General Orders



Transfers - Promotions - Positions - ID Lines - Clones - Recruitment
Opening New Squadrons
Avenger Task Force / Dark Brotherhood Membership
The Golden Rule

1. Transfers

Transfers of pilots between squadrons or to and from the Reserves are traditionally a bit of a headache for all concerned.  While it may be convenient for the pilot to simply email the Flight Officer direct with the transfer request, it is far from convenient for the Flight Officer to find out the names and email addresses of every officer who needs to know about the transfer for you.  And since the Flight Officer has a daily email load of anything up to 70 emails while the average pilot is lucky to get 10, the following procedure will be adopted where a request for a transfer is being considered:

1. A pilot wishing to transfer should request the transfer first from their own Commander. This allows the Commander time to find out the reasons why the transfer is being requested.  If there is a problem in the Squadron, now is the time to correct the problem.
2. The pilot should then find out the email addresses of the Commander, Wing Commander, COM and BGCOM of the Wing to which he or she wishes to transfer. If you can't be bothered to do this much, you're obviously not ready for the level of commitment that a transfer to a new Squadron involves and your transfer request will be denied immediately.
3. The pilot should now send a transfer request to their Commander, cc'ing ALL Superior Officers involved (CMDR+) on both sides.
4. The Commander of the Squadron to which you are transferring should reply to all addressees on the transfer request.
5. Once all superior officers have given approval, the BGCOM of the ship you are transferring to will submit the request to the Flight Officer. Only the BGCOM or his designee will send in the request. The Flight Officer should not get a request from anyone other than the BGCOM's.
   ***Exceptions to this will be pilots coming back to the fleet from the RSV's, from Elite CMDRS, or in the case of no BGCOM assigned, in which COMs will request the transfer to the Flight Officer. In this case they may directly contact the Flight Officer. (Elite's must still follow the proscribed transfer policies when recruiting a pilot!)

The Flight Officer should be the last person to hear about a request for a transfer, not the first. By the time it gets to the Flight Office, the request should be ready for approval. Any requests that reach the Flight Office without having first been to all relevant commanding officers will be rejected immediately, and the person sending the mail will be invited to read Fleet Standing Orders.

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2. Promotions

Officers seeking approval for promotions should be aware of the various levels not only that officers may be promoted to, but also of the level of officer who is authorized to request promotions.  These levels are laid out in "Fleet Standing Orders - Duties", as well as the Fleet Training Manual, but for convenience's sake, they are also summarized here:

Promotion requests must come from an officer authorized to request that level of rank promotion. For example, a Commodore wishing to promote his Wing Commander to Colonel must ask for approval from his Battlegroup Commander, and the BGCOM must be the one to request the promotion from the Flight Officer. Any promotions requests which bypass the relevant Flag Officers will be rejected by the Flight Office.

Local Orders may add to this regulation, but may never subtract from it. For example, it is policy on the SSSD Sovereign that all promotions above Lieutenant must be authorized by the Commodore before being sent to the Flight Office for approval. This is acceptable. Having a Ship's policy whereby Squadron Commanders are allowed to request promotions to CM is not.

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3. Positions

Every officer in your Chain of Command is authorized to select officers to fill the positions immediately below themselves in the Chain.  The following table illustrates this:

What this means in practice, is that Squadron Commanders do not have to request permission from anyone to select a pilot as a new Flight Leader. Wing Commanders do not have to gain their Commodore's approval before selecting a new Squadron Commander etc...

However, it is good manners to keep your superiors informed of position promotions. It prevents them from looking stupid when it becomes clear that they don't know who all of their Commanders are, and therefore prevents them from getting upset at you for making them look like idiots. Best practice is, for example, CMDRs email the Flight Office direct with requests for promotions to Flight Leader and cc their Wing Commander. As well as that, if a Wing Commander is consistently selecting people for CMDR positions that the Commodore might object to, he shouldn't be surprised if he loses his Wing Commander job pretty quickly. Communication is the key, keep everyone happy.

Local Orders may supersede this section of Fleet Standing Orders. If a Commodore wishes his Wing Commander to be the one to make ALL position promotion requests, then that will be the policy on his ship. However, remember to seek approval via the Chain of Command before making this policy official.

