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May 2004
05.21.04
HA Ari Retires as Internet Officer
and is Awarded the OoR Medal - Admiral Dura Takes over as IO: 04.16.04
As Submitted From:
Fleet
Commander (GA Ronin)
Internet Office
My fellow members of the Emperor's Hammer,
I address you all today, a bit with a heavy heart, but out of a sense of duty. I
regret to inform you that as of today, I herein resign from the position of
Internet Officer of the Emperor's Hammer. To some of you this may come as a
surprise; others may have expected it. I have served as the EH's Internet
Officer for a total of 32 months, 139 reports (this being the 125th that I've
written, as opposed to my CAs) - to my knowledge, the longest term served by an
IO. During my tenure, I have strived to bring a new dimension to the EH,
exploiting the Internet resources available to us. In my application for the
position, I stated that I wished for the Internet Office to have a more personal
feel, act as a more central hub and provide web hosting and services to members.
I believe that the institution of the IO has been successful in accomplishing
these goals, especially facilitating the transition from primarily HTML sites to
many more automated, interactive and dynamic sites powered by PHP and ASP, but
also much more.
The IO/COMM now offers a wide range of services, including web hosting, e-mail,
domain redirection, among other services, all for free to members of the EH,
realized through MinosNIC. For a while the Internet Office was also involved in
operating the EH Message Boards. I personally have also made an effort to make
myself available to every single member who needs help with questions in my area
of expertise, and I am happy to say that almost every question someone has
brought to my attention, I have successfully dealt with personally.
Moreover, the IO has instituted the EHNet Login Service, or ELS, which is the
largest EH user database (aside from the TIE Corps site), and provides secure,
efficient login and authentication. The ELS authentication client is available
to all webmasters who request it. ELS also runs off of several servers, meaning
that there is an efficient redundancy built into the system should any one of
the servers be down at a given time. My vision for ELS was that it would
eventually lead the way into a larger database, which would centralize data
shared between subgroups for members, such as contact information, and possibly
lead to the implementation of a standardized currency system.
The IO has seen many other various projects, including but not limited to
Project Hawkeye, one of the most massive and effective competitions run by a
Command Office in recent EH history. A good deal of work was actually completed
on Project Hawkeye II, but unfortunately, interest among the developers died
down and the project has lain dormant. I charge my successor(s) with the
completion of this project, which has become a symbol of the epitome of what the
EH can accomplish. The IO has also seen things like MyEHNet (MyDot), a personal
portal homepage for EH members; Sabacc Online, which captivated BHG interest for
a long stretch of time; SquadFirst+, a fully automated website creator designed
to help individual EH units with the creation and maintenance of their websites
as well as compliance with the Internet Guidelines; the eXtensible Polling
System, an all-purpose data collection tool which allows people to survey EH
members for many different types of data in different ways; and many, many other
projects, all of which I will not detail here (though for a good number of them,
refer to IO Report #100).
As you may be able to guess from these vast projects, my vision for the Internet
Office and indeed for the entire Emperor's Hammer has been very broad. I think
in my 32 months, I have accomplished a lot of my goals. Certainly there were
some large projects that I started that I would've loved to finish (Project
Hawkeye II, Multiplayer Sabacc, EH Wargames) but a big problem in the EH at
large now is the lack of interest and effort put into developing something big.
People expect things to be done instantly, and they don't expect to have to do
them, they think others can do their own work. Such an attitude also affects the
developers unfortunately, and they stop caring. When I began my tenure, this
complacency mixed with listlessness was not a strong presence, which allowed me
to institute some of the big changes I wanted to see to fruition early on.
Unfortunately, circumstances have been such that people no longer see the hard
work and effort that goes into creating an institution that is designed to make
things easier for its users. On the other hand, I don't mean to blame the lack
of success we've had with some of these projects on others; I take
responsibility for not being able to see them to completion, but I do wish at
certain times I could have had more support from my staff and from EH members at
large.
Do not take this as a statement of disappointment. Rather, take it as a
challenge. A challenge for you all to involve yourself in the EH, and learn an
appreciation of the value of hard work and effort. Learn what it takes to make
certain things succeed. And learn when and why something may fail. That is the
best thing you can do in all your endeavors: to take something that you have
learned away from it, whether it was successful or not.
As I said, I had a large vision for the EH, and as of late I feel that I have
not been able to continue fulfilling it as much as I would like to. I was in the
middle of the automation of the main Emperorshammer.org domain, a project I had
waited years for to be given permission to do, but due to external factors my
performance has not been up to my own par as of late. And so, I feel compelled
to resign, out of a sense of duty, since I do not see myself as providing any
new contributions to the EH.
And so, I feel it is time for a new mind to take the reigns from me. I have
selected my own replacement, Admiral Robert Dura, who I feel shares my vision of
the EH and the IO to a vast extent. I have requested that Grand Admiral Ronin
and Sector Admiral Astatine not open the position of Internet Officer for
applications, but rather immediately institute Rob as the new IO, to ensure a
smooth transition. Rob already has access to everything he will need to make use
of as IO and is prepared to take over the day-to-day operations of the IO, and
hopefully bring it to new heights which I could never attain. Just make sure you
send in a report every single week like I did! Make it a priority - it will be
worth it in the end.
I like to think as the beginning of my tenure as the beginning of a new era
within the EH, a time where massive and rapid development took place in many
areas. However, I do not see it fit to call this the end of that era and the
beginning of a new one, because I believe Admiral Dura will carry on my legacy
of vision and care for the EH and its members. I will, however, sorely miss some
of the pleasantries of being Internet Officer. You may be wondering where I will
be moving on to from here. I plan to stay as an Internet Office Assistant for
Rob, and possibly take an advisory position. I will remain as a presence on IRC
however, and will be keeping my ari@tiecorps.org address and I am very eager to
continue providing advice and offering Internet or programming assistance, or
even just acting as a general repository of EH history.
As I bid my farewell to the position of Internet Officer, I'd now like to
address the Command Staff. This may come as a shock to you, especially in light
of many recent Command Officer resignations, I honestly don't have any problems
with any of you. I'd like to say it's been a pleasure working with most of you
(some of you I haven't had the opportunity to work with). Sure, I've had some
disagreements with some of you, but overall I think you're all a fine group of
officers capable of bearing the EH into a new era. My words of advice to you
are: no matter how daunting the task at hand may be, it will always be worth it
- possibly in ways you do not expect.
And now, there are some special people I would like to take the time to give an
explicit thank-you to for their assistance and general being a pleasure to work
with. For anyone who feels that I missed them, I deeply apologize for forgetting
you, but I do appreciate you nonetheless.
Priyum: I've got to say, Pri, we've become very good friends through all we've
worked on together. I think we both share the same vision of the EH, and I am
very happy to have always been able to share my bigger projects with you - even
if not all of them worked out.
Keldorn: I'm glad I've been able to have you review my speeches, proposals, etc.
and confer with you about details of projects at length. You've got an amazing
mind, and you bring pride to the phrase "mid-end CS r0xx0rs ur b0xx0rs."
Howlader: Ah, good times. It's nice to be able to go to you for advice, and have
someone as cheerful and helpful as you to make light of a tough situation.
Troutrooper: TT, I've got to say, not only have you helped me immensely with my
EH affairs, but you've also helped me a lot with real life issues, and it's
always a pleasure. Here's to the good ol' days back on the ISD Colossus!
Kweeky: Ever since the days of yore when you were PREX of the CD and I was CEO
of AGA, it's been nothing but fun times with you. You've got a great imagination
and amazing web skills, and I'm proud to have been able to work with you.
Vman: I'm putting my baby (the IO) in your hands, but I know you will do a
wonderful job. You already have so far as my CA, I expect you to surpass
everyone's expectations. Dare to dream!
Leeson: My longest-standing CA, you've always been there to cover for me when
I've needed it. You've managed to get some great projects done, and I hope one
day you'll be able to finish our joint effort of Multiplayer Sabacc.
Darkfire: You were my first CA, and you helped me out tremendously as I was
getting started. Even though you didn't have much programming experience, you
had amazing managerial skills, and I've always looked for those in a CA
thereafter.
Mell: We've been through quite a lot together, from planning projects to
carrying out internet-related investigations, and I've thoroughly enjoyed
working with you. Your unquenchable aspiration is something that I admire.
Turtle: What can I say - you're always reliable and I can always depend on you.
Your desire to expand your knowledge of PHP skills is admirable, and I've loved
teaching you as well as learning from you.
Alex Foley: I've got to say, you've made me very proud. You came into my office
knowing almost no PHP, and you've become one of the big PHP programmers in the
EH. Watching you grow and become a Command Officer has been a pleasure.
Koral: Your assistance in running EHNet.org while it was hosted on your service
has been much appreciated. I deeply thank you for your patience with my
incessant annoyances.
Reblet: Your vast knowledge about programming and all things open-source never
ceases to amaze me. I've truly enjoyed learning new things from you.
I'd also like to thank four of my exemplary former Internet Office Assistants,
who have been very faithful to the Internet Office and have helped me out a
great deal with whatever work I've thrown that way: Xander Drax, Drako,
AbsoluteK, and CrazyR2.
And finally, I'd like to thank Grand Admiral Ronin and Sector Admiral Astatine
on allowing my the opportunity to carry out my vision of a better EH, and I wish
the best of luck to both of you in the continued successful running of the EH. I
will always be here for useful advice.
And so, my fellow members of the Emperor's Hammer, I conclude my resignation
speech with the following thought: Being a successful leader comes not from your
desire to succeed, but from your desire to see others around you do so. Strive
to work towards the greater good, because ultimately it will pay off for you.
Signed,
High Admiral Ari
Internet Officer of the Emperor's Hammer
Fleet Commander's Note:
HA Ari is one of the finest officers in the EH I have had the pleasure of
working with. His reports were NEVER late and is tireless website designs
and hosting have single-handedly vaulted the EH to the premier SW fan club that
it is.
Fear not, HA Ari will be sticking around as an IOA so he will be around
for advice if required...but let him enjoy his time off for a while ! :)
For his faithful and tireless service, HA Ari is herein awarded the Order
of the Renegade Medal:
(Please see the
Operations
Manual for medal descriptions)
<SALUTE>
Sirs,
High Admiral Ari has had a long and illustrious service to the Emperor's Hammer
as a Squadron Commander, Wing Commander, Ship's Commodore, Command Attaché to
the Internet Officer, and finally as his 32 months as Internet Officer. Longest
serving Internet Officer that I know of.
He started many projects, assembled great teams, and completed many projects
that have greatly helped the EH membership at large. So many that I will not
list them here, I will refer you to his resignation letter for that.
His long service has been one of honor and duty to the membership of the
Emperor's Hammer. Therefore, The undersigned all recommend that the medal Order
of the Renegade be awarded to High Admiral Ari for his long and
fruitful service to the Emperor's Hammer.
Admiral Robert Dura
Obelisk Battlemaster, Vice Admiral (ret.) Reb Crush
Admiral Turtle
Vice Admiral Alex Foley
Fleet Admirla Ender mBind
General Ice
Fleet Admrial Mike
Lieutenant Colonel Mark
Lieutenant Shinobi
Rear Admiral Drako
Vice Admiral Xandar Drax
Admiral Zsinj
Rear Admiral Gilad Pelleaeon
Admiral Mell Kerrigan
(note, these ppl were found on IRC and asked, I feel that
there would be many more names on this list if more time and effort was spent
searching)
Knight-Admiral Robert Dura, Acting IO
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Positively no objections to this one. If there is any
officer deserving of this medal it's Ari.
