SSSD Sovereign
Report #109
11.5.2003 - AD Proton
COM/AD Proton reporting for the Emperor's Hammer flagship, the SSSD Sovereign, on 11-5-03:
IMPERIAL STORM IV
-- Here's a screenshot by GN Stele of the Sov swatting flies in the skirmish last Saturday:
http://www.imperialmight.org/flightscreen0.jpg
-- Oh, yes, the results of Imperial Storm IV? Well, after we survived the Saturday skirmish (having destroyed two capital ships and many squadrons of enemy fighters), we moved to the victory square, A11, Aurora. This gained us a "minor victory" in the wargame. The Sov wins IS again, what else is new?
-- BUT WAIT! The TIE Corps Battlegroups, which we faced in the skirmish Saturday, filed a "formal protest" over the skirmish. The TCBGs and one other group on the enemy side, the ATF I believe, were "withdrawing" from the wargame. Upon receiving this protest, WO/AD Pel resigned as war officer, saying he was tired of the complaints. Then, acceding to the TCBGs' demands, FO/FA Cyric denied Pel's resignation and then decreed that the skirmish be reflown, with the demands of the TCBGs met. Once again, our hard-earned victories in the Imperial Storm wargames have been tarnished by protests and withdrawals from the losers. However, we are better men and women, I am proud to say. We are going to participate in this game, hell or high water, and I'm expecting our team to score yet another victory in the Saturday "re-skirmish." The skirmish will occur after the EH weekly meeting on the Undernet on IRC in the #project_faithful channel, VA Reaper moderating. All Sovereign personnel are encouraged to attend to show your support for the TACs and the MP pilots. Any MP pilots wishing to participate are invited to show up; realize, however, there are only two flight slots open in the skirmish.
-- Last but not least, our single-player pilots obliterated the TCBGs in the SP portion of the skirmish. We chalked up 25 pilots files to the BGs' pitiful 6, and outscored them about 5-1. Well done, as usual!
SOVEREIGN AND FLEET NEWS AND NOTES
-- The Beer Cup! This is a RED ALERT competition for November! We are facing the Intrepid and the Vanguard in a TIE, XvT and XWA comp. We need ALL PILOTS to fly this one! Note: Omega Squadron has been asked to sit this one out, because the Inty and Van don't have an elite squadron to back them up. Here are the flight assignments:
TIE-TC Battle 211
XvT-TC Battle 75
XWA-TC Battle 24
Sovereign pilot files are due to me by Nov. 30.
-- TIE Fighter Ship Patch Released!
08:26 - AD Ender mBind [mindb_ender@hotmail.com]
Today saw the release of the "Emperor's Hammer Ship Patch" for TIE fighter
'95.
This patch adds the Shipyard, Repairyard, Medium Transport, Communications
Relay, Sensor Array, Astromech, Gunplatform, Large Gunplatform, Laser
Battery, Super Star Destroyer and Pilot to TIE95. It fixes the bug in TIE
Fighter that keeps Imperial Star Destroyers from firing their lasers.
The patch can be installed together with other patches and kept installed
permanently as it does not replace any existing Craft.
This patch replaces the earlier "ISD Lasers Patch" for TC flying. Go check
it out on the Patch Archive.
-- BoP shippatch
07:40 - AD Ender mBind [mindb_ender@hotmail.com]
Today saw the release of the "Emperor's Hammer Ship Patch" for BoP. This patch adds the TIE Defender, Missileboat, Scout Craft, Passenger Liner, Carrack Cruiser, Communications Relay, Sensor Array, Astromech, Large Gunplatform, Laser Battery, Probe Capsule and Pilot to BoP. It also changes ranks and awards to a EH theme. The patch can be installed together with other patches and kept installed permanently as it does not replace any existing Craft.
-- Another petition urging LA to make another -wing series game:
http://www.petitiononline.com/XWing/petition.html
-- FA Cyric issues reminder on transfer procedures:
"This from the FSO's and on the FO website:
Transfers of pilots between squadrons or to and from the Reserves are traditionally a bit of a headache for all concerned. While it may be convenient for the pilot to simply email the Flight Officer direct with the transfer request, it is far from convenient for the Flight Officer to find out the names and email addresses of every officer who needs to know about the transfer for you. And since the Flight Officer has a daily email load of anything up to 70 emails while the average pilot is lucky to get 10, the following procedure will be adopted where a request for a transfer is being considered:
A pilot wishing to transfer should request the transfer first from their own Commander. This allows the Commander time to find out the reasons why the transfer is being requested. If there is a problem in the Squadron, now is the time to correct the problem.
