The Emperorshammer.ca Battle Mirror is once again online and fully uploaded with every battle.

I've redone the layout of the Iron Star description in the training manual and the medal rules pages. Hopefully, this layout will make it clearer on what ribbon you can award for your competition (considering the use of nice, large, bold red text). The updated manual entry is here and the updated medal rules page is here.

After a two month absence, the polling center has reopened. There are currently 4 polls open at the EH Polling Center: EH Poll #100, EH Poll #101, EH Poll #102, and EH Poll #103. The EH Polling Center can be found at http://www.emperorshammer.ca/polls.

When sending mail to the Flight Office, please don't forget to cc AD Priyum Patel.

The Flight Office page has had a make-over! In addition to this, important links and details have to been updated to meet with current information & policies. The page is located here

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me.

Many congratulations to the newly promoted Rear Admiral Ender mBind who takes over as Vanguard COM following COL Blade's resignation earlier today.

Former WC, now RA Troutrooper, has been promoted to the Commodore position aboard the ISD Colossus. Many qualified people applied to VA Jarak and myself, but TT has been entrusted with the task of returning the COL to her recent glory. Thank you all and goodluck TT.

Just a few reminders from the Tactical Office regarding BSF's:

• Players are allowed to skip 1 mission per battle. If gameplay errors would force you to skip 2 or more missions, stop playing the battle and inform the Tactical Office immediately. BSF's with more than 1 mission that has been skipped will be denied.
• While sharing information about a battle is not prohibited, sharing your pilot files IS. If you are found to be sharing pilot files, you will find yourself (And the person you shared it with) brought up to the HCI for cheating.
• CMDR's and above: If a pilot has skipped a mission in a battle, you MUST check the "No High Scores" box on the BSF form.
• Audits: You have 1 (one) week to supply the requested Pilot file for an audit. If you do not within that time, the BSF will be automatically denied.

Questions concerning pilot files or the BSF system should be directed to Admiral StarLion

Thanks to all those who applied. As of today, (And according to Tactical Report #1), the new CA:TAC's have been selected; Congratulations to the newly promoted Rear Admiral Arso Slyth and the newly-returned to action Admiral Havoc!

For Cadets who play in multiplayer matches to meet their training requirements on Daedalus, there was a bug that wouldn't acknowledge Flight Certification Training properly on their profiles when they won a match. This has been fixed.

I am looking for a new host for the CapShip Night, for there currently is nobody available to host it. It runs every Sunday from 2:30 EST until 4:00 EST. If you are interesting in helping out, please apply to rgoatham@aol.com and joe_pohosky@btinternet.com. There is no need for you to be a member of the Naval Corps, so TC members, please feel free to apply.

If you have a bookmark to the Pulp Phantom homepage to check if the newest episode is up, link to http://www.pulpphantom.com/home_true.php to avoid the large porn banners from popping up on the screen.

Today, I have promoted, now, VA Xanos Goatham Zorrixor to the new NAVCOM. Under his leadership, I expect to see the Naval Corps continue to grow and increase its activity. Congratulations VA.

In today's Flight Office Report, I have reinstated the TCCOM Award and given the January, 2001 presentation to Wing XIII. Details are found in the report but, please give your congratulations to VA Cyric and all the officers of the GW.

Recently, Naval Commander, Vice Admiral Bargon resigned. Here is the letter he sent to the Naval Corps.

