For about a year now, the Internet Office has been working (and primarily taking breaks in working) on a site redirection service for the Emperor's Hammer, similar to TSX and CJB.net. Well, that service is now a reality.

Stardestroyer.org, my domain, now hosts this service. Any EH member can apply for a http:// yourname.stardestroyer.org redirect, free-of-charge and free-of-porn-banners. Since TSX redirects will soon be banned by the EH, I suggest you switch over now. The sign-up takes 2 seconds, and your account is activated immediately!

Take a few moments of your time to check it out:
Stardestroyer.org Redirection Service

Membership: active 113, total 139

1) The Platoon League is going to start a new session Monday with revised rules. Jedi Knight ladder submissions will not be accept after Sunday. We'll see how well the JK ladder did on its first run.

The HF Operations Office (which hosts the Platoon League and JK Ladder) is http://www.users.myisp.co.uk/~mclander/

2) The Commander, Design Mordred has been working on new combat uniforms. The concepts have been approved, so once he's done making them, we will have aquatrooper, scouttrooper, zero-G, and snowtrooper suits added to the HF standard shock/sandtrooper uniforms.

3) The new Commander, Development and Commander, Training will be named in my next report. They'll be chosen mid-week.

4) I've been playing JK a lot these past two days, and I also grabbed Jedi Knight II. It is funny how the release of a new game in the series has rekindled interest in the older Jedi Knight. Seeing what I've been missing. I'll break open JKII next week and see how it compares (other than better graphics and sound).

Prefect of the Legion
Field Marshal Ares

There's another new IWATS course out, BitchX. Take it today at http://www.imperialacademy.org/bitchx/!

Six months after the Recon Office brought you the Halloween Prank Banner comp, it brings you the April Fool's Prank Banner Comp. This is the same as the Halloween one, pick a rival ship, wing, or squadron banner and put a brank on it. Good luck!

BEGINNING: 3.23.2002
ENDING: 4.4.2002

Awards:
1st - IS-GR
2nd - IS-SR
3rd - IS-BR

Please send your submissions to Fleet Admiral Keiran Idanian.

I will not be atcepting any JK Ladder submissions after Sunday. The winner will be announced shortly afterwards. Thanks to those who took part.

The Platoon League begins on Monday. Be sure to read through the rules on the PL site. They've changed since last time.

http://www.users.myisp.co.uk/~mclander/pl/

Your favorite CS is back to active duty !... BSFs and custom submissions have been all processed, things are back to normal in the Tactical Office. Thanks to the TAC Office members for keeping the place clean while I was away.

This is an addendum to the CT office requirements. I hadn't realized how few CPT+ we have in the Legion. The rank requirement is reduced to 2LT or the equivalent enlisted rank of SGM.

Prefect of the Legion
Field Marshal Ares

CT Phennir has stepped down from Commnder, Training. The post is now open and I am accepting applications. Job description follows:

The Commander, Training oversees the CSMA, and is thus responsible for the processing of all course candidates. He is also responsible for the creation/review of new courses, and the improvement of older courses.

The requirements are:

Minimum rank of CPT
Must be able to respond to emails within 2 days
Write a weekly report
Grade courses within five days of receipt
Attend one of the two weekly meetings

Send all applications to alduin@jps.net

The Commander, Development post is also vacant but I am not accepting applications for that. A CD will be chosen at the Prefect's discretion.

Prefect of the Legion
Field Marshal Ares

Just a reminder that submissions for the Newsletter will be accepted up until the 1st of April this time. This is due to the release of Jedi Outcast and I would just love some reviews of the game. If you want to write a review, you'll need the following information in it:

• Your ID line, obviously
• Your system's specs (at least include CPU, RAM, video card and operating system. If you want to be picky and include more, that's up to you)
• Areas you might want to consider when writing your review would be sound, graphics, plot/storyline, control and how much the lightsaber kicks ass (or doesn't if that's the case)
• A final summary and/or score
• Some pictures would be nice too

Also, if you have a more general article idea relating to Jedi Outcast, the original Jedi Knight or Lucasarts/Star Wars games in general, send them in too.

After consultation with the Flight Officer, the following ops levels have been decided at regarding the #tiecorps channel.

