gmrhodes13[Staff] Posted January 12, 2025 Report Posted January 12, 2025 NEW Detachment Leader Executive Officer Merchandise Officer Detachment Affiliation Legion Elections Hall of Fame FISD Meme's Around the Detachment INFORMATION & AWARD PROGRAMS FISD Tri-Fold Brochure Common FISD Acronyms and TK Glossary Pre Approval Forum 3D Section Field Exercise Award Imperial Attaché Program Master Armorer Award Fire Teams EIB & Centurion: What do these terms mean? Need Help Ask the Deployment Officers Advance to 1500 Advanced Tactics Awards Newsletter Editor Staff List 2025 Follow FISD Greetings troopers, To all of you affected, or who have friends, family or loved ones affected by the fires in Los Angeles our thoughts are with you. The level of destruction seems to be impossible to understand. I hope that your city bounces back, even if forever changed. This will be the last newsletter for this term, on January 27th the election cycle begins once again with nominations, and the Q&A starting February 1st. This is also your last chance to ensure you have logged, and so confirm your Detachment affiliation, before the legion team run the sync. This is run shortly before the elections to match up the forum and the legion records prior to the elections. There is more detail on both Detachment Affiliation and the Elections later on in the newsletter to make sure you're up to speed. As we come to the end of this year it's some times nice to look back on what we have done. We relaunched the Master Armourer Program with a number being issued. We also had member @TheRascalKing donate rocker patches for those we reach the 2nd tier. The Vaders Valkyries ran a contest to find a logo. There was some excellent entries and a great logo was chosen. The Valkryies are out female, and female presenting wing and it would be fantastic to see this grow. We had a couple of funding drives. The detachment has a number of costs and covering these falls to you the members generosity. We also completed a lot of CRL work. A change was made to all current CRLs to clarify acceptable materials and 3D print lines must be removed. This was in coordination with the LMO who helped with the changes on the databank. We finally had the Imperial Commando CRL go live, with an excellent build that went on to earn Centurion. This is a great costume and something a bit different for us so will be great to see more of these in the future. The Captain Enoch CRL draft saw a lot of action. The initial draft CRL is ready to go and a number of builds are very close to being done. Another fantastic costume and another that is breaking new ground for the Detachment. The DMBO @jsilvius has run some fantastic merch this year. It was a racing shirt year which came out fantastic. There was also the First Order Patches, Branding shirt and hoody and how can we forget the fantastic blue glass shield challenge coin. Finally we secured the forums future with a new server. During the year the existing server was struggling to keep up with the demand. The legion have been hosting us for a number of years on what was only ever meant to be a short term basis. This meant we had to either live with the problem or take matters into our own hands. @Daetrin passed the torch of the domain to myself, having been the steward for this since the start. Cloudflare was added, initially to the old sever to try and help whilst the new server was prepared. Cloudflare acts as a buffer before our server to help reduce load by caching data, block problems and attacks, and generally help us out. Finally we moved to out new server on January 5th. After a few hours of down time, and then a few more whilst background tasks ran, the new machine has been flying, something you have all hopefully noticed. This however doesn't come for free so once the initial credit expires we will need to be looking into funding this for the future. Thank you to all of you, the members who make this detachment what it is. Without you we would be nothing. Troopers helping troopers. With Unquestioned Loyalty Chris Pearson TK-10991 "themaninthesuitcase" Detachment Leader Greetings fellow members Wow, the last newsletter for the term already! Hard to believe, yet here we are. Before going into anything further, I would like to echo Chris’s sentiments on the horrific fires devastating California. We are hoping all members are safe and as unaffected as possible. I would like to thank our DL Chris, and the whole team for the great job done over these past 12 months. Personally, I feel he has done a tremendous job leading the Detachment and getting us off the Legion server. We are leaving behind the issues, dropouts and slooow loading times, and