Yes, that's right, the ASF and Sov forces have met in passing, and tonight at 1800 Eastern, a Sov CRV will attempt to fight off an entire ASF ISD BattleGroup.

Can be found at http://battlecry.tiecorps.net/ Includes:

• Feature on Star Wars: Total Annihiliation conversion
• Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones review, plus a list of hidden secrets in the film
• Reviews of Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (PC) and Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader (GameCube)
• All the current facts and rumours about what will be in Episode III
• Loads of quality fiction and graphics submissions from EH members
• ...and plenty more!

The PL standings for May are finally up! Cherin is working on the July PL so if you look at the rate I've been working at you'll prolly be seeing those standings before I finish the June ones. :P

The EH Holonet Awards are a sort of webdesign "Oscars" and the TIE Corps as a whole did quite well out of it. Below is a summary of how we did:

• Best Overall site - 1st place to the TIE Corps site
• Best TIE Corps site - 1st went to the Tau squadron site, 2nd to the ISD Intrepid site and 3rd to Flight II of Ranger squadron's site
• Best Office site - 2nd went to the Training Office (yah me :P) and 3rd to the COO site
• Best Animation (Flash) - 1st was taken by the Prelude to Andevia trailer, 2nd by the Mem Squadron intro
• Best Still Scene Graphic - equal 2nd were LT Titus' EH banner and VSDs in low orbit
• Best use of ASP - 2nd place went to the TO site
• Best Content - Copperhead Flight 3 took 1st place for this

The full results are available at http://www.rawx.net/~io/ehha/results.php.

Congrats to newly promoted Vice Admiral Azazel Do'jarr! He has definately earned this promotion through his hard work in all of his duties.

They will be announced during the next EH Meeting on #Emperor's_Hammer.... be there !

Move your mouse to the right a bit, and click. The latest FO Report has some important information on Squadron Commanders, and a graduate list for SM/3.

PROFESSORS NEEDED!

That's right! currently we have vacancies for the following positions:

ICQ Professor
GFX Professor
ASP Professor

If you are interested in applying for any of these positions, send an application email to myself (mell@tiecorps.org) Please list 3 references (1 to be a current superior)

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NEW COURSES!

You read this right, today launches 2 new courses for you to feast your eyes on, then to pass!
PHP Course: http://php.minos.net
XvT Mission Creation Course #2: http://www27.brinkster.com/marcins/xtm/

We welcome RA Mutilator to the IWATS Staff as Professor of the PHP course. SS awarded to RA Mutilator and VA Marcin Szydlowski for their new courses!
If you have any ideas for new courses feel free to email me.

The Internet Office has released Report #44 which contains information which pertains to every EHer. Please be sure to read it at http://www.ehnet.org/article.php?a=view&id=38. It contains information about the upcoming Project Hawkeye II, PHP upgrades to MinosNIC, the PHP IWATS course, the KLEZ virus epidemic, and the results of the EH Holonet Awards. For a complete list of the EHHA winners, go to http://www.rawx.net/~io/ehha/results.php. Congratulations to the winners and runners-up, a hearty round of applause for all the nominees, and many thanks to the voters themselves!

I will be back on monday, your BSFs will not be processed until then. My Command Attaché should be able to deal with any urgent matter.

Crystaltech has informed me that maintenance will be performed on the database server we use on June 26th, between midnight and 3AM. It's most likely the site won't work during that period.

That's right. I am looking for 2-3 testers and 4-5 engineers.

Requirements for testers:

• have XvT/BoP and very good piloting skills
• ability to test battles on Hard without problems
• fast email response time
• ability to test at least one battle per week

Requirements for engineers:

• have XvT/BoP
• XTM course passed
• at least one mission/battle created
• ability to test his own corrections
• fast email response time
• good XvTED knowledge and mission design skills

Email your applications to VA Marcin Szydlowski (pbmike@go2.pl) with title: "I want to be tester (engineer)". Shortly describe your skills, and why do you want to join our office. Good awards for hard working people.