Position	Ops level
Wing Commanders	100
Commodores	200
Battleground Commanders	300

If you want ops and hold one of these positions, please contact myself or the Flight Officer via email.

After 3 weeks, Project Hawkeye is finally completed. Many of you are curious what it was all about. You can find all the information you need at the Hawkeye Aftermath site now, including answers to the qualification test, the winners and other agents, the datapad, and of course, both EH and NIF sets of missions - all 10 missions for each side include solutions and some contain excerpts from selected agents' responses. Please make use of these extremely valuable site, especially if you plan on applying for Hawkeye II. We've learned a lot from this run and many of the missions you see on the site may be repeated in some form or another in the next episode. I'd also like to thank the Hawkeye Admin and Dev Staff who all put up with me when I tried to make sure everything went perfect. Indeed, it did - everything went really well, and I hope the agents enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed putting it together.

The Project Hawkeye Aftermath site can be found here.

FO's note: Congrats to Ari on his promotion to Fleet Admiral!

FYI, ATF Battlegroup Commander, Admiral Jeff Loruss has updated his email address to tiger01@cableone.net. The Battlegroups Commander, Admiral Mell, has also updated his email address to mell@tiecorps.org.

For any Star Wars fans in Scotland, there is currently an Exhibition of Star Wars art work, models and costumes. It is at the City Arts Centre on
Market Street in Edinburgh. It is open from 10am to 6pm Mon, Tues, Fri and Sat,
10am to 8pm Wed and Thur, noon to 5pm on Sunday. Price is £6, £4.50 concs.
It is on now until Sep 8th. It contains things like conceptual drawings,
artwork of sets (The Hoth landscape is amazing), Production models
(including X-Wings, Star Destroyers and Super Star Destroyers as well as
the Millennium Falcon!). Also on display are costumes, the droids, Darth
Vader, a shop, software room and in the entrance hall a full size version of
Anakin's Pod Racer. So if you are in the Edinburgh area and want to see
Yoda, a Jawa and a surprisingly large Ewok, go and have look.

BSC cleaned out all players from club rosters that have been inactive for more than 90 days. This affects a large number of people that were on the EH roster :) So just a note, if you have been inactive on BSC for more than 90 days, you will have to sign up for the EH again. Your BSC profile will still exist, however.

Activity on BSC does not necessarily have to be participating in a game. You can also edit your profile information or post a message on one of the BSC message boards to reset the inactivity counter.

One more thing to note... Your player name on BSC should just be your callsign. Don't use your whole ID line, and don't put in the prefix EH_ yourself (BSC will do that for you). So, if EH_SomeGuy signs up, he'll use the name SomeGuy, not EH_SomeGuy or LT SomeGuy, etc, both of which I have seen :) You can always change that by logging in and editing your BSC profile.

The banner approval/denial scripts now work properly, so your banners can now be approved (assuming they meet proper standards, of course).

Membership: 112 active, 136 total

1) The Platoon League site is to be updated shortly, reflecting revised rules and incorporating points for even more HF activities.

2) The Dark Legionnaire, our newsletter, is going to be out sometime late next week. ACD Astix spent many hours so far. Astix and Aglen are also updating the Field Manual. The Bank manual should be nearly done as well.

3) Our elite unit, the Prefect's Royal Guard, has undergone some tweaking. The bar was set in the sky and has been lowered. Also the membership cap has been lifted. The PRG still remains a high-activity unit.

4) Operation: One Shot, One Kill is continuing, sceduled to end May 1st. Its website is at
http://home.attbi.com/~prestige/oneshot/index.htm

5) Awards and rules for the new HF RPG activity have gotten some ironing and all RPG activity now counts toward standing in the Platoon League. HF PRG covers three categories of play: HF Freestyle, D6 system, and D20 system. Previously, only HF Freestyle counted toward Platoon League points. The Commander, Personnel is talking with Fringe SGCOM Gryffon about an HF RPG - Fringe future.


Prefect of the Legion
Field Marshal Ares

I will be on leave as of tomorrow (23rd March) until the 8th April. My Command Attaché, RA Keldorn shall be dealing with ALL Security Office related matters. ISB will be dealt with by him, as well as all case assignments and while I am away he speaks with my full authority. Please see to it that he gets the respect you would give me.

The COO will be out of town from March 22 to April 1. During this time, any COO related matters should be addressed to COOA Kyle Katarn, but also sent to COO Khadgar so that he can read them upon his return.