are a self-sufficient Detachment at last. Awesome effort Chris, it has been a pleasure to serve under you this term. Let’s see what 2025 has in store for FISD! With Unquestioned Loyalty Andrew Franke TK-11469 "Sly11" Executive Officer Greetings Troopers! Well, we've reached that time of year, it is almost time for Legion Elections. I have enjoyed being your MBO for the past few years, and hope that no matter the out come of the Detachment election, I'll be invited back to the role as I have some ideas for this next term and the next which will be our 20th Anniversary term in 2026! Be sure that you participate in the election as that is your way to voice you thoughts on the direct of the Detachment. Old Business "FISD EIB Coins" EI coins are still available, but quantities are becoming limited. In order to buy one, you have to have an approved EI costume and you can not have ever bought an EIB coin. EIB coins are a once and done coin. If you have this one and would prefer one of the older versions, I may have an option for you so please dm me. EIB v11 coin run is open "FISD Standard Logo Hoodie/T-Shirt" The Standard Logo T-shirt/hoodie run is complete, all items have been shipped. Any issues should be reported directly to Custom Ink. If you have issues, please let me know. Standard Logo T-Shirt/Hoodie run "Advance to 1500 Keyring/Zipper pull" Run has been extended to 1 Feb 2025. This is a non-branded merch item, so it does not take one of our limited slots. This run will start on 9 DEC 2024 - 1 Feb 2025. We are going to place a maximum limit of 20 per approved 501st member. Please keep this in mind when doing Group orders. These key tags will be woven so the details are sharp. There is only one variant, the design below shows both side of the tag. More information can be found here. New Business "FISD Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025 patch" This run is now open, and closes on 3 Feb 2025. Information for the run can be found here. "FISD Stepping Out Challenge Coin" One of the most requested items in the past couple of years has been the "Stepping Out" logo on merch. We received a lot of interest on the interest thread, so this run will be the last item for the term. This run will open 27 Jan 2025 and will close on 24 Feb 2025. Keep an eye on the "Detachment Merchandise Only" forum for more information. FISD Attachés Keep an eye out in the Attaché forum for an announcement. Click Here "2nd Annual DMBO Sale" Last but not least, the 2nd Annual DMBO sale thread is open. Just like last year, I posted up the extra items that I have saved through out the term, and I'm offering them for sale. But there is a catch. This is not a first come first serve type deal. You post the items you like along with your FISD approval date. If your date is after the original run date, you go to the top of the list, if your date is before the original run date, you go to the end (you should have been watching the forum for runs). More details can be found here As always, questions, comments, thoughts, suggestions, please feel free to reach out. With Unquestioned Loyalty James Silvius TK-12953 "jsilvius" Merchandise & Branding Officer OK so you look at your Legion profile and it shows that your detachment affiliation to FISD is pending, or otherwise incorrect. Why does this happen, and what is detachment affiliation anyway, and what will FISD do about it? The answer is that detachment affiliation is only ever used once a year, and for one purpose. The only time the Legion ever uses it for anything is to determine who can run for DL and who can vote in detachment elections. That's it. Otherwise it is pretty much ignored and not used for anything. The process of validating detachment membership is cumbersome and time consuming because people use different email information between their Legion and detachment logins, and that there is no way to bulk update the rosters. For a small detachment it is not a big deal to do this manually, but for a detachment the size of FISD with hundreds and soon thousands of 501st members, it's impossible. Fortunately we have technical folk both on FISD and in the Legion web team. Once a year they take a feed from FISD's database and do a bulk update on the Legion database. This occurs right before the election cycle starts and is done once per year. Pro tips: 1) Ensure the email address you use on the Legion & FISD boards are the exact same. 2) Ensure that your FISD profile has the correct TKID. 3) IMPORTANT! You MUST be in the right security group. It should be "501st Stormtrooper" in order for the automated system to pull you over. This thread is where you get your detachment access updated. 