A quite week for us at Phantom. With no flying competitions on everyone has been having to keep themselves busy. You've all been doing a good job too. I'm getting plenty of IWATS passes in my inbox, and I see a lot of you communicating. Still, it would be nice to have a competition so I'll have something sorted out for Monday.

Until then, pilots...get making banners for the Immortal. There is a competition on right now and the winner will get an IS-SR. If you want a shiny medal, check out the details in "Current Activities and Competitions"

Flight III changes

Flight III now have a new motto, "Now You See, Now You Die". It's also worth noting that the Flight III website has moved to http://w1.183.telia.com/~u18312284.

Squadron Website

You're probably wondering where our squadron website is and what it's status is. In fact, I know that's what your thinking because the question has jest been posted on the Phantom Mailing List (http://www.tiecorps.org/mb/view.asp?b=35&v=2&s=0). Well, I can honestly say that the important bits have been completed (such as the frames, news/competitions, roster, links, etc) but the special features (such as the archive, pilot details and squadron details) have not been added yet.

I am going to temporarily post the site at http://battlecry.emperorshammer.ca/phantom/ because I don't have any webspace for it yet. Expect that to change in the future.

New Wing GFX Competition

Create a banner for the Immortal/Wing XI with the dimensions of 400x50 pixels. The first prize is an IS-SR and the second an IS-BR. Deadline is the 2nd May and all entries go to COL Badlands at badlands@isdclements.freeserve.co.uk. Also cc: me your entries, or at least tell me you have entered.

I want to see you all enter in this competition. If you don't think you can for any reason, then please mail me to say why...otherwise I'll just think your a lazy sod!!!

Communications

Message Board - I just want to remind everyone that there are a few topics of conversation going on in the Phantom Message Board. It can be found in the same neighbourhood as the main TC message boards at http://www.tiecorps.org/mb/

Mailing List  You can also post on this mailing list. Simply mail Phantom_Squadron@yahoogroups.com what you would like to have posted. You could post information, start and carry on discussions, ask for help on a variety of subjects, post tips for how to do better in a competition mission, etc.

IRC  Please attend #isd_immortal as often as possible on IRC. There are also the channels #emperor’s_hammer and #tiecorps, so please go there as often as you can. If you don't know how to use or get on IRC, please mail me about it and I will help you.

Immortal IRC Meeting - There is also a Ship meeting in #isd_immortal at 3pm EST (8pm GMT) every Sunday for announcements and chat. I should be there, so if you need any help with anything or just a chat with me, please show up.

COL Callista awarded the MoH
18:16 - SA Kawolski [absurefire@aol.com]
All out congratulations go to the TIE Corps' own Colonel Callista for being awarded the Emperor's Hammer highest award, the Medal of Honor!

She has been responsible for several magazine article mentions and was the coordinator of running the Emperor's Hammer booth at Jedi Con 2001 in Germany, which will be featured in Newsletter #74!

You can check out some images at her new homepage at: http://www.geocities.com/callista111/

Newsletter #73 released
18:53 - SA Kawolski [absurefire@aol.com]
Yes, it's very late. I'll explain why in my upcoming report. Special thanks go to Admiral Quake for help putting this together with HTMLizing submissions. If it weren't for his help, this NL would've been held back and released along side with NL #74.

You can download NL #73 (6.16 mb) at:
http://thunder.prohosting.com/~surefire/NL73.zip (N.America)
http://absolutek.com/nl73.zip (N.America)
http://cd.ehonline.org/nl73.zip (Europe)
http://www.idrive.com/silentone/files/NL73.zip (N.America - iDrive)
http://quake.idleplay.net/nl/nl73.zip (Europe)
http://24.183.44.238/nl/nl73.zip (N.America)

SpecOps Projects
19:41 - VA Draye C. Maaric [belair2267@email.com]
Greetings. To facilitate an increase in activity, the Special Operations Director (SOD) is now accepting new project ideas. The only criteria as of right now are as follows:

1. New projects must involved the Emperor's Hammer or once of it's respective subgroups.

2. Any and all suggestions must be original. No cheap knock-offs of other projects or programs.

3. Make them cool! The EH already has a great foundation for doing what it set out to do (being the largest Star Wars organization in the world and all), so let's all contribute to make it an even more fun group to be a part of!

As soon as I get a SpecOps webpage up and running, there will be a submission form for sending in such ideas and suggestions. For now, just send them to me at belair2267@email.com. Hope to hear from you soon!