VA Alex Foley
Operations Officer
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<SALUTE!>
Sirs--
I know not what other medal(s) have been recc'ed for Ari, but just to make sure
he gets a small token of appreciation for his selfless devotion and tireless
effort I am recommending HA Ari for an Order of the Renegade. I don't think I
need to list Ari's outstanding contributions to the fleet: simply look at the
list of IO projects in his last report to see what he has accomplished. Not only
has he been the best IO the EH has ever seen, but Ari's career leading up to IO
was also outstanding. Lest we forget, Ari was COM when the ISD Colossus was
named "Fleet Commander's Own", a first for a ship not named the Sov.
I would be remiss if I forgot Ari's contributions to other subgroups. He was a
long-serving CEO in the Corporate Division, assisted the BHG and Intel on
ocassion, and is a DJK in the Dark Brotherhood. As a member and as IO, he helped
subgroups in any way he could.
In addition, Ari is one of the friendliest people you'll ever meet in the EH. I
am one of many he's aided simply because he can, not for personal or political
reasons. He has a big heart to go along with his huge brain.
I realize that most OORs are awarded to officers who have all other high-level
merit medals and that Ari lacks an IC. However, an IC would be an insult to
someone who's contributed so much to the fleet. Heck, an OOR seems too little as
well. Perhaps both an IC and OOR should be awarded, but that's up to y'all (I
wouldn't mind seeing both merit medals bestowed upon Ari).
In conclusion, HA Ari is an officer many of us strive to emulate, but nobody
can. As a doer and leader, he is second to none. Ari deserves far more than any
single medal can represent, but alas, a medal is all we can give.
<SALUTE!>
INQ/AD Troutrooper/VSD Stalwart
[***TTDR***][VM-FB][GMoF][FoEW][MoAx3][MoPx2][IMC][PoC-slx2]
GS/BSx3/PCx7/ISMx18/MoT-1rh-3gh-3bh/IS-1BR-1SR-1PR/LoC-CSx4R/CoS/CoL/CoB/LoAx11/OV-3E
[ARCN]
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He is ably supported by a strong staff...and as with all good leaders, he
has ably trained his replacement,
Admiral
Robert Dura. Welcome !
Newsletter No. 103 Posted to the
Fleet: 04.10.04
As Compiled By:
Executive
Officer (SA Astatine)
Office of the XO
[ Please visit the Newsletters Page for all past NLs ! ]
Online Viewable:
http://logistics.lusankya.org/nl/nl-103/
Downloadable Zip:
http://logistics.lusankya.org/nl/zip/hammer103.zip (5.09 MB)
NEWSLETTER DESIGN NOTES:
Tactical Officer
Releases EH Plotlines Compendium Alpha Version v1.0a: 04.11.04
As Submitted From:
Tactical
Officer (FA Mike)
Tactical Office
Hello sirs.
Long ago I had an idea to create compendium for all those with great writing
skills and idea, but lack of mission creation knowledge. Now, I have a chance
to make my dream come true.
Today, I have opened EH Plotlines Compendium v1.0a (
http://www.emperorshammer.net/tac/plotlines/index2.htm ). It's still alpha
version and I am still working on it, but I've already received the first
plotline submission with positive feedback.
How this works? Well, it's relatively simple. Compendium contains plotlines/battleplans
sent to me by EH members. When they want battle done, but don't have enough
skill to do it, they just fill the template I've prepared for them and submit
it to me. I review it, and when it meets my requirements, I add it to the
compednium. Mission designers visit compendium and request plotlines. Then
they make battles and submit them to me.
From my experience I know that some mission designers have great skills, but
lack of good ideas. That's a chance for them. Well, actualy I can say that's a
chance for all people. Rookies, veteran, top guns. Rookies can write plotlines
and submit them to me for a price. Veterans can make battles and also get
credit. And top guns, can fly them, and earn HSs. This way we should have a
lot more of new battle submissions soon, and I think it's a chance to keep old
platforms like XW or TIE living. Well, until we will have IA, but even then EH
Plotlines Compendium, will be a good idea, I think :)
I will let you know about the fruits of my work very soon :)
FA Marcin "Mike" Szydlowski
EH Tactical Officer (CS-3)
#ehpl onwer and EHPLM moderator
#3203 pbmike@go2.pl
Emperor's Hammer
Holonet Awards II Announcement: 04.23.04
As Emailed From:
Internet Officer (AD Dura)
Welcome to the new installment of the Emperor's Hammer Holonet
Awards. We seek to award the members of the Emperor's Hammer who are the best
of the best in web design, graphics, and programming, and their prize is the
coveted Iota.
The competition will be held at
http://ehha.stardestroyer.org/
For those that remember the previous EHHA, there have been a few
changes made, there are fewer categories, and changes in the restrictions on
what can be nominiated.
Nominations will start Sunday May 9th, 2004 and end Friday May 21st, 2004.
This gives every 15 days to clean up, create, or pimp their creation in
preperation for nominations.
The site for the competition, and currently an announcement page containing
the timeline, guidelines, categories, and awards is again at:
http://ehha.stardestroyer.org/
Admiral Robert Dura, IO-SOA
GMF Coursca Promoted to Admiral:
04.26.04
As Recommended By:
DGMF / RA Orzon /
MC-2 / Gondor Base
(Please see the
Training Manual
for rank descriptions)
[Salute]
Greetings Sirs!
As Deputy Grand Moff, the officer who works the closest with the Grand Moff as
well as sees all behind the scenes work, I'd like recommend Rear Admiral Coursca
for a promotion to the rank of Vice Admiral.
The Directorate, while not extremely apparent has brought some new members in,
however, previously our rosters were cushioned with the AWOL, so although it may
seem our numbers have dropped, those that are on are rosters are very active.
Coursca created the Yridia Competition which had decent participation, and has
pushed along with myself and the MoE the current Recruitment drive and other
recruitment options. He even recruited an officer to the Directorate in attempts
to have the general membership follow his lead. He has also given some hints to
a new competition after Easter time.
His current project is Diplomacy which he is revamping to make more easy to
operate than the original version. What I have seen has been amazing and I look
forward to it.
Not really major reforms in the sense of changing things, he did approve
splitting the MoO duties and placing roster control on the Deputy Grand Moff, as
opposed to having the Minister of Operations do medals and rosters. He realized,
as did I, that one officer with promotion and medal approval ability is too much
power, so he discussed with myself, and I agreed to take on the roster control
instead of creating yet another position on the Ministry Council.
He has done an excellent job of finding good Ministry Council members and has
brought a unity to them, that has never been there since I've been on the
Ministry Council (about two years). This has helped the further many plans as
well increase general activity. He has also gotten on all Ministry Council
members cases about doing there job, which has increased the Academy courses,
got the Minister of Operations working on project and the Admiral of the Fleet
and High Commissioner of Territories are getting moving on branch activities.
Coursca has been the best Grand Moff the Directorate has had in sometime. He
gives everything he has for the Sub-group and its members. He is a powerful role
model for the Directorate and EH in general. Coursca is an officer the DIR was
in great need of and he has done a superb job and will continue to do so, which
is more than deserving of such a promotion.
[Salute]
Respectfully,
-Deputy Grand Moff, Rear Admiral Nyykl Orzon
DGMF / RA Orzon / MC-2 / Gondor Base
(TC)x2(LoA)(MS)(JC)(MoS-PR)(MoS-GR)(MoR-BB)(MoP)(MoSc-1)x2(CoL)
{DA:
AE-AT-CB-CS-CRK-DC-DG-DL-DME-DRD-DRW-ESC-FR-FT-GT-GW-INT-ISD-MC-NBF-PS-RE-STC-SWGB-TD-VSD}{MEEx:
Creator}{IWATS-AIM-M/1-RT-SM/3}
"This is the Orz Experience!"
Directorate Manual:
http://www.members.aol.com/ma4sbwithu/DIR/Manual/Main.html
Directorate Rosters:
http://www.members.aol.com/ma4sbwithu/DIR/Roster.html
Fleet Commander's Note:
AD Coursca certainly has raised the bar in the DIR lately...nice work and
congrats from the FC !
Corporate Division Prex
Rokin Removed as AWOL, Replacements Sought: 04.16.04
As Submitted From:
Fleet
Commander (GA Ronin)
Corporate Division (CD)
Due to inactivity and basically disappearing, the CD Prex was
removed on 04.16.04.
Interested replacement candidates should meet the following
criteria:
-
Be a member of the EH in
good standing for 1+ year
-
Have no serious
unresolved HCI convictions
-
Be dedicated, able to
report to the FC and XO on a weekly basis
-
Be able to host and/or
maintain a Subgroup website
-
Have some database
familiarity to assist in managing the Corporate Division's pride and joy, the
iBank system
If you are interested, please
email your
qualifications to the Fleet Command and Executive Officer.
Thank you
GA Ronin
Fleet Commander/Founder - Emperor's Hammer
FC/GA Ronin/CS-1/SSSD Sovereign
MoH/IC/GoE/OoR/PC/MoI-dc/ISMx2/MoT-rhx2/MoT-ghx8/LoC-CSx5/DFC/CoS/OV-9E//CoL/LoA
[DJP(Sith)/Overlord of Alvaak, SL]/DC {IWATS-Core}
Executive Officer Reports:
As Submitted From:
Executive
Officer (SA Astatine)
Office of the XO
SA Astatine - XO
e-mail: jpboyce@indigo.net.au
XO Report 31: 04.11.04
Newsletter 103 has been completed and is available online. You
can download it as a zip from
http://logistics.lusankya.org/nl/zip/hammer103.zip or
http://www.ehdb.org/nl/nl103.zip.
Alternatively, it's online at
http://logistics.lusankya.org/nl/nl-103/ Thanks to the LO for quickly
mirroring the NL.
As always, I'm looking for more submissions. Submissions can
include:
* Fiction
* Graphics
* Interviews, articles, reviews
Submissions can be sent to
xo@emperorshammer.org.
That's about it for this week.
Tactical Office Reports:
As Emailed From:
Tactical
Officer (FA Mike)
Tactical Office
Fleet Admiral Marcin "Mike" Szydlowski
---------------------------------------
Tactical Officer
Emperor's Hammer Strike Fleet
#3203 < pbmike@go2.pl >
Tactical Office Report #135: 04.10.04
Introduction:
Week full of events. All I can say. So stupid people started their slander
again, trying to get Mike in trouble but all they have achieved was HCI trial,
what a great achievement, don't you think? Or when someone resigns from EH first
and then goes kamikaze. What a bravery? Hehe, how pitiful.
On the other news. OPS has approved awards system for SWGB and plotlines, so
start submitting your SWGB battles if you haven't already. And plotline template
will be available soon, maybe even today.
New battles and missions, pending HSs
I have released few XvT battles and missions this week, so go and enjoy them.
Also, all pending HSs should be processed when I finish this report, today for
sure.
