Sub-Zero Squadron Report #10

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News

Sub-Zero Squadron News

The House vs. House comp has been set up, the missions will be: TIE-DB-11, XvT-DB-4, and XWA-DB-2. This comp will start April 1st. PRT Aragron Strider and PRT Thorn has transferred to our Battle team after joining Tridens. Congrats to Vortoq who has earned a Bronze Scroll as well as taking some of the mission high scores for XWA-DB-1. I’ve only seen a few pilot files for the Tridens comp, the comp ends March 31st so send those pilot files ASAP!

The Specter of the Past has been postponed until all the bugs in the XvT and XWA missions are fixed.

. I want to see this squadron become the best battle team in Tridens. Participate in the Spectre of the Past, bio/history comp, and the Tridens comp.

Sub-Zero Comp & Tridens Comp

Specter of the Past (postponed)

Proconsul Comp TIE-FREE 191, or XWA-FREE 48

Tridens comp Free TIE 194, Free XvT 40, and Free XWA 38

Medals & Elevations

PRT Thorn has joined SZ

Vortoq has earned a Bronze scroll for his participation in the Prelude Run-on.

PRT Aragorn Strider has joined SZ

PRT Loron Blahde has been declared AWOL

Merit Marks.

The new merit system is now in place the details are:

Points are awarded for all types of activity, such as flying, graphics, mission design and fiction:

All pilot files submitted by a pilot will receive a point for each mission completed in the battle. So if you complete a 6-mission battle, then you will receive 6 merit points.

For competitions there will be a set amount of points given to each pilot that participates, along with the points for the number of completed missions, entries, etc. for that competition.

Medals aware awarded after a set number of points has been amassed:

Dark Cross (DC) - 60 Merit points

War Cross (WC) - 150 Merit points

Steel Cross (SC) - 300 Merit points

I have put the merit marks in your activity reports, please contact me if you think they are wrong, theses merit marks are calculated from when I took command of Sub-Zero.

Activity Reports

Merit Marks are based on DB battles submitted to me or Comp non-DB battles since I became CMDR of SZ.

CMDR John Clarkactive on e-mail and did administrative workXWA-DB-2 and TIE-DB-579 merits

PRT Aragorn StriderActive on e-mail0 merits

Sith Flight Leader PelActive on E-mail

6 merits

Sith Flight Member Sickman

Acitve on e-mail XWA-F-38

1 merits

Sith Flight Member ThornActive on e-mail0 merits

Sith Flight Member VortoqActive on e-mail XWA-DB-1 and awarded BZ43 merits

Sith Flight Member VonnegutActive on e-mail0 merits

Dark Viperactive on e-mail42 merits

Spectre of the Past

Out of nowhere, Tarentum's ships are attacked while on a recon mission far from their base. The attackers are supposedly a pirate group, however, there was no Force signature the Sith could detect prior or during the attack. Something powerful blocks out the Force imprints of the attackers.

A few days later, the Tarentum Phyles, guarded by a group of Obelisk, are attacked during an archaeological expedition on a world not far from the Gladius base. The attackers seemed to be after the transport they came with. Not caring who they kill in the process. As with the attackers on the ships, their Force signatures are suppressed. Every killed attacker carries a small golden amulet forming the head of a dragon – artifacts that suppress the Force imprints.

Since the connection is obvious, a search is conducted...

Phase 1 will release Saturday, 23rd for the writers and MP and Friday the 1st for SP, given that DGM Astatine approves the settings.

Co-judge for writings events is KAP Kaiann. SP missions will be checked by our dear SHW.

Get ready! Everyone can do everything, no Order limitations. Kumba, even you can do something :o)

More news at 11...

Arania

Humor

Baby Gates and Microsoft

For the first time in, oh, a decade, I think, something from Microsoft shipped on time: Jennifer Katharine Gates, weighed 8 pounds 6 ounces when she was downloaded, er, born on Friday, April 26 at 6:11pm. And what do Baby Gates and Daddy's products have in common? 1. Neither can stand on its own two feet without a LOT of third party support. 2. Both barf all over themselves regularly. 3. Regardless of the problem, calling Microsoft Tech Support won't help. 4. As they mature, we pray that they will be better than that which preceeded them. 5. At first release they're relatively compact, but they seem to grow and grow and grow with each passing year. 6. Although announced with great fanfare, pretty much anyone could have produced one. 7. They arrive in shaky condition with inadequate documentation. 8. No matter what, it takes several months between the announcement and the actual release. 9. Bill gets the credit but someone else did most of the work. 10. For at least the next year, they'll suck.

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FL/LCM John Clark/Asp 2-1/Wing XIV/ISD Intrepid

PCx2/MoI/IS-1BW/LoCx2/CoB [PLDN] {IWATS-AIM-ASP-CBX-ICQ-IIC/1-M/1/2-TM-TT-XTT}

JH John Clark (Sith)/CMDR/Tridens of Tarentum {SA: CORE}

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