Following resignation of TCC:TIE, I herby open this position for applications:

Requirements:
1. have TIE95 and TIE Mission Design Course passed
2. be familiar with Tactical Database and Tactical Office procedures
3. have mission design skills and ability to lead team of testers and engineers
4. no HCI convictions
5. short email responce time
6. ability to work under high pressure
7. high online (IRC) presence (prefered)
8. member of Tactical Office (prefered)

Email applications to CA:TAC VA Marcin Szydlowski (pbmike@go2.pl) and TAC FA Striker (striker@tiecorps.org). We require hard working people, but we can gruarantee good awards. Title your mail: "TCC:TIE, yeah, that will be me" and describe your career, former position and how (why) do you want to improve this office.

Tactical Office needs few additional testers and engineers for TIE platform

Requirements for testers:

• have TIE95 and good piloting skills
• ability to test battles on assigned level without problems
• fast email response
• ability to test at least one battle per week

Requirements for engineers:

• have TIE95
• TM course passed
• at least one mission/battle created
• ability to test his own corrections
• fast email response
• good TFW knowledge and mission design skills

Email your applications to VA Marcin Szydlowski (pbmike@go2.pl) with title: "I want to be tester (engineer)". Shortly describe your skills, and why do you want to join our office. Don't forget to state prfered difficulty level. Good awards for hard working people.

Seems to be a busy day for Flags in the TIE Corps. Congratulations to the following on their appointments:

- Rear Admiral Corran Force promoted to ISD Challenge Commodore
- Colonel Stele Pellaeon promoted to Wing Commander of Wing II
- Major Lohr Zadash promoted to Wing Commander of Wing IX.

Also congratulations to Rear Admiral Darksaber and Rear Admiral Krax Tarnisar, both of whom have been promoted to the rank of Vice Admiral for all of their hard work as Commodore.

Tap that keg, pop that cork, hit the cantina and enjoy the results of the Sovereign Cantina Drinking Song Writing Competition! GN Compton of Omega Squadron takes home the Iron Star-Gold Ribbon for his "Sov'reign Drinking Song." Read the lyrics and listen to the tune at http://sov.imperialmight.com/drink.html

Congratulations also go to the IS-SR winner, CM Akira Vorsahyer of Theta Squadron, and the winners sharing third-place honors and receiving IS-BRs, MAJ David/Lamed, MAJ JasonHunter/Sadhe, and LT Efherman/Sadhe. Thanks to all other participants! Good job!

On Wednesday, at 1800 Eastern (2300 GMT), elements of the ASF and ATF fleets will do combat for the rights to the planet at 1111-. All available ATF and ASF pilots (including Tau and Avenger Squadrons respectivly) should show up to #Project_Faithful on Undernet at that time. Only 9 turns left in the game, and the Sov team still has a lead, the winner of this battle should end up in position to challenge the Sov.

The third version of the IWATS Squadron Management Course is now officially out. As I said in my previous reports, this is more of an update rather than a complete rework. This means that there isn't anything significantly new, but there is more information on things like the Fleet Standing Orders, Database procedures and the new CMDR Tour of Duty rule.

The test is not compulsory for present Squadron Commanders but they are highly encouraged to read through the notes. Pilots that were CMDRs in the past and are applying for a CMDR position at some point in the future, do not have to take SM/3, assuming SM/1 or 2 has already been passed.

Please note that the pass mark for the SM/3 test is 80% and copies of transcripts are not kept, unless you mail me beforehand.

Following resignation of TCC:XvT, I herby open this position for applications: Requirements:

• have XvT/BoP and XvT Mission Design Course passed
• be familiar with Tactical Database and Tactical Office procedures
• have mission design skills and ability to lead team of testers and engineers
• no HCI convictions
• short email responce time
• ability to work under high pressure
• high online (IRC) presence (prefered)
• member of Tactical Office (prefered)

Email applications to CA:TAC VA Marcin Szydlowski (pbmike@go2.pl) and TAC FA Striker (striker@tiecorps.org). We require hard working people, but we can gruarantee good awards. Title your mail: "I want to be TCC:XvT" and describe your career, former position and why do you want to improve this office.

