From Battlegroup II BGCOM AD Alexandre Morgan:

Mack Udar holds himself - and his new squadron - to a very high standard. In the six months since his last promotion, he has merited himself five Bronze Star medals and one Silver Star - an absolutely outrageous performance that has impressed his leadership and colleagues. During that time frame, he flew hundreds upon hundreds of Legion simulation engagements, hosted and participated in many different morale improvement exercises, studied hard for Imperial University courses, kept his uniform in date, and much more.
For his self-distinguishing activity and performance, I am proud to recommend Mack Udar be promoted to the rank of Major and be afforded all rights, privileges, and responsibilities entailed.

Congratulations, MAJ Mack Udar!

From Battlegroup II BGCOM AD Alexandre Morgan:

Since his last promotion, Tiran Marr has continued to excel as a contributor to and leader in his squadron, his battlegroup, and the TIE Corps at large. In that time span, he has flown and completed 300 Legion of Skirmish simulation engagements, passed eleven Imperial University courses, supported the Corps culture with a successful ReMob warm-up fiction competition, and earned six monthly merit medals. His continued dedication to the cause emphasizes him as a strong asset to the group, and a real weapon in the fight against the enemies of the Emperor's Hammer.
With perspective of his contributions over the past ten months, I am proud to recommend that Tiran Marr be promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and be afforded all rights, privileges, and responsibilities entailed.

Congratulations, LC Tiran Marr!

From Training Officer FA Sylas Pitt:

For the past nine (9) months, Rear Admiral Tiran Marr has proven time and time again that he was the perfect choice for my Command Attaché. Marr hit the ground running by taking on duties and responsibilities that usually fall on the Training Officer's desk without being prompted. Marr reached out to both current and potential professors with IU ideas in the queue to revise and advise on proposed changes and new courses. As an experienced leader in the organization, Marr made it his mission to clear the existing backlog of Tour of Duty medals for the Training Office Assistants, as well as the well-overdue participation awards for all members of the Training Office staff for their efforts during Raise the Flag '24 and '25. Tiran was the first to propose appropriate high-level awards for two Training Office Assistants, recognizing these individuals' dedication and abilities, not just within the Training Office, but within the entire organization as a whole.

Tiran has, without a doubt, cemented his place within the Training Office as not only a capable officer, but an Attaché that I know I can count on even in my absence.

It is with this in mind that I fully endorse his promotion to Vice Admiral.

Congratulations, VA Tiran Marr!

For completing the TCCORE Imperial University Course, SL Loran of Firebird Squadron has been promoted to full Lieutenant.

Congratulations, LT Loran!

Two Newspost in one day from the MAA?
What is going on?

Easy, Recently, I started a new Job and my online hours are rapidly declining, i'm in need of Magistrates that can help me bridge the gap, especially in those hours, where i am asleep, but most of our membership is not.
For now, i am searching two or more magistrates, that are willing to help with data intake of gaming activities and/or competition-designing, because we need more comps to promote activity. You will also help in designing exp rewards and help me and the DC to improve over time.
It is important to remark that you need a bit of spreadsheet experience, but having none is no automatic exclusion.

If you are interested, please send me a DM in Discord with your Application
Thanks!

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Hello Members of the Secret Order,

with the release of v2.0, we are updating the EXP curve used for rank progression.
The main goal of this change is to give our rank system more room to grow over time. As we have moved through the year, it has become clear that some members are already progressing beyond what the original curve was built to comfortably support. The revised curve is intended to make rank progression feel more sustainable, meaningful, and better paced going forward.

Rank and Positions

This update does not change the purpose of rank itself. Rank will continue to represent accumulated EXP and long-term activity within the club. Leadership positions, staff roles, and appointed responsibilities are separate from rank. A member does not need to hold a specific rank in order to serve in a leadership position, and being appointed to a leadership position will no longer automatically require or imply a rank promotion.
In short:
Rank reflects EXP and long-term activity.

Positions and titles reflect responsibility, trust, and leadership.
This allows us to recognize both things properly without forcing them to overlap. Someone can absolutely hold an important position while being at a lower rank, because their authority comes from the position itself, not from needing a matching rank.

