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Welcome to my twenty-first public report as a Science Officer, on time... (oh yes baby, I'm on a roll!) ...so let's get to the news:

Science Office News:

1. Project Shield, a TAC project, has continued. Currently all the XWA, XvT and BoP missions/battles have been done. TIE is waiting for some additional changes. As this project is currently classified, I can not elaborate on it much more then this.
2. After discussion with the FC, XO, FO, GM and SHW I have changed the Order of Battle to display the Dark Brotherhood, something which it didn't before. Each of the clans is now displayed as based on three frigates, one for each house, with the Sith Squadrons displayed next to them. Noted should be that the ATF ships have always carried the DB and that before it was actually the DB fleet until the former GM passed the fleet command over them over to the TC. As such nothing structural has actually changed; this change was mostly due to the lack of DB references on the OoB before and for storyline/mission creation purposes. It also displays the close relation between the DB and ATF more correctly.
3. In the short break before Project Shield continues and we launch the new Patch Manager I've decided to release the Hyperion Fighter as a patch for TIE95 and XvT. The Hyperion Fighter was named after Hyperion Flight in honour of them winning the Sith Wars, now almost two years ago. The Hyperion Fighter is a fast and manoeuvrable light interceptor craft with two ions and two lasers. Its small profile makes it hard to hit while the weapon placement ensures good accuracy. The Hyperion Fighter was approved and modelled by then SCO/AD Den Darkhill and textured by myself. A picture of the ship has been attached to SCO report #8.
4. As a reminder I'd like to note that the only person in the Fleet that has the authority to commission and approve ships and craft types is the Fleet Commander, GA Ronin, and that any ships that lack this approval do not "exist" for EH purposes and as such do not appear on the Order of Battle. Because the FC is a busy man he has instated the Science Office to take care of ship matters, but even then he has final approval. (This generally also requires approval from the SGCOMs in question, the XO and the SCO.) Furthermore, all ships and fighters are and remain property of the EH - represented in the person of the Fleet Commander - which allows the _use_ of these craft by the various units and offices.

Science Office Status:

CA:SCO: Admiral Darkhill has been moving house, in which his hard disc was damaged. Luckily he has been able to retrieve all his EH material and will be back in full sway as soon as the rest of his PC is replaced/fixed.

SCOA: CM Tim has been working hard on getting the IW site back in action, but found time to play with Project Cueball as well.

Site: The Science Office site can be found at http://sco.minos.net or via the redirect http://scienceoffice.isCool.net. The mirror can be found at http://www.gimmie.tudelft.nl/homes/blok10b/ender/sco. The staff page, the patch archive, reports archive, projects page and Order of Battle have been updated.

Science Office Projects:

XvT/BoP/TIE95 Ship patches: This project's goal is to add all the original and Order of Battle craft that are still "missing" from these games, like the SSD in TIE and XvT, the Medium Transport in all etc. This week saw the release of the Hyperion Fighter.

Grand Project: The EH Patch Manager Project is going along smoothly - expect it to be released by the end of the summer. Currently on hold until Den's PC is completely fixed (compiler won't run as well on his back-up PC).

Project Shield: (TAC Project) XWA, XvT and BoP sections have been completed, frst part of the TIE section has been prepared - but is waiting for some additional software.

Finishing up:

I think that's it - If I've forgotten anything or if you have comments, suggestions or corrections, let me know via email or look us up at #sco. Don't forget that all the projects are described in more detail on the SCO site.

(use only mindb_ender@hotmail.com for official SCO mails.) or ICQ (9706474). Preferably do not mail large files to me, but DCC them via IRC – I’m practically always online at #sco, #emperor’s_hammer and #tiecorps using the nick MindB_ndr (or variations.)
 
All my SCO reports are available online as well: you can reach them on the SCO site: http://www.minos.net/~sco/reports/index.html but they are on the TIE Corps site, CS reports, as well.

Until next time, good luck and have fun!