Membership: 76 active, 167 total

1) The HF XO has a new office up at:
http://www.darthmordred.digitalrice.com/xoffice.htm
I suppose this means I must update mine! :)

2) The CSMA has a new course up: the Scout course =SC=. A Sandtrooper course will be following. Also the Communication course set is just about finished by the hard work of PFC Cuchulain Darkblade.

3) The Platoon League is a very big job to update and keep running. Burn-out and insanity are two real dangers. BG Zsinj is working with CPT Delak on automating aspects of the PL so energy can be expended on its more creative side.

4) A bug in ID line display on the HF roster is fixed. Almost (only an 'extra' comma issue remains). The certifications part of the ID line was affected.

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Prefect of the Legion
Field Marshal Ares

Vice Admiral Darksaber, BGCOM of the Aggressor Strike Force, is currently hosting a competition open to all the TIE Corps to design a new site for the Battlegroup. The exact details on this competition can be found at http://www.ehnet.org/mb/viewtopic.php?t=2655.

For those of you having problems getting TIE95 to run under Windows XP, help is at hand. LC Sephiroth has created a fix page located at http://www.tcinternet.net/users/s.sanders/Tie95WinXP/index.htm. Enjoy.

In addition to all the other news I've posted this week, the Desert Assault Stormtrooper (Sandtrooper) course has been posted! Go check it out on the CSMA site(http://www.geocities.com/csma_hf/), and give Dante something to do!

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-Graduates continue to flood in. Yay! Remember, there's always more CSMA courses to take. Unless you're Dron. :P

-The Stormtrooper Scout Course =SC= is released as of this report. Dron is extremely happy about this. :P Hopefully, Desert will be released this weekend as well.

-I will be in hospital for the day next Tuesday, Nov. 26, to have surgery. As such, I'll be on semi-leave all the rest of next week... don't be surprised if courses don't get marked, and there's only about a 50% chance of a report. If anyone feels like objecting, now or then, bugger off. :PPP

That's all for this week.

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Lieutenant Colonel Jacen Nightflyer
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Commander, Training
Carrida Stormtrooper Military Academy
CT/LTC Nightflyer/GS-4/DREAD Retribution =SS, ST, SEA, SN4, VS2, DT1, CM2=
http://www.geocities.com/csma_hf/

ISD IMMORTAL, TIE Corps. -- Inspired by the phenomenal success of the multi-award winning Space Invaders action game series, Spearhawk announces the long awaited arcade, Project: Andromeda for Windows PC: The return to one of interactive entertainment's most successful game concepts. By the incorporation of the acclaimed Open GL 3D API in the development of Project:Andromeda, Spearhawk Software has recreated a critically celebrated action title in the Star Wars Universe with excellent graphic quality.

Project: Andromeda is available for download from the Science Office at http://www.minos.net/~sco/files/games

The SCO needs to learn to close his tags!

With the tragic death of Lieutenant Colonel Aylius Khan the position of CBX PROF has become available.
Applications are being taken until the 29th when i will announce the new PROF in my report.

i am also still looking for a TOA, the successful applicant will be willing to assist me in maintaining records and possible website updates so knowledge of HTML/PHP/ASP is essential.

All applications to AD Mell Kerrigan

The positions of Tactical Officer and Chancellor are open for applications. Details for TAC are available at http://www.ehnet.org/mb/viewtopic.php?t=2774 while the requirements for CHS are available at http://www.ehnet.org/mb/viewtopic.php?t=2764.

As posted on the main domain:

Greetings,

It has been several months now my performance as Tactical Officer has been degraded due to a new time-consuming RL job; I guess time has also lessened my enthusiasm to assume the position, with nearly 20 months overall of service as Tactical Officer, and three years and half of full time positions within the Tactical Office. During all these prosperous years, I have participated and directed all the changes I was willing to be done within this office, changes which have transformed an office dependent of the TAC's personality into an organized structure where team work has become a key word. I am proud of what has become the Tactical Office, but I guess it is becoming time to see some fresh blood at the head of this office, assuming also the fact that I can hardly assume the associated work load with my current situation.

