The distance closed rapidly. Both Alex and Brukhar were sweating as they barrel-rolled straight at the other. Only one pilot could win. They were closing fast. Alex screamed a war cry into his helmet. Both pilots squeezed their triggers and four cerulean bolts flew at each Interceptor. An Interceptor was disabled and the other flew away, the pilot screaming and cheering. It took the Challenge a few seconds to identify the pilot, but the winner was clearly…

- Commander Shrike, Cyclone 1-3

Hiyo Cyclone and Wing X and everybody. =P It's been another week for Cyclone, and I've been able to make double-digits in reports without being fired! Hooray! I suppose the biggest pieces of news is that Kappa vs Cyclone is over; that we have a new member and that CoLs are in. With the arrival of Lt. Erinyes though, we've had to temporarily wave goodbye and wish luck to Phelan, who has been deployed to Iraq for the next 2-3 weeks. God speed to you Phel. In the meantime, next week will likely be somewhat quiet for Cyclone as we continue to focus on the TO Summer Patrol and I think about the forthcoming SSL. Right, so eh, comedy..

- The new Cyclone website layout is complete! Go to http://cyclone.ehnet.org to have a look, if you haven't already. It has a new competitions page, as well as revamped banners. Whoohoo.

- Welcome to Lt. Erinyes, who joined us on Monday from the Daed! Her arrival puts us at 11 pilots, and I've already got a line on the 12th! =) We won't be full for long though, because I'm going to be forced to conduct AWOLs soon. Sadness = P

- Lt. Phelan has shown the whole initiative thing and started a new runon on the Cyclone message board detailing what happened when our little squadron was reopened. Shrike and I have developed a fun plotline to go along with it describing the recruitment of Fink and how Shrike got his name, among other things. Fun times. ^^

- Citations are Cyclone's top priority. :P Fly your citations assignments for the week, and I recommend you for an ISM. It's just that simple. Fly all of them for the month, and I'll talk to Cor about getting you a PC. Congratulations to Shrike, who once again shouldered the load and flew his citations assignments! I'm in awe of this guy. =P

- Cyclone Squadron is the ISD Challenge Squadron of the Month! And apparently we've been SotM since last June! Whoohoo!

- Kappa vs Cyclone is over, and sadly, the won the flying portion by taking the top two scores. =P On the bright side, the margin was only 1900 points from first to fourth (go Fink and me), and we outsubmitted them 5 to 2. =) Fiction results are still forthcoming. Oh, and Maverick reminds me next time to not have a sense of fairplay when setting the competition conditions. I will take his advice. =P

- 'Grats to Shrike on his two ISMs (he just has a raft of those things), and to me for my Commendation of Loyalty. I was rather surprised to see that I got my CoL not from the Wing, but the Flight Office, which I find extremely flattering. Whoever recc'd me, thanks a lot. ^^ Drinks are on me.

- 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 months. 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 Cyclone Squadron (July)

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

- Imperial Storm V
This is is almost over. I think. Yay. =P

- 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

- 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. This competition is temporarily suspended because I'm just that lazy.

- JAG Banner Competition
Fleetwide competition to create a new banner for the JAG Office. Winner gets an IS-PR. Entries are due Sept. 1.

- Training Office Summer Patrol
Want an IS-GW? Then fly the assigned number of missions for the "Training Officer's Patrol" for five weeks straight! Easy, huh? I expect high Cyclone participation for this one, since we are (after all) the best and most active squadron in the Wing. Let's go!

- 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.

1-1 - CM Flyer
- IRC activity
- MB activity
- AIM activity
- Wrote this report
- Updated the website
- Working on battle for TAC competition
- Enacting citations plans
- Posted to Cyclone runon
- TAC beta testing (the new Hammer to Anvil installment!)
- Flew the following - TIE-TC-221, 223, 41, 42; XvT-TC-107 and 112

1-2 - Lt. Phelan
- Computer trouble (new motherboard coming soon)
- AIM contact
- E-mail contact
- IRC contact
- Good luck in Iraq, see you when you get back!

1-3 - Cm. Shrike
- E-mail contact
- IRC contact
- Posted to Cyclone runon
- Writing lengthy fanfic series
- Flew the following: TIE-TC-5, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48; 215; 221

1-4 - Lt. Augustus Meridian
- E-mail contact
- AIM contact
- Computer troubles
- Completed IWATS Linus (78%)

2-1 - Col. Domi
- IRC contact
- Contact me ASAP

2-2 - Maj. Fink
- E-mail contact
- Flew TIE-TC-221 and TIE-TC-03

2-3 - Lt. Blenheim
- IRC activity
- AIM activity
- Flew the following: XWA-TC-01; XvT-TC-107; XvT-TC-101

2-4 - Lt. Erinyes
- On leave
- AIM contact
- Flew the following: TIE-TC-221; TIE-FREE-01

3-1 - Lt. Commander Marlin
- Contact me ASAP

3-2 - CM Dulcatos
- No contact

3-3 - Maj. Enzo Matrix
- AIM contact
- IRC contact
- MB activity
- Made two banners for the JAG competition

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 CM. Alexander Shrike, Lt. Blenheim, Major Fink and Lt. Erinyes, who all get Pilot of the Week this week because they took my order to fly the Training Office Summer Patrol battles to heart and did just that. There's nothing that will look better than if 5 (5!) Cyclone pilots pick up IS-GWs from Stuart in a fleetwide competition. =) - Standings are Shrike - 3; Blenheim - 1; Fink - 1; Erinyes - 1

CYCLONE SQUADRON : Heavy Assault
COMMANDER: CM Katherine Cantor Flyer (bail0197@umn.edu)
NICKNAME: The Demolition Crew
BANNER: cyclone.jpg
MOTTO: Destruction Imminent..
HOMEPAGE: http://cyclone.ehnet.org
MESSAGE BOARD: http://mb.emperorshammer.net/viewforum.php?f=101

FLIGHT I - MISSILE BOAT
Nickname: Flyer's Flight
Motto: Always ready, always deadly
1) CM Katherine Cantor Flyer (bail0197@umn.edu)
2) LT Phelan (Hikaru2083@Aol.com)
3) CM Shrike (Kayvaanshrike@msn.com)
4) LT Augustus Meridian (imperialwarhammr@aol.com)

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) LT Erinyes (eherinyes@gmail.com)

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) Maj. Enzo Matrix (tyr@delakkrennel.com)
4) TBA

<Kyral> Flyer...
<Kyral> You left that T/F out there
<`Flyer> I know
<`Flyer> lol
<`Flyer> I dunno if I care to move it
<`Flyer> I suppose I will
<Kyral> I blew it up
<`Flyer> oh well
<`Flyer> good for you
<Kyral> ...how the hell did it do 600 damage to me?
<`Flyer> rofl
<`Flyer> SUPER TIE
<`Flyer> I must have been flying that thing

Useless Numbers that only matter to me
Battles Flown: 19
IWATS completed: 1
Transfers: 0
Citations garnered: 3
Pilots of the Week: 4

Projects

New webpage layout:
Status: Done

TAC FCHG comp battle:
Status: In progress (Mission 6/6)

Developing Cyclone RPG with Marlin:
Status: On hold

Developing Cyclone Campaign:
Status: In progress

Citations count:
Status: 17/100 citations

Commander Kate Cantor "Valkyrie" Flyer

CMDR-TCS/CM Katherine Cantor Flyer/Cyclone/Wing X/ISD Challenge
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