappa Squadron to a FM role
  • COL Silvius, formerly the WarCOM, is now a FM in Theta Squadron
  • COL Stryker of Firebird Squadron was appointed to the WARD secondary role
  • MAJ Hermann is now a Flight Leader in Sin Squadron
  • CPT Genie of Lambda Squadron was appointed to the WARD secondary role
  • CM acetiepilot was promoted to Rho Squadron CMDR
  • CM Frenchie6 is now a Flight Leader in Rho Squadron
  • CM Victor O‘Brien is now a Flight Leader in Kappa Squadron
  • LCM Feco returned from the void and was assigned to Theta Squadron
  • LCM Graf D‘Jinn of Lambda Squadron transferred to Eagle Squadron and became a Flight Leader there
  • LCM Marek Ny`Irfa was moved from a FL role in Tempest Squadron to a FM role
  • LCM Richlet is now a Flight Leader in Tempest Squadron
  • LCM Robert Hogan was promoted to Sin Squadron CMDR and the rank of CM
  • LCM Turel is now a Flight Leader in Firebird Squadron
  • LT JackieHarr returned from the void and was assigned to Sin Squadron
  • LT Nindo Ardinn of Tempest Squadron transferred to the Reserves
  • LT Rhygaar of Tempest Squadron transferred to the Reserves
  • LT Shawn Erso is now a Flight Leader in Eagle Squadron
  • LT Synapse of Tempest Squadron transferred to the Reserves
  • CT Dante “Red skull” Rake completed their IWATS training and was assigned to Rho Squadron as a SL
  • CT Ein Bowman completed their IWATS training and was assigned to Firebird Squadron as a SL
  • CT Jax completed their IWATS training and was assigned to Tempest Squadron as a SL
  • CT Morgoth completed their IWATS training and was assigned to Tempest Squadron as a SL
TCCOM'S AGENDA

DONE:

  • Wrapped up TCiB, Everyone's a Critic, and SP Ace of the TIE Corps
  • Launched and concluded a Trivia Grand Tour bonus round
  • Reviewed Project SOVEREIGN Phase I for COL Mordecai Wolfe
  • Ran an officer meeting back on 1/2, next is 1/16

ONGOING:

  • Greeting new cadets and performing onboarding tasks before assigning them to squadrons
  • Processing transfers and other profile updates in the database
  • Posting news to the feed in the database (sometimes)
  • TIE Corps Pilot Manual updates - Living document style, no big revisions that take a while to come out
    • Well, no big revisions until there was a new visually-enhanced version to reverse engineer into Google Drive before I can continue making updates myself, of which there are a few pending
  • Chatting with the IO about stuff we need or would like to see in the new database
  • Learning to be a responsible database code collaborator from the IO, AD Turtle Jerrar (thanks!)
  • Translating things discussed in CMDR+ meetings into proposals and changes

IN PROGRESS:

  • Working on an awards proposal from CM Robert Hogan
  • Parsing RtF feedback to share with the leaders

PENDING:

  • Trivia Grand Tour
  • The Commodore Volume 7
  • Figuring out another solution for completing the evaluation feedback loop
  • Competition resource - what we've done before to serve as a pool of ideas for what we can do next
  • Taking TM/3
SIGNOFF

If there's anything I can help you with Corps-wise, please let me know! Message me on Discord at Plif#2475 or over email at tccom at emperorshammer dot org.

Fleet Admiral Plif
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