I had planned to resign in past September when my new job began, with the eh.net server problem I delayed this decision to wait for the database to be fully operational, to not bring additional mess to an already troubled situation. The BSF system and associated FTP services are nearly fully working, and I will leave my position of Tactical Officer as soon as everything is working, and as soon as you have selected the future Tactical Officer. I do not plan to leave the EH, I guess I will continue my career in a less time-demanding position, where my competences and expertise can help the EH...

TAC-PROF/HA Striker/CS-3/SSSD Sovereign

Membership: 78 active, 206 total

1) With the CSMA being able to do what it wants, new course outlines are flooding in. Proposals include a sandtrooper, spacetrooper, and storm commando (special missions) for troop types, and outlines for a medic course (written by a guy who knows the stuff). Of course, the medic courses will be accompanied by disclaimers as to their suitability to real world application.

2) An interesting total conversion project for Star Wars: Rebellion is being done by SPL Nemesis Karrde. The conversion of this empire-building game will feature HF characters and equipment.

3) Another total conversion is being done for the new FPS, Unreal Tournament 2003. It is called "Troopers: Rise of the Rebellion" and allows play as either Empirial or Rebel troopers. What is very nice about this conversion is that it is almost tailor-made for the HF, featuring sandtroopers (among other troop types), which is what our own armor is based on. It would take very little tweaking to allow for rank and position-specific player skins in the game! The URL is:
http://www.ut2003troopers.co.uk/

This means that our own conversion, UT:EH, is likely to end and instead I will modify and add on to "Troopers..." unless there is a loud enough chorus for continued development of UT:EH. The real difference between the two is that "Troopers..." is for UT2003 and UT:EH is for UT.

4) Lots more interesting stuff next week!

Prefect of the Legion
Field Marshal Ares

Congratulations to the newest Flag Officer in the Fleet, Major Frodo, who has been appointed as the new WC for Wing V on the Sov.

Since LT Dron brought this up to me, I should let everyone know that there is technically an order of precedence for listing CSMA courses in ID lines. Basic stormtrooper courses like the SSBTC and SSITC are listed first, then type certifications, then specialist certifications. Aside from that, it's just the order you got them in.

Thank you. :P

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Whoo, moderately un-busy week this week.

-Marking of tests continues. For the moment, I'm caught up with my marking, as far as I know. Go me. :P

-Several new courses are being authored. I've received outlines for the Medic, Sandtrooper, Spacetrooper, and Special Missions (Storm Commando) courses, and there are ideas for other courses kicking around the area. Stay tuned.

That's all for this week.

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Lieutenant Colonel Jacen Nightflyer
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Commander, Training
Carrida Stormtrooper Military Academy
CT/LTC Nightflyer/GS-4/DREAD Retribution =SS, ST, SEA, SN4, VS2, DT1, CM2=
http://www.geocities.com/csma_hf/

Attack of the Clones is now available. You can get it on DVD widescreen, DVD fullscreen or VHS. The DVD is a two-disc set with the usual fluff you get on those sorts of things.

Due some mysterious Problems with the Database, there weren't sent out any confermation Mails about the LoC's for following Comps:

• AusComp
• Minos War
• Outer Rim War 2
• Tempest Storm
• Vanguard Shield Comp

Before you bother me about those LoC's pls check your Combat Record first!

Karrde is working on a Rebellion conversion and need some help from everyone. He'd like you to send 1 or 2 of your HF character pics if you have them.. not personal pics, but pics of your HF persona. Send them to skraft@fuse.net

The COO has changed his email address to coo@wingxi.net. Please update your address books accordingly.

With Sickman's recent promotion to VanCOM, Admiral Proton is now accepting applications for a new Wing Commander. Details on this are located at http://www.ehnet.org/mb/viewtopic.php?t=2527.

Two more people to congratulate on their Flag appointments:

- Rear Admiral Sickman - ISD Vanguard COM
- Lieutenant Colonel Sephiroth - Wing X Wing Commander.

Congrats guys!