Tactical Roster:
Tactical High Command [3]:
Tactical Officer: FA Marcin Szydlowski #3203 (pbmike@go2.pl)
Command Attach頴o Tactical Officer: VA Styles #274 (stelerain@comcast.net)
Tactical Head Coordinator: COL D.T Hammer #9121 (aburt@tampabay.rr.com)
Tactical Command [3]:
Tactical Coordinator (TIE): COL Beef #1639 (Beefment@aol.com)
Tactical Coordinator (XvT): CPT Chris Cox #9354 (dodgygeeza98@hotmail.com)
Tactical Coordinator (XWA): COL Master #6252 (capt_master@hotmail.com)
Testers and Engineers [28]:
Tactician/Surveyor: MAJ Carl Lost #3635 (cedu98@hotmail.com)
Tactician/Surveyor: MAJ Choosh #9357 (mchenry@jefnet.com)
Tactician/Surveyor: RA Frodo March #5956 (fcjt914@yahoo.ca)
Tactician/Surveyor: CM Bryan #6739 (SHSBryan@yahoo.com)
Tactician/Surveyor: FA Ender mBind #2883 (mindb_ender@hotmail.com)
Tactician/Surveyor: MAJ Xanatos Screed #6306 (M.Wernsing@web.de)
Tactician/Surveyor: COL Gidda #3978 (ehgidda@tiscalinet.it)
Tactician/Surveyor: MAJ Justin #5853 (justinmantonico@aol.com)
Tactician/Surveyor: LC Zystem Fryar #255 (zysfryar@isdcolossus.com)
Tactician/Surveyor: RA Frodo March #5956 (fcjt914@yahoo.ca)
Tactician/Surveyor: LCM Thomas Nitecki #6260 (tnnn@poczta.fm)
Tactical Surveyor: LC Brandon #509 (balrog_33@hotmail.com)
Tactical Surveyor: CPT Abel Malik #6939 (ezwill@famvid.com)
Tactical Surveyor: CM Viper #8293 (FWCJR@hotmail.com)
Tactical Surveyor: CM Ace #8292 (szklarzewicz@wp.pl)
Tactical Surveyor: CM Atmos Myremod #9903 (gabriel.prado@ip2.com.br)
Tactical Surveyor: LC Daniel Goad #7317 (dazexeter@yahoo.com)
Tactical Surveyor: CPT Curtis #8425 (Curtis@isdchallenge.org)
Tactical Surveyor: CPT Jedi Eclipse #8171 (eh_jedieclipse@fastmail.fm)
Tactical Surveyor: COL Daniel "Hobbie" Hanson #42 (IW) (hob15@hotmail.com)
Tactical Surveyor: COL Brandon #509 (balrog_33@hotmail.com)
Tactical Surveyor: MAJ Kenath Zoron #6377 (fight_the_good_fight91@hotmail.com)
Tactical Surveyor: CM Vladet Xavier #10285 (snow_scorpion@hotmail.com)
Tactical Surveyor: LCM CrimsonFury #10251 (Crim5on@hotmail.com)
Tactical Surveyor: CM Infamus #9652 (hoor@udinbak.de)
Tactical Surveyor: CPT Chris McCollum #6690 (ministryisadeity@aol.com)
Tactical Assistants [3]:
Honorary Tactical Officer's Assistant: HA Striker #420 (striker@tiecorps.org)
Tactical Officer's Assistant: CPT Justin #5853 (justinmantonico@aol.com)
Honorary Tactical Officer's Assistant: VA Philo #7894 (cnwilde@umich.edu)
Websites and links:
Tactical Office Website -
http://www.emperorshammer.net/tac/newpage/
Tactical Manual v2.01 -
http://www.emperorshammer.net/tac-man/
Tactical Database -
http://www.isdcolossus.com/tacdb/
Mission Creation Forum -
http://www.theholo.net/mb/viewforum.php?f=42
TIE Mission Creation Tutorial by VA Philo -
http://www.emperorshammer.ca/tiemiss/tutorial_1.htm
XWA Mission Creation Tutorial by VA RogueWing -
http://www.minos.net/~immortal/noob/index.html
Philo's 3D Waypoint Utility -
http://www.emperorshammer.ca/tiemiss/waytemp2k.zip
CM Lenvik's TIE95 Fix For EHBL Users Running Windows 2000/XP -
http://www.minos.net/~lenvik/tie952kxp.htm
Imperial Hangar Patch for XWA -
http://www.minos.net/~sco/files/xwa/IMP-XWA.zip
Tactical Office Report #136: 04.19.04
Introduction:
Well. This report is late, I know, sorry. This week we have finished 2 projects
and started 3 new. See details below. I have also awarded my Tactical Staff, so
congrats to them.
Plotlines Compendium
My old project has finally been released after some coding by me and Justin. You
can see it here. Have fun :)
Tactical Office Competitions Calendar
Thanks to Justin, we have Competitions Calendar online. You can see it here .
You can see all Tactical Competitions there with comments, winners and other
info. Even the upcoming ones.
Tactical Staff Awards
Congrats goes to the following persons:
VA Styles - Gold Star
LC D.T Hammer - Silver Star
COL Master, MAJ Chris Cox, COL Beef - Bronze Stars
LC Justin - Palpatine Crescent
Keep up great work guys!
Tactical Roster:
Tactical High Command [3]:
Tactical Officer: FA Marcin Szydlowski #3203 (pbmike@go2.pl)
Command Attach頴o Tactical Officer: VA Styles #274 (stelerain@comcast.net)
Tactical Head Coordinator: COL D.T Hammer #9121 (aburt@tampabay.rr.com)
Tactical Command [3]:
Tactical Coordinator (TIE): COL Beef #1639 (Beefment@aol.com)
Tactical Coordinator (XvT): MAJ Chris Cox #9354 (dodgygeeza98@hotmail.com)
Tactical Coordinator (XWA): COL Master #6252 (capt_master@hotmail.com)
Tactical Assistants [3]:
Honorary Tactical Officer's Assistant: HA Striker #420 (striker@tiecorps.org)
Tactical Officer's Assistant: LC Justin #5853 (justinmantonico@aol.com)
Honorary Tactical Officer's Assistant: VA Philo #7894 (cnwilde@umich.edu)
Websites and links:
Tactical Office Website -
http://www.emperorshammer.net/tac/newpage/
Tactical Manual v2.01 -
http://www.emperorshammer.net/tac-man/
Tactical Office Plotlines Compendium v1.0a -
http://plotlines.minos.net
Tactical Office Competitions Calendar -
http://calendar.minos.net
Tactical Database -
http://www.isdcolossus.com/tacdb/
Mission Creation Forum -
http://www.theholo.net/mb/viewforum.php?f=42
TIE Mission Creation Tutorial by VA Philo -
http://www.emperorshammer.ca/tiemiss/tutorial_1.htm
XWA Mission Creation Tutorial by VA RogueWing -
http://www.minos.net/~immortal/noob/index.html
Philo's 3D Waypoint Utility -
http://www.emperorshammer.ca/tiemiss/waytemp2k.zip
CM Lenvik's TIE95 Fix For EHBL Users Running Windows 2000/XP -
http://www.minos.net/~lenvik/tie952kxp.htm
Imperial Hangar Patch for XWA -
http://www.minos.net/~sco/files/xwa/IMP-XWA.zip
Tactical Office Report #137: 04.24.04
Introduction:
This was not a good week for me. At Thursday I started to be very sick, so I
spent two days in bed. It seems my stomach has been injured by some sort or
poisoning. But it's all ok now :)
Upcoming competitions
There will be 3 new Tactical Competitions. Check calendar for more info.
Mission Creation Wars - 2004 Edition
Competition start June 1st. I am still waiting for OPS to reply to my request,
and then we go ahead and start applying.
Tactical Roster:
Tactical High Command [3]:
Tactical Officer: FA Marcin Szydlowski #3203 (pbmike@go2.pl)
Command Attaché to Tactical Officer: VA Styles #274 (stelerain@comcast.net)
Tactical Head Coordinator: COL D.T Hammer #9121 (aburt@tampabay.rr.com)
Tactical Command [3]:
Tactical Coordinator (TIE): COL Beef #1639 (Beefment@aol.com)
Tactical Coordinator (XvT): MAJ Chris Cox #9354 (dodgygeeza98@hotmail.com)
Tactical Coordinator (XWA): GN Master #6252 (capt_master@hotmail.com)
Tactical Assistants [3]:
Honorary Tactical Officer's Assistant: HA Striker #420 (striker@tiecorps.org)
Tactical Officer's Assistant: LC Justin #5853 (justinmantonico@aol.com)
Honorary Tactical Officer's Assistant: VA Philo #7894 (cnwilde@umich.edu)
Websites and links:
Tactical Office Website -
http://www.emperorshammer.net/tac/newpage/
Tactical Manual v2.01 -
http://www.emperorshammer.net/tac-man/
Tactical Office Plotlines Compendium v1.0a -
http://plotlines.minos.net
Tactical Office Competitions Calendar -
http://calendar.minos.net
Tactical Database -
http://www.isdcolossus.com/tacdb/
Mission Creation Forum -
http://www.theholo.net/mb/viewforum.php?f=42
TIE Mission Creation Tutorial by VA Philo -
http://www.emperorshammer.ca/tiemiss/tutorial_1.htm
XWA Mission Creation Tutorial by VA RogueWing -
http://www.minos.net/~immortal/noob/index.html
Philo's 3D Waypoint Utility -
http://www.emperorshammer.ca/tiemiss/waytemp2k.zip
CM Lenvik's TIE95 Fix For EHBL Users Running Windows 2000/XP -
http://www.minos.net/~lenvik/tie952kxp.htm
Imperial Hangar Patch for XWA -
http://www.minos.net/~sco/files/xwa/IMP-XWA.zip
Flight Office Reports:
As Emailed From:
Flight Officer
(FA Cyric)
Flight Office
FA Cyric
CA:FO/FA Cyric/CA-4/SSSD Sovereign
GOE/SSx5/BSx2/PCx2/ISMx5/MoI/MoT-1rh-5gh/LoC-CSx7-Rx1/CoLx3/CoB/LoA/OV-5E [KNGT]
{IWATS-AIM-BX-CBX-ICQ-IIC/1-JS-M/1/2-SM/1/2/3-XTM/1-XTT}
Flight Office Report #27: 04.08.04
<salute>
Easter Weekend is upon us, hence my report one day early...
I have had the unfortunate responsibility of closing the ISD Immortal. I realize
that this ship caries a lot of history and memories for many long standing TC
Pilots. However, with the decline in numbers to the TC and the TIECORPS
Battlegroup, this measure was a necessity for the solvency of the TC as a whole.
Members of the Immortal have been transferred as full squadrons throughout the
TIECORPS Battlegroup at the request of AD Mell and the Squadron Commanders. As
the Immortal is disbanded, Wing XI was also disbanded.
On the SSSD Sovereign, two wings have closed: Wing III and Wing IV and have
merged to create a new wing: Wing VII. What this does is created from two wings
of 20 pilots one wing of 40 + pilots, strengthening the SSSD Sovereign. Wing VII
was opened at the request of AD Proton and the pilots of WINGS III and IV to
create a new beginning for these pilots, a new beginning for the SOV and for the
TC. A Fresh start.
Now with these closures, the TC is made up of 4 BG's of three wings each.
Instead of there being a plethora of wings to chose from, some lacking numbers
to properly operate, it moves the TC into a more manageable arena for cadet
placement, recruitment, and activity. Once the existing wings begin to increase
activity and pilots, then the consideration of newer wings to open will be taken
under advisement.
My next project is to focus on the Elite Squadrons. Each has its own criteria
for selecting pilots, but recently I've seen Elite squadrons recruiting members
that, quite frankly, don't deserve to be in an elite squadron. These pilots have
low activity, or have done nothing in their respective squadrons. At the very
least, I'd like the Elites to stick to the "We are the BEST of the BEST" slogan.
The TO, with thanks to AD Mell, has released the Wing Commander Course. I highly
encourage all members with designs on being a WC or Higher to take the course!
That's all from the Flight Office...
In Service...
FO Report #28: 04.16.04
Report #28 for the Flight Office! This week has been fairly slow. I have
processed a fair number of recruits coming into the EH which is a good sign
indeed!
The transition for Wing VII and for the members of the Immortal who have been
relocated seems to be running fairly smoothly.
Some Positions have been filled:
WC WING X has been given to Maj Exar Kit
Avenger Elite Squadron Commander has been given to COL Nightmare
Congrats to Both!
WC Wing XV is open to applications
WC Wing XVIII is open to applications as well.
This past week went very very smoothly. No major DB errors or transfer errors! I
am very Impressed.
That's it from the Flight Office!
In Service...