In order to reduce the amount of traffic generated by the message boards, I've adjusted the maximum numbers of threads displayed in the list and tree views. Previously the list and tree views had a default limit of 50 and 100. These have now been reduced to 25 and 50 respectively. The benefit of this, of course, is the message lists loading faster for you, as well as freeing up the bandwidth of the site to handle other requests.

The positions of ICQ and Graphics professor are open. The successful application for ICQ should have a high level of practical experience with ICQ, have passed the course and be consistant in marking tests. The successful applicant for Graphics should have experience in a graphics package such as Photoshop, as well as having passed the course and be consistant in marking tests. Graphics applicants must also list the URLs for at least 2 examples of their skill in graphics. Email your applications to jpboyce@indigo.net.au, addressing the criteria and listing 3 references. At least one of the references must be a current superior.

Today I deleted some old hosts still listened in the Comp Calendar. Therefore I now open the application for the Alternate Hosts of the Comps:

• [XWA] [XvT] [JK] [JK2] EuroComp http://www.emperorshammer.net/combat/event.asp?record=2067
• [XWA] [XvT] [JK] [JK2] Greenwich Wolf Comp http://www.emperorshammer.net/combat/event.asp?record=2091

For more infromation pls contact me.All applications go to me COOA/MAJ Kyle Katarn and to COO/VA Khadgar . And add in your Subject Line EuroComp Application or Greenwich Wolf Comp Application.

Go read it, there are plenty of new things in it....

The problems were being caused by older components on the server (either on the server when we originally transferred or when they reinstalled the server during a crash). The components have been upgraded and the functions appear to work now.

The Imperial Storm site has been updated with the latest news, and fleet losses. The game is now in Turn 17 out of 30, and things are really heating up.

After being asked nicely by the FO I have taken on the job of releasing new issues of the TIE Corps Newsletter "Battlecry" (I held out until I was offered a FOA position...yey me!). If you weren't a member over a year ago then you'd need to know that Battlecry used to be a great newsletter in the past and was an excellent showcase of the TIE Corps talent.

Now that it's coming back you now have a chance to show off your own work. While thenewsletter will always contain great features written by the Battlecry staff, the doors are also open to member submissions. We accept: -

Fiction - just a warning, these stories have to stick fairly close to the SW and EH storyline, so no killing off Luke Skywalker or pulling Princess Leia. That reminds me, nothing sexually or violently explicit will be allowed.

Artwork - this could be anything; banners, cool pictures that were used in a website, artwork made for fun, 3D or 2D pictures and animations, etc, etc. Again, nothing sexually and violently explicit will be allowed. File sizes are a problem too, so try and keep it small.

Articles and Interviews - just like the one's in this magazine. Actually, I would prefer if you informed me about what you are doing first, because I don't want several interviews of the same person in one issue.

Jokes - it would be nice to have a little injection of humour in this newsletter. Try and keep the jokes based on Star Wars. I'm not to bothered about the jokes being clean or not, as the dirty ones are usually funnier, but don't go too far! It could be a joke, a funny top ten list, a poem or adjusted song, a chat session, etc.

Send in your submissions to werdna_elbee@hotmail.com. Try to keep the files as small as you can (without losing too much quality). For documents such as fiction and articles, send it to me as a Word Document (.doc), a plain text document (.txt) or even a web page (.html). For graphics, send it either as a .gif or a .jpg. If you can, please ZIP the files using a program like WinZip (http://www.winzip.com) . If you can't do any of those, send it in anyway and I'll see if I can read it.

The high score listing should be working again now.

I've coded a new uniform display script in ASP.net. Apparently, it's supposed to be faster. If your uniform does not display for some reason, email me with your PIN and I'll try to figure out what's wrong with it.