Imperial Vogue
19:43 - COL Mairin [somnia_vacua@yahoo.com]
With the demise of EH Cosmospolitan and Battlecry, Mairin and Werdna have teamed up to produce the new generation of EH magazine: Imperial Vogue!

We need you! We want articles, emails, funny IRC logs, everything! This is a magazine for the EH, so send us in whatever you're interested in.

Being the cheap people we are, we'll take anything! Send submissions to werdna_elbee@emperorshammer.ca and somnia_vacua@yahoo.com.

Mr./Ms. EH Competition 2001 is here!
20:07 - VA Ramos Kanzco [Magedon42@aol.com]
The Logistics Office Presents to you the 2001 Mr./Miss EH Competition. The Page for the first round can be found at http://lo.minos.net/ehmrmiss-second.php3

- All the nominations are in and the voting booth is up! Go Vote for your favorite EH members to determine who the next Mr and Miss EH Will be!

EH Domain updated
21:37 - SA Kawolski [absurefire@aol.com]
Grand Admiral Ronin has updated the EH Imperial News Center with news on the latest command changes, promotions, and other Star Wars info.

Challenge COM appointed
11:50 - FA Priyum Patel [spellfire@btinternet.com]
Many congratulations go out to Rear Admiral Manitsas who has been appointed as the new Commodore for the ISD Challenge. Manitsas has been a long standing member of the ship, and should prove to be a fine choice.

Training Manual downloadable
19:00 - HA Astatine [jpboyce@indigo.net.au]
There's now a downloadable version of the Training Manual here. It's 830K zipped and is in PDF (Acrobat) format.

Online Newsletter #73 Mirror
22:43 - FA Absolutek [io@absolutek.com]
Since I don't see my online mirror of NL #73 mentioned anywhere, I thought I'd let people know about it, since I know there are those of you out there who do not feel like downloading all +6MB worth of NL zip :-)

http://absolutek.com/nl73/

Orders

• Await further orders. There will probably be a flying competition of some kind starting in the next day or so.
• Take part in as many multiplayer competitions as you can (more info can be found at http://www.tiecorps.org/combat/)
• Attend IRC as often as possible. Remember that as well as #emperor's_hammer and #tiecorps, there is also an #ISD_Immortal room. If you need any help getting on IRC and using mIRC (or whatever) mail me. ISD Immortal meetings are on at 3pm EST in their channel.
• Post on the Phantom Message Board more often. It can be found in the Squadron Forums on http://www.tiecorps.org/mb/
• Recruit!!! If I can do it, ANYONE can!!!
• Give me some BSFs to do. If there are any missions you haven't flown, then get flying. If you've completed them already, then why not go for the highscores as they may be useful in a future competition.
  

CMDR/CPT Werdna Elbee
17.04.01 Flew IW-XWA27 for BSF
18.04.01 Submitted Graphic for competition
21.04.01 Uploaded Phantom website http://battlecry.emperorshammer.ca/phantom/

Comments: As well as all that, I've been keeping busy with my new EH magazine and communicating on the mailing lists, message boards, IRC and anything else that you can have a talk on. 

FM/LT Jari
No recordable activity

Comments: Jari has been keeping in contact with me.

FM/LT Moonknight
Still on leave

FL/CPT Malik
15.04.01 Updated INPR

Comments: I've seen Malik posting on the mailing list, and he does frequent IRC quite a lot.

FM/LT Kapp Dendo
On Leave

FM/LT Mark
19.04.01 Passed IWATS mIRC/2 (90%)
20.04.01 Flew TC-XWA5 for BSF

Comments: Actually, Mark has been more active than this as I got a couple of other pilot files from him. However there must have been some problem because the files I got had no scores on them, so they couldn't be BSFed. He's also been keeping in good contact with me.

FL/CM Gunman
14.04.01 Changed flight motto to "Now You See, Now You Die"

Comments: Gunman has been working very hard on sorting out a competition for his flight, but it didn't work out (not his fault!!!). Also, as far as I know he has been posting on the mailing list. I think he goes on IRC too, but not at the same times as me.

FM/CM Spearhawk
15.04.01 Moved Flight III website to http://w1.183.telia.com/~u18312284
20.04.01 Flew IW-XWA27 for BSF

Comments: After flying IW-XWA27 he had again completed all the battles/missions for XWA. Well done...again. Spearhawk has also been posting on the message boards and mailing list, and still lives in IRC.

FM/LT Deimos
No recordable activity

Comments: Deimos has been posting on the mailing list.