Local time: 1450
On board the ISD Acrimonious

Jeran Zeto looks over a list of ships and fighters he has and makes some final touches on his plan. The PBF has seen part of the fleet. The part that General Kinneer knew. "We'll deal with that traitor later". A knock at the door brings a smile to Jeran's face, "Enter". Walking in, is a member of intel with the latest details on the PBF's locations. "This is all of it?" Jeran asks

"This is the latest intel we have, nothing has changed in some time. Chances are they don't suspect we are watching them." 

"Excellent. Thank you for your work. If any change occurs report to me immediately. "

"Understood Sir." The intel officer salutes and walks out leaving Jeran to his thoughts and plans.
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Local time: 1450
On board the WindStorm

Josh is looking at the latest intel report and has discovered that the folks there don't have any more of a clue than we do out here. "Figures, they're just as clueless as we are." Josh hands the datapad back to a crewman and watches the routine maneuvers of the fighter pilots. "Comm, pass the word along to keep their eyes open and report on anything suspicious before following up on it."

"Aye sir, but communications are difficult right now. We're not getting the best of signals."

Josh turns quickly to the com, "Are we being jammed?" 

"Doesn't appear to be sir, might be some technical glitch. I've got someone working on it now."

"Keep me informed if things get worse. I don't want to be stranded out here without communications." With that thought, Josh shakes his head and goes back watching the fighters.
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Local time: 1600
Bridge of the ISD Acrimonious

Jeran stares out of the windows on the bridge of the ISD Acrimonious going through every detail of this plan. One of the bridge crew breaks Jeran out of his thoughts and informs him that everything is ready. "Commence the attack." The crewman nods and passes the command around to everyone and the operation begins. "They'll never expect what we're about to hit them with."

Jeran turns and addresses the communications officer, "Comm, inform Admiral Tavus that we are ready to begin. Also inform the other task force to begin operations. Soon the PBF will be no more. Once all the reports have been sent, make the calculations and prepare for hyperspace." 

"Understood Sir." The comm officer replies. "Reports sent"

"Navigation reports that the co-ordinates are locked in and read"

"Begin the operation, make the jump now." Jeran command and within seconds the stars become white lines and the Acrimonious enters hyperspace for Yeslain and the part of the RF they call Hope Wing. "This should be enough to take them by surprise" Jeran says to no one in particular and makes his way off the bridge to his office.
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":)

Sorry for the delay in this mission folks, my free time was removed from me by real life. This mission is different from the usual missions, as this time it is from the point of view of the enemy. That's right, now you get to see what it's like dogfighting yourselves. :) We all know computer AI is no replacement for you all, but hopefully this will be a challange. As a note, the Xwing Mission has Probes in it. DO NOT DESTROY THEM!!!!!!! Point mongers. Anyway, you'll be in an Xwing, and for the TIE mission you'll be in a T/A. Special thanks goes to Hermann for creating the TIE Mission. As a side note, the TIE mission has not been coded for difficulty levels, so you all might as well run it on hard and get the difficulty bonus. Oh, and one more thing, I know it's a downright pain in the tail, but please, please please either give us a detailed report of the mission, or preferrably take screenshots. TIE pilot files do NOT save scores when you fail a mission. So without a detailed report/screen shots we have no way of telling your score. Fraps is the easiest thing to take screenshots with. Just alt-tab out of TIE and run it while your at the debriefing screen and then you can take all the screenshots you need with a button. (www.fraps.com)

Merits and Medals will be updated shortly, I wanted to get the mission out first. Top Guns are: Damon Lightwind for the TIE mission and Mike "Macman" McEwen for the TIE. Congrats!

The Mission Report medal goes to: Dave Tebonious-Astrois for TIE, and to Majore Bonaparte. Congrats, and Welcome back Major.

Top Squads for the missions are Blue Squadron in the TIE mission, and breaking Sabre's streak in the Xwing mission is Gold Squadron! Congrats to you all. For the Record, Sabre has won 11 of the last 12 missions. Because of that impressive record, Sabre has been the first recipients of the Valourous Unit Commendation. Congrats to each of you. Gold squadron has earned the Unit Commendation for this mission, for their excellence in the mission and for finally toppling Sabre squadron. Congrats to everyone!!

Other news at this time. The members of Sabre are transferring to Red Squadron with the return of some of their old squadmates. So now, instead of Sabre gunning for the top spot, it'll be Red. Whcih to me, feels a little bit better. This has nothing to do with their Loss by the way, this was agreed upon a few missions ago, but took this long for the wheels to turn. So with that said, let us welcome back Red Squadron, and let us retire Sabre back to the shadows.

Let's see what else is there, ahh yes. Please welcome Macman as the PBF SO. His years of service and dedication will undoubtably help with the goings on in the PBF. On other news, Hydra is in need of people, so if you know anyone else who needs a squad to fly in, please get them to Hydra as soon as possible. We're working on cadets as well, but things are slowling down a bit. We're doing what we can, but we need you're help. Anyone who's interested in being an instructor for either game please feel free to contact me, I'll get you setup.

I would like to thank everyone on a job well done this mission, and I hope to see more participation i nthe next one! Thank you one and all!! 

Pilots! To your ships!

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The current Patriot Battle Fleet mission is: 

PBF 7.04

The deadline for the current mission is: 

Sunday October 29th 11:59 pm EDT 

You can download the current mission at: 

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

Send Xwing reports with pilot files attached to: 

pbfreports@yahoogroups.com 

Plus your own squadron CO and/or squadron egroup. 

Send TIE reports with pilot files attached to: 

r2wreports@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 /*.tfr file in order to be eligible for the PBF/R2F 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. Note: TIE missions have their own Battle file, so you will also be flying tour 1 mission 1.

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. Pilot  files containing "Rebel" or "Friendly" 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. Laser padding in TIE missions is strictly forbidden and will result in a 0 score.

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

9) 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. 

10) 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 now count towards the newfound squadron. 


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 beheld 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 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://pbf.rebelsquadrons.org/comtac/ 