But this is only the first step toward the awesomeness that is the Demolition Crew's destiny. We must learn to grasp the fact that we are the best squadron in the fleet. We must develop a swagger that is unmatched in the TIE Corps, and we must understand the importance of being awesome.

- Commander Kate Flyer, On the Importance of Being Awesome

What a great week for Cyclone Squadron! Our flying has been generally good, I've been getting a lot of good ideas from flight leaders and, best of all, Cyclone has bested Tempest Squadron in head-to-head competition. =D Medals have been recommended and will be in the mail soon. I've already said it a couple times, but I want to reiterate how proud I am of this squadron, and the direction that we're going. I forsee many great things ahead for the Demolition Crew. =)

Tempest vs Cyclone - Cyclone has defeated Tempest Squadron, garnering the top 3 out of 4 spots! Special mentions go to Maj. Fink, who score 60K and wrote an excellent little guide to getting high scores, and Cm. Dulcatos, Cyclone's top scorer. Excellent work guys.

- The Great Cyclone FCHG Race #1 is over! Final standings are Lt. Phelan with 37 points; Cm. Dulcatos with 22 points; Fink and Marlin with 16 points apiece; and Blenheim with 5 points. My unofficial total was 36 points. Congrats to Phelan and Dulcatos! Your medals are in the mail guys.

- Stay tuned for a forthcoming run-on. Yes I'm excited too. =P

- Wing X meetings are 6:00 EST on Sundays in #wing_x. Join us for amusing trivia and news from around the fleet.

- Wing X is the Flight Office's Own! We flew like 2500 missions in two month. I'm pretty sure that TK and I accounted for 1400 hundred of those. </no life>

- Check the competitions section of this months wing competitions.

- Squadron of the Month is Typhoon Squadron (May)

- Go to http://ehtiecorps.org or http://www.emperorshammer.org for the newest fleet news.

- Imperial Storm V
Competition between the Battlegroups. It should be considered a priority! I’ll be bugging everybody about this for as long as it runs!

- TAC FCHG competition
Frodo is hosting the annual TAC FCHG competition. 'Cloners with mission creation skilled are encouraged to roll up their sleeves and create a six mission battle. Winner takes home an IS-PR. I'm working on my submission right now. =P

- Khadgar's NL competition
Khadgar wants more submissions, so he is hosting a submission competition for the NL. The best submitted graphics and the best fic each garners a shiny IS. The fic is based on the guidelines that he's posted.

- Cyclone Trivia
Each week, I will be sending out a set of trivia questions to the mailing list. Answer as many correctly as you can, win a prize at the end of the month if you answer the most. Standings are Marlin - 6.

- Cyclone Blogging
Not so much a competition as an ongoing event. Cyclone members are encouraged to maintain a blog on the MB detailing their activity, their thoughts, etc. Coranel apparently likes this idea enough that he's starting his own blog soon. =P

- ISD Challenge Sexy Name Comp
It is completely inspired by about 15 minutes of inanity on #wing_x. Coranel thinks it's George's fault, but he is not entirely sure. Anyhow, here's the lowdown. Each of you is to submit to Coranel a list of names that you think are just incredibly sexy. The names that just turn you on. There will be two categories: guy names and girl names. Feel free to submit a list for both categories. Submissions will go to Coranel, and will be "graded" by him, and anyone else he feels like making help him. For each category, an IS-SR to the person with the "best" names, and IS-BR to the runner-up! Deadline is the end of June!!!

- Challenge Letterhead Comp
Your task is to design a letterhead/watermark/symbol/logo/badge for the various units aboard the ISD Challenge. This type of graphic would be something that could be used on all authorial Challenge/Wing X documentation.
Three categories for this: a graphic for the ISD Challenge, a graphic for Wing X, and a graphic for the squads of the Challenge. Coranel is not looking for new banners to go on the TC site.

Best entry into the Ship/Wing category gets an IS-SR. The best entry for each squad gets an IS-BR. The only rule is you can only enter one squad entry. In example, LT Billy Bob can't send in a graphic for three different squads; only to one squad. He could have a max of three entries (ship, wing, and a squad one). Thanks to CM TK-9780 for this comp idea. Submissions go to Coranel.