Transition Into the New Curve

For the transition into the new curve, members will keep any rank they have already achieved. Nobody will be demoted or lose an earned rank because of this update.
However, if a member personally wishes to have their rank adjusted downward to match their current EXP under the revised structure, they may request this as a one-time voluntary adjustment during the transition period. This is entirely optional and will not be expected, encouraged, or required of anyone.
This option exists only for members who feel that aligning their rank with their EXP better reflects their own progression. Once the transition period has passed, future rank progression will follow the updated EXP requirements normally.

One-Time Promotion Adjustment

As a one-time transition measure, members who are within 10% of their next rank requirement at the time of the v2.0 update will be promoted to that next rank and will receive the missing EXP required for that promotion.
This is intended to avoid unfairly delaying members who were already very close to ranking up under the current system. We do not want someone who had nearly earned a promotion to suddenly have that goal moved much further away from them because of the new curve.
This one-time adjustment only applies during the transition to the new curve. After this, all future rank promotions will follow the updated EXP requirements normally.

Going Forward

After the transition, rank progression will follow the updated EXP curve.
Promotions will be based on accumulated EXP, while positions and titles will continue to represent leadership, trust, responsibility, and service to the club.

EXP earns rank. & Trust earns responsibility.

Personal Closing Note

I also want to add a personal note.
Since I argued strongly in favor of keeping rank progression tied to EXP rather than leadership position, I believe it is important that I apply that principle to myself as well. While the transition rule allows members to keep ranks they have already achieved, I personally do not feel right keeping a rank that my current EXP would not yet support under the revised structure. For that reason, I have asked for my own rank to be adjusted to the rank matching my EXP. This is not a request or expectation for anyone else to do the same. The agreed transition rule remains that already achieved ranks are kept, and any downward adjustment is entirely voluntary. This is simply a personal decision because I want my own rank to reflect the principle I advocated for.

It was my honor to be a Baron of the Secret Order, and I hope to carry that title again one day, should my path align with the stars.

Thank you all for your activity, your patience, and your continued investment in making the club better. The aim of this update is not to take anything away from anyone, but to make future progression clearer, fairer, and more meaningful.

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Approved by the Fleet Commander 5 JUN 35 ABY

Since joining the Emperor’s Hammer Training Office in February of 2024, Maston Dane has consistently displayed an extraordinarily high level of work ethic and dedication to the Office, far beyond what is both expected of him and outlined in his responsibilities as a Training Office Assistant. During his time within the Office, he has served as a member of the Education Committee, a course Professor, and a Training Office Assistant as mentioned previously. At the time of this recommendation, Maston has graded a total of 197 exams, assisted with the grading process of three (3) separate Thesis works, and has developed his own course within the University which is due to go live shortly.

Aside from the numerics, Maston is an engaging and influential voice within the Office. He is constantly hyper-vigilant, almost obsessively so, with monitoring exams which come into the queue. Oftentimes picking up professorless courses without being asked to help manage the workload for the rest of the Assistants and staff. Maston has been instrumental in helping ensure exams are graded within the 72-hour window according to the Training Office Manual, sending friendly reminders, helpful direct messages, and offering support in public chats wherever and whenever appropriate.

During Raise the Flag 2024, he was recognized as having graded the most number of exams out of any member of the Training Office. This record continued into 2025, where he graded the second-most number of exams across the Office. Running laps around both the Training Officer and myself when it comes to grading courses. The guy is an absolute machine when it comes to consistency and dedication to his job and has a genuine passion for his duties both within our Office and beyond.

Outside of his duties and responsibilities as a Training Office Assistant, Maston currently serves as the Command Attaché to the Reconnaissance Officer. A position which requires a significant level of commitment and dedication to the role yet Maston still somehow manages to exceed expectations and performance standards within the Training Office at the same time. The Grand Order of the Emperor is awarded to members for “service above and beyond the call of duty and valor extraordinaire.” Members of this award are highly respected in all manners of imperial function and there is no question among the members of the Training Office that Maston Dane has earned the respect of his peers and continues to be a shining beacon of light among our Office.