Lucas Art's Jedi Knight II Collector's Tin is sold out. The Collector's Tin contained the trilogy including Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, and Jedi Knight II for ten dollars (US) more than Jedi Knight II alone. Yes, I missed out on it too.

Membership: 111 active, 134 total

1) Reports have been sparce due to a bludgeoning school term, but now that's over. Despite my 'coasting' along in club matters over the past several weeks, the Hammer's Fist has maintained morale and activity, and some innovations that have been in the works have started to appear.

2) The Hammer's Fist is dipping its toe into roleplaying waters. Long the province of the Bounty Hunters Guild and the Fringe, Commander Personnel Vradin has undertaken the building and running of a Hammer's Fist roleplaying unit. We have spoken with Fringe SGCOM Gryffon and the Fringe may even help us with it. Our roleplaying efforts are mission-based and do not tread too deeply into Fringe territory.

3) Dark Legionnaire...it has been months since an issue was put together. Finally a new issue is being assembled by ACD Astix. This is something that many have been crying for.

4) The Commander, Development Office is vacant. The CD office also doubles as my XO, so this is an important post to be filled. However, I am not taking applications for it until at least next week while I gather my school-scattered wits and catch up on personal HF- and DIR-related projects that have been languoring. The CD's assistant, Astix, will remain at his post.

5) The Commander, Design Office has been a tornado of activity. CDe Mordred has pumped out prototype renderings of new combat uniforms for snow-, scout, and aqua-troopers. After supplying him with the position and rank textures, he will begin rendering of the proper uniforms. Some images are at:
http://darthmordred.digitalrice.com/BikerSLPFC-SPL.jpg
http://darthmordred.digitalrice.com/snow-sl-pfc-spl.jpg

Also, Mordred is putting pictures to all the HF store (not to be confused with the HF Gear online store) items that members can buy with their pay.

6) Could there be any more to talk about? Yes! Commander, Operations Lander has begun the nascent Jedi Knight ladder this week. It is a pretty simple affair right now, with members sending in the results of matches. Also, the Platoon League is likely to get some tweaking, but its first run was a success and generated a lot of submissions (also eligible for inclusion in the Dark Legionnaire).

Also pertaining to the CO office, seven (7) SWGB scenarios are available, and Operation Darkscreen development continues apace.

Prefect of the Legion
Field Marshal Ares

I've made some minor code updates, mostly changing all the TC.org URL references in generated emails to the emperorshammer.net domain. Also, the redirection functionality for stuff like PINs (ie. PIN.domain.com) have been changed to emperorshammer.net. If you encounter any errors or problems, let me know.

Thats right, theres a new IWATS course to take, IWATS XML. Do the Course today at http://www.imperialacademy.org/xml/!

Congratulations to IO/AD Ari, who today turns 16! w00t!

Congratulations to the following people on their recent Flag appointments:

Colonel Arso Slyth - new Wing XI WC
Rear Admiral Azazel - new Grey Wolf Commodore
Lieutenant Colonel Wes Janson - new Wing XIII WC

Also congratulations go out to the Vanguard Commodore, Rear Admiral Bevel Leeson, who has been promoted to the rank of Vice Admiral.

Since things are a bit slow and I wanted to see if the survey feature actually still worked. :P It's about my performance as XO so far, so login and vote.

The online pilot viewer for BSFs is still out of service, thus high scores will not be processed until this is repaired... please be patient... And I'm on leave for those who don't read reports, news headers etc.

Today, XvT Week of War started. Pilots will have until next Friday to fly matches on the Zone against other clubs to win LoCs. Last time around, a lot of matches were played, and many awards were distributed. I hope to see many pilots come out and help the EH to once again rank amongst the top ten clubs participating. As an added incentive to participate, I intend to keep my predecessor's Iron Star rewards system for WoW Comeptitions:

The system depends on how many players are ranked from the EH. To be ranked, you must have flown at least ten matches.

If 1-4 EH pilots are ranked, the top EH pilot gets an IS-BW.
If 5-9 EH pilots are ranked, the top EH pilot gets an IS-SW, second place IS-BW.
If 10+ EH pilots are ranked, the top EH pilot gets an IS-GW, second place IS-SW, third place IS-BW.

