ISD Vanguard
Report #4
4.17.2001 - RA Ender mBind
"Space,
The Outer Rim. These are the reports of the Imperator Class II Star Destroyer
Vanguard... Its continuing mission to suppress strange alien worlds. To
wipe out alien life and rebellious populations. To boldly and consistently
just forget doing their COM's reports!"
<salute>
/me
yells in frustration: "dang I've never never been this late with a report
in my live - and none complained..."
1.
Like
you guys must've noticed, the last Vanguard COM's report dates about a
month ago - for some odd reason I just didn't get around to it... well
actually the reason is kinda clear: I wanted to include quite some stuff
like fiction and so on and just don't have the RL time for that kind of
things, besides the fact that Khadgar's reports cover about everything
already. I've put myself over it - so I'll from now on send in a way stripped
version of my regular reports, sometimes spiced up with whatever I happen
to find.... soory ' bout that, guess i'm no young WC anymore.
2.
As
you might have noticed though, I do update the Vanguard Site news quite
often, as do I add new stuff to the site. In the last month (yes I gotta
catch up I guess) I've added Mission Archives of all the Star Wars Space
Simulator Games, Archives for Mission Editors and Help files on how to
run the games in general and more specific: how to run custom missions.
Added too are Pilot Editors for both XWA and XvT and many more stuff
will continue to appear over the next few weeks. Basically I still have
a few 100 MBs of craft and craft editors that I'll still put up, plus some
more help (like on "how to finish he standard missions of XWA"). At the
moment these Archives already contain more missions and editors then
the TIE Corps database does and that'll get worse... so keep your eye on
the site. More Archives that have appeared are the Fiction an Graphics
Archives, where I have room for all your artwork - but also where you can
rate the work of others >:D
Check
into our site and message board for other things as well. The message board
is one of the easiest way to get your ideas into action or just give feedback
on other ideas... or even just to talk about absolutely nothing;) Currently
LC Khadgar has even started a run-on story, which is always fun to get
active in.... The site strives to have the latest news, links and data
that actually impacts this ship on the news page ASAP. So if you're wondering
what's going on it 's a good place to go as well. Straight contact can
ofcourse always be gotten on our IRC channel #Vanguard, I'm working on
getting X back in there, but we already got a bot there to keep things
in place so there is not a really big rush:).
3.
Since
me last report lotsa things happened on the roster field ofcourse. I'd
like to congratulate especially Khadgar on his promotion to LC, CM Strahd
on his promotion to Echo CMDR and ofcourse LCM Schitzo for getting COM's
Protector and Wasp Squadron on getting WC's Own for the second time in
a row (where are you echo, mantis and python?). We received many new pilots
too, too all the Squads - and the most of them have proved to be active
pilots too.... earning their promotion to Lieutenant quickly. LT Mo, LT.
Spawn, LT. Dalcroix, LT. Dankin, LT. Staneth, LT. boris and LT. Tierce:
great work on that flying and those IWATS courses and congrats - you might
have noticed that you received your new uniforms yesterday:)
At
the same time some less happy things happened too ofcourse, like LC DS-61-4
stepping down from Echo CMDR and leaving to the reserves after being on
this ship for as long as anyone could remember.... Or LC Hizad who stepped
down as our Ship's DOC... after even more time... to be able to concentrate
more on Mantis. This leaves our ship without a Doctor, which is bad if
you get a sore throat - but hellish if you have a real problem. If you
think you got what it takes to be our next Nutty Professor, please send
in your apps to me and the Medical Officer. Hizad has already offered to
be the Head Nurse for his replacement - so don't think you get dropped
into the deep end. If you always wondered what a doc does, you can count
yourself to a majority of the TC.... but basically the doc makes sure the
morale stays up to par and acts as someone you can talk to if you have
a problem you'd rather not take up with your CMDR or other commanding officers.
4.
At
the moment I just want to collect some good MP pilots from the Vanguard
who we'll then bestow with a title like "Veteran" or "Master". These teachers
would make themselves available weekly at least for training people with
less skill at times and places by the choice of the master. On our site
pilots would be able to check which teacher he can check in at that moment
or day (it'll have a time schedule for where/when the teacher waiting for
them). Also the on/offline page would include who is a teacher or not,
so a pilot that sees a teacher online at that moment can get into contact
directly. If the teacher has time at that moment, they might as well have
their training then. For their efforts the teachers would get merit medals
like ISMs to BS (depending on how much effort they've shown.) A teacher
could for example set that he is idling in #Vanguard on Wednesday from
5pm to 6pm EST for everyone needing help. Or in room 60 of the XWA Skirmish
Room on the zone on Tuesdays from 3pm to 5pm. (which might double for recruiting
room, after all: it looks good to join a club which actually offers real
training.).
If
you think you got what it takes to be a MP trainer - or even when you think
you desperately need training: contact me now so we can get the Training
Office opened. For the moment I'll double as Training Officer, but if all
goes well we'll be able to appoint someone else as VanTO very soon. I got
the idea that at least CM Strahd is in for a trainer position, but with
just 2 people we won't be able to train the other 38... MP trainers will
first be tested if they are good enough - so be prepared to fly a bit first.
Fleet
News:
General TC News:*
Short Ship News:
Other
Information:
Meetings.
Message boards.
I think
that's it – If I've forgotten anything, let me know via email (use only
a.c.w.t.zwegers@bk.tudelft.nl
for official TC/Wing mails.) or ICQ (9706474). Also READ the Wing report!