[Email From r_bargon@hotmail.com - 24/1/01]

NC Staff, TFCs, and Flight Office members;

It is with great difficulty that I address you now. For the last couple of weeks, my life has been getting more and more hectic, and I feel that it has been impacting my ability to operate as NavCOM. I also am getting frustrated at the lack of interest in the current wargame, I am seeing barely 50% participation, and noone seems to notice when RL makes me miss a day. For these reasons, my inability to keep the wargame going, and my inability to keep the wargame interesting, I feel that I must step down as NavCOM. In my tenure as NavCOM, and indeed my whole career in the Naval Corps, I have tried my best to bring the Naval Corps to the higher level that it belongs on, and I refuse to allow the Naval Corps to be brought down by my inactions. I will of course still be around, to advise, and help in any way I can, but at this time I cannot handle the daily chores of Naval Corps Commander. Admiral Theodore, I hope that you can find a proper Commander for the Naval Corps, should you need some help in finding one, I would be glad to assist in any way I can. Task Force Commanders, my deepest apologies for leaving this wargame unfinished, but I do not feel that anything can be gained from trying to drag out the inevitable, should the new NavCOM wish to continue this wargame, I will of course turn over all the materials I have pertaining to it.

NavCOM/VA Bargon/VSD Monitor/Naval Corps (retired)

Bargon will be missed and we all wish him well in whatever he chooses to do now. :-)

There's a new TC Survey Center question about the "Battle For Naboo" game. To answer it, simply log in to the administration section (active pilots only...sorry Cadets!).

As quoted from The Adrenaline Vault http://www.avault.com/news/displaynews.asp?story=1242001-93832:

"LucasArts Entertainment is going to challenge PC game players to unite against the evil Trade Federation and strike back on land, sea and air in the flight action game Star Wars: Battle for Naboo. Released on the Nintendo 64, Battle for Naboo for the PC features enhanced game resolution, textures, and a new interface. Star Wars: Battle for Naboo for PC is being developed in conjunction with Factor 5 and is expected for release in March 2001.

In Battle for Naboo, players leap into a variety of Star Wars vehicles and traverse a wide range of environments while clashing with numerous Trade Federation enemies, such as battle droids, droid starfighters and AAT's. In the more than 15 levels, players experience new and familiar Star Wars locations while engaging in air-to-air, ground-to-ground, space and air-to-ground battles."

Hopefully, this game won't suck quite as badly as all the other Episode One games. Only time will tell.

Several positions are open in the TAC Office, interested applicants should see the Tactical Report for more information.

The Star Wars Half-Life Mod "Call to Arms" is closed once again. The team leader instead has joined up with another Star Wars Half-Life Mod: "Imperial Battles" which seems to look nicer and be farther along in development.

Gameplay is split into three teams: Rebels, Imperials, and Bounty Hunters (with each type holding their own unique set of skills). The new mod also plans to feature Light and Dark Jedis with 3rd-person light saber dueling. According to the news, Beta 1 is set to release next month.

Check out the website here: http://www.chaosrealm.com/imperial/

Go TIE Corps!

The TIE Corps Mac FAQ has been updated, with minor adjustments and corrections.

Magic Al has moved and expanded his MacJedi page. He now has an excellent listing of Macintosh tools for creating new Dark Forces levels!
http://homepage.mac.com/magic_al/links.html

Congratulations to Top Gun and veteran Commander Major Brucmack on his selection to be Wing XIII Commander.  Major Brucmack has been active in Wing XIII affairs for some time.

Grand Admiral Ronin has updated the EH Imperial News Center with an article on Star Wars Gamer, the Operations Officer's CoL awards, and Outer Rim Night results.

With the resignation of Fleet Admiral Striker, the fleet's new Tactical Officer is now officially Admiral StarLion.

The new Iron Star system is now officially in effect. The Training Manual has been updated with the new description and medal image. Competitions submitted for approval must now meet the new guidelines laid out. The TIE Corps and Naval Corps have been mailed. If you can't wait for the email or you're a CA or CO, you can check it out at http://www.imperialacademy.org/is-mail.htm.

Congratulations to Vice Admiral Chrusos "VitCarp" Ichthys who today has been named as the new ASF Battlegroup Commander. VitCarp has shown exceptional leadership skills as Wing Commander of Wing XIII, and both myself and Admiral Theo are confident that he'll do a great job as BGCOM. Congratulations!