Flight Office Report #29: 04.23.04
Welcome to another Flight Office report. I must say that it has been a quiet
week in terms of Flight Office activity. I would like to point out that I've
processed a good amount of people coming out of the reserves back to the TC. A
good amount being approx 10 people, but thats 10 more than we've had! Good work
to all the people who took the time to write these pilots and get them back to
active duty status!
Praetorian Squadron Commander was up for applications until Thursday 4/22/04.
SDIR Mordann and myself are mulling over the applications from the three members
who applied:
MAJ Abel Malik
CPT Gelton Torr
MAJ Chris Cox
We hope to have a commander in place before the end of the weekend.
The Commodore of the ISD Grey Wolf has been promoted to Vice Admiral. Congrats
to VA Gilad on his much deserved promotion.
I would like to encourage all of the TC MP pilots to participate in the upcoming
WoW to unseat BOSS club. They have traditionally been the winners of these
events, and I think with the Multiplayers that we currently have, we should be
able to unseat them as the reigning champs! Get out and fly if you have the
means!
IWATS has released many new courses. I recommend that all pilots check out the
IWATS page for a list of schools that they can take. I want to point out the WC
course and advise that all pilots wishing to become a WC or higher in the TC try
to take this course. It has a lot of useful tips and great training materials in
it.
They has been much talk and anticipation over the SWG: Jump to Lightspeed space
expansion and its use for the TC. For now many issues need to be worked out
before the TC can even think about including it and having it approved. I am
keeping an eye on the SWG pages to get more info on the game and I request any
member that gets info forward it to me so I can write a report to the
appropriate persons to see about using SWG SE as a platform for the TC. For
right now it is being talked about and nothing more...
Lastly the awarding of MOI's. I've had a few pilots write to me stating that
they have not received MOI's for helping CTs in their training. I've checked the
MOI's that the DB has put in queue fo the CT's and many of the pilots whom have
written to me were not mentioned by the CT as helping them. If a pilot helps a
CT, I suggest that the pilot informs the CT to include him/her as helping them
so they receive credit for the MOI. If a CT forgets, the CT must write me and
tell me who they got help from and the pilots Pin number. I cannot in good
conscious automatically issue an MOI based on someone telling me they helped
someone, for obvious reasons. If the CT doesn't specify who helped, then no MOI
will be sent to the OPS for approval.
That's it from the Flight Office....
In service....
Internet Office Reports:
As Emailed From:
Former Internet
Officer (HA Ari) and
Internet Officer
(AD Dura)
Internet Office
IO-FSEA-PROF/HA Ari/CS-5/SSSD Sovereign
[MoH] [GOE] [GSx3] [SSx2] [BS] [PCx3] [ISMx9] [MoT-rh-gh] [IS-3BR-4SR-2GR-1PR]
[LoC-CSx6] [MoC-SoC-5BoC] [CoE] [CoB] [CoLx2] [LoAx2] [OV-4E]
{IWATS-SM/1-IIC/1/2/3-VBS-RPG-CBX-M/1/2-GFX-PHP/1/2-ASP-AIM-XML-JS}
Internet Officer of the Emperor's Hammer
ISD Colossus: FC's Own, 2000
IWATS VBScript Professor
IO-SOA-PROF/AD Robert Dura/CS-5/SSSD Sovereign
Internet Officer of the Emperor's Hammer
IWATS IIC Professor
Internet Office Report #138: 04.09.04
:: Transmission Begin ::
Internet Office Report #138
April 9, 2004
:: [ Internet Office News ] ::
Been a short week for me; as I mentioned, I was on holiday Monday-Wednesday as I
will be next Monday and Tuesday. Took quite a lot of convincing to get myself to
believe that today was actually Friday.
Due to RL commitments, I can no longer commit the time required to finishing up
the EH.org automation project. However, AD Turtle has agreed to take the reigns
of the project. With his experience in designing the EHNet system, he should be
able to complete EH.org without too much difficulty.
AD Dura has informed me that the elusive bug that caused much grief to all
SquadFirst+ users has FINALLY been located and fixed! The version 2.0.3 patch
will be released soon with the updates. Please report any further bugs at our
Bug Tracker, Ortho, at http://ortho.minos.net.
:: [ Emperor's Hammer: Site of the Week ] ::
This week's SOTW is the Krath Order site at
http://krath.lusankya.org/. Congrats to J'Lek Arcanos on a nice modification
of SquadFirst+, earning 4 stars!
:: [ Internet Office Poll ] ::
What's your favorite PC game ever?
-Everquest or SWG
-Half-Life or Counter-Strike
-Neverwinter Nights
-Civilization 3
-Starcraft
-The Sims
Vote for your choice at http://www.ehnet.org!
:: [ Internet Office Staff ] ::
Internet Officer: HA Ari
Command Attache: AD Robert Dura
Command Assistant: AD Turtle
Command Assistant: RA Drako
:: [ Internet Office Links ] ::
http://www.ehnet.org/ - Internet Office
http://www.ehnet.org/mb/ - EH Message
Boards
http://www.minos.net/ - MinosNIC
http://els.minos.net/ - EHNet Login System
http://www.ehnet.org/guidelines.php - EH & TC Internet Guidelines
http://www.minos.net/oldmb/ - Archived
Message Board Data
http://my.ehnet.org/ - My EHNet
http://squadfirst.minos.net -
SquadFirst Squadron Website Template
http://www.ehnet.org/xps/ - eXtensible
Polling System
http://www.ehnet.org/sabacc/ - Sabacc
Online v2.4
http://www.ehnet.org/ca/ - IO Code
Archive
http://ehlibrary.minos.net/ - EH
Library
http://code.minos.net/ - EH Code
Collaboration
http://bannerx.ehnet.org/ - EH Banner
Exchange
http://counters.minos.net - EH Counter
Service
http://www.ehnet.org/gcc/ - Greeting
Card Center
http://www.ehnet.org/thj/thj2/ -
The Holonet Journals, Issue #2
http://www.ehnet.org/thj/thj1/ -
The Holonet Journals, Issue #1
http://www.minos.net/webring/ -
WebRing
http://php.minos.net/ - PHP IWATS Course
http://to.minos.net/java/ - JavaScript
IWATS Course
http://www.ehnet.org/vbs/ - VBScript
IWATS Course
http://to.minos.net/flash/ - Flash
IWATS Course
Internet Office Report #139 Resignation
Speech: 04.16.04
:: Transmission Begin ::
Internet Office Report #139
April 16, 2004
:: [ Internet Office News ] ::
My fellow members of the Emperor's Hammer,
I address you all today, a bit with a heavy heart, but out of a sense of duty. I
regret to inform you that as of today, I herein resign from the position of
Internet Officer of the Emperor's Hammer. To some of you this may come as a
surprise; others may have expected it. I have served as the EH's Internet
Officer for a total of 32 months, 139 reports (this being the 125th that I've
written, as opposed to my CAs) - to my knowledge, the longest term served by an
IO. During my tenure, I have strived to bring a new dimension to the EH,
exploiting the Internet resources available to us. In my application for the
position, I stated that I wished for the Internet Office to have a more personal
feel, act as a more central hub and provide web hosting and services to members.
I believe that the institution of the IO has been successful in accomplishing
these goals, especially facilitating the transition from primarily HTML sites to
many more automated, interactive and dynamic sites powered by PHP and ASP, but
also much more.
The IO/COMM now offers a wide range of services, including web hosting, e-mail,
domain redirection, among other services, all for free to members of the EH,
realized through MinosNIC. For a while the Internet Office was also involved in
operating the EH Message Boards. I personally have also made an effort to make
myself available to every single member who needs help with questions in my area
of expertise, and I am happy to say that almost every question someone has
brought to my attention, I have successfully dealt with personally.
Moreover, the IO has instituted the EHNet Login Service, or ELS, which is the
largest EH user database (aside from the TIE Corps site), and provides secure,
efficient login and authentication. The ELS authentication client is available
to all webmasters who request it. ELS also runs off of several servers, meaning
that there is an efficient redundancy built into the system should any one of
the servers be down at a given time. My vision for ELS was that it would
eventually lead the way into a larger database, which would centralize data
shared between subgroups for members, such as contact information, and possibly
lead to the implementation of a standardized currency system.
The IO has seen many other various projects, including but not limited to
Project Hawkeye, one of the most massive and effective competitions run by a
Command Office in recent EH history. A good deal of work was actually completed
on Project Hawkeye II, but unfortunately, interest among the developers died
down and the project has lain dormant. I charge my successor(s) with the
completion of this project, which has become a symbol of the epitome of what the
EH can accomplish. The IO has also seen things like MyEHNet (MyDot), a personal
portal homepage for EH members; Sabacc Online, which captivated BHG interest for
a long stretch of time; SquadFirst+, a fully automated website creator designed
to help individual EH units with the creation and maintenance of their websites
as well as compliance with the Internet Guidelines; the eXtensible Polling
System, an all-purpose data collection tool which allows people to survey EH
members for many different types of data in different ways; and many, many other
projects, all of which I will not detail here (though for a good number of them,
refer to IO Report #100).
As you may be able to guess from these vast projects, my vision for the Internet
Office and indeed for the entire Emperor's Hammer has been very broad. I think
in my 32 months, I have accomplished a lot of my goals. Certainly there were
some large projects that I started that I would've loved to finish (Project
Hawkeye II, Multiplayer Sabacc, EH Wargames) but a big problem in the EH at
large now is the lack of interest and effort put into developing something big.
People expect things to be done instantly, and they don't expect to have to do
them, they think others can do their own work. Such an attitude also affects the
developers unfortunately, and they stop caring. When I began my tenure, this
complacency mixed with listlessness was not a strong presence, which allowed me
to institute some of the big changes I wanted to see to fruition early on.
Unfortunately, circumstances have been such that people no longer see the hard
work and effort that goes into creating an institution that is designed to make
things easier for its users. On the other hand, I don't mean to blame the lack
of success we've had with some of these projects on others; I take
responsibility for not being able to see them to completion, but I do wish at
certain times I could have had more support from my staff and from EH members at
large.
Do not take this as a statement of disappointment. Rather, take it as a
challenge. A challenge for you all to involve yourself in the EH, and learn an
appreciation of the value of hard work and effort. Learn what it takes to make
certain things succeed. And learn when and why something may fail. That is the
best thing you can do in all your endeavors: to take something that you have
learned away from it, whether it was successful or not.
As I said, I had a large vision for the EH, and as of late I feel that I have
not been able to continue fulfilling it as much as I would like to. I was in the
middle of the automation of the main Emperorshammer.org domain, a project I had
waited years for to be given permission to do, but due to external factors my
performance has not been up to my own par as of late. And so, I feel compelled
to resign, out of a sense of duty, since I do not see myself as providing any
new contributions to the EH.
And so, I feel it is time for a new mind to take the reigns from me. I have
selected my own replacement, Admiral Robert Dura, who I feel shares my vision of
the EH and the IO to a vast extent. I have requested that Grand Admiral Ronin
and Sector Admiral Astatine not open the position of Internet Officer for
applications, but rather immediately institute Rob as the new IO, to ensure a
smooth transition. Rob already has access to everything he will need to make use
of as IO and is prepared to take over the day-to-day operations of the IO, and
hopefully bring it to new heights which I could never attain. Just make sure you
send in a report every single week like I did! Make it a priority - it will be
worth it in the end.
I like to think as the beginning of my tenure as the beginning of a new era
within the EH, a time where massive and rapid development took place in many
areas. However, I do not see it fit to call this the end of that era and the
beginning of a new one, because I believe Admiral Dura will carry on my legacy
of vision and care for the EH and its members. I will, however, sorely miss some
of the pleasantries of being Internet Officer. You may be wondering where I will
be moving on to from here. I plan to stay as an Internet Office Assistant for
Rob, and possibly take an advisory position. I will remain as a presence on IRC
however, and will be keeping my ari@tiecorps.org address and I am very eager to
continue providing advice and offering Internet or programming assistance, or
even just acting as a general repository of EH history.