This recommendation has the full endorsement of both myself and the Training Officer. It is my honor to recommend Maston for the Grand Order of the Emperor.

Signed,
CA:TO/RA Tiran Marr/CA-4/TFC Consul

Approved by the Fleet Commander 5 JUN 35 ABY

One of the main reasons why I applied to join the Emperor’s Hammer Training Office as the next Command Attaché was to become part of an institution that is composed of both high-performance and high-caliber individuals, all of whom work diligently and strive to make the Training Office better each and every day. It is an extreme delight as part of my duties to recognize those individuals who not only have gone above and beyond in their duties but have exceeded all measures of expectation time and time again.

If excellence is a measure for a standard, Honsou has made it his personal tradition. Since joining the Training Office in 2022, Honsou has served at nearly every level within the Office to include Education Committee member, Professor of 15 independent courses, Training Office Assistant, and the Command Attaché to the Training Officer. When it comes to exam grading alone, Honsou has graded over 447 Imperial University courses, and six (6) Graduate Thesis works as of the time of this writing. With many more continuing well after this recommendation will be made. Most of those graded exams are not even ones he is directly assigned to, he has voluntarily given up his time to pitch in and take up unassigned exams to help ease the workload for the rest of the Training Office, a majority of which he does without being asked.

Honsou was a key player in the design and development of the old Dark Brotherhood Core exam and was the spearhead for updating and converting much of that knowledge and training into the current-day Secret Order Core exam. A keynote exam of which nearly every member of the Secret Order has taken since DBCORE and SOCORE were implemented. Behind the scenes, Honsou continues to help develop and grow the Training Office, masterminding new and upcoming projects, some of which have yet to be either revealed or implemented. One such example is Honsou has been the lead on the upcoming “master’s degree” program, which will be a successor to Graduate Titles once implemented.

Honsou was the creator of the Starfighter Graduate courses, which set the precedent for all other Graduate-level courses to follow. Honsou was the one who outlined the process for the creation of Thesis works and to this day is the one many within the Office turn to for a thesis topic that is to be given to a student.

Honsou has served as both a mentor and a guide for the rest of the Professors and Assistants. His vision has helped keep the Office moving in the right direction and he consistently establishes high-performance standards for the rest of the Office to emulate though his own example. He does this all on top of his duties as a longtime TIE Corps Squadron Commander, and even now as the Grand Master of the Secret Order. Honsou, even with all of his extra duties and responsibilities outside of the Training Office, continues to perform above anything Fleet Admiral Sylas Pitt or I ask of him on a consistent basis, day after day, month after month. The Training Office would not be what it is today without the efforts and help of Honsou.

Outside of the Training Office, Honsou has been highly involved with, and has been a core member of virtually every other aspect of the club. He has been instrumental in his duties to the TIE Corps as the Commanding Officer of Sin Squadron for well over two years. Serving both as a leader and a guide for the pilots who fly alongside him and wear the honored colors of a Sin pilot. Actions which have recently earned him the coveted rank of General.

Honsou is furthermore the Grand Master of the Secret Order, having been appointed to the role nearly eleven months ago, with service prior to that as a member among the Dark Council since 2023. During that time, Honsou has directly been responsible for many feats and accomplishments the Secret Order has produced to this day. He has been a leading role for the implementation of the Secret Order Path System. Credits of his regarding the Path System include, but are not limited to, Lead Designer, Handbook Lead, Rules Development, Writing and Project Management.

The Imperial Cross is awarded to any member who has “shown exceptional loyalty and dedication to the fleet," with recipients of the Imperial Cross having shown consistent, exceptional and innovative service to their assigned functions. These recipients are highly respected officers in all manners of Imperial functions. There is no doubt in my mind that Honsou has accomplished each of these requirements and then some. He has earned the admiration and respect of his peers within the Training Office and across the Emperor’s Hammer.

It is a great honor of mine to recommend his inclusion into the fraternal order, and his award of the Imperial Cross.