Please be sure to congratulate the Vice Admiral on his promotion! :)

Well..that was a whole lot of nothing. The upgrade failed. I'll have to talk with the tech support people at Crystaltech on Monday and try again later. No FCHG listings until then... :(

All homepages are currently offline while the databases undergo a complete upgrade. Estimated downtime is still at one to two hours.

The TIE Corps Database, Imperial Senate Database, and XO Homepage are all going offline in 30 minutes as the domains and database shut down for an upgrade. The estimated down time is 1 or 2 hours.

There's a new Fan Film out which was previewed last year in a one-minute long trailer. "A Question of Faith" starring Jason Alexander (no, not that bald guy from Seinfeld) has some hammy acting (blame it on the Force), but they make up for it with spectacular lightsaber duels!

You can download the movie here: http://www.theforce.net/theater/shortfilms/faith/index.shtml

I would like to apologize for the virus warning connected with the latest BG Report. I was totally unaware that it was infected, partly because my VirusScan program was not operational at the time. I have bought a new program, Norton AntiVirus 2001, and will install shortly to prevent this incidentfrom hapening again. As far as I can tell I got this myself from an E-Mail I recieved some time ago. I have also patched my Outlook Express to prevent such viruii from entering my system again. Again, I am sorry for any trouble this may have caused. I will honestly make sure this will never happen again.

Something important I forgot to mention in my Sov Report that just couldn't wait until Sunday.

Every month I review squadrons for the COM's Own award, and most of the time I withhold it for one reason or another. This month, I was going to award it to Sigma Squadron of Wing II, but decided that the continued level of excellence the pilots of Sigma exhibit deserves a higher honor than COM's Own.

After consultation with LC Inkwolf, I've decided to name Sigma the official escort squadron of the Sov Flag Officers for the first quarter of the year. Congratulations to all Sigmans on a job VERY well done!!

This weeks' Battlegroups Weekly Report was an HTML email which unfortunately contained the WScript.KakWorm virus. This virus will automatically infect your system by exploiting a security loophole in Outlook Express if you so much as LOOK at the email it arrives in. The virus contains a payload which will cause random shutdowns of your system at certain trigger dates. Microsoft are aware of this problem and have released a patch for Outlook Express which removes the security loophole which allows the virus to function. Details of the patch can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS99-032.asp If you already have this patch installed, then you have nothing further to worry about, your system is safe. If you do NOT have this patch installed, read on...

If you received this weeks' Weekly Battlegroup Report in HTML format and did NOT get a virus warning from your email scanner (or if you don't have one installed) then you HAVE BEEN INFECTED by the virus and must take the following steps to remove it:

Visit this website: http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/docid/2000020318071406 ...and read the instructions contained therein. The most simple and effective way to neutralise the virus is to download and run the fix tool located at http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/wscript.kakworm.fix.html This programme will repair all damage caused by the variant of the virus distributed in this weeks' Battlegroups Report. In the unlikely event that it doesn't work on your system, there are also comprehensive details on the same webpage for removing the virus manually.

To conclude, I'd reccommend that anyone who doesn't already own an AntiVirus programme that includes an email scanner gets one NOW. Thanks for your attention.

After a hard night at the computer and in IO fashion, fueled by a endless supply of Coca-Cola... I have managed to finish the database for the new AG roster.. I have used HA Kawolski's profile design for the profiles until I manage to get another design into implemenation. Thanks go out to FA Darkov who gave me the base code. The roster is available at http://www.advancedguard.org/.

The IWATS Core course just passed two thousand graduates (2,000), making it still the most successful IWATS course ever. The next closest course in terms of graduates is mIRC/1 with nearl 900. The IWATS Core graduates form roughly 32% of the overall IWATS graduates.