As I bid my farewell to the position of Internet Officer, I'd now like to
address the Command Staff. This may come as a shock to you, especially in light
of many recent Command Officer resignations, I honestly don't have any problems
with any of you. I'd like to say it's been a pleasure working with most of you
(some of you I haven't had the opportunity to work with). Sure, I've had some
disagreements with some of you, but overall I think you're all a fine group of
officers capable of bearing the EH into a new era. My words of advice to you
are: no matter how daunting the task at hand may be, it will always be worth it
- possibly in ways you do not expect.
And now, there are some special people I would like to take the time to give an
explicit thank-you to for their assistance and general being a pleasure to work
with. For anyone who feels that I missed them, I deeply apologize for forgetting
you, but I do appreciate you nonetheless.
Priyum: I've got to say, Pri, we've become very good friends through all we've
worked on together. I think we both share the same vision of the EH, and I am
very happy to have always been able to share my bigger projects with you - even
if not all of them worked out.
Keldorn: I'm glad I've been able to have you review my speeches, proposals, etc.
and confer with you about details of projects at length. You've got an amazing
mind, and you bring pride to the phrase "mid-end CS r0xx0rs ur b0xx0rs."
Howlader: Ah, good times. It's nice to be able to go to you for advice, and have
someone as cheerful and helpful as you to make light of a tough situation.
Troutrooper: TT, I've got to say, not only have you helped me immensely with my
EH affairs, but you've also helped me a lot with real life issues, and it's
always a pleasure. Here's to the good ol' days back on the ISD Colossus!
Kweeky: Ever since the days of yore when you were PREX of the CD and I was CEO
of AGA, it's been nothing but fun times with you. You've got a great imagination
and amazing web skills, and I'm proud to have been able to work with you.
Vman: I'm putting my baby (the IO) in your hands, but I know you will do a
wonderful job. You already have so far as my CA, I expect you to surpass
everyone's expectations. Dare to dream!
Leeson: My longest-standing CA, you've always been there to cover for me when
I've needed it. You've managed to get some great projects done, and I hope one
day you'll be able to finish our joint effort of Multiplayer Sabacc.
Darkfire: You were my first CA, and you helped me out tremendously as I was
getting started. Even though you didn't have much programming experience, you
had amazing managerial skills, and I've always looked for those in a CA
thereafter.
Mell: We've been through quite a lot together, from planning projects to
carrying out internet-related investigations, and I've thoroughly enjoyed
working with you. Your unquenchable aspiration is something that I admire.
Turtle: What can I say - you're always reliable and I can always depend on you.
Your desire to expand your knowledge of PHP skills is admirable, and I've loved
teaching you as well as learning from you.
Alex Foley: I've got to say, you've made me very proud. You came into my office
knowing almost no PHP, and you've become one of the big PHP programmers in the
EH. Watching you grow and become a Command Officer has been a pleasure.
Koral: Your assistance in running EHNet.org while it was hosted on your service
has been much appreciated. I deeply thank you for your patience with my
incessant annoyances.
Reblet: Your vast knowledge about programming and all things open-source never
ceases to amaze me. I've truly enjoyed learning new things from you.
I'd also like to thank four of my exemplary former Internet Office Assistants,
who have been very faithful to the Internet Office and have helped me out a
great deal with whatever work I've thrown that way: Xander Drax, Drako,
AbsoluteK, and CrazyR2.
And finally, I'd like to thank Grand Admiral Ronin and Sector Admiral Astatine
on allowing my the opportunity to carry out my vision of a better EH, and I wish
the best of luck to both of you in the continued successful running of the EH. I
will always be here for useful advice.
And so, my fellow members of the Emperor's Hammer, I conclude my resignation
speech with the following thought: Being a successful leader comes not from your
desire to succeed, but from your desire to see others around you do so. Strive
to work towards the greater good, because ultimately it will pay off for you.
Signed,
High Admiral Ari
Internet Officer of the Emperor's Hammer
:: [ Emperor's Hammer: Site of the Week ] ::
This week's SOTW, the final one I will be picking as IO, is something very
appropriate: MinosNIC at http://www.minos.net
. MinosNIC will carry the future of the EH's Internet operations, and serves as
the main basis for the EHNet Login System (ELS). I hope MinosNIC will continue
to serve the EH as it has to date. Congratulations to the ENTIRE INTERNET OFFICE
on this marvelous 5 star site!
:: [ Internet Office Poll ] ::
What has been Ari's best IO project?
-Sabacc Online
-SquadFirst+
-eXtensible Polling System
-Project Hawkeye
-My EHNet
Vote for your choice at http://www.ehnet.org!
:: [ Internet Office Staff ] ::
Internet Officer: HA Ari
Command Attache: AD Robert Dura
Command Assistant: AD Turtle
Command Assistant: RA Drako
:: [ Internet Office Links ] ::
http://www.ehnet.org/ - Internet Office
http://www.ehnet.org/mb/ - EH Message
Boards
http://www.minos.net/ - MinosNIC
http://els.minos.net/ - EHNet Login System
http://www.ehnet.org/guidelines.php - EH & TC Internet Guidelines
http://www.minos.net/oldmb/ - Archived
Message Board Data
http://my.ehnet.org/ - My EHNet
http://squadfirst.minos.net -
SquadFirst Squadron Website Template
http://www.ehnet.org/xps/ - eXtensible
Polling System
http://www.ehnet.org/sabacc/ - Sabacc
Online v2.4
http://www.ehnet.org/ca/ - IO Code
Archive
http://ehlibrary.minos.net/ - EH
Library
http://code.minos.net/ - EH Code
Collaboration
http://bannerx.ehnet.org/ - EH Banner
Exchange
http://counters.minos.net - EH Counter
Service
http://www.ehnet.org/gcc/ - Greeting
Card Center
http://www.ehnet.org/thj/thj2/ -
The Holonet Journals, Issue #2
http://www.ehnet.org/thj/thj1/ -
The Holonet Journals, Issue #1
http://www.minos.net/webring/ -
WebRing
http://php.minos.net/ - PHP IWATS Course
http://to.minos.net/java/ - JavaScript
IWATS Course
http://www.ehnet.org/vbs/ - VBScript
IWATS Course
http://to.minos.net/flash/ - Flash
IWATS Course
:: [ In Service of the Emperor's Hammer ] ::
Internet Officer Report #1: 04.23.04
:: Transmission Begin ::
Internet Office Report #1
23 April , 2004
:: [ Internet Office News ] ::
This is my first report as (acting) Internet Officer, please be gentle. So first
let's get the little stuff out of the way.
The past week, Admiral Turtle has been working on ELS in
preperation for continuing work on the EH.org automation project. Substantial
progress is expected within the next few days.
Another bug in SquadFirst+ has been found, relating to the Editable Pages,
apparently the delete function was not working. Additionally several people have
reported broken links. So expect version 2.0.4 to be released soon.
Now for the longer stuff
Part of the duties of the Internet Office is to facilitate the development of
websites for members of the EH. As part of this duty, the IO has been showcasing
sites that show good web design and coding skills as apart of it's Site of the
Week section. It has been decided that as a part of facilitating development of
websites, the Internet Office will now not necessarily be looking for the best.
But in fact will be showcasing sites that are good, but definitely have room for
improvement. A site will be selected and the IO will send an email to the
developers of the site offering constructive criticism of the site. This is a
bit of an experiment, so please bear with us, and do not take the comments as a
way of saying "you suck" but instead as "there is room for improvement.
Initially we will be focusing on usability of websites. Color use, coding to
standards, that sort of thing.
The Emperor's Hammer Holonet Awards are being awarded again. This Internet
Office run, EH-wide competition serves to showcase the best of the best in
website content, coding, graphics, animation, and music. Nominations will begin
Sunday, May 9th, 2004. This gives you 15 days to polish up anything you have
been working on. Please go to the EH Holonet Awards II page for more details.
Additionally, I will be sending out an email to a number of personell in every
subgroup containing a more detailed announcement. Please forward this
announcement down the chain of command so that everyone will know of this.
:: [ Emperor's Hammer: Site of the Week ] ::
This week's Site of the Week, and first guinea pig of the revised SotW procedure
is the Blades of Malice Battle Team Website. This site shows a typical use of
SquadFirst+ with the added bonus of changed graphics. Congratulations to
Protector Ibram Gaunt for managing this 3 star site. He will be emailed with the
suggestions for improvement.
:: [ Internet Office Poll ] ::
Best Imperail Starfighter
# TIE Fighter
# TIE Interceptor
# TIE Defender
# TIE Bomber
# Missle Boat
# Gunboat
Vote for your choice at http://www.ehnet.org!
:: [ Internet Office Staff ] ::
Internet Officer: AD Robert Dura
Command Attache: Vacant
Command Assistant: HA Ari
Command Assistant: AD Turtle
Command Assistant: RA Drako
:: [ Internet Office Links ] ::
# http://www.ehnet.org/ - Internet Office
# http://www.ehnet.org/mb/ - EH Message
Boards
# http://www.minos.net/ - MinosNIC
# http://els.minos.net/ - EHNet Login System
#
http://www.ehnet.org/guidelines.php - EH & TC Internet Guidelines #
http://ehha.stardestroyer.org/ -
Emperor's Hammer Holonet Awards II #
http://ehha.stardestroyer.org/old/
- Emperor's Hammer Holonet Awards I #
http://www.minos.net/oldmb/ - Archived
Message Board Data
# http://my.ehnet.org/ - My EHNet
# http://squadfirst.minos.net -
SquadFirst Squadron Website Template #
http://www.ehnet.org/xps/ - eXtensible
Polling System
# http://www.ehnet.org/sabacc/ -
Sabacc Online v2.4
# http://www.ehnet.org/ca/ - IO Code
Archive
# http://ehlibrary.minos.net/ - EH
Library
# http://code.minos.net/ - EH Code
Collaboration
# http://bannerx.ehnet.org/ - EH Banner
Exchange
# http://counters.minos.net - EH Counter
Service
# http://www.ehnet.org/gcc/ - Greeting
Card Center
# http://www.ehnet.org/thj/thj2/ -
The Holonet Journals, Issue #2
# http://www.ehnet.org/thj/thj1/ -
The Holonet Journals, Issue #1
# http://www.minos.net/webring/ -
WebRing
# http://php.minos.net/ - PHP IWATS Course
# http://to.minos.net/java/ - JavaScript
IWATS Course
# http://www.ehnet.org/vbs/ - VBScript
IWATS Course
# http://to.minos.net/flash/ - Flash
IWATS Course
:: [ In Service of the Emperor's Hammer ] ::
:: Transmission End ::
Training Office Reports:
As Emailed From:
Training
Officer (AD Keldorn)
Training Office
Fleet Admiral, Krath Priest Keldorn Cochrane
Training Officer, Dean of IWATS, Headmaster & Minister of Education
---------------------------------------------------------------
IC/GOE/GSx5/SSx5/BSx2/PCx2/ISMx6/MoI/MoT-1rh-1gh/IS-1BR-2SR-1GR/LoC-CS-Rx1/CoE/CoB/OV-2E
SB/GCx2/DC/LSS
[LGNR] {IWATS-AIM-ASP-CBX-FLA-GFX-ICQ-IIC/1/2/3-JS-M/1/2-PHP-PHP-RT-SM/2-VBS-XAM-XML-XTM/1}
Training Office Report #34: 04.10.04
Training Office Report #34
10th April 2004
http://to.minos.net/
Fleet Admiral Keldorn Cochrane Reporting [to@emperorshammer.org]
"Iurare in verba magistri."