4) If after the bulk update is complete and your profile is still not updated, and you are 100% sure your info is in sync between the two boards, then ask for to the Legion web team. They should get feedback on why this isn't working. 5) If all else fails, ping the FISD staff. Which basically means that we'll simply tell the 501st web team to bulk approve everyone 6) If still you have no luck you can contact the legion web team directly via email: [email protected] To check detachment affiliation go to the 501st holocron here, login using your 501st forum username and password, click on YOUR PROFILE DATA, then look down the lower part of the page for YOUR UNIT AFFILIATION, then under DETACHMENT AFFILIATION. If you do not see FISD listed reach out to your GML (garrison membership liaison) as they can add it if you are an approved Stormtrooper. If FISD shows as PENDING contact our DL Chris @themaninthesuitcase and request a manual update. 2025 Legion Election Timeline It's coming up to that time of the year again, legion elections are just around the corner. Nominations Open: 27th January 12.01am Nominations Close: 31st January 11.59pm If only one person was nominated for a particular position then it was filled and the election process is ended. If more than one person was nominated Q &A Starts Q & A's for Garrison, Squad, Legion Commanding Officer and other Detachments has begun Starts: 1st February @ 12.01am GMT Ends: 5th February @ 11.59pm GMT Closing Statements: Starts: 6th February @ 12.01am GMT Ends: 6th February @ 11.59pm GMT Voting: Starts: 7th February @ 12.01am GMT Ends: 11th February @ 11.59pm GMT Transition Period: 12th February @ 12.01am GMT to 16th February @ 11.59pm GMT Take Office: 17th February @ 12.01am GMT Election Issues/Access You may reach the Legion Election Moderators by emailing [email protected] Cast your vote here Link to legion election forum here Costume Approval Information New Members - Legion Elections 2025 During the Legion election period the membership database will be in lock down, during this time new member applications through your local garrison/outpost/squad can not be finalized, you may however still submit them but they won't be processed until the end of this cycle. This does not affect the addition of any new costumes to an active members roster/profile, however it does affect any membership status changes ie: active / reserve / retired and any personal information updates. The period of membership database lockdown for 2025 starts January 27th and ends February 17th More information on the elections can be found on the legion forum here (for those with legion membership access) For the Empire! Please welcome for the 2nd time, TK-61490 to the Stormtrooper Hall of Fame, December 2024! @TheRascalKing Troop log can be found here. Congrats on this amazing troop Justin, must have been absolutely brilliant! Other HOF recipients can be found here. With Unquestioned Loyalty Jonatan Östling TK-23592 "Nairy" Attaché Ambassador You can find the full meme thread here Blast-A-Trooper Finally after many years of asking the Blast A Trooper files have been shared on the legion forum, sharing here for anyone who may have been looking for them https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_W3-wBM3Gsp5EN_juDwPSCVYhLcpv_MD *NOTE* unfortunately for those of you Down Under due to our PLI (public liability insurance) restrictions we are not able to run Blast A Trooper events as the insurer do not allow the firing of projectiles at our members (I know right, foam darts, ouch ) Thread here Request Edited Signature Banners/Profile pics/Fire Team Logos Troopers! I want to help out the community and the people that doesn't have the time or have the necessary tools or skills to create a cool Signature banner or have the background of your Action Photo removed, or even if you have a request for a certain Profile picture! I don't know how popular this will be, or what requirements I will need, but we will learn as we go and if it turns out to be popular and it gets too much for me - I'm sure that we can find a few more that are willing to help out! Thread here With Unquestioned Loyalty Jonatan Östling TK-23592 "Nairy" Attaché Ambassador Trading Card Archives For those with FISD detachment trading cards please consider sending two to Paul @Daetrin keeper of our detachment archives. Address and more info here With Unquestioned Loyalty Paul Hoeffer TK-8020 "Daetrin" Detachment Founder Keeper of Archives INFORMATION & AWARD PROGRAMS For a full list of FISD awards programs head here. *Now Available in Swedish* Want to spread the word about FISD?, you can with our FISD Tri-Fold Brochure. Originally these were