The following Corporations have been approved by the Fleet Commander to bid on exclusive Emperor's Hammer contracts:

Any new Corporate submissions must be forwarded to the Science Officer for review prior to review by the Fleet Commander for posting in a Newsletter.

TO: GA Ronin

From: CEO Evan Jones

My new Corporate division company will be named Bloodstipe Inc. It will specialize in new starfighter production, but we can do more specialized jobs.

Bloodstripe's [Picket] fleet will consist of the following ships-

Victory - Class Star Destroyer Adjucator

Two Dreadnaughts

Three Carrack - Class Cruisers

Two Lancer - Class Frigates

One Strike Class Frigate

Four System Patrol Craft

One Platform

One X-7 Factory station

Seven Tyderian Shuttles

Three Escort Shuttles

Five Transports

Two Corvettes

Two Container Transports

Two Cargo Ferries

Two Frieghters

Seven Containers

Fifty Class C Mines

One Modular Conveyor

Since It is an option, I choose to Become COM of the Adjucator.

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GA Ronin:

The information I forgot to include in the desription is as follows:

The ranks and promotion system for the pilots onboard the VSD will be the

same as in the EH.

The Ranks for the actual Bloodstripe Inc. will be:

CEO- Me

Head Contractor- TBA

Ship Developer- TBA

Assistant to CEO-TBA

Assistant to Head Contractor-TBA

COM of Dreadnaught protector-TBA

Employees of bloodstripe will be promoted on the basis of how many of their ships are accepted by the Hammer.

CEO Evan Jones

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CHASSIS: T/D

LENGTH: 20m

SHORT NAME: S-P

SHEILDS: 6000/120 SBD

HULL: 2000/20 RU

POWER: 400/ 176 MGLT

ACCEL: 31

PITCH: 30

ROLL: 52

Crew: One pilot

Consumables: 3 days max

ARMAMENTS:

4 Taim & Bak H9 Turbolaser Cannons

2 ArMek Sw-7 Super-ion cannons

2 Light vulcan plasma pulse generators

2 Dymek HM-6 missle launchers - 4 missles each

The Soveriegn Protector fulfills the need for a fast, heavy assult fighter that can engage

fighters and capital ships. For engaging capital ships, the Protector uses a Vulcan

Plasma Pulse generator that doesn't consume as much energy but is about as strong as

the full power VPPG. The alternate weapon to use against Capital Ships is the Super Ion

Cannon. On low charge the ion cannon acts as a normal turbolaser and can be used

against fighters. In great numbers, these Protectors can easily destroy a small fleet of

Mon Cal Star cruisers. In numbers of four or less they can destroy large supply convoys

and their fighter escort. These ships can also be employed as long range recon ships.

The recon ships would not use the VPPG and instead of a tractor beam, it would use a

jamming beam to prevent detection.

Since the new VPPG consumes less power, this ship can easily maintain high

shields, a beam weapon, and a high speed.

These ships are be easy to produce because of the common parts for T/D.

These Protectors are easy to service and after a battle and they can be refit and out

of the hanger in a minimum of thirty minutes.

Although this ship has nothing to do with the SSSD, it could be successfully

be used in defending the Soveriegn from a full scale attack by a full rebel fleet.

Editing Weapon Graphics: Up until now, we have only been able to edit the space bomb's graphic, but we recently discovered some information that could prove otherwise. If anyone has ever heard of programs called XPAINT, XACTOR, XCANVAS, XBM, XSTYLE, XRECT, XCURSOR, or a file extension similar to .XACT, please let us know by sending mail to Md128m@aol.com. We don't know if these are proprietary programs or not, but if you have any knowledge whatsoever, please let us know.

Corporate Division Technical Manual: The CD Tech Manual has been released! It contains many descriptions of weapons and technologies in use by the Corporate Division. It also has a rule system, and a structure system.

DESIGNATION: Assault Bomber

DESIGNER: SEOBill P (Graphics by Md128m)

MANUFACTURER: Dagger Engineering Corporation

WEAPONS: 2 Turbolasers

2 Space Bomb Launchers (6 Each)

MAXIMUM SPEED: 281

CRUISE SPEED: 250

HYPERDRIVE: No

SHIELD STRENGTH: 60 SBD (Optional)

HULL STRENGTH: 60 RU

The Scimitar Assault Bomber was originally designed by Grand Admiral Thrawn as an atmospheric bomber. SEOBill P has upgraded it to perform BETTER in space! Its extreme speed lets it go in, deliver its ordinance, and get out. Its turbolasers allow it to surgically pick out targets on a ship's hull and destroy them. It needs fighter protection as it can't slow down fast enough to deal with enemy craft, but when its going at 250, you don't need to worry about enemy ships!