TO News | TC Standing Orders | DB Directives | Resources | Staff
:: [ Training Office News ] ::
Welcome Ladies and Gentleman to the 34th Training Office Report!
Several new IWATS Courses are launched today:
mIRC Scripting:
http://to.minos.net/ircscript/
Dreamweaver: http://to.minos.net/dw/
Cascading Style Sheets:
http://to.minos.net/css/
Weaponry: http://to.minos.net/weaponry/
Accordingly, Lieutenant Colonel Choosh, Captain Machinari, Rear
Admiral Jedi Eclipse and Major Keller have been awarded Silver Stars of the
Empire for their service to the Training Office.
Colonel Master has been reinstated as Professor of Rebellion Tactics (RT).
Welcome back.
Admiral Robert Dura has taken over as Professor of the IIC (HTML) suite of
courses. Previously these were the responsibility of the Training Officer, but I
have decided to separate the duties to permit me to concentrate on over areas,
and to allow the Admiral to update/expand the course.
Rear Admiral Drako and Sith Battlelord Daniel Goad are both on leaves of
absence.
The Competition Consultancy service is open to all members of the Emperor's
Hammer. This service gives members' assistance in formulating new competition
ideas - big or small - and help in running their competitions. Questions etc.
should be sent to darksaber@minos.net.
Work continues on the Emperor's Hammer 'university' project. This institution
will be a central academic body for the EH, offering Bachelors and Masters
degrees, accompanied by doctoral study. Most SubGroup academies will be heavily
involved in this institution once the idea is ready to go gold. Any questions
can be directed to me at keldorn@btopenworld.com. The Imperial Senate, Dark
Brotherhood and Intelligence Division have been given further information
concerning this project.
Rear Admiral Drako continues to work on the EH Top Gun project with the Combat
Operations Officer.
:: [ TIE Corps Standing Orders ] ::
I. Forward Dating of Competitions: 13th March 2003
All forward dating of Competitions (with very select exceptions) beyond a term
of 3 consecutive months will be prohibited. This time-span should be more than
enough for the Ship and Wing competitions that are run. If after that 3 month
period, the competition concept will continue, the applicable Officer will need
to recommend it once more.
II. Denial of Combat Rating 'Races': 21st March 2003
All internal unit Combat Rating 'Races' competitions will be denied. I would
like to highlight the emphasis on “internal unit competitions”; this only
applies to a competition involving one unit (Squadron, Wing etc.) and not to a
inter-unit competition – I.e. Squadron vs. Squadron, Wing vs. Wing etc.
:: [ Dark Brotherhood Directives ] ::
I. Recovery of Shadow Academy Graduates: 29th August 2003
If you would like a Course listed on your profile from before the 'split', send
an e-mail with the subject 'SA Profile' to hm@darkbrotherhood.org. Please note
that this only includes SA courses, and not general IWATS courses (at this
time).
II. Lowering of Multiplayer Requirements to One Match: 13th March 2004
All new Sith and Obelisk Initiates within the Dark Brotherhood must complete one
(1) MP match to graduate from Phase II of their Apprentice Studies. Single
player requirements for the Sith Order remain the same.
Operations Office Reports:
As Emailed From:
Operations
Officer (VA Alex Foley)
Operations Office
OPS/VA Alex Foley/CS-7/SSSD Sovereign
GSx5/SSx6/BSx5/PCx6/ISMx4/IS-2BR-3SR-1GR/LoC-Rx4/MoC-1BoC/CoE/CoL/CoB/LoAx2/OV-3E
[HUSS] {IWATS-AIM-ASP-BOT-BX-CBX-FLA-GFX-ICQ-IIC/1/2/3-JS-LIN-M/1/2-PHP-RT-SM/2/3-TM-TT-VBS-XAM-XML-XTM/1/2-XTT}
OPS Report #30: 04.10.04
Wrecked my car yesterday. Not too
fun. Not too fun at all.
-
It's Spring Break here! Finally!
I'll be down at Myrtle Beach from Saturday to Monday, so please bear with me.
I'm going to try to work the medal queue down tonight before I leave.
-
I've begun working with AD
Turtle, the Communications Officer, on revising the Medal of Communication
system. We're going to have a preliminary plan setup soon to begin working
through with the FC and XO. I'll keep you posted.
-
I want to remind everyone that
simply saying "High Activity" is not enough to award a medal. I need details!
I'm sure that every medal awarded is deserved, just give me the proof!
-
All I see these days are TTT
uniforms. Not that I'm discouraging the use of a great program that is by far
the easiest way to make a uniform since, well, ever... I'd like to see more
custom-designed uniforms. I'm going to allow a little more lee-way from now on
to encourage this. If you think something's a little bit crazy, though, I
would e-mail me before submitting it and putting all the work together to make
the uniform.
"A boy can learn a lot from a dog:
obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before
lying down."
Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
OPS Report #31: 04.16.04
I was incredibly saddened this
week to see that HA Ari, Internet Officer of the Emperor's Hammer for nearly
three years, had resigned from his post. Ari is probably the closest thing I had
to a mentor here in the EH, and he will be greatly missed. It's hard to imagine
one person who has seen so much completed for the good of the entire Emperor's
Hammer. And as Ari said, it's not as much about doing everything yourself as it
is about inspiring others to do the work. A great leader gets someone to do
something for him without them ever knowing it.
-
Thank you very much to all of
you who read my report last week and kept your medal recommendations and
uniforms to be approved until after I returned from leave. For those of you
who did not read my report and got upset over medals being approved on
Wednesday, please have some compassion. I was on a short leave for my spring
break.
-
The official MoC proposal has
been sent to the FC and XO for approval. COMM/AD Turtle and myself have great
hopes that the MoC might become a medal that is valued instead of just a
counter for message board posts.
-
Again, "High Activity" is not
enough to award a medal. Details, details, details! Make sure to always show
me how well your pilots have done this month. Not only does it make my job
easier it helps to show pilots who read the descriptions that you appreciate
their hard work. Please note, though, that flowery language does not mean an
approved medal. I would much rather have a MSE excerpt than some long
description.
-
Again this week I saw thirty TTT
uniforms and two custom-designed ones. I'm going to continue to allow lee-way
in uniform creation to encourage custom work. Also, CMDRs, a great competition
idea is for your pilots to create a custom uniform for you to display! But,
again, if you think something's a little bit crazy, though, I would e-mail me
before submitting it and putting all the work together to make the uniform.
"The truth is more important than
the facts."
Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
Communications Office Reports:
As Emailed From:
Communications Officer (AD Turtle)
Communications Office
Admiral Turtle Jerrar
Communications Officer
Emperor's Hammer Strike Fleet
----------------------------------------------------------------------
COMM/AD Turtle Jerrar/CS-8/SSSD Sovereign (Paladin),
GOE/BSx2/PCx2/ISMx7/MoI/IS-2GR-1PR/LoC-CSx2-Rx3/CoE/CoLx2/CoB/LoA/OV-6E
{IWATS-AIM-ASP-BX-CBX-GFX-IIC/1/2/3-JS-LIN-M/1/2-PHP/1/2-SM/1-VBS-XML}
-AIM: TurtleXIT -WWW: www.ehcomm.net
Communications Office Report #11:
04.06.04
Greetings,
Recently, I have received two separate reports regarding abuse of ops access on
various Emperor's Hammer related IRC channels. Such abuse generally included
unwarranted kicking + banning. Similarly, I have received a report of non-ops
harassing other members on channels. Let me make it very clear that myself and
the Security Officer will not stand for such foolishness. All members in the
Emperor's Hammer are encouraged to contact me directly, and as soon as possible,
about any future incidents. Appropriate actions will be taken against involved
individuals if necessary.
For anybody that had been experiencing generally messed up things happening on
the primary server from around March 27th to March 31st, this problem has
een corrected. We were experiencing memory and disk- capacity issues. On a
related note, I will be upgrading the memory on the server to 512MB sometime
next weekend, 9-11 April.
Since I don't believe that I have officially mentioned this in any report yet,
everybody should know that logs for all of the channels dasb0t manages are
automatically stored at www.ehcomm.net/logs/. This currently includes
#Corporate_Division, #DGN_Lichtor_V, #Emperor's_Hammer, #HammerRadio, #TIECorps,
#TheFringe, #The_Infiltrator_Wing, and #ehdb. Timestamps are in Eastern Time.
All pending message board requests have been processed. As a reminder, all such
requests must be made through the COMM request page at
www.ehcomm.net/request.php in
order to be processed.
I'm going to be quite busy for the next month or so between a large research
paper + finals, and prepping for a short deployment this summer in support of
the Group of Eight (G8) Summit in south Georgia. Unfortunately I'll have little
time for any new COMM issues. I'll continue to press forward in getting ELS 2.0
production ready, as well as the new emperorshammer.org online.
IRC Meetings
The Emperor's Hammer conducts an online IRC meeting every Saturday at 1200 hours
(12PM) Eastern Time. Command officers from around the fleet issue reports in a
moderated format regarding their respective areas of service. General member
discussion and trivia follows. Plan to be there!
Communications Office Links
http://www.ehcomm.net/ - Communications
Office
http://www.ehnet.org/mb/ - Message Boards
http://www.ehcomm.net/request.php
- COMM Request Forms
http://www.emperorshammer.org/irc.htm - IRC Code of Conduct
http://www.minos.net/ - MinosNIC
http://els.minos.net/ - ELS Management
Communications Office Report #12:
04.10.04
Greetings,
TIE Corps squadrons that have been affected by the recent renaming and moving
around of squadrons in the TIE Corps should contact me via e-mail regarding
their squadron message boards. It is possible to simply rename your old board to
the new squadron name, instead of having to create a new one (loosing old
information, as well as the having the URL change).
Due to real life obligations of HA Ari, I will be assuming primary control of
the emperorhammer.org automation project as of next week.
I will be taking the server offline for several minutes Saturday for a memory
upgrade to 512MB. This will help with the slow speeds some services on the
server have been experiencing.
Reminder: logs for all of the channels dasb0t manages are automatically stored
at www.ehcomm.net/logs/. This
currently includes #Corporate_Division, #DGN_Lichtor_V, #Emperor's_Hammer, #HammerRadio,
#TIECorps, #TheFringe, #The_Infiltrator_Wing, and #ehdb. Timestamps are in
Eastern Time.
All pending message board requests have been processed.
IRC Meetings
The Emperor's Hammer conducts an online IRC meeting every Saturday at 1200 hours
(12PM) Eastern Time. Command officers from around the fleet issue reports in a
moderated format regarding their respective areas of service. General member
discussion and trivia follows. Plan to be there!
Communications Office Links
http://www.ehcomm.net/ - Communications
Office
http://www.ehnet.org/mb/ - Message Boards
http://www.ehcomm.net/request.php
- COMM Request Forms
http://www.emperorshammer.org/irc.htm - IRC Code of Conduct
http://www.minos.net/ - MinosNIC
http://els.minos.net/ - ELS Management
Communications Office Report #13:
04.16.04
Greetings Imperials,
This past weekend the primary MinosNIC server (turtle) was upgraded to 512MB of
memory. This should help with the speed issues that users have been experiencing
during some operations.
COMMA Synth is currently tweaking a group of scripts that will allow our IRC
bots to update their channel/configuration information on the Communications
Office web site on a live basis. Look for this to be online by next weekend.
I'm currently working on a proposal that will get Medal of Communication awards
going again, but this time in a new (non-retarded, non-SPAM-encouraging)
fashion. Watch the COMM report for information on this
in the next week or two.
I need to begin the process of getting all official Emperor's Hammer IRC
channels recognized. Everyone should review the list of channels posted at
www.ehcomm.net/irc.php. If a channel you frequent is not listed, please have a
channel owner or operator visit www.ehcomm.net/request.php?a=channel.