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4. ID Lines

Use of multiple ID lines on TIE Corps emails is discouraged. Fleet Regulations state that only your Dark Brotherhood ID line may be added to your TIE Corps ID (if you have one). Use of other Subgroup IDs on TIE Corps email is not allowed, especially when your ID line ends up being longer than your message.

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5. Clones

TIE Corps personnel are allowed the use of ONE email address per character in the TIE Corps. Use of "Clone" pilots is allowed if you wish to be a member of multiple Squadrons, but they MUST have separate names and email addresses and you MUST declare these clones to the Flight Officer. ***Read update below***

Failure to inform the Flight Officer that you have multiple TIE Corps pilots will be treated as an Article of War violation:

407: False Statements - Any person subject to these articles who, with intent to deceive, signs any false record, return, regulation, order, or other official document, knowing it to be false, or makes any other false official statement knowing it to be false, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

Anyone who is currently running multiple characters may email the Flight Officer directly informing him of the names of all characters and no disciplinary action will be taken.

***!!NO CLONES WILL BE APROVED IN THE TIE CORPS. PERIOD.!!***

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6. Recruitment

Under no circumstances are pilots allowed to try and recruit members of other Squadrons into their own. This includes: the posting of recruitment messages on EH message board, emailing pilots in other squadrons with recruitments messages, trying to recruit in EH IRC channels. You may advertise your Squadron on the Recruitment board. Pilots are allowed to email Cadets in general help matters, but no spamming or attempts of direct recruitment.

The ONLY exception to these rules is with Elite CMDRs, who may email pilots from other Squadrons with invitations to join their Squadron, providing that they CC that particular pilot's superior Officers.

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7. Opening New Squadrons

Any Wing Commander may approach the Flight Office with the request to open an inactive Squadron within their Wing. There are certain criteria which must be met prior to making the request.

• The Commodore and Battlegroup Commander of the Wing must be informed first.
• The WC must select the new Commander and 2 new Flight Leaders first.
• When this is done, an email is sent to the Flight Office with the official request to open the Squadron. Within this email, there must be the list of the new pilots for that Squadron.
• The COM and BGCOM must be CC'd. If the opening involves the transfer of pilots from another Squadron to the new one, then the Superiors of said pilots must also be CC'd (as with any other Transfer).

It should be noted that there is no "magic number" involved before a Squadron can be opened. As a general rule of thumb, each other active Squadron in the Wing should have around 8 pilots, and be in good standing activity-wise. Each request to open a new Squadron will be evaluated individually.

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8. Avenger Task Force & Dark Brotherhood membership

The ATF is traditionally thought of as DB affiliated, and as such has some particular rules governing its members:

• All those wishing to apply for a Squadron Commander position or above in the ATF MUST also be a member in good standing of the DB, and hold the DB rank of at lease Acolyte.
• Flight Members and Flight Leaders in the ATF are NOT required to join the Dark Brotherhood, but are highly encouraged to do so. Of course, it will ultimately be the choice of the individual pilot if he or she wishes to join.

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9. The Golden Rule

"We're here to enforce democracy, not practice it." - former FO, Fleet Admiral Kessler

The TIE Corps is based on a military dictatorship.  We're not a democracy, we do what we're told to do, when we're told to do it. It's all part of the role-playing aspect of being an Imperial Officer. This doesn't mean that we have to blindly follow the "orders" of our superior officers, however. If any superior officer tells you to do something which you know or suspect to be a violation of one of the Articles of War, Codes of Conduct or EH Bylaws, or which you feel would be morally wrong, simply refuse. You also have the option of reporting them to their superiors for a charge of Abuse of Power.

The Golden Rule is that we're all here to have fun. If we're not having fun, there's little point in our being here. If your Commander wants you to fly more battles and you don't have the time, request a transfer to another Squadron where the pace isn't so busy, or contact the Flight Officer and ask to retire to the Reserves or leave the TIE Corps altogether. If you're in any position and you're not enjoying it, get out.  Find a position where you are enjoying yourself. Remember that the final responsibility for your enjoyment always rests with you. Your Commanders can provide ways for you to be active in the TIE Corps, but all they can do is dangle the carrot in front of your nose. If you don't want to bite, that's up to you, but if you're in a position where the carrot doesn't seem so attractive anymore, it's time to move on.

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