Pulp Phantom: The Animated Parody - http://www.pulpphantom.com - This one is a lot better than the previous episodes! Listen for everyone's favorite Science Officer to make his singing debut on Obi-Wan's radio! :P

Warning: The site contains language, adult subject matter, and a fun Jawa-shooting game to play while you're waiting for the episode to load. For mature audiences only. (Oh yeah, and the porn banners are back...big ones too. err..the banners! >:P)

Battlecry 11 is out now. You can get if from http://battlecry.emperorshammer.ca. Here is what is in this months issue: -

• XvT & XWA Week of War Stats
• Big Competition Still Running (except Flying Contest)
• Flying Contest Results (and news on a little problem with that)
• Writing Contest comes to a close, but there is still a new part to read
• IRC Fun

Also, there are a lot of great submissions this month (which explains the large file-size). Off the top of my head, there is a history of the EH by VA Jarak, a Flash animation by CM Tack and RA Moreco, the next parts of "Old Friends" by CPT Werdna Elbee and "Sword Squadron" by LCM Badlan, as well as many other marvelous pieces of work.

The Logistics Office is now starting a new project to collect the personal histories of TIE Corps and Emperor's Hammer members. The LO would like all EH members who wish to submit their personal histories for posting on a database shortly to email their career portfolios/stories to EHStories@egroups.com with your name and rank in the Subject. A template will be released shortly to help you compile your careers and if you need any assistance what so ever please email Rear Admiral Ramos Kanzco for more information.

The Fleet Medical Corps is now one year old. Last year, on the eleventh of January, the MedCorps was founded with the activation of the medcorps egroup. What once was an interesting project has become a 44-people pseudo-subgroup wich is now celebrating its anniversary!

(There was a celebration held today which I apologize for not posting about sooner - HA Kawolski)

Outer Rim for now will be on Innernet. It will still be in #outerrim, and here are Servers to possibily join:
Oakland.CA.US.InnerNET.ORG
Helena.MT.US.InnerNET.ORG
Espoo.FI.EU.InnerNET.ORG

Grand Admiral Ronin has updated the EH Imperial News Center with the latest fleet news and reports.

As posted on www.kawolski.com:

Looks like my previous rank as Sector Admiral was only an honorary one! Grand Admiral Ronin has informed me that I'm now back to being a High Admiral (what I was before I left the TAC position). If I do well in my position, within a month's time, I may be promoted to a full Sector Admiral.

A bunch of battles which should have been uploaded some time ago have been updated:

• TC-TIE Battle 23
• TC-TIE Battle 28
• TC-TIE Battle 66
• TC-TIE Battle 87
• TC-TIE Battle 106
• TC-TIE Battle 115
• TC-TIE Battle 117
• TC-TIE Battle 123
• TC-TIE Battle 165
• FREE-TIE Mission 133
• DB-TIE Battle 1
• BHG-TIE Battle 1
• BHG-TIE Battle 2
• TC-XWA Battle 7
• TC-XWA Battle 12

Cadets! If you've completed the Flight Requirements, log in and go to the Flight Certification page. You can upload your completed pilot file and be instantly certified and complete that portion of your training!

The FCHG Listings have not yet been repaired. It turned out to be a much larger problem that I was not prepared to deal with at the moment. It may not be until this weekend before I can get it straightened out. I apologize for the temporary inconvenience.

Now that New Years has passed by and the fact we are a week into the year 2001, the Logistics Office has come back from the dead and several setbacks to bring to you many new projects. The biggest of which is to be announced later in the week. Moving on, The LO needs your help in gathering fiction, graphics, old rosters, INPRs, Personal Histories, Ship Histories, Subgroup Histories, Monumental EH desicions, Wing Histories, Squadron Histories, Histories of CS officers, old Subgroup manuals, old subgroup webpages, old subgroup commander histories, and anything else you think can be essential or non essential in helping the Logistics Office in archiving the history of the EH. Eventually after we collect all this data it will be submitted to the Training Office for placement in the EH Encyclopedia(being compiled by HA Astatine).