The pilot should then find out the email addresses of the Commander, Wing Commander, COM and BGCOM of the Wing to which he or she wishes to transfer. If you can't be bothered to do this much, you're obviously not ready for the level of commitment that a transfer to a new Squadron involves and your transfer request will be denied immediately.
The pilot should now send a transfer request to their Commander, cc'ing ALL Superior Officers involved (CMDR+) on both sides.
The Commander of the Squadron to which you are transferring should reply to all addressees on the transfer request, remembering to cc the Flight Officer.
The Flight Officer will then approve the transfer.
The Flight Officer should be the last person to hear about a request for a transfer, not the first. By the time it gets to the Flight Office, the request should be ready for approval. Any requests that reach the Flight Office without having first been to all relevant commanding officers will be rejected immediately, and the person sending the mail will be invited to read Fleet Standing Orders.
I should only get the mail for the transfer or FL positional promo LAST! I don't want to be cc'ed with the request, I only want to get the FINAL letter stating that everyone has approved and please make the change! This will need to be followed to the letter of the law from here on out. Make sure that everyone is familiar with the FSO's!"
-- Wing II graphics in its comp against the Immortal and Greywolf:
http://users.telenet.be/dweezil/Wing_II_Graphics/
-- Speaking of the above comp: Wing II put forth a very strong showing, and we are confident of victory! However, the Immortal brass has "lost" their results. So we don't know the definite outcome yet.
-- Speaking of comps where the enemy "lost" their results: Delta Squadron accepted a challenge from the Infiltrator Wing's Enforcer Squadron. You guessed it: Our people flew like demons and put up some impressive results. Enforcer's CMDR quit, the new CMDR has no information, and the flag officer won't even respond to our e-mails.
-- Let's hope Wing I has better luck getting opponents who report their results: Wing I vs Wing IX, comp # 1060.
Wing I fights for two weeks, flying 1 free mission for each game platform (TIE, XvT, XWA)
TIE-FREE Battle #137 - The Baker's Dozen
XvT-FREE Battle #153 - Tempest Tango
XWA-FREE Battle #57 - Wing XV: Hornet Squadron
-- Monthly Wing Evaluations. I'm doing a slow burn here. The New Guy, LC Josh, is off the hot seat, because he already turned his in, and it was well done at that. Mike, Stele and Wolvie, you guys need to have those MWEs on my desk yesterday, or a good explanation of why they are not in. Wolvie and Mike, you guys haven't even filed a wing weekly report lately. Suck it up!
FORCE STRENGTH
-- Give a big Sovereign welcome to these new or returning pilots:
FM/COL Mobiles/Delta 1-2
FM/SL Hendo/Hey 1-3
SSSD Sovereign [130]
Wing I [30]
Wing II [28]
Wing III [29]
Wing IV [42]
Omega [9]
SHIP COMMUNICATIONS
IRC channel: #SSSD_Sovereign
Message board:
http://theholo.net/mb/viewforum.php?f=25
The SSSD Sovereign Cantina Song:
http://www.minos.net/~proton/drink.html
PLANETARY OPERATIONS
-- Feel free to contribute to Tatooine News, my SWG site:
http://www.imperialmight.org/html/index.php
CANTINA COMMENTS
COMBAT DEBRIEFING OF THE WEEK
"sooo disable the MIS u say...while disabling the MIS the 3 B-Wings always destroy the ETR here, or am I making a slight mistake here???
if I disable the 3 B-Wings first and intercept some rockets I still stand no chance and the MIS destroy the PLT within seconds....
I gave it a chance and all I missed was like: the 2 remaining groups of B-Wings from the PLT, 1 T-Wing, and the PLT itself....
so I ask: how the hell can you do that???" -LCM Zeth "now completely confused" Durron
"Sweet merciful crap, do NVidia's drivers SUCK!" -LC Josh
"C'mon Commander, put your back into it ;) I didn't kill everything in that mission, so it's definitely gettable :) " -LT Brin Chaser
"Aaargh...
Guys, I am addicted, I must confess that now.
I thought I could live without flying, but today it's a horror for me.
