As many of you are likely now aware from yesterday's meeting, the Imperial Omega Campaign is upcoming Sunday September 26th, which is exactly one decade since it was originally held.

This Imperial Omega Campaign (IOC) encompasses the entire Imperial Navy and Stormtrooper Corps, giving the division commanders an opportunity to test their unit's strengths and weaknesses.

Members of both divisions will be pooled together then split into two teams balanced as much as possible.  One team will quite simply be Red, while the other is Blue.  Each team will be commanded by both senior army and navy officers, who hopefully will be able to make sound tactical decisions for your team (don't worry, these usually won't have effects on points)

Inactive members/leaders will quickly be separated from the active ones as writing, gaming, and even graphics are contested across a system of four planets.  Each team will begin with a foothold on one of the planets, and contest the other two.  Should a tie result at the end of this, a fifth planet will be contested.

Writing will form the primary bulk of the Imperial Omega campaign, as it is the activity most of us engage in.  Missions and battles will be carried out through writing about them much like every other story you guys have done.  Each post will be graded by myself, points tallied and the battle will have a winner declared.  The average quality of the posts will also play a huge role alongside the points (so spamming quick low quality posts will not always help).

Gaming I foresee to be done a bit, and serves quite a few roles in this Campaign.  What exactly you gain out of playing a game depends largely upon the sort of game you play.  If it's X-Wing or similar, you likely hurt enemy supply lines in space, or try to break through blockades, minor stuff that might not be necessary to write.  If it's Empire at War with a land battle, perhaps it is a raid for supplies or hurting enemy installations.  Likewise, they can earn you other bonuses, that I will clarify in a later part of the IOC post series.

Graphics plays a unique role I hope to see capitalized by both teams.  Each graphic you submit will give you "intelligence" on the enemy's forces or perhaps a planet or other location in the system.  Quality of the intelligence will depend largely upon the quality *and* effort of the graphic.  With these graphics/intelligence, you might just be able to strike at weak points, or find critical locations that may give you a strong foothold.  Once again, this will be clarified in a later post of the series.

Throughout the campaign, a map will be updated, showing which planets are owned/contested by whom. The storyboard posts will also go along with the progress of the campaign.

All members are expected to participate since the teams will be split as evenly as possible.  Members who are solely in Osk or the Dark Jedi Order are welcome to request to join if they so incline.  Otherwise they will not be automatically placed in a team like members in the Army or Navy.

And now, a note on dual-division members, that is to say, those who have characters in both divisions.  You have two options for participation.  The first is that you participate as one character, the other is out for some reason or another.  The latter is you may participate as both, but you still only count as one member of the team for all purposes, including points.  For instance, if Riqimo and Oops were both active, they would go to the same team, and count as one member of the team, after all only one person writes as them.

Now, one last thing for today, I like to request that all members please fill out the following form to help us better create your teams:

BE SURE TO HIT THE SUBMIT BUTTON!

If you rather complete this through a different page, go to:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dF9qNHlpa2ZGM2t2c0YwblREQmxxUnc6MQ#gid=0



Any questions or comments? Ask away!