Here are a list of email addresses you can submit data and information to. You will be rewarded for submitting information:

http://www.egroups.com/group/BHGHistory
CDHistory@egroups.com
CSHistory@egroups.com
DarkBrotherhoodHistory@egroups.com
EHDirHistory@egroups.com
EHFiction@egroups.com
EHHistory@egroups.com
EHStories@egroups.com
FMCHistory@egroups.com
HFHistory@egroups.com
IWHistory@egroups.com
TCHistory@egroups.com

Also a plan is in the works to appoint a ship/wing historian to compile their wing/ship's history into one large work and submit it to the LO. We need many people to help out with this so if you could email Commander Ramos Kanzco and tell him if you are interested in becoming your ship's historian. This will be an unofficial posistion and will not be added to your ID line.

Thank you and if you have any comments or questions feel free to email me(magedon42@aol.com)

The new Iron Star system will be delayed until this weekend while changes are being made to the manuals, uniform pictures, and other database changes. If you'd like a preview of what the new Iron Star system is like, see the Executive Office's page news site.

With today marking his two-year anniversary of holding the position of Executive Officer, Sector Admiral Compton has announced his resignation and is stepping down from his position.

As posted in NL #70:

I hereby step down as Executive Officer of the Emperor's Hammer Strike Fleet. That is the hardest sentence I've ever had to type in my life. It's been a fun ride, but it's been a long one, and I simply don't have the time that this position needs anymore. I really wish I did, but it wouldn't be fair to you, the members of the Emperor's Hammer, if I were to remain as XO any longer; you deserve more than I can give. I can only hope that you feel the years I've devoted to the Fleet as XO have been good ones, and I sincerely hope the EH Territories are an even better place now than they were two years ago.

Sector Admiral Kawolski has also officially been named the new Executive Officer today! You can see the new XO Homepage, along with the rest of Compton's letter, at: http://www.kawolski.com

A Command Attaché (CA:XO) has already been selected: Vice Admiral Slade, who has previously served as CA:TAC and COM of the DGN Lichtor V and has been instrumental in creating many of the graphics and banners you see throughout the fleet, the tiecorps.org layout graphics, and the new XO site graphics.

More announcements, as well as a formal introduction, are to come!

If you'd like to view Newsletter #70 online, you can do so at http://www.isdcolossus.com/index.html.

Get it here and now before it's even posted on the EH Domain! Sector Admiral Compton has released Newsletter #70 to the fleet.

You can download it at: http://thunder.prohosting.com/~surefire/hammer70.zip (~5.93 MB).

The Flight office is looking for an Attache to undertake several responsibilities. First, the person would be an ACTIVE liason with the Wing Commanders to identify and suggest help for wings or squadrons lacking activity or sufficient numbers. Also, the person will be given some of the administrative duties in maintaining accurate rosters.

I will not list specific requirements, but understand that I am looking for a reliable person with an established reputation for getting things done.

The Daedalus has now assigned its 6,000th pin number !!!

After almost 6 months of excellent duty, LC Chrusos Ichthys has been promoted to rank or Colonel for his excellent service to wing, ship and TIE Corps. He led Grey Wolf for his 2nd victory in ASF: 2nd Supremacy Competition and made it best ship in the fleet. Congrats VitCarp!

For exemplary service aboard the ISD Relentless and dedication to Wing IX as its Commander
...I have today processed a promotion request to General for Valtane Gavryn Ricaud.

Congratulations General Ricaud.

After an update to the FCHG system, the listings page ceased to work except for the Wing FCHG Listings page. I currently don't have the time to fix it tonight, so I'll be taking the page offline until later tomorrow.

XWA League III has begun the mission to fly for the next 2 weeks is Free-XWA 4. Get that here. Reports are due in on the 20th of January. More details can be found at my Combat Operations II site.

Medals are available for this competition so any XWA fliers should check it out.

Today...Jan. 7th...marks our 6th anniversary...Congrats everyone !!!!

If you want to see one of the Command Staff (CS-12)'s homepage, just use their CO abbreviation.tiecorps.org.

For example, to view the IO's homepage, go to http://io.tiecorps.org/

One requirement to play in the OR War is to have a login PIN # at http://www.rebelsquadrons.org/ordb/. Once you have that setup send me an e-mail with your ORDB PIN# and your TC.org PIN# so that I can award your LoC's. My e-mail is slookabill@home.com.