As usual, all pending message board requests have been processed at this time.
On a final note, I'd like to bid farewell to my long-standing partner in crime,
HA Ari. After 32 months of loyal service, he has handed over the reins of IO to
Admiral Robert Dura. Thanks for all your hard work Ari, and I look forward to
continuing to work closely with Robert Dura as he transitions into his new job.
IRC Meetings
The Emperor's Hammer conducts an online Internet Relay Chat meeting every
Saturday at 1200 hours (12PM) Eastern Time. Command officers from around the
fleet issue reports in a moderated format regarding their respective areas of
service. General member discussion and trivia follows. For more information,
please see
www.emperorshammer.net/meetings.asp.
Communications Office Links
http://www.ehcomm.net/ - Communications
Office
http://www.ehnet.org/mb/ - Message Boards
http://www.ehcomm.net/request.php
- COMM Request Forms
http://www.emperorshammer.org/irc.htm - IRC Code of Conduct
http://www.minos.net/ - MinosNIC
http://els.minos.net/ - ELS Management
Communications Office Report #14:
04.24.04
Greetings Imperials,
I'm going to keep this report short this week.
I did a lot of finalization on ELS 2.0 this week. ELS 2.0 is now at a release
candidate stage, and has been released for final testing by select personnel.
This is in preparation for the eh.org project.
On the eh.org front, now that school is winding down (in a week), I'm going to
be hitting this project hard. I'm looking at an initial release date in about 2
weeks.
Finally, if your IRC channel is not listed at
www.ehcomm.net, please submit a request to have it added!
IRC Meetings
The Emperor's Hammer conducts an online Internet Relay Chat meeting every
Saturday at 1200 hours (12PM) Eastern Time. Command officers from around the
fleet issue reports in a moderated format regarding their respective areas of
service. General member discussion and trivia follows. For more information,
please see
www.emperorshammer.net/meetings.asp.
Communications Office Links
http://www.ehcomm.net/ - Communications
Office
http://www.ehnet.org/mb/ - Message Boards
http://www.ehcomm.net/request.php
- COMM Request Forms
http://www.emperorshammer.org/irc.htm - IRC Code of Conduct
http://www.minos.net/ - MinosNIC
http://els.minos.net/ - ELS Management
Security Officer Reports:
As Emailed From:
Security
Officer (VA Ziggy)
Security Office
SO/VA Sithspawn/CS-9/SSSD Sovereign
GOE/SS/BS/CoL/OV-5E [LANC] {IWATS-AIM-CBX-ICQ-IIC/1-LIN-M/1/2-TT}
Security Office Report #11: 04.10.04
News:
1. Still not hiring.
2. I've seen a great deal of arguing between members lately. Everyone needs to
remember that the CoCs are in full effect. Don't make me break some skulls. :P
Case News:
1. SBL Frey was sent before the High Court of Inquisitors April 3rd. No verdict
has been obtained at the time of this report.
Computer Security News:
1. Nothing particularly noteworthy at this time. The usual spread of virii,
which all of you should know how to thwart by now. Of course, if for some reason
you don't, check out one of my earlier reports.
2. As always, if you have a problem and need help, feel free to contact me.
Security Office Report #12: 04.23.04
News:
1. After a brief stint of absence this weekend, I am back. Rejoice.
2. I am now accepting applications for a Command Attaché. Requirements will be
as follows:
1. Minimum of 1 year experience
2. No HCI convictions within the past 6 months
3. An email response time of no less than 36 hours
4. The ability to work well with any and all members.
5. No history of bias.
Items 3-5 will be verified.
The preferred qualities are as follows:
1. Offline experience in the field of Criminal Justice.
2. Desire to excel.
3. Web design abilities
4. An *extremely* high online presence, particularly in the areas of IRC and the
MB.
Your application will contain qualifications with regards to each
requirement/preferred quality with detail.
Applicants will collect no more than 2 references and submit applications to
ziggy@klondyke.net with the subject of
"Make Me CA!". Applications under any other subject will most likely be missed
and disregarded.
I will be accepting applications from 04/23 through 05/15.
Case News:
1. Several items were sent to the High Court last week. More coming soon.
Computer Security News:
1. Coming Soon to a Theater Near You: Windows XP Service Pack 2!
Is anyone else excited? I sure am. Included are many security related fixes, and
general user friendly updates. Particularly of interest will be the ability to
manually configure the XP Firewall (details at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0204.mspx )
which will now be enabled by default. Also included will be safer email
handling, improved browsing security, and improved computer maintenance. And
perhaps the most important feature of all, pop-up blocking.
SP2 is currently set for a release of Mid-2004. Watch for future reports.
Science Office Reports:
As Emailed From:
Science
Officer (FA Ender mBind)
Science Office
SCO-TCT-TCS-PROF/FA Ender mBind/CS-10/SSSD Sovereign
GoE/GSx2/SSx7/BSx4/PCx7/ISMx16/MoI/MoT-35rh-53gh-6bh/IS-1SR-2GR-1PR/LoC-TS-Rx1/DFC-Rx1/CoS/CoE/CoL/CoB/LoAx2/OV-3E
[CNTR] {IWATS-AIM-GFX-ICQ-IIC/1/2/3-JS-M/1/2-OPT-SM/2-TM-TT-XAM-XTM/1/2-XTT}
Science Office Report #38: 04.13.04
"Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and
fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers."
<salute>
Welcome to my thirty-eighth public report as a Science Officer, kinda on time (muahahaha).
But I still got stuff to report:
Science Office News:
1. The Imperial Alliance ("IA" our free game based on the Free Space 2 engine)
Project is heading on, with a nearly completed new HUD this week - it just needs
some basic message boxes still. CM Timmay has been modelling some excellent new
warheads that actually look like warheads, not just some triangles. Because for
once I've outpaced Den in making IA components I had some time to do some other
SCO-y stuff this weekend:
2. This means that I got some new patches out and have updated
some others. A layout of what has been done recently:
" TIE Sentinel (TIE Shadow): "Long range sentry and
reconnaissance craft. Typically based at deep space outposts and customs checks.
The updated shielded version of Avenger Squadron is known as the 'TIE Shadow'.
Rebels know this craft as the 'V38'. The TIE Phantom was based on it." The TIE
Sentinel has been released for XWA which means it's now available for all X-Wing
series games save for X-Wing itself.
" (Modular) Task Force Cruiser: "Generic large capital ship
frameworks on which mission-specific modules are mounted. Common units include
hospital, survey, observation, rescue and inquisition modules. In common use
throughout the Galaxy and on our Order of Battle for the TC, HF, FMC and HCI."
The TFC has been released for TIE95, XvT and BoP and is already in the Fleet
Manual.
" Imperial Shuttle Pod Mk.6: "Multi-use Utility Craft. Equipped
with shields and hyperdrive its primary use is inter-system courier but its also
used for docking operations and as a full-fledged fighter. About all our Sub
Groups have these on their Order of Battle except for the IW." The ISP-6 has
been released for TIE95, XvT and BoP. If you want to know what it looks like; it
was used as example in the OPTing course:
http://opting.isCool.net
" Astatine Class Tug: XWA patch has been updated to current SCO
standards so it will install better with other patches.
" Eclipse Super Star Destroyer Mk.1: XWA patch has been updated
to current SCO standards so it will install better with other patches.
3. If you have problems running EHBL, SCO Patches or Imperial
Alliance go to http://ortho.minos.net and
there you can see if your problem already has a solution or you can ask for more
help. However - this is meant for bugs on these things only, NOT to report
battle bugs or things unrelated to these things (Sorry, we don't do marriage
counseling either ;)). Please report battle bugs where you always have: the
compendium.
4. For some reason the Spectre Advanced Missile Boat patch for
Balance of Power is severely messed up and needs to be rebuilt from scratch. As
such it is currently suspended from use but will be replaced ASAP.
5. We are still looking for squadron patches for Imperial
Alliance. I'm asking all unit commanders to send in the uniform patch of their
squadron, wing, house, clan, whatever you want. Please do keep in mind that
there's a difference between a squadron patch and a squadron banner.
6. I'd again like to thank LC Zeth Duron MAJ Chris McCollum and
HA Priyum Patel for sending in some excellent graphics for the credits section.
For you others: I'm looking for original art of battles, craft looking cool and
other such material. Minimum resolution should be about 400x300.
7. As another reminder: CM Timmay has set up a forum just for
the project at
http://hosting.infiltrator-wing.com/phpbb2 - if you want to help out in the
testing department, or just want to have previews/early access of what we are
doing, you are advised to go and check it out. Registering makes sure you will
receive email notices of next beta phases and other such matters. Do report a
bug that you come across though, that's what testing is about.
Science Office Status:
CA: Admiral Darkhill has made more versions of the IA exe to incorporate the new
HUD components and has been helping out people at ortho. SCOA: CM Tim has been
working on new models for the warheads in IA so they actually look like the
graphics displayed in the TIE Fighter hangar.
Site: The Science Office site can be found at
http://sco.minos.net or via the redirect
http://scienceoffice.isCool.net.
The mirror can be found at
http://www.gimmie.tudelft.nl/homes/blok10b/ender/sco. No major updates.
Science Office Projects:
Imperial Alliance: With the release of the freely available source code of FS2,
we have started on making a Star Wars game out of it. We can freely distribute a
finished game as long as we have all our own data files
(graphics, sounds, models etc). About all craft from X-Wing have been added and
most of the interface has been replaced. We're currently replacing the HUD.
XvT/BoP/TIE95 Ship patches: This project's goal was to add all the original and
Order of Battle craft that are still "missing" from these games, like the SSD in
TIE and XvT, the Medium Transport in all etc. All the "missing" craft have been
added to the EHSPs. New releases this week are the Imperial Shuttle Pod Mk.6 and
the (Modular) Task Force Cruiser.
XWA Ship patches: Primarily the plan is to clear out the backlog of craft
arranged by earlier SCO's and such, like the Trithan Interceptor (Kermee), the
Hyperion (Den), the Alvaakian Craft (me) and the new fighter for Avenger
Squadron (AES). The TIE Sentinel/TIE Shadow for AES has been released, the Ast
Tug and ESSD1 have been updated.
Finishing up:
I think that's it - If I've forgotten anything or if you have comments,
suggestions or corrections, let me know via email or look us up at
#science_office. Don't forget that all the projects are described in more detail
on the SCO site.
(Use only mindb_ender@hotmail.com for official SCO mails.) or ICQ (9706474).
Preferably do not mail large files to me, but DCC them via IRC - I'm practically
always online at #science_office, #emperor's_hammer and
#tiecorps using the nick MindB_ndr (or variations.)
All my SCO reports are available online as well: you can reach them on the SCO
site but they are on the TIE Corps site, CS reports, as well.
Until next time, good luck and have fun!
Science Office Report #39: 04.18.04
"From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the
Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go."
<salute>
Welcome to my thirty-ninth public report as a Science Officer, less then a week
after the last one? (Oh my gawd! Something must be wrong?!). Still got stuff to
report though:
Science Office News:
1. The Imperial Alliance ("IA" our free game based on the Free Space 2 engine)
Project is heading on, but with no major news this week.
2. Instead I got some new patches out and have updated some
others. A layout of what has been done recently:
" Enforcer Picket Ship: A medium star ship often employed for
border patrol. Based on the Interdictor, these well armed picket ships carry up
to six TIE Fighter squadrons. Currently in use by the Corporate Division Picket
Fleet but might get wider spread usage. Released for TIE95, XvT, BoP and XWA.
" Shadow Y-Wing: Heavy Assault Covert Fighter/Bomber, for
attacking enemy capital ships. Features include stealth armour coating which
absorbs part of visible spectrum reducing visibility and improved weaponry, load
out and engines. Now also released for XWA.