The following people have been appointed to IWATS Professor positions:

• VA Drake - TIE Mission Design
• LT DarkEagle - TIE Tactics
• LC Khameir Sarin - AIM

They will start marking tests immediately. Thanks to everyone else who applied.

The maximum size for uniforms has now been reduced to 40K. Please ensure your uniform is under this size when submitting it.

That's right! You can now vote for the best battles released in year 2001. Log in and go to the TIE Corps Survey Center ! The votes will be closed in two weeks time, there may be a second round for some categories.

Reminder: IS3 battle today, ATF vs. Sov, Noon Eastern time (GMT -5) on Undernet, #project_faithful. Multiple waves of XWA, and TIE for all.

Here are the results of the latest ASF Squadron Competition!

New ASF Flag Ship : ISD Intrepid
New Escort Squadron: Avenger Squadron
New ASF Top ACE: Cm Tvan Oris of Diamondback Squadron

Congrats to all who participated!

Both the Commander, Training and Assistant CT posts are open to applications. Please view the CT entry (under General Staff) and the AX entry (under Other Staff/Officers) in the Field Manual to read the full details on the job requirements and what each entails.

The CT office is a very important one and needs filling. I will be accepting applications for both posts at alduin@yahoo.com through the 13th of the month.

Prefect of the Legion
Field Marshal Ares

Wow, it's only been a couple weeks since the FO posted about this and people are still talking about opening new ships. This is how it works, people. The FO and myself decide when ships are to be opened. Also, do yourself a favour and look at the roster counts for our current ships and wings. Some aren't in great shape. Those will have first priority over any new ships being opened. That's the end of it.

I am still accepting nominations for the Golden Tug Awards until tomorrow night. Review the several categories at http://www.emperorshammer.net/tac/gta.html !

The long awaited battle is at hand, the Sovereign is to take on the Avenger, for control of the planet at 0612-, and possibly the game. The loss of either Sov or Avenger could spell doom, the loss of both may hand the ASF the win. Be there at #project_faithful on undernet, on Friday at Noon Eastern. If you are not sure what to do, ask your immediate superior, or email the WO VA Pel.

Membership: 145 active, 173 total

1) Operation Dark Screen has kicked off. This newest subgroup-wide competition started June 1st. It's site is at:
http://www.users.myisp.co.uk/~mclander/ds/

In brief: the operation puts each participant in charge of a squad of standard stormtroopers. The players must scour a large grid map of a planet to locate goals, and ultimately four communications jammers. Each grid square has multiple activities running the gamut from fiction to custom Star Wars Galactic Battleground scenarios made just for this operation.

2) Finals and the end of the school term is coming up soon. What a time for the operation to start, but perhaps it will give some folks a needed release from work. :)

That may not seem like much for a report, but the operation is something very significant the CO Office has been working towards for months, and we are all very happy it is here!

Prefect of the Legion
Field Marshal Ares

Congratulations to Rear Admiral Shadowhawk who has been promoted to the rank of Vice Admiral for her work as Commodore of the SSD Avenger.

Operation: Dark Screen has begun. IF you haven't already you may still sign up at http://www.users.myisp.co.uk/~mclander/ds

Mission designers are needed to help construct custom battles for the next Dark Brotherhood Vendetta. If you have experience in making high quality battles for TIE Fighter, XvT or X-Wing Alliance, email the Executive Officer. List which platform/platforms you're interested in and, if possible, supporting evidence of your ability. A quick turnaround period is also expected.

It is now Turn 15 out of 30, and the exercise is really moving along. All the remaining teams have multiple planets (as many as six for the Sov team) and have greatly expanded their resources and forces. This rapid expansion has placed many fleet elements in close proximity to one another, and many conflicts are near to happening. Current Standings are below, but in this game it can all change in a single battle.

Sov - 74600
ASF - 44484
ATF - 56770