While being forced to work for the Rebellion, CFS secretly worked on a new super-starfighter mostly intended for the inevitable battle between CFS and the Rebellion when CFS attempted to escape. Having given the New Republic a purposely fluked starfighter which detonated upon startup pending a command from CFS computers, CFS took the risk of counting that the New Republic would use CFS's dummy fighter almost exclusively in the battle. When the newly constructed CFS Super Corvette Firestorm was ready, the CFS platform was abandoned and it's guns set on computer control. Continuum Fleet Systems' X-21 Redeemer fighters and Lag-8c Barracuda Bombers nervously swarmed about the FireStorm as CEO APixel and his engineers frantically reworked problems with the untested Super Corvette. They managed to reverse-engineer the IFF Transponder to read Imperial, thus so that the EH wouldn't attempt to blow apart the S/CRV when it arrived only half a kilometer from the Avenger. The SCYTHE hyperdrive didn't go as well, and the New Republic soon found out what CFS was attempting. The Mon Cal Cruiser Intruder arrived behind the S/CRV, and the CFS fighters turned to attack, as X-21 and Lag-8c flew side by side. The incredible maneuvering jets on the X-21's enabled them to penetrate the wall of laser ack-ack without a hit, as they barrel-rolled and twisted towards the cruiser, with their Vulcan PPC's unleashing their fury in small tufts of flame. The S/CRV's single VTPS turret turned and unleashed an entire 64 Vapor Trail missile salvo, decimating a bulbous projection and both wings on the Cruiser. The Lag-8c's had less luck, some taking several laser hits before turning away, while others bore their quad arrangement of PPC's into the Intruder. As CEO APixel had hoped, the computers aboard the S/CRV registered that several of his fluke fighters were powering up. CEO APixel waited until at least 15 were maneuvering about the Intruder's hangar in preparation for launch, and then gave the command. The entire bow of the Intruder, especially the hangar, seemed to lurch in flames. With CFS pilots screaming victory into their comm mikes, the stern section of the Intruder started to go out of control as it rolled and fell about space. Electrical sparks and equipment spewed from the Cruiser. Explosions racked the Cruiser, as it turned onto it's side for the last time and finally gave a tremendous explosion as more PPC and turbo laser shots ripped into it's hull. There were no survivors of CFS' attack of rage and revenge.

The engineers repaired the hyperdrive aboard the FireStorm, and, as hoped, no more New Republic craft dared to hyper into the area. APixel gave the order, and the small armada of CFS craft jumped toward the last known location of the Avenger, as received from a CFS informant. Again, as hoped, the Avenger was still there. GA Ronin was pacing the bridge, with nothing better to do, as the Avenger was not in battle, merely waiting for a resupply from the planet it was orbiting. When CFS's S/CRV jumped into the area just 500 meters from the bridge of the Avenger, officers started working with the usual Imperial deftness as they bustled to determine what that odd-looking Corvette and her equally odd looking fighters were doing. The IFF code read Imperial, thus they didn't destroy it immediately. Suddenly, a junior communications officer heard a familiar voice over the channel at his comm module. He'd heard the same voice over the Avenger's PA system when CEO APixel had announced his Lag-2 Starfighter was approved. When the officer told his CO, the order to attack was belayed and had the S/CRV inspected. It was him, it was CEO APixel. APixel called over the radio: "Salute, SSD Avenger. We are the reminants of CFS, and request docking permissions, we have wounded aboard the FireStorm." The GA answered back personally, to APixel's great honor, "Permission granted, FireStorm and her escort. Welcome back."

On the bridge of the Avenger, with his arm in a sling and another bandage around his head, APixel told his story to a small crowd of officers and enlisted crewmen. "It all happened when I received a communique from what appeared to be another Star Destroyer about three light years away. We were the closest craft, the CFS research platform, to the ISD and it needed supplies and repairs after a battle. It turned out that it was actually a very cleverly disguised message from a New Republic Covert Operations division. When I answered affirmatively to the their request, and a New Republic Cruiser showed up on our doorstep when we had only prototypes of fighters, we had no other choice than surrender. The cruiser sent a copy of the recorded communique to the EH, to make it look like CFS was cooperating with the New Republic. To spare the lives of the CFS crew and our accumulated data, we were forced to abandon all known CFS picket fleet vessels and join the New Republic to work for them, as they had no new and technologically superior corporations, since Incom, Dodonna-Blissex, and other New Republic corporations faded into the past. When we completed the two fighters that you see in the hangar now, the X-21 Redeemer and the Lag-8c Barracuda Bomber, and had a working version of our Super Corvette that had almost impenetrable shields, we decided it was time to try to go back after we gave a fluke fighter to the New Republic. The rest, as recorded on the FireStorm's inflight and the fighter's inflight recorders, is available for all of you to see." The small crowd cheered and gave APixel numerous bear hugs, and shakes, and slaps on the back.

"It's good to be back, I missed you all." he replied.

Submitted,

CEO/GN APixel/COM/BSCS Graf Spree/CFS