Similar rewards will be given out to XWA WoW winners. The Competition details and URL can be found on the Combat Calendar at http://www.emperorshammer.net/combat/event.asp?record=1648. Like usual, you will be required to be registered with Battlestats. If you have any questions about Battlestats or anything about WoWs in general, please feel free to contact me at khadgar1@shaw.ca.

As you may have seen on the EH News page, the Fleet Commander has selected a new Combat Operations Officer. Many congratulations to Vice Admiral Khadgar!

Note: For the time-being, please do not apply for the position of Grey Wolf Commodore

The error message "Could not allocate space for
object 'tc_IPActivityTracking' in database emperorshammerdb' because the 'PRIMARY' filegroup is full" has been resolved and most parts of the domain should be working again.

I'm very pleased to be able to announce that with the Fleet Commmander's approval, Battlegroup Commanders Vice Admiral Mell and Vice Admiral Jeff 'Tiger' Loruss, have both been promoted to the rank of full Admiral! Both of these Officers are without doubt amongst the hardest working in the EH, and these promotions are extremely deserved. Congrats guys! :)

I'll take a leave until March 31st, my Command Attaché Vice Admiral Marcin Szydlowski will be in charge of the office in the meantime. Email both of us for any TAC-related stuff. I will be around though, taking care of BSFs but not on a daily basis. Right now I can't process them due to some remaining bugs with the database move. See you later...

At the end of last week, Vice Admiral Toran Dan announced his resignation as Commodore of the ISD Immortal, and transferred to the Reserves. Toran was not only an excellent COM, but a respected member of the Fleet, and his presence will be missed. In recognition of the tireless support he gave his Ship and Battlegroup, he has been awarded with the Gold Star of the Empire.

Without wasting any time, a new COM has already been selected. Many congratulations go out to the now former Immortal WC, Rear Admiral Darksaber!

The following Sovereign Wing Commanders have been promoted for their hard work over the course of the past several months:

Lieutenant Colonel Jahan Kalar, Wing III WC - promoted to Colonel
Colonel Reaper, Wing IV WC - promoted to General
Colonel Sickman, Wing V WC - promoted to General

Congrats! :)

My email address alduin@jps.net is back in business.

Following the removal of the previous Wing Commander, VA Proton has selected a new WC for Wing VI. Congratulations go out to Colonel Gen Es'mith!

The new Star Wars Episode II Trailer called "Clone War" airs March 10 on FOX and starwars.com between original episodes of "Malcolm in the Middle" (8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT) and "The X-Files" (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT).

The trailer will also begin playing in cinemas on March 15, exclusively with the animated feature Ice Age, and other films thereafter.

In a competition using TIE-FCHG Battle 3, COL Reaper's pilots bested the Wing V bunch led by COL SickMan. LC Halcyon of Teth and MAJ Yoman of Mem were the individual top pilots for their respective wings. Congratulations to Wing IV and the medal winners! Oh, one more thing: Because his wing lost, CM Murkrow Defender had to give up his infamous prank monkey. Wing IV promptly barbecued the pest and enjoyed the fixin's as a cantina snack.

The web server software that this site runs on usually gives very detailed error messages as to what the problem is relating to an error. However, by default, Internet Explorer suppresses these detailed reports, instead displaying a generic "Error 500" message. In IE 6, to turn on these detailed messages, go to Tools>Internet Options. Then select the Advanced tab. Under the Browsing heading is an item called "Show friendly HTTP error messages". You want that unchecked if you want the detailed error reports to come up.

The tiecorps.org domain and contents have been moved over to emperorshammer.net. Please update your bookmarks. Report any errors you encounter to SA Astatine and SA Kawolski

(People with tiecorps.org e-mail addresses: your accounts have NOT changed. You address is still yourname@tiecorps.org.)

My computer has died. Totally. So I haven't been able to check mail for a few days and I don't know when I can fix my PC. Some sort of video problem (won't boot if I use anything but generic drivers). Send any mail for me to alduin@yahoo.com for the time being.

PRF/FM Ares

Congratulations go today to Fleet Admiral Priyum Patel who has been awarded the highest medal of the Emperor's Hammer, the Medal of Honor, for his great work as Flight Officer ! Go Pri ;-)

Major Talek Pter Dei has been selected as the new Wing Commander for Wing XVIII on the SSD Avenger. Congrats Talek!