- WC Report Template
This is the "Design the WC a sexy report template" comp. Basically, Coranel stumbled across Bubba's neat report when he was doing his wing report this past week, and decided that if Bubba can have a cool looking report, he too needs a cool looking report. As Coranel is fairly unimaginative and uncreative, he is leaving it to you, the pilot people, to make him a neat report format. It should have the categories that his usual reports have. Winning one gets an IS-SR and will most likely be used, with the runner-up getting an IS-BR. Submissions also go to Coranel.

1-1 - CM Flyer
- Wrote this report
- Website updates
- Blogging on MB
- Designed a layout for Lumina Corporation competition
- Designed a Wing X logo for the challenge competition
- Completed three tactical beta testing assignments
- Writing fic for Khadgar's NL submission competition
- Flew the following: TIE-TC-2, TIE-FREE-255 (for comp), XvT-TC-21, XvT-TC-91, XvT-TC-94, XvT-FREE-193

1-2 - Lt. Phelan
- On leave

2-1 - Col. Domi
- E-mail contact
- IRC activity
- Generally being XO-like and advising me on decisions. Busy with forthcoming DB Vendetta.

2-2 - Maj. Fink
- E-mail contact
- Flew the following: TIE-FREE-255 (for comp); XvT-TC-96

2-3 - Lt. Blenheim
- E-mail contact
- IRC activity
- AIM activity
- Flew the following: TIE-FREE-255

3-1 - Lt. Commander Marlin
- E-mail contact
- AIM activity
- Developing Cyclone RPG
- Enacting Cyclone citations plans
- Flew the following: TIE-TC-37; TIE-TC-51, TIE-TC-52

3-2 - CM Dulcatos
- E-mail contact
- IRC activity
- Completed final exams, and is ready to do some serious flying
- Flew the following: TIE-FREE-255 (for comp); TIE-TC-48; TIE-TC-103; TIE-TC-104

Every week, I select a pilot who's high activity and excellence served as an example for all Cyclone pilots. The selected pilot earns an IS-BR at the end of the month, and their profile is enshrined for the week on the Cyclone Squadron website.

Congratulations to Commander Dulcatos, who garnered Cyclone's high score for the Tempest competition and came in second in the Cyclone FCHG race. Not a bad day's work, Commander.

CYCLONE SQUADRON : Heavy Assault
COMMANDER: CM Katherine Cantor Flyer (bail0197@umn.edu)
NICKNAME: The Forever Wind
BANNER: cyclone.jpg
MOTTO: So good, it ought to be illegal
HOMEPAGE: http://cyclone.ehnet.org
MESSAGE BOARD: http://mb.emperorshammer.net/viewforum.php?f=101&sid=73e643
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FLIGHT I - MISSILE BOAT
Nickname: Demolition Crew
Motto: Destruction imminent...
1) CM Katherine Cantor Flyer (bail0197@umn.edu)
2) LT Phelan (Hikaru2083@Aol.com)
3) TBA
4) TBA

FLIGHT II - TIE ADVANCED
Nickname: The Hellstormers
Motto: We are the Fury after the Storm
1) COL Domi (jondaar_domi@yahoo.ca)
2) MAJ Fink (eh.finko@gmail.com)
3) LT Blenheim (richard@v92.me.uk)
4) TBA

FLIGHT III - TIE DEFENDER
Nickname: Close Support
Motto: We're in and out before you know it.
1) LCM Marlin (prkkrusty@hotmail.com)
2) CM Dulcatos (dulcatos@toya.net.pl)
3) TBA
4) TBA

<CM-Flyer> My graphics abilities are growing out of control. soon they will destroy the city!

<LC_Archangel> Or at least make it look better :P

Useless Numbers that only matter to me
Battles Flown: 12
IWATS completed: 0
Transfers: 0
Amount of Awesome obtained: 100%

Projects

New webpage layout:
Status: Beginning

AC FCHG comp battle:
Status: In progress

NL fiction competition entry:
Status: In progress

Developing Cyclone RPG with Marlin:
Status: Nearly complete

Citations count:
Status: 8/100 citations

Commander Kate Cantor "Valkyrie" Flyer

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