Sat - Nov 9, 2002

The JK2 Tourney was a success. Though it was a little slowl to start, all matches were played and everyone fought well.
1st Round
Vicar vs Kuro
Cypher vs Crsepe
Silent vs Talon

2nd Round
Cypher vs Kuro

Finals
Cypher vs Silent

1st - Cypher
2nd - Silent

Thanks to everyone who took part! I will make the JK2 tourney once a month, so that everyone has a chance to get some practice in. If you're looking for a good place to hone your skills, email me and I'll give you some groups that have servers and instructors. If anyone wants some practice, msg me and I'll share what I know. Again, thanks to everyone who participated.

Membership: 75 active, 194 total

1) I enjoyed my vacation so much I've had trouble getting back to work. :p But I'm building up my head of steam. The Field Manual is undergoing a few more last-minute changes.

2) Medals have been expanded. Now we have three multiplayer medals:
Medal of Courage - this has been around a bit. You get one for every 30 mp games played.
Dark Heart - awarded for winning an official internal mp game
Warrior's Cross - awarded for winning an official inter-subgroup mp game.

3) I've cut the bonds holding the CSMA back. CT Nightflyer now has far greater leeway in putting up new courses. Recently added courses include the Seatrooper, another Vehicle course, and Comm courses. Medical courses are in the works. All CSMA courses are designed to enrich life in the HF and round out members' ficitonal personas. So, as always, IWATS is the place to go for practical learning.

4) We are kicking off a JKII tourney tomorrow! It is an internal HF event occuring monthly. Its primary purpose is to improve playing ability to compete against other subgroups and clubs.

5) the Commander, Operations post has been vacant for some months. That situation is going to be resolved next week.

Prefect of the Legion
Field Marshal Ares

There was a locking issue with the BSF system that was preventing zipped pilot files from being loaded. Preliminary testing shows the problem appears to have been fixed. The TAC staff will be conducting further testing over the weekend. This is pretty much the last major sticking point in the site's functionality and once resolved, the site will go live.

One addition to the new policy:

For the sake of recordkeeping and to save the CI some work, ALL certifications will be displayed on the Hammer's Fist web page records, rather than just the highest of each level.

Couple of changes in regards to CSMA policy. Yay.

First off, there was some rule a long time ago that you could only take a certain number of type certifications and could only take a Level 4 course for one specialisation. Those rules are now annulled - you may take as many type certifications as you like, as many specialist certifications as you like, and you can go up to Level 4 in as many as you like, provided you pass the tests. :P

The second policy change governs how CSMA courses are to be displayed in the ID line. From now on, when displaying basic stormtrooper courses (S, SS, IOTC, and MC), and specialist courses (Vehicle Specialist, Sniper, Communications, Demolitions, etc.), *only the highest level* is to be displayed. Hence, it would be written as =SS= rather than =S, SS= and =SN4= rather than =SN1, SN2, SN3, SN4=, in order to save space and not have to read lines and lines of certifications.

Thank you.

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Busy in the Commandership of Training (quiet, I know it's a stupid title) this week.

-First, almost all of the courses that are currently up on the page have been converted to HTML instead of having the troopers download them in .doc format. This is a Good Thing (tm), as this way, there will be no compatibility issues (either that, or the troopers can't read the CSMA page in the first place :P).

-Second, four new courses have been released this week: Seatrooper, Communications 1 and 2, and Vehicle Specialist 2. I look forward to the new influx of course submissions. :) However, there is a slight catch - the certifications are not entirely updated on the website yet. So, you can complete the course, and we'll send you a grad letter, but the certifications won't be up on the web page until CI Zsinj and I iron the issues out.

-If anyone is missing certifications from their records (except for those people about to take CM1, CM2, VS2, or SEA), please e-mail me with the missing certifications and the course tests and I'll be glad to add them to your records. :)

That's all for this week.

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Lieutenant Colonel Jacen Nightflyer
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Commander, Training
Carrida Stormtrooper Military Academy
CT/LTC Nightflyer/GS-4/DREAD Retribution =SS, ST, SN1, SN2, SN3, SN4, VS1, DT1=
http://www.geocities.com/csma_hf/

After much delay and anticipation, the Internet Office is finally proud to announce the release of the trailer which serves as a prelude to Hawkeye II: Uprising, the sequel to the popular IO competition. To view it, you need the DivX 5.02 codec which you can obtain at http://www.divx.com. The trailer is available at http://hawkeye.ehnet.org/. A big thanks to Leeson for working so hard to make the trailer a reality! Enjoy!