Now when you want to remove that AWOL pilot or you get a request for your pilot to transfer to the reserves, you can use the online Removal Request Form. The form is still rather new, so if you notice any bugs or problems, please report them to Sector Admiral Kawolski.

After a long wait, the X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter BSF forms that allow you to upload an XvT pilot file is now up and running! They're not ready for Balance of Power, though.

Wing rosters now have a link to list combat ratings of all the pilots in the wing.

The Squadron Citations page has been updated to include a total count of the number of citations held by each squadron.

Members of EH, fellow pilots and officers. As you all probably know, there will be an EH meeting in Poland this year. Time is running with only 6 months left. Would you like to know more? Would you like to confirm your arrival? Or maybe you got some suggestions? E-mail me!

IWATS has just passed 6,000 (six thousand) graduates.

I'm combining the EH:PA (Picture Archive), and the EH:VAG (Visual Arts Gallery) into one site. This is to facilitate easier administration, and a single uniform PHP codebase. However i need you, the EH membership, to help me come up with a new name for this combined site. There is a poll up at the IO Site (http://www.ehnet.org) with several ideas i have come up with, if you have a better idea then the ones i've come up with please add a comment to the poll.

I would like to remind all of you of the upcoming Jedi Convention in Cologne, Germany, from April 13th-15th (Easter weekend). About 20 EHers have announced their participation so far! We are going to have a little stand representing the EH on the convention, by setting up some PCs and letting the visitors play our custom missions, and by giving info to anyone who's interested in the club! If you'd like to join our happy little group of recruiters, please contact me at callista@tiecorps.org and I'll give you more info about our meeting there. If you need more information on the Jedi Con itself, go to http://www.jedi-con.de/ , the page is available in English as well :) Please make up your minds on whether you want to attend the meeting and the convention soon, if you sign up before January 15 it'll save you 20 DM (10$/6 pound)! Together we'll make this an event to be remembered! :)

Some people have reported a problem when submitting fiction that reads "Exception Occured". The only people who have been experiencing this are those who are submitting extremely LONG pieces of fiction of at least 40+ pages. I'm currently aware of this problem and I'm looking into fixing it soon.

Users in the ImperialAcademy.org database with "dead" email addresses have had their subscription status turned off, so I don't keep getting error emails. A majority of the people causing these errors are people who had email addresses on domains hosted by IO/AD AbsoluteK. These domains include ehnet.org, squadron.org and stardestroyer.org. If you have changed your email address recently and do wish to still receive news updates from the Training Office and IWATS, you can go to www.imperialacademy.org/settings and update your email and turn your subscription status back on again. If you have any difficulties with doing this, contact the Training Officer at jpboyce@indigo.net.au

After a long month of hard activity, the Supremacy II competition has finally come to a close and the results have been announced:

Winning Ship: ISD Grey Wolf - The crew of the Grey Wolf amassed an amazing total of 8943 points, and rightfully retain their title of ASF Flag Ship

Winning Squadron: Tartarus, Wing XIII - Winning by over 200 points (2251 in total), all members of the Squadron showed great activity of the past four weeks. The squadron becomes the new ASF Escort Squadron

The most hard fought, and probably the most exciting part of the competition was the individual Pilot race. The final top three pilots are:

1st: CPT Raven Arestar, Tartarus (EH_Raven@egroups.com) - 1050 points. Awarded with the Silver Star of the Empire
2nd: CPT Brucmack, Vortex (brucmack@bigfoot.com) - 886 points. Awarded with the Bronze Star of the Empire
3rd: LT Mace, Vortex (mace@isdchallenge.org) - 491 points. Awarded with the Bronze Star of the Empire

Many congratulations to all the medal winners, and thanks for making this competition fun to run! Full details of the final results can be found at http://www.emperorshammer.ca/asf/