I am in a mood to fly and to construct a simple mission (maybe this time without bugs:P ) but: I do not have a USB joystick, and I have no gameports on my MotherBoard (yea, I know it's unbelieveable)
I'll borrow an USB stick next week and fly something.
Gee.. it's like sex... Once you got it, you can't never be free from that..." -COL Aeishline
"LOL! If that's true, then we're all screwed! Those of us who fly, anyway...:P" -LC Josh
CANTINA COMMENTS
"Welcome to Psi, SL D'Lorien!
*ANOTHER MACINTOSH IN THE WING! WOOHOO! :P* " -COL Inkwolf
"Guess I need to try harder to get in the DAMNED QUOTES!!!!! Ah well, there's
a first for everything." CM Derek Hobbie Klivian
"*is overwhelmed by a sudden burst of greed for more pilots*
*drools* " -CM Ras Kronar
"However fermenting his milk is a fun past time, however he doesn't tend to drink anything that we've touched so paranoid is he he won't even accept anything you pass to him. The only milk he'll drink is that he freshly has pulled from his pet cow buttermilk (I think that's her name anyway). So the wing have got rather busy recently working out ways to ferment Milk that's still inside a cow." -COL Jon
"You know Halc, you have a problem with cows. And you should get yourself checked out. Really. It's for your own good." -COL Mini Minkus
"I agree with dave. You know Cow fetishes are illegal in most countries." -MAJ Evo Sarnok
"DEMOTED! *points at Zyrax =P " -GN Stele Pellaeon
"I got quotes, and was noticed, so now I take a bow.
*bows, rotates 90 degrees to left, bows, rotates 90 degrees to left, bows, smashes head into bar. jerks up in pain and hops around the bar on one foot, clutching forehead*
Ow ow ow ow OWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!! Jesus Christ on a motorbike that kills!" -CM Derek Klivian
"Man, I spend the time 'researching' pictures and putting them on a website and still no love! lol Glad you could enjoy these 'low-quality' pics of one of my all time favorite women...next to me GF, of course. :P" -LC Nurel Turr
"You mean senile? Disordered? Unable to perform average, every-day duties that a fit, young, person could? I'd say I act my age ;) " -LC Freelancer
"Nonono, you're supposed to act calm, well mannered, and sage-like. Think Obi-wan Kenobi man, a crazy old coot living in the desert with the power of the force ;)" -MAJ Argon
"Oh, come on, you want to give the channel back to me... don't you miss the old ironfist Astin days? :P " -LC Astin
"Well Argon. You've destroyed your own argument right there. I think "crazy old coot" fits me to a T, and I bet that's what all the higher-ups refer to me as (that, or "Oh GOD no, not HIM again!!!")" -LC Freelancer
"TGIF... That battleGroup Is .... Well, you fill in the last word >:D
We gonna wiiiiiIIIiiin!" -LC Freelancer
"What now? I don't remember signing over myself into indentured servitude! No! I'm not yours! I'm FREE! FREE!!! I'm FREEEEEElancer, not "Slavelancer"!!!" -LC "Free" Freelancer
"So what are you saying, Brian? That my stash isn't quite up to par with the Admiral's club and the infamous Lake 'o' Beer?
(*Sas cradles his three bottles of stolen booze*)
"Well ... everyone knows that it's not the SIZE of the booze stash -- it's how valuable it is. Or something like that. I think. ;-) " -GN Sasquatch
"/me is not quite sure how to answer that
/me checks his own personal booze stash: zero.
*eek*
Crap.
This is NOT good... where is that last shipment of booze??" -COL Brian
"Deftly diverted to my own dwindling stocks... Halloween put a hurtin' on the stash!" -GN Devin
"Apparantly we are under attack by the Intrepid and the Vanguard. Let's whip them back to their mommas for their insolance" -LT Arlins
"Why yes, of course I miss the days of tiptoeing around the room, worried that Astin was in one of his "moods" again :p" -COL Ricardo
"I assume that's from Proton? You could probably train a monkey to type that, but I'd hope that's not what it is ;P " -MAJ Argon
"Many apologies ,this is from Proton. excuse me while i give my monkey a thorough beating" -LT Arlins
"Most commited?
