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Welcome to my twenty-fourth public report as a Science Officer, pretty late... (Don't let vials with infectious diseases lying about open in your lab :P) ...let's get to the news:

Science Office News:

1. Project Shield is finished! (Yay! *does a happy dance*) This most boring TAC Project I took over is still classified, but we're making final preparations so it can in principle be released this weekend, or week. Final preparations included bug fixing and testing by AD Darkhill and myself but after we're completely done with that the next step really is up to the TAC and XO so hopefully it will basically be off our hands then.
2. The Directorate part of the Order of Battle has been updated to show the names of the up to now unnamed ships of the Directorate. I also changed the layout of the Directorate slightly and corrected some bugs.
3. The Infiltrator Wing part of the Order of Battle has been updated following the changes made to the IW roster. All active Squadrons are now in Wing I on the MC90 Renegade and all the links to the rosters have been updated as well. Still to come is a change to the setup of Vulture and Scorpion Squadron and to the craft types of Panther Squadron, which will be getting K-Wings.
4. The Fleet Manual has been updated to make it more fitting to the rest of the site. This is just a temporary update until such time we get an actual database version of it.

Science Office Status:

CA:SCO: Admiral Darkhill has been debugging and updating parts of the Uber Project now that we've finished Shield.

SCOA: CM Tim continued work on his Imperial Hangar for XWA and updated the OoB structure on the IW site.

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. Updates have been made to the Fleet Manual and the Order of Battle.

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. On hold for the Grand Project, though I might just release a few craft for TIE and XvT this week while we wait.

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) has been completed (Yay!). It should be released about this week or even weekend.

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.

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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!