Patriot Battle Fleet Mail

Location: Aboard the Shuttle -Teke's Hand- leaving the -Rebel Vengeance-
Status: Green
Relative Ship Time: 0835
Coruscant Standard Time: 1335

Spokes cleared the launch bay and extended the foils of the Lambda Class Shuttle. The "Teke's Hand" was not his favorite craft to fly, but was much more
comfortable than his X-Wing. The shuttle was also the only solid reminder of his time with Stealth Squadron. Spokes was not, at that moment, doing any reminiscing
about past battles. The most recent one was too fresh and he hated losing. He had argued with Slyder until the bottle was empty, but it had been a waste of time
and good liquour. Squelch kept tweedling and beeping but Spokes ignored his input until they made the jump into hyperspace. Then, he turned and stated "I just
don't see how this is a good idea."

Squelch let out a moan and then let out a long string of beeps and whistles that pretty much echoed Slyder's rationale.

"Gah, not you too." Spokes turned his chair away from the droid and checked the shuttle's status. "Stealing a Cap ship is never easy. Stealing three at the same
time will be hard. Maybe too hard... And, then we are just handing them over to the White Guard as a present!?! That's nuts."

Squelched started a response...

"Can it or float home." Spokes had his orders and would transmit them to the Fleet, but that little voice in the back of his head was screaming that something was
not quite right. Spokes wished again that the voice would scream some details because that's what Slyder had asked for. *Give me something specific that I can
pass on to the Diplomats, are else we proceed.* Politicians. The only thing that Spokes hated worse than Intelligence Officers...

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News:

1) Potential MOD for X-Wing
There has been an extended discussion among the PBF COs about the possibility of creating a MOD or Patch for X-Wing to allow different ships (both starfighters
and Cap Ships and/or Platforms). The PBF CS has authorized Argon Viper and Joseph Oberlander to head up a group to determine whether this can be done for
all gaming platforms. If you are interested in working on this project or have the programming skills to help decide whether a MOD or Patch is doable, please
contact Argon and Joseph directly.

2) Survey of OS & Hardware
There is also an "unofficial" Survey being circulated to determine exactly what people are using for gaming. You are not required to participate in this Survey, but the
Team working on The MOD/Patch would like to have this info. It can also be used, potentially, to help people upgrade their equipment or OS if they want. Send
your info directly to your Squadron CO.

3) Elite Squadron
Gavin Phalon is the CO of the unit and has chosen Dan Rezmann as his XO. The way this works basically is: Over the course of 404-406, the top 12 spots on each
mission will be analized. Those pilots will be awarded points based on criteria set forth by Gavin, including rank in the mission (place) and so on. At the end of that
time, the top 12 pilots from that unit will be selected to be a part of this aces group. It will act as a squadron, but not be a true squadron in the PBF roster. Those
12 pilots will be expected to fly every mission for the PBF AND any mission the aces group flies. This is about being the best in the fleet, and showing us you are.
Failure to complete any of your goals will result in removal from the unit. Then, over the course of the next three missions (months) the top 12 in the PBF will be
re-evaluated. Any members in the elite squad are welcome to continue their stay, but they must re-qualify after every 3 missions.

-----PBF 404 Mission Standings-----

Top Pilot: LCM Licah Fox             53       88,837
Top Squad: FireClaw Squadron 368      612,412 8 MRs
Top Wing: Hope Wing                   758 1,245,185 19 MRs

-----PBF Medal of Victory-----

The medal awarded for the best overal performance in the current PBF TOD mission.

[<|=(V)=|>]

Lt. Commander Licah Fox, you have the privilage of receiving this medal for 404.

-----PBF Mission Report Medal-----

[<|=(PBF*MRM)=|>]

The medal awarded for the best written narratives for the current PBF mission.

Indiana Bridger & Tyrin Drax/Mike Bullian and Sentry, you may add this to your uniform :)

-----PBF Activity Medal-----

Given to each member of a squad that reported with 75% of it's pilots for the current mission.

{[-PBFA404-]}

Gold

Bonus merit for squads flying or sending in a non-flying MR at 100%:
None at this time

-----PBF "Beyond Belief" Ribbon-----

Awarded only to those Pilots who actually Follow Orders:

||[BB--;)

LCM Ben Haun -- Crimson Squadron
Capt. Jae-Keito Gra -- Phoenix Squadron
Col. Misko Markot -- Red Squadron

These Pilots flew PBF 404 without firing a shot! You may each add this to your uniform:

-----PBF Mission Info-----

The current Patriot Battle Fleet mission is:

PBF 405

The deadline for the current mission is:

Sunday July 28th 11:59 pm EDT

You can download the current mission at:

http://www.rebelsquadrons.org/pbf/missions.php

Send reports with pilot files attached to:

pbfreports@yahoogroups.com

Plus your own squadron CO and/or squadron egroup.

The rules for flying the mission are:

1) You may run this mission as many times as you like but you MUST
get the MISSION COMPLETE message and have a valid *.plt file in order
to be eligible for the PBF Medal of victory. In addition, any score
not accompanied by a pilot file for verification will NOT be counted
by the PBF Command Staff.

2) Run the mission as "defect.xwi" ( this will place it as X-Wing
X-Wing TOD 1 Mission 1 ) so that your stats will be recorded in your
*.plt file.

3) Make a new pilot file to run the mission. If you fail the mission
and wish to run it again make sure to use a new pilot file instead of
re-running it with the same pilot. Any pilot file found to be
"unclean" will result in the score NOT being counted by the PBF
Command Staff.