Signed,
CA:TO/RA Tiran Marr/CA-4/TFC Consul

From Typhoon Squadron CMDR COL Jagged Fell III:

Since his last promotion on 2024-07-11, Commander Kieran Yoyo has been a consistent contributor within Typhoon Squadron. In the months since that last promotion he has only not managed to get on the board 4 times. All the rest of the months, it has been a steady stream of activity from the pilot. He helped Typhoon reach our goals during 2025 ReMob, contributed to the fleets performance in both IS7 and IS8, helped Typhoon to our 3rd place finish in the 2025 RtF competition, and helped Typhoon Squadron, and BG3 as a whole, to our latest victories in the recent TCiB competition.

By the numbers since his last promotion he has flown 67 single player missions, earned 6 Legions of Skirmish, and participated in 25 rounds of different competitions.

For all these efforts I am pleased to recommend his promotion to Captain in the TIE Corps of the Emperor's Hammer.

Congratulations, CPT Kieran Yoyo!

For completing several Imperial University courses, each at an impressive 100% score, SL Hacha Monti of Rho Squadron has been promoted to full Lieutenant.

Congratulations, LT Hacha Monti!

CPT Matu Vonnegut has been serving with distinction in our ongoing Spectre Squadron experiment for quite a while now, having stepped up to Flight Leader, boosting our position on the leaderboard in Corps-wide events, and keeping the lines of communication open. I'm proud to present him with the Major rank badge that should've been his a long ways back and we'll be talking about Lieutenant Colonel very soon. Thank you for everything you do and congratulations, MAJ Matu Vonnegut!

Welcome to this years TIE Corps Exercise: Squadron (Re)Mobilization!
Commencing at 00:01 UTC on June 1st!

As per an older report by the TCCOM -
"Starting from its first run in 2019, (Re)Mob was designed to get each squadron together to complete tasks as a team in a way that was similar in scale to Raise the Flag but not as much of a firehose of activity..."

Squadron (Re)Mobilization is a competition that pits our squadrons, largely against themselves and rewards squadrons for working together as a team. Over the course of the next month each squadron will try and complete as many of the tasks on the list as possible, each task having been broken into four equal chunks to assist them in completing the tasks they wish to complete.

The tasks cover many of the different activities that the TIE Corps has to offer, from completing Single Player battles from our Battle Compendium, to flying both against and with each other in PvP or PvE combat. We also have tasks around fiction writing, completing Imperial University Courses and wiki editing alongside creating the outline of a battle which was a big hit last year!

This year, Squadron (Re)Mobilization will be running from 00:01 June 1st to 11:59 June 30th

For full details on the tasks please refer to the competition outline - TIE Corps Exercise: Squadron (Re)Mobilization 8
The online scoreboard created by FA Pickled Yoda can be found here - TIE Corps Exercise: Squadron (Re)Mobilization 8 Scores

From Gamma Squadron CMDR CPT LQC-75-3:

For consistent service and dedication within Gamma Squadron, as well as sustained improvement behind the controls of our corp's craft, it is my honor to recommend Mad_Spier for immediate promotion to Liutenant Commander.

Congratulations, LCM Mad_Spier!

This promotion is enacted retroactively dated October 31st.

For completing a first Single Player Battle, in TIE Fighter Total Conversion, SL Root of Epsilon Squadron has been promoted to full Lieutenant.

Congratulations, LT Root!

This promotion is enacted retroactively dated March 31st.

From Theta Squadron CMDR MAJ Tiran Marr:

Since his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant Commander in December of 33 ABY, Samuel Smith has earned a total of 90 Legions of Skirmish and 44 Legions of Combat. To include participation credits earned for ReMob 2025 and Imperial Storm 2026. He has successfully earned the appropriate number of merit medals for both the time required in rank and service to achieve eligibility for promotion. I formally request his advancement to the rank of Commander as of this date.

Congratulations, CM Samuel Smith!

The brand new, Imperial Campaign recently released for X-Wing Alliance, Embers of the Empire, is now supported as allowed content for the Emperor's Hammer.

