Prompt

You, your squadron, and/or your Battlegroup have been assigned to harass the approaching First Order fleet. While you cannot beat them outright, you’re to delay, hamper, redirect, and otherwise disrupt their approach to give time for the rest of the Emperor’s Hammer Strike Fleet to regroup and rearm at the fuel depot.

Do you set a trap, engage in skirmish strikes, attempt sabotage, or some other action to impede the approaching fleet? You cannot stop them but you need to slow them down without losing yourself, your squadron, and/or your Battlegroup.

Submissions

• The three judges will be the members of the TIE Corps Command Staff (TCCOM, SOO, WO)
• Fiction will be limited to one submission per pilot
• Word count minimum (1000) and maximum (4000) will be implemented.
• No AI derived fiction writing (don't use AI to write a story for you even if you intend to tweak it afterwards).
• Submit your submission to the Warfare Officer at phoenixberkana@gmail.com

Scoring Rubric

Idea

• 4 points: Includes a clearly presented central idea with relevent facts, supporting details or explanations. Contains all relevant information included in the prompt.
• 3 points: Includes a central idea with mostly relevant facts, supporting details, or explanations. Contains most of the relevant information included in the prompt.
• 2 points: Includes a central idea with limited factions, supporting details, and/or explanation. Contains some of the relevant information included in the prompt.
• 1 points: Includes a central idea but lacks related facts, supporting details, and/or explanation. Contains none of the relevant information included in the prompt.

Content

• 4 points: Uses vivid descriptive language and concrete sensory details. Enables the reader to visualize the events or experiences.
• 3 points: Uses descriptive language and concrete sensory details. Enables the reader to visualize the events of experiences.
• 2 points: Uses limited, repetitive language with little sensory details. Does not give a visual picture.
• 1 point: Uses dull, repetitive words and no details. Word choice confuses the reader.

Characters

• 4 points: Reader is able to fully conceptualize the characters, their motivations, and intentions.
• 3 points: Reader is able to understand the characters, their motivations, and intentions.
• 2 points: Reader has limited understanding of and cannot connect with the characters.
• 1 point: Reader is left with no understanding about the characters in the story.

Dialog

• 4 points: Voice chosen is appropriate to topic, purpose, and audience. Writing is expressive, engaging and/or sincere.
• 3 points: Voice is present, shows awareness of audience. Writing is somewhat engaging and expressive.
• 2 points: Voice is inconsistent or weak. Shows limited awareness of audience.
• 1 point: Little or no voice is evident. Awareness of audience or personal involvement is not evident.

Conventions

• 4 points: Contains few if any errors in conventions that makes the writing easy to read and understand.
• 3 points: Contains some convention errors that do not interfere with the understanding of the story.
• 2 points: Contains frequent convention errors that are noticeable and confuse the reader
• 1 point: Contains so many convention errors that the writing is difficult to follow.

• Fiction bonus comps (each), Iron Stars with Ribbons: Gold, Silver x2, Bronze x3, Copper x4 (top ten)
• Individual best fiction piece between both bonus comps: Upgraded to IS-PR