4) Destroying "Friendly" craft to pad ones stats is strictly
prohibited. *.plt files containing "Rebel" craft kills will be
considered invalid.

5) You should also include a written report with your score laser/ion
shots and hits, missile shots and hits and kill totals in the email.

6) Pilot files will be manually calculated using the Official PBF
Standard scoring chart for X-wing. Anyone interested in obtaining a
copy of this chart, can email me to do so.

7) No individual scores will be changed after the deadline! If a
report is submitted that is never received at the report address
given above, it will not be added after the deadline. Neither will
the PBF CO accept a late pilot file. The only thing that can be
changed afterwards are errors made by the Command Staff.

8) There is a Fleet Wide competition based on this tour. Every pilot
who sends in a valid report will receive 1 merit point. The pilot
with the best overall score for the mission will be awarded a special
PBF Top Gun medal, along with receiving a 5 point bonus in the PBF
Merit System. In addition participating members from the squadron
with the best overall combined score will receive 5 bonus merit
points in addition to "Top Squadron" bragging rights. Also, the pilot
with the top score for each squadron (excluding the winning squadron,
and Top Gun) will receive 3 bonus PBF merit points. The reporting
members of the Squadrons on 2nd and 3rd places will get 2 bonus PBF
merit points.

*Note* In the even that the Top Pilot for the mission also happens to
be in the Top Squadron he may only receive the 5 bonus Credits for
one or the other. Same thing applies to each squadron Top Pilot and
2nd and 3rd place squadrons.

9) Mail problems including undelivered mail and corrupted *.plt files
are not the responsibility of the PBF command staff. If your *.plt file
becomes corrupted and you do not include a written accounting,
then your score will be counted as "0".

10) If a pilot retires from the PBF at any time during the course of
an active mission after having submitted a report, his report will no
longer count for his former squadron. He will still receive credit
for running the mission, but will be listed as "Inactive".

11) If a pilot transfers from one PBF squadron to another (such as
attaining a squadron CO position) during the course of an active
mission after having submitted a report, his report will will now
count towards the newfound squadron.

12) Flying/Incentives
After a unanimous decision by the PBF Command group (all COs and XOs at every level) I have decided to implement an incentives program. This was prompted
by the overwhelming number (percentage wise) of reports on 312. The new incentives are as follows:

A) For every squad that reports at 75%, a ribbon will be awarded for that mission. This ribbon will be a small graphic that can be added to pilot uniforms. I haven't
created it yet...but I will be talking to those I need to shortly.

B) For every squad that reports at 100%, the same mission ribbon will be offered, as well as an additional merit point for the mission (not counting top ace, or squad
merits.)

You may ask, "What is required for the reporting.

1) A valid mission file and physical report (same as normal)
2) We know some people can't report in some instances. This will not be held against squads. If it comes to pass that you could not report for any reason, such as
computer issues, you were gone...A properly written narrative will suffice for the flying report. This does not cover, "Oh, I forgot to fly" Or, "I didn't want to fly."
These narratives are for the use of people who cannot fly the mission, and need another method of counting a report.

Guidelines for narratives:
The narrative needs to be more then "I got in my ship, launched, flew around, shot this and this up, went home and drank beers." A quality written narrative (Under
the discretion of PBF command staff looking at reports) needs to consist of some bulk. It can be, however, a report of anything. Since by using this method of
reporting, you weren't able to fly for whatever reason, the narrative DOES NOT have to be about the mission directly. You could write a substantial narrative about
since your hip was damaged, you stuck back to make repairs to join the second wave. Or, since you couldn't fly, you volunteered to join the rescue shuttle to help an
EVA pilot. What you write about is up to you. However, we have command people watching these reports, and they need to be involved, decent reports, or they
will not be counted to the squad total.

Also note: If a squad is at say 10 pilots....the 75% rule would apply to 7 pilots minimum...the 12 pilots per squadron will have no effect. The 75% and 100%
requirements will be based off of the current squad roster...for those that were curious about that.

-----PBF Information-----

1) IRC---

I'd like to invite all pilots, new and old, to take part in whatever
activities they have running in the Rebel Squadron's Bar and Grill,
on the Undernet IRC network; #RS_Bar_and_Grill is the name of the
channel. The Patriot Battle Fleet has it's own channel as well, #PBF.
I spend a lot of time on these channels, and it's a good way to
contact me if you have problems. It's also a good way to meet new
people and gather information about the RS. Make sure you're
connected to an Undernet server, and if you have trouble connecting
to the Undernet, visit the Undernet homepage at:

http://www.undernet.org

To download an IRC program for Windows PCs, and also learn a lot about
how IRC works, visit the homepage of the program mIRC at:

http://www.mirc.co.uk

To download an IRC program for macintosh, visit the ircle homepage at:

http://www.ircle.com

2) Masters of Combat Tactics---
Do you think you're the best? If so, then ComTac might be for you!
ComTac is a set of missions that you can run to increase your ability
level and gain fame! You can download the ComTac missions at:

http://www.rebelsquadrons.org/academy/postgrad/xwcomtac/

3) Operation Lanvarok---
For anyone who wants to fly a bit more than you are now, there's a
group for you. It's called Operation Lanvarok. This group flies the
Academy missions weekly in a storyline. If you're interested in
joining, contact Gabrich Varmer at: varmer@gmx.net

4) X-Wing Mission Building Academy---
If you would like to learn how to build missions for the game this
fleet is based on, join the X-wing Mission Building Academy You can
find more information at:

http://www.rebelsquadrons.org/academy/mba/

MGN Tyrell "Spokes" Borran

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