Interview With the XO of the EH
FM/COL Tron/Tau 3-4/MC Tripidium
01.10.01

First off, congratulations SA Kawolski, you've done an outstanding job in your career and we can only expect the same for the future.

Q1 - How's it feel to be the XO of one of the largest Star Wars gaming clubs on the internet?

Absolutely thrilled! ...aside from the fact I got demoted on my second day in office, so I'm back to being a High Admiral now...boo...hiss... But I was told after a month of good XO service then I would get my official Sector Admiral badge with the whole 25% ownership pact deal.

Q2 - What plans do you have for your office? In times past when you took over an office (ie FO and TAC) you made some outstanding changes, and with the XO's duties being put bluntly as making the Newsletter and being in charge of the SGs, many have to wonder what will this guy do with this office?

Well, as you can see, there has already been a rather outstanding change with the Newsletter! I have high ambitions and hopes for the future of the EH NLs and I'm pretty confident that this will be one of the most fun parts of the job! My vision is for the EH NLs to once again be the pride of the Emperor's Hammer and a powerful recruitment tool for drawing in new membership. After all, I found out about this club when I accidentally stumbled onto an EH Newsletter when I was looking for a TIE Fighter mission editor.

I know I have a bit of a reputation as a TIE Corps Centrist, but many successful management techniques I have learned and employed in the TIE Corps can be used in the other Subgroups as well. Until I become more familiar with the subgroups, I've decided to play the role of a consultant early on. Some subgroups are struggling, unfortunately, due to a variety of reasons and I hope to do everything I can to help them out once again.

Right now, however, getting the proper Newsletter format down is my top priority so I can guarantee its release at the first week of every month. On February, I hope to catch up on whatever XO/FSE work I'm leaving behind due to working on the NL. Many hours of design, HTMLizing, and programming has gone into making this new format, so I'm hoping it'll be a hit with the members!

Q3 - I've seen your XO website and must say, "Superb!" Is your XO site (www.kawolski.com/xo/) going to be one of our more up-to-date websites for news covering all of the EH, taking the place of the EH News page on the domain?

Thanks! I'm glad you and many others like the new XO site! Vice Admiral Slade did a rather excellent job with the graphics on there just as he did with this new Newsletter! I'm quite fortunate to have such a talented Command Attaché, especially in this important office.

Since Grand Admiral Ronin will no longer be hosting Command Officer reports on the EH News Page, the XO site (along with the TIE Corps site) will be carrying those reports.

Q4 - Because it's become a big issue in the DB and because you are now officially in charge of the Subgroups and their commanders, what are your feelings on the current "revolt" in the DB where many members are claiming GM Zoraan to be lazy and not involved? Do you see this as something your office will have to get involved with or just leave it to the DB? Which begs us to ask, what do you see the DB as, a subgroup or sister organization?

I addressed this issue pretty clearly in my first XO Report. Dereliction is a serious charge against a Subgroup Commander, and it's very important to have evidence to back up such claims. If there is a problem with the leader, I feel it is something for my office to have to get involved in.

If this was 1998, I would see the Dark Brotherhood as a semi-independent sister organization. However, it's 2001, and the Dark Brotherhood has grown to become a solid subgroup of the Emperor's Hammer as any other.

Q5 - If you were to evaluate the SGCOMs on just what you know about them right now, without getting to know them and how they've run their groups, how would you evaluate each of them on a scale of 1-10?

You've got to be kidding me. >:P If a SGCOM is doing a bad job, I would prefer to pull him or her aside and talk about making improvements rather than making a public spectacle of it.

Q6 - When will the next NL be out and how regular do you plan on having them?

You'll see the next Newsletter in one month! I plan on having them once a month on a regular basis. These things take way too much time and effort to have them out every week!

Q7 - Your new CA:XO is VA Slade, what will you have him do exactly? Being a CA:XO to our previous XO, GN Compton, I was just given jobs of working on his brainstorms and awarding Letters of Achievement for the NL submissions, do you see VA Slade's duties being any different than that?

Currently, I have no set duties for VA Slade. He has been extremely helpful with the graphics design talents which you can see on the new XO page and right here with the new Newsletter! I also have him perform odd jobs here and there along with keeping him informed of everything that's going on in the office.

Q8 - You're still the Fleet System's Engineer (FSE) which has you maintaining tiecorps.org and now you also have your new XO site to maintain, how are you going to find the time for your job and for your RL?

After watching an episode of Nightline, I learned that you can improve your mind, focus, study skills, work and intelligence by snorting Ritalin.

Q9 - While serving as a member of the ID's Ubiqtorate and then later as CA:XO, I was privy to many discussions concerning some subgroups and their status of being kept open during SA Havok's term and SA Compton's. Are there any SGs that you see as being in question of keeping open and closing down permanently?

Plans are in the making for The Fringe and EH Strategists to merge together to make one large RPG group. The other subgroups I want to keep around, even though some, like the Corporate Division, are struggling to rebuild itself.

Q10 - With many problems happening on IRC nowadays with X and W...will we be seeing SureFire coming to #Emperors_Hammer?

<`Kawolski> Bot!
<SureFire> :D
<`Kawolski> hehe...SF's such a cute bot.
<SureFire> Yay!
<Astatine> Dumb bot.
<SureFire> Shut up!

Well, I kept the bot in there to help maintain ops while X and W were split. SureFire and I originally founded that channel (the old IRC channel was ##Emperor's_Hammer with two #s), but I was forced to remove him after Zoomba became Communications Officer. However, now that I'm XO, I think I'll let him stay and watch the channel for me! I just had to restrict parts of his personality to his primary channel, #TIECorps.

Thank you for your time,

FM/COL Tron/Tau 3-4/MC Tripidium
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