A second trailer for Jedi Knight 2 has been released and this one is pretty good. Twice the length of the one on the Lucasarts site, it gives a very nice indication of the scale of the levels we can expect, the gameplay and what multiplayer will look like. The good thing is it doesn't seem to play like a Quake 3 mod. You can get it at http://files.ausgamers.com/?agn=details&id=1621. The trailer is 14.6megs and a zipped AVI file, using the Divx codec.

In an effort to get some multiplatform combat going, LT Akira Vorsahyer has put together a small website containing links to Star Wars mods for games running on Windows, Mac, and even a few on Linux. The site can be found at http://homepage.mac.com/richpizor/xplat/

The February XVT WoW has ended with the EH finishing in 8th Place out of 40 Clubs. The top performing units from the Tie Corps were:
1. Avenger Squadron 5,522,282 Points
2. Tau 1,500,314 Points
3. Wing XX 1,034,432 Points

The individual top performers were:
1. CM BlackHero 103 Wins
2. SL Heinrich Margul 14 Wins
3. GN Kaerner 13 Wins
3. MAJ Sarin 13 Wins

Congrats to all those who participated and did a great job representing the Tie Corps.

The Fleet Medical Corps is now taking again applications. Much has changed and you are encouraged to browse http://www.medcorps.de to have a glance at what's now symbolized by the three letters "FMC". All new applicants are welcome!

Just had to let you all know--Aspyr's newsletter has released more information on the upcoming Mac version of Battlegrounds, including tentative system requirements.

(Skipping all the boring junk....) Preliminary Minimum System Requirements (These may change before the game's release):

• Mac OS 8.6, Mac OS X 10.1
• CarbonLib 1.4 or higher
• 64 MB built-in memory
• stock G3 or G4 of 333 MHz or greater
• 4x CD-ROM compatible drive

The Adavanced Gaurd Banner comp is now officially open. The comp will be running from 3/04/02 to 3/18/02. All submissions must be in tasteful size, and should be sent to jacobvannowak@aol.com Awards will be:
IS-GR- First place
IS-SR- Second Place
IS-BR- Third Place

This comp. is open to the whole fleet, so have fun 8-)

Prelude to Andevia's closing date has been extended by one week, to 14th March 2002. The competition really needs entries in the fiction, design and other category sections. Most of the fiction events have been updated so you can now work in teams on them if you so wish. Also, some rules have been updated, so be sure to check the competition's site for details on this. Tip on fiction stuff - one of your main goals with your fiction is to give some sort of explanation for what's happened on Andevia. So, for example, when doing an alien species entry, it'd be a good idea to include some sort of characteristic that would result in the events so far.

The competition website is http://www.imperialacademy.org/comps/prelude/.

Membership: 101 active, 159 total

1) Active number back into triple digits. Next AWOL check will probably put us back below 100, but it seems to me each time we clean house, the number doesn't dip so low as the last time.

2) CO Lander has been making a SWGB campaign for us. This is mostly an exercise in familiarizing himself with scenario-making for the upcoming Op: Darkscreen, which will heavily feature SW:Galactic Battlegrounds.

3) The Dark Legionnaire may be hitting critical mass soon. Submissions keep coming in to the CD Office. The Dark Legionnaire is our newsletter that has lain dormant for months.

4) There are two new assistants on the General Staff. ACP/LT Sarreti and ACI/LT Etras Aglen.

5) My brain is still being divided among too many things. Some hope for future sanity: the school term has 2 weeks left in it! Then maybe I can get some completed work out to my General Staff (sorry Zsinj, MOrdred).

6) Switching hats for a moment, I am very excited to be working on a project for the EHDIR that would bring back a game much-loved by veteran members. "EHD Diplomacy" was a game full of potential to be Great, but fell far short in its realization. Now it is being revised and rethought. The earlier incarnations were cumbersome, but this time around, the game will make use of databases and a web appliceation to automate and speed the game.

This is the first web application and only the second database project I have done, but with the help I am receiving from the EHDIR, I am confident this will be something that subgroup can be proud of.

Prefect of the Legion
Field Marshal Ares

Platoon League final scores:

http://www.users.myisp.co.uk/~mclander/pl/