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Welcome to my twenty-third public report as a Science Officer, once again on time... (OMG!) ...let's get to the news:

Science Office News:

1. After I finish this report I'll be going on my first holiday in years (to Turkey) for about a week, which means I'll be on leave (though probably back in time to send out my next report on time:). During my absence AD Darkhill will be taking care of matters; he can do anything I can (and more) so don't worry.
2. Project Shield (a TAC Project) will continue after I return, as I wasn't able to finish it in time. All XWA, XvT, BoP and all TIE that isn't "free" or "TC" is done; XW is not included in the project. Release is partially still on hold because of AD Darkhill's hardware problems but shouldn't be too far away.
3. As a reminder I'd like to point out that "missions" are for TAC and "patches" for SCO. This means that if you have made new maps for JK, JK2, SWGB and such, these go to TAC; whereas JK2 skins, new models, SWGB graphics and such are for me. Or: were not just here for the XW games, but we are dependant of what is submitted to us. Major Gidda has already submitted a JK2 skin for his clan, which should be released soon to the patch archive.
4. I've started work on changing the other rooms of XWA as well, but these need to be modelled (to make the animations) so that will take somewhat longer. Don't worry: I aim on making the game fully imperial :)

Science Office Status:

CA:SCO: Admiral Darkhill is still suffering hardware problems but should be back up to his usual self soon. He is able to be online (irc) daily and has email, but has problems getting his slicing software to run.

SCOA: CM Tim continued work on his Imperial Hangar for XWA and did some texturing on Project Cueball.

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. No major updates this week.

Science Office Projects:

Segway: We've put some new life into this project by finally releasing the Imperial Concourse. More imperial updates to XWA should be around shortly.

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. On hold for the Grand Project.

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, first part of the TIE section is ready - and will be continued in a week.

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!