(*goes to check how many times he has been put in a straight-jacket*)
By George, the man just may be right!" -LC Freelancer
"Waka waka....
nanu nanu and.....my waffle code is frosted
flakes..over." -CM Eric
"Let's kick their cans ;) " -MAJ Argon
"So until next week, this is CM Ras Kronar saying:
Everything only comes up aces if you cheat." -CM Kronar
"Dear God, you're back.
Dear God, I'm still here." -MAJ Nebular
"Don't be too afraid of the big, bad WC. Be terrified! ;) " -LC Josh
"I went as white trash or Wolverine. Grew my sideburns out again, though they're still frickin' RED! Grah, so I was born a redhead, my hair's brown now, has been for probably fourteen years now, not dyed either. Yup, I'm a goofy lookin' hairball. Now you all see why I never put my picture on the Hey Squadron Website. I don't want to scare young children or old people." -LC Josh
"Ahem, I resent being corrected. No matter how insane you may be, I get locked up as much as you do, and in all honesty, so should Proton. *goes into hiding* Have some humility man =P" -MAJ Argon
"I have more humility than I need! Why I create more humor than ever!" -LC Freelancer
"DUDE. :D That sounds really cool. Finally, some new thingies to blow up in TIE! I hope someone makes some nice missions with them in, because I'd sure love to play 'em! I'm not going to even ask how someone made this patch, because the explaination will probably make my head hurt. :P" -CM HicRic
"but is it just me or is zeth's galaxy giving us the finger? @_@ " -LT Dagger
"Oooh, monkey doo. Less smelly, chunky, and runny, thanks Proton =P " -Argon "probably dead now" Viper
"I hereby imbue this poo with the unholy Dark Force powers to fling itself at whomever it sees fit (or whomever Proton orders to be targeted).
MUA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-H------ (*SPLAT*)
Oh, that's just DISGUSTING, Argon! Thanks, thanks a lot! (*goes to change*)" -LC Freelancer
"Hehehe. /me hides behind a mountain of poo and waits for the next passerby ;) " -MAJ Argon
"Man, I've been in the HGBs so long I can differentiate Crusher's poo from the rest =P As for the rest, I'd better catch up on my immunities. Maybe the "tropical" treatment... ;) " -MAJ Argon
"Oh the cut and thrust of intellectual debate
the frank discusion of complex conundrums
and of course Poo!!
or to qoute the line "theres gonna be a big poo sandwich and we all get to take a bite" -LT Arlins
"Proton, please order the Force-powered Monkey-poo to splatter Argon! Please?!?! (*puppy dog eyes*)" -LC Freelancer
" /me runs out and splatters Free's fighter inside and out. MWAHAHAHA!!!! *splat* Hey, stop ordering that force powered poo, Proton =P " -MAJ Argon
"Ooooh.. Bubba's not gonna like this. He lives in that fighter! Oh, no, he's waking up from his nap, and every side is the wrong side of the bed!! RUUUUUUUNNNN!!!!!!!!!!" -LC "Flee"lancer
"/me hides in the HGBs. Not even Bubba is stupid enough to come down here! *ignores the fact that he is* " -MAJ Argon
"*Flees from Bubba's wrath, passes the HGB, dives in*
"Oh, Hi, Argon. That reminds me, I have something for you"
*scoop*
*splat*
Touche!" -LC Freelancer
" /me slings mud back at Freelancer. I shall either be the Alpha male or the president of Aurora Prime! =P " -MAJ Argon
"I think LA thinks everyone just ADORES the Force and saber crap. Personnally, if they combined the two and worked it into that somehow, that'd be awesome(they sorta have with JK3 actually). But until they make that or another TIE, I shall not be satisfied! ONWARD my brethren!" -CM Sirik Xirok
"Couple of notes for Hendo.
1: Drink Beer. We live on Beer over here. DRINK! DRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINK!!!!!
2: Play Cricket. Lots of people over here need to learn, and I dont want to
teach ANOTHER PERSON!!!!!
3: Do the INPR, but I've told you already, so HAH." -CM Klivian
"/me heads to the Sov cantina and orders a triple Timbal's Vodka Special, which causes several cadets to pass out as the drink passes near them on the way to Brian's spot at the table...
Oh, wait, I should only order those in our private cantina... oops." -COL Brian
"Yay! Pink lettered reports again!!! :P" -LC Nurel Turr
"SHOTGUN on the SSD! :D " -CM Tim
"AD "Trying not to go Scarface on thier asses" Joe" -AD Joe
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