It contains far more useable information then my scribbles... even though
they are getting sillier every week;) The last Wing report by Maj Khadgar
you can read here: http://tiecorps.org/reports/report.asp?wingid=15&reportid=1821
All
my COM reports are online as well: you can reach them via the Ship's
roster on the TC database. http://www.tiecorps.org/reports/tcreports.asp?shipid=9
Until
next time, good luck and have fun.
<salute>
/me
slaps himself for being such a bad commander.... In any case here's another
one of these rare VanCOM reports.... I'll better myself - reeeeally i will...
*goes
off to wallow in his midlife crisis* ;P
- the Tactical Office is proud
to announce the release of the following battles for the entire EH... which
include an XWA one!
DB-TIE #14 "Defend the Darkness"
IW-XWA #17 "Rion's Shadow:
Tactical Withdrawl"
TC-TIE #169 "Project Omega"
TC-TIE #169 "The Rooster Trap"
TC-TIE #170 "Barn Yard Beatings"
- Star Wars Quake isn't the
only mod closing shop. The Half-Life mod, Imperial Battles, has closed
their doors due to lack of interest and the loss of their website by Chaos
Realm. The mod authors have stated on their message board that they will
eventually go open source to allow someone else to continue the work. Unreal
Tournament: Emperor's Hammer is also closing down if Prefect Ares cannot
find more helpers, especially in the modeling and graphics department.
The project to create the Star Wars Quake 2 total conversion called "The
Call of the Force", has be closed down. The source code for the project
has been posted on their website at http://swtc.telefragged.com/news.shtml.
Personally, I hate to see this just die. If i knew C++ better, i'd pick
it up myself and port it to Q3A. May be someone else out there has the
knowledge?
- Either via stupidity or just
trying to rort the system, a number of competitions are being submitted
that are unacceptable. These competitions are usually one squadron vs another
where the highest scoring person from each squadron gets a IS-BW. These
competitions will be denied. Similarly, any competitions where the CMDR
of the winning squadron gets an award will be denied. I hope that clears
things up.
- A new AlliED has been released
for registered users! It's been a while, but I'm not really sure what has
been added because there's no readme file in this version. The map seems
to scroll more smoothly. According to the XWA Upgrade site, the new version
simply has an additional wireframe for the 8km and 17.6km versions of the
Super Star Destroyer. If you need free XWA mission editors, I suggest
you look up our own Editor Archives, as we got 5 free ones there...
- The new Emperor's Hammer
logo has been chosen created by Lieutenant Commander Tempest, who has earned
the Grand Order of the Empire for his work.
- With several recommendations
behind him, Flight Officer Admiral Priyum Patel has been promoted to the
rank of Fleet Admiral! Finally, and congrats!
- Maj. Khadgar and CM CrazyR2
will go on another leave together. Starting Saterday, back on the 19th.
I'll be acting WC, I guess either CPT Fraggle Hawk or LCM Damon Kast is
the acting Python CMDR.
- Yes, I know I'm pretty late
with this, especially considering that our CP has known about this some
time, but I'd like to announce that LCM Schitzo of Echo Squadron is March'
Com's Protector. Congratulations - your PC is on the way! LCM Schitzo
got the highest score in the March Competition by VA Cyric, is good in
his communication (he's more often in #Vanguard then I am:) ) and has proved
to be an overall nice guy - so what better reasons are there?;)
- Our site got EH Site of the
Week last week, which is kinda an honor, I guess.
- Well, here are the recounted
results. The difference is that LoCs give two points, BSFs one:
1st Place - LCM Michael ISD
Greywolf 146 pts IS-GW
2nd Place- LC Bruckmack ISD
Greywolf 82 pts IS-SW
3rd Place- CM Schitzo ISD Vanguard
42 pts IS-BW
Congrats to these pilots they've
earned it. Special congrats to LC Bruckmack who actually got all of his
points MP. THAT was what I wanted :)
The ISD Greywolf Retains the
ASF Flagship Title. 2nd place goes to the ISD Vanguard and third to the
ISD Intrepid.
The ISD Grey Wolf Command Staff
Defeated the Vanguard and Intrepid CSers handily, allowing the GW Csers
to rename the mottos and Nicks for the next month of the two losing ISD's
- Fleet-wide meeting on IRC-Undernet
channel #emperor's_hammer (every Saturday at 5PM GMT)
- TIE Corps meeting on IRC-Undernet
channel #tiecorps (It's every Sunday at 9PM GMT)
- Meet other ASF people on
IRC-Undernet channel #EH_ASF
- Don't forget our own IRC-Undernet
channel #Vanguard it's a fun place to be after all:)
Additional
for if you do not know what IRC is: IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat
and it's a protocol specially for chatting. Easiest way to get on IRC is
to go to http://www.mirc.com and download
mIRC free. The Emperor's Hammer is based on the Undernet servers, but if
you need any more help setting up, don't hesitate to call in help from
either your squad mates or me.
- Emperor's Hammer Message
Board - http://www.tiecorps.org/ehmb.asp
- TIE Corps Message Board –
http://www.tiecorps.org/mb
- Aggressor Strike Force Message
Board -
http://www.tiecorps.org/mb/view.asp?b=21&v=0&s=0
- ISD Vanguard/Wing XV Message
Board - http://tiecorps.org/mb/view.asp?b=38&v=0
COM/RA
Ender mBind/Wing XV/ISD Vanguard
GS/SiS/BS/PCx4/ISMx13/LoC-PSx71/DFC/CoL/CoB/LoA/OV
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