" (Modular) Task Force Cruiser: Now also released for XWA -
details are in my last report.
" M/FRT the Luggage: My private hunk of junk, now also released
for XWA.
" Eclipse Super Star Destroyer Mk.2: XWA patch has been updated
to current SCO standards so it will install better with other patches.
" Tritian Interceptor: XWA patch has been updated to current SCO
standards so it will install better with other patches. It also has been
debugged and will now also manoeuvre. (Limited use for the Hammer to Anvil
series of battles by COL Sauron.)
3. If you have problems running EHBL, SCO Patches or Imperial
Alliance go to http://ortho.minos.net and
there you can see if your problem already has a solution or you can ask for more
help. If a bug only shows up on one or a few battles it is not EHBL based,
please report such bugs where you always have: the compendium.
4. We are still looking for squadron patches for Imperial
Alliance. I'm asking all unit commanders to send in the uniform patch of their
squadron, wing, house, clan, whatever you want. Please do keep in mind that
there's a difference between a squadron patch and a squadron banner and that
this is not only for the TIE Corps.
Science Office Status:
CA: Admiral Darkhill has been doing adjustments and testing to the IA HUD and
has been helping out people at ortho.
SCOA: CM Tim has been working on new models for the warheads in
IA so they actually look like the graphics displayed in the TIE Fighter hangar
and has been working on bug fixes for the shields.
Site: The Science Office site can be found at
http://sco.minos.net or via the redirect
http://scienceoffice.isCool.net.
The mirror can be found at
http://www.gimmie.tudelft.nl/homes/blok10b/ender/sco. No major updates.
Science Office Projects:
Imperial Alliance: With the release of the freely available source code of FS2,
we have started on making a Star Wars game out of it. We can freely distribute a
finished game as long as we have all our own data files
(graphics, sounds, models etc). About all craft from X-Wing have been added and
most of the interface has been replaced. We're currently replacing the HUD.
XvT/BoP/TIE95 Ship patches: This project's goal was to add all the original and
Order of Battle craft that are still "missing" from these games, like the SSD in
TIE and XvT, the Medium Transport in all etc. All the "missing" craft have been
added to the EHSPs. New release this week is from the OoB: the Enforcer Picket
Ship.
XWA Ship patches: Primarily the plan is to clear out the backlog of craft
arranged by earlier SCO's and such. The Task Force Cruiser, Enforcer Picket
Ship, M/FRT the Luggage and Shadow Y-Wing have been released. The ESSD mk.II and
Tritian Interceptor have been updated.
Finishing up:
I think that's it - If I've forgotten anything or if you have comments,
suggestions or corrections, let me know via email or look us up at
#science_office. Don't forget that all the projects are described in more detail
on the SCO site.
(Use only mindb_ender@hotmail.com for official SCO mails.) or ICQ (9706474).
Preferably do not mail large files to me, but DCC them via IRC - I'm practically
always online at #science_office, #emperor's_hammer and
#tiecorps using the nick MindB_ndr (or variations.)
All my SCO reports are available online as well: you can reach them on the SCO
site but they are on the TIE Corps site, CS reports, as well.
Until next time, good luck and have fun!
Science Office Report #40: 04.24.05
"The great danger to any civilization--at any one moment--is the
threat of breakdown during the time of transition from the established methods
of the past to those new and better, but untried, procedures of the future."
<salute>
Welcome to my fortieth public report as a Science Officer, again less then a
week after the last one? (Suspicious I'd say! Very suspicious! ;) ). Got plenty
of stuff to report though:
Science Office News:
1. I got some new patches out this week. A layout of what has been done:
" TIE Phantom: Well known experimental cloaking fighter from
"Rebel Assault II". Now released for XWA as well.
" Imperial Shuttle Pod Mk.6: Small courier and utility craft by
Cygnus in use by about all subgroups. Now released for XWA as well.
" E-Wing: Update on the X-Wing for the New Republic. Now
released for XWA as well with a OPT ported by RA Xavier Octavius Sienar.
" Interceptor Enforcement Ship Mk.4: The predecessor of the
Pursuer with a fast firing heavy cannon as in use by the HF. Now also released
for XWA.
" Hyperion Interceptor Gunboat: Special craft designed by AD Den
Darkhill for the Dark Brotherhood. Now also released for XWA.
" Tactical Gunboat: TAC/FA Mike's specially built improved
gunboat, now also released for XWA.
" TIE Assault: The earliest T/A variant as seen in X-Wing CD. It
features 2 lasers and 2 ions but no hyperdrive. Now also released for XWA.
" TIE Advanced X1: Darth Vader's personal craft based on the TIE
Assault as seen in A New Hope. Now also released for XWA.
" Imperial Troop Transport: Large transport by Telgorn which
apparently took care of the Jawa Crawler in A New Hope. Now also released for
XWA.
2. Also quite a few patches were updated to current standards or
to fix inconsistencies. These include the I-7 Howlrunner, TIE Vanguard, Phalanx
Interceptor Gunboat, TIE Dragon, TIE Guardian, TIE Preator, TIE Scimitar
(installer and moved to slot #193), Spectre Advanced Missile Boat (moved to slot
#188), MC-90, Dungeon Ship, Sovereign and TIE Protector (new OPT/look) for
X-Wing Alliance and the TIE Assault for TIE/XvT/BoP (it gained the ions
discovered when flying it in XWCD.).
3. Make sure you always use the latest version of a patch -
preferably always download it fresh before you use it. This solves problems with
particular battles and saves you problems like not having the ions to disable
targets and such.
4. There's a new release date for the Flight Expansion of Star
Wars Galaxies, in August. The screenshots look very nifty (Though, again as in
XWA space seems just too colorful with a load of nebula's. </picky>) and if you
want to go fly then you'd be advised to start on the game already and start
earning credit to get yourself a fighter then. How the expansion will be treated
within the EH is still under discussion, but we do have quite a few months to
still determine it.
5. The Imperial Alliance ("IA" our free game based on the Free
Space 2 engine) Project is continuing with this week the engine glow matters
being addressed in a very cool way by CPT Timmay. This will mean all craft
models need to be redone however (good thing we're doing all these things on a
low amount of craft types still.).
6. On both these projects I'd like to ask everyone to just keep
their cool. Hyping either or trying to make them compete with each other is just
silly (if not just because their completely different
goals/outsets/manufacturers.). Hyping just increases the expectations to levels
where nothing can ever fulfil them. Both games do seem to be quite a lot of fun
to play - that's all.:)
Science Office Status:
CA: Admiral Darkhill has been doing adjustments and testing to the IA HUD and
has been helping out people at ortho. SCOA: CPT Tim has been working on new
models for warheads and thrusters in IA.
Site: The Science Office site can be found at
http://sco.minos.net or via the redirect
http://scienceoffice.isCool.net.
The mirror can be found at
http://www.gimmie.tudelft.nl/homes/blok10b/ender/sco. No major updates.
Science Office Projects:
Imperial Alliance: With the release of the freely available source code of FS2,
we have started on making a Star Wars game out of it. We can freely distribute a
finished game as long as we have all our own data files
(graphics, sounds, models etc). About all craft from X-Wing have been added and
most of the interface has been replaced. We're currently replacing the HUD and
making adjustments to the craft models.
XvT/BoP/TIE95 Ship patches: This project's goal was to add all the original and
Order of Battle craft that are still "missing" from these games, like the SSD in
TIE and XvT, the Medium Transport in all etc. All the "missing" craft have been
added to the EHSPs. This week saw updates to the TIE Assault and very minor ones
to the TIE Advanced X1.
XWA Ship patches: Primarily the plan is to clear out the backlog of craft
arranged by earlier SCO's and such. The T/Assault, IES, T/X1, ITTR, M/GUN, HYP,
E-W, T/Ph and ISP-6 have been released. All existing XWA patches have been
updated to current standards.
Finishing up:
I think that's it - If I've forgotten anything or if you have comments,
suggestions or corrections, let me know via email or look us up at
#science_office. Don't forget that all the projects are described in more
detail on the SCO site.
(Use only mindb_ender@hotmail.com for official SCO mails.) or ICQ (9706474).
Preferably do not mail large files to me, but DCC them via IRC - I'm practically
always online at #science_office, #emperor's_hammer and
#tiecorps using the nick MindB_ndr (or variations.)
All my SCO reports are available online as well: you can reach them on the SCO
site but they are on the TIE Corps site, CS reports, as well.
Until next time, good luck and have fun!
Logistics Officer Reports:
As Emailed From:
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Officer (VA Xander Drax)
Logistics Office
LO/VA Xander Drax/CS-11/SSSD Sovereign
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Logistics Office Report #9: 04.10.04
Logistics News
1. Today the great EH Newsletter quest has ended. After going through many
different towns, solving problems for the villagers, and engaging in many a
sub-quest, the light warriors have saved... wait, that was FF1. In actuallity,
NL 100 was sent to the LO by our XO, Ast, completing the set.
2. The LO has made contact with a number of EH SGCOM's on the issue of the
Codex. These members have been tasked with creating breif histories of their
SG's. If you haven't been contacted yet, don't worry. You will be.
3. CA:IO Robert Dura has been assiting in gathering data for the EH side of the
Codex. An invaluable addition to the project, as Dura has a passion for our
history that almost rivals mine..
Logistics Staff
LO: Vice Admiral Xander Drax
CA:LO: Admiral Zsinj
LOA: Vice Admiral Darwin Matir
LOA: Vice Admiral Daniel Stevens
Logistics Links
http://logistics.lusankya.org/ -
Logistics Office
http://codex.lusankya.org/ - EH Codex
Logistics Office Report #10: 04.17.04
Logistics News
1. A new LO project has gotten underway this week. The Subgroup
Newsletter Archive has started to collect it's first newsletters. NL's from the
Dark Brotherhood, Hammer's Fist, and Imperial Senate have been added to the
archive in both Online HTML and Zip format. I hope that we can increase these
numbers in the future, in an effort to preserve even more of the EH's rich
history.
2. Information Gathering for the EH codex continues, and it appears this project
is just getting larger as days go on. While not a bad thing, it is making it
that much longer before we see results fully realized. I think this is for the
best, however, as having a Codex that truly chronicles the history of the EH
will, when completed, be a sight to behold.
3. I am looking for one or two individuals to fill LOA positions. I would like
to see people apply that are interested in the history of the EH, and preferably
have experienced some of it. Not that newer people will not be eligable if they
are skilled and hard workers eager to assist. Web skills and coding are perfered,
but not required. Please email applications to xanderdrax@lusankya.org or catch
me on IRC, my nick is Slagar.
4. Finally, it pain me to say goodbye to one of the fleets best and brightest
Command Staffers, High Admiral Ari. I couldn't let him pass from his office
without offering a few words. Ari has done more in my opinion then anyone in
recent memory for the EH as a whole, and his guiding presence as IO will sorely
be missed. Without Ari, I doubt I would be where I was today, and neither would
the Emperor's Hammer.
Logistics Staff
LO: Vice Admiral Xander Drax
CA:LO: Admiral Zsinj
Logistics Links
http://logistics.lusankya.org/ -
Logistics Office
http://codex.lusankya.org/ - EH Codex
Logistics Office Report #11: 04.24.04
Logistics News
1. New Newsletter type things added to the Subgroup Newsletter
Archive. The first three issues of the Krath Annals have been included in both
html and zip formats.
2. Several SGCOM's have been poked in reguards to newsletters to add to the
aforementioned archive. if you as a SG member know where some Newsletters are
located, don't hesitate to come to me directly with them.
3. Work continues at a steady pace on the EH codex, but results won't happen
overnight. I want to concentrate more on quality of the contents then alacrity.
4. The search for good LOA's continues. Get those applications in.
5. In an effort to bring some humor to our collective existence, I offer up the
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