Embers of the Empire is an all-new, original Imperial campaign set in the Star Wars Legends timeline, taking place shortly after the events of Vision of the Future by Timothy Zahn.

As a conscript from Parshoone, Janz Gaaland is thrust into the ranks of the battered Imperial Remnant, fighting not for conquest—but for survival—in a fractured, post-treaty galaxy.

With the Empire weakened, divided, and surrounded, every battle matters. Every decision carries weight. And for the first time in years… the Empire may finally have a chance to rise again.

The campaign consists of 14 custom battles totaling 73 new missions.

To play the campaign, simply install the Embers of the Empire mod per the instructions on their ModDB web page, https://www.moddb.com/mods/embers-of-the-empire, and then play as normal. If you want to play through the whole of the campaign, simply create a new pilot via the in game options. But if you want to play a specific battle you can download pilot files enabled to start each of the later battles from the appropriate page in the Battle Center, https://tc.emperorshammer.org/battlecenter.php?id=list&sort=1&plt=24&sg=14.

To receive credit for flying any of the battles within the mod, submit your pilot file to the BSF system as you would any other single player game. Just like for the other campaigns, the BSF system supports using the same pilot file for multiple battles, whether the file is submitted with multiple completed battles, or submitted multiple times as more battles are completed.

Have fun and fly for the glory of the Empire!

MAJ MsMayham has resigned from Spear CMDR and has transferred to the Reserves. Thank you for your service!

AD Alexandre Morgan and I have agreed that CPT Mack Udar, previously Spear's SQXO, will be the next Spear CMDR per MAJ MsMayham's recommendation. Congratulations and good luck in your new role!

From the Commander of Firebird Squadron, GN Master:

MAJ SirCaleb has been the engine‑room hum of Firebird since stepping in as XO in June 2024: steady, unshakable, and producing at a rate that often borders on the uncanny. Yet month after month he delivers!

In his time as XO he’s amassed 214 LoCs and 651 LoSs, been present in every competition cycle with active participation, and even launched his own competition to drive Battlegroup engagement. He’s set the tone for the unit through leading by example, backed by a record that already carries multiple Bronze Stars and a Silver Star. His sustained output, presence, and impact make him fully deserving of promotion to Lieutenant Colonel.

Congratulations, LC SirCaleb!

From the Commander of Battlegroup II, AD Alexandre Morgan:

When Honsou joined Sin as CMDR in March of 2024 - over two years ago - his impact was immediately felt on the squadron and the Battlegroup. His attention to detail, his remarkable visibility in voice chats and text channels, and his high level of personal activity have remained consistent since then, and in fact increased since he was promoted to Colonel in January of 2025, earning twelve merit medals, including two Silver Stars, since then.

His impact on and successes in the three Corps-wide competitions is one of the most impressive things on his resume. He served as BGII Captain in IS7 and 8, assisting the BGCOM in understanding and managing the event. He led Sin to a 40/48 tiers performance in ReMob 7 and back-to-back podium finishes in Raise the Flag. This type of effort in leadership puts him among the most successful to occupy the position - the effect that this has on the Battlegroup is huge, and he drives the efforts and investments of all those around him, even outside of his own squadron.

His other activities finish rounding off his accolades and above-and-beyond efforts as CMDR. Submitting multiple massive storied 'Chronicles of Sin' reports, delivering reliable high-quality MSE sheets, grading the most IU exams last RtF (fifty-six), and his high level of personal activity (nearly 800 MSE points since his COL promotion) capture the larger picture of what he means to his surrounding pilots and his surrounding leadership. Not a day goes by where I don’t message him, seeking wisdom on a question or advice.

For his BG-level efforts in the flagship competitions, his ridiculous presence and visibility, his high level of personal activity, his consistent merit medals, his past and ongoing competitions, and his impact at large on the Corps, I recommend that Honsou be promoted to General and be afforded all rights, privileges, and responsibilities entailed.

Congratulations, GN Honsou!

For giving us a - very in depth - insight into his Character through his INPR, SL Et'sen Kryze of Gamma Squadron has been promoted to full Lieutenant.

Congratulations, LT Et'sen Kryze!