Here are the Results from Operation: Inferno

1st - SGT Keiran
2nd - 2LT Tacky
3rd - LT Dron

Awards:
Iron Order - Keiran
Cross of Obedience - Tacky, Dron
Letter of Commendation - Aloth, Silent, Drakon Payne, Cherin, Xanthir Cloudblade

In addition, everyone who participated will receive operational credit on their personnel file.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the runon. The next one should start in about a week and end the "Mercenary Trilogy."

Congratulations go out to Major Hev Randrowan who has been selected as the new Wing Commander for Wing XIII.

I have decided to appoint former ASF BGCOM, Admiral Cyric, as my Command Attaché. He will be helping me with various administrative duties, but these will NOT include the general upkeep of the TIE Corps rosters. Therefore it is not necessary to CC him on routine Flight Office emails.

News from the meeting:
The Field Manual will be up on my webspace this week. Just gotta get it up.

I'm trying to get a JK2 tourney going. Enough of us have the game to make a decent tournament out of it, so lets get something going. Winner will get something yet to be determined.

MEDALS:
Official Letter of Commendation -
PFC Nemesis Karrde
SML Liandri Lunac'her'inar

Survivalist Medal -
MAJ Tygarin Cypher
SPL Destavol
LT Shadowmaker
2LT Malik
PFC Matti Kuokkanen

Long Service Award -
MAJ Tygarin Cypher
BG Vladkov

Cross of Obedience -
SPL Coranel Both

Medal of Courage -
LT Shadowmaker
MAJ Tygarin Cypher (x3)
2LT Silent
LT Dron

Legion of Service -
SML Liandri Lunac'her'inar
LT Delak Krennel
SGT Crespe
SGT Crusader

Recruitment Commendation -
LT Shadowmaker

PROMOTIONS:
Private First Class -
PTE Malm Strom
PTE Dash Rendar
PTE Talon Astruar

Lance Corporal -
PFC Drago Steiner
PFC Nemesis Karrde

Sergeant -
SPL Keiran

2nd Lieutenant -
LT Delak Krennel

Lieutenant Colonel -
MAJ Tygarin Cypher
MAJ Nightflyer

Cause of some reason I can edit my news posted before so I add the scores here! :-)

Overall Standings

Game	RS	SV	NR5F	UCFP	EH	VE	IO
JK2	149	86	105	0	21	0	7
JK	22	8	0	5	4	0	29
Ground Total	171	94	105	5	25	0	36
XvT	74	9	17	5	30	0	19
XWA	50	11	13	19	30	0	9
Space Total	124	20	30	24	60	0	28
Overall Total	295	114	135	29	85	0	64

 

Standings for 11/02/2002

Game	RS	SV	NR5F	UCFP	EH	VE	IO
JK2	76	39	57	0	21	0	1
JK	6	0	0	1	2	0	2
Ground Total	82	39	57	1	23	0	3
XvT	37	3	8	1	30	0	7
XWA	30	7	1	4	30	0	9
Space Total	67	10	9	5	60	0	16
Overall Total	149	49	66	6	83	0	19

Yes, we lost ORW2 this time, cause we didn't participiated in the 1st War,
last week. However from next week on, we are going to rock in this Comp. We got
only the half of the matches of some other clubs, cause this was our 1st time!
:-) However, I thank you all for participiating, and encourage all MP Pilots to
join #OuterRim again next Saturday on 14:00 EST (7:00 pm EST).

Vice Admiral Brakka has retired as COM of the ISD Intrepid. Taking his place is Rear Admiral Wil Striker, the Ship's former Wing Commander. And replacing Striker as WC is Colonel Duncan Idaho. Congratulations to both of these Officers.

Also announcing his resignation as Commodore of the ISD Vanguard is Rear Admiral Ekim. Applications for a new COM are being accepted and should be sent to VA Darksaber and LC Tarkin.

Vice Admiral Krax Tarnisar has changed his email address to Krax@ehnet.org. Please update your address books accordingly.