TO: Pilots of the Hammer
FROM: Rear Admiral Phoenix Berkana
DATE: 2021-25-06
SUBJECT: Hammer Ship Report
MEMBER COUNT: 48 (-1)

Greetings pilots of the Hammer!

We kick off this weeks report with some news items.

Firstly, Imperial Storm the next TIE Corps wide competition is due to kick off this weekend. More details can be found here but it is effectively a turn based wargame that pits the different ships against each other in a race to secure territory and destroy each other. Battles are fought using a scoring system that takes into account the number of Legions that a side racks up during a combat window in addition to a average score in a SP mission. The three teams in this edition are being led by GN Silwar (Challenge), MAJ Hogan (Warrior) and our own MAJ Genie (Hammer) and there will be plenty more details to follow as we get going.

Secondly and this one is important to all you potential Squadron Commanders out there, we have a vacancy. As you may have noticed both of our sister ships are sporting 5 squadrons whereas we currently have 4, and this is going to change. After speaking with the TCCOM we have elected to advertise for the Hammers 5th Squadron Commander, he or she will be able to select between recommissioning Delta or Gamma Squadrons and will need to have someone identified as their first Flight Leader when they send me their application. Please email me directly (don't hit reply here) and lay out your thoughts as to why you'd like the role, who you plan to bring onboard as a FL (we only need the one initially) and let me know which of the two squadrons you'd prefer. You will need to have completed SM/5 at the IU (or have it started please) and do let me know this weekend as I anticipate several applications.

Finally after many many years of being a Major Task, our very own Wing Commander and purveyor of paperwork has earnt a promotion to Lt Colonel. Task is of course a NPC as with the other WC's but we do hope one day he'll succeed in rising to the ranks of a General Task.

Promotions
MAJ Navern Task was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel

Transfers
LT Rigger was assigned to the reservers M/FRG Phoenix

Uniform Updates
COL Talons Pryde
MAJ Taygetta
CPT Witcher
CM Garyth Mantisa
CM Wildfire
CM Xye
LCM Gytheran
LCM Witchblade
LT TheBlackxRanger

Trivia for the Hammered - Season Two
As with Season One each week will see 4 questions released via email with the quickest pilot to answer getting 3 points, second quickest 2 points and all the pilots with a correct answer 1 point.
We tally up at the end of the week with the weekly winner receiving a IS-BR.
After 8 rounds we tally up for our Season Two winner who will receive a IS-SR, the runner up a IS-BR.
Career IS-CR's at 50,100, 250, 500 etc

This weeks round featured questions related to the A-Wing, answers below!

Q1: Which company manufactured the A-Wing family of interceptors?
A1: Kuat Systems Engineering
Q2: True or False - the company that manufactured the A-Wing (used by Rebels) was a subsidiary of the company that built the Imperial Star Destroyers for the Empire?
A2: True
Q3: What model of A-Wing was used by the Resistance in their fight against the First Order?
A3: RZ-2
Q4: The A-Wing models designed by Ralph McQuarrie were originally intended to be what colour?
A4: Blue


This weeks round was well competed in, 12 different participants which also saw a drawn round with GN Coranel Both and CM Xye finishing level on 7 points with both earning a IS-BR. MAJ Taygetta also passed the 50 career point mark and picked up a IS-CR, so well done to all!
Starting next week I'll be breaking down the time statistics as well so you can see how long it took to answer!

Xye 7pts (1st, 2nd, 11th, 10th)
Coranel Both 7pts (2nd, 11th, 6th, 1st)
Taygetta 6pts (6th, 1st, 10th, 7th)
Aaron Cremel 6pts (9th, 9th, 1st, 4th)
TheBlackxRanger 5pts (3rd, 3rd, 8th, 2nd)
SoloHan50 5pts (5th, 6th, 2nd, 5th)
Witcher 4pts (4th, 4th, 5th , 6th)
Genie 4pts (7th, 10th, 4th, 3rd)
Witchblade 4pts (12th, 5th, 9th, 8th)
Garyth Mantisa 4pts (8th, 8th, 3rd, 9th)
The Howler 4pts (10th, 7th, 7th, 11th)
Highlander 4pts (11th, 12th, 12th, 12th)

A full list of TIE Corps competitions can be found here

It's been a week of admin, a week of flying and a week of interviews from my side - I took part in the Twitch stream that COL Talons Pryde runs and it will be out on Tuesday if anyone wants to listen!

Rear Admiral Phoenix Berkana
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