done in a limited run by the member who created them, but nowadays, we have moved this to a print your own service making them accessible to all countries around the globe. Files are available to all full 501st members on request by contacting our DL Chris @themaninthesuitcase you can find more info here Currently Available languages: English - Spanish - German - Swedish Are you new to the FISD and wondering what the heck all those abbreviations and strange sounding terms mean? To help you @justjoseph63 has started a list of the most commonly used ones that will give you some insight. If you have ANY questions about a particular term that is not listed or suggestions for new ones please contact Joseph. You can find the list here. Pre Approval Forum allows future Troopers the opportunity to submit photos of their completed build to be reviewed by the Staff, Imperial Attaches and others in preparation for forwarding it to their GML for approval. Any and all advice/suggestions given will be specific, constructive, helpful and respectful. Please note that this program will NOT take the place of your local GML, as Detachments are not chartered for costume approval and can not override a GMLs decision, but is instead a peer review program designed to help you look your best and offer guidance and positive feedback. For more information on this program, please visit the link here. Don't forget to visit our 3D section when next surfing the FISD forums, there is plenty of useful information to potentially help you on your next TK adventure. You might be feeling may generous and share with our community a new TK related 3D file and maybe win yourself a 3D contributors award so check out the details below and be part of the in house 3D community. Here is a link to the FISD 3D Contributor program. Don't forget to create a troop log here on FISD and get awarded for your adventures The list of accomplished troopers keeps growing, so get on board and register your troops today Simply start (or update!) your troop log, keep the running total in the title, and post (at least!) a date and name for the official 501st event where you wore your TK! Once you've hit a milestone count, go over to the "Field Exercise Awards -- Post your milestones here" thread to request your profile be updated! Simple, right? Also if you would like your troop photos shared on our social media channels please add the following to the first post of your FISD troop log: I give permission for FISD to repost my photos on social media in an appropriate fashion. Award Recipients December - January TK-15317 "Orrin15317" Orin - - - - - - TK-14430 "Garry" Garry - - - - - - TK-91213 "JBar" John - - - - - - TK-96004 "Doggydoc" Gerald - - - - - - TK-12775 "Sithping" Paul - - - - - - Are you an approved TK that spends more time on the boards than the average Trooper? Do you enjoy using your knowledge to help out future and existing Troopers? If so, we would like to invite you to join the Imperial Attaché program! Members of the I.A. team are chosen to help out not only those here on the boards, but on a local level as well. Our aim is to have at least one in each and every Garrison, Squad and Outpost in the entire legion to be the eyes and ears of the FISD on a local level. If you are a 501st approved Trooper who wishes to join the ranks of the Attachés, please get in touch with me and/or visit: http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/15252-fisd-attaché-program/ For a complete list of Imperial Attaches, go here. Some of the benefits include: Access to exclusive Attaché merch, including patches. You may also be in the running for an Imperial Attaché Award. An award for those attaché's who have gone above and beyond [minimum 1 year of service]. You can find a list of prior recipients here. Imperial Attaché Outstanding Achievement Award I'm still looking for Attachés in certain Squads, so if you are in a Garrison that has Squads, and they have a vacant position in the list - don't hesitate do get in contact with them and ask if they are up for the task! With Unquestioned Loyalty Jonatan Östling TK-23592 "Nairy" Attaché Ambassador Master Armorer Program FISD has many wonderful programs to help members build and submit costumes for our detachment, whether it be a classic Stormtrooper, a First Order Stormtrooper, or even one of the new Imperial Armored Commandos. While our Expect Infantry and Centurion programs get most of the attention, FISD staff wants to relaunch the Armorer Program (Currently called the Master Armorer Program). What is the Armorer Program you ask? Well, it is a program designed to recognize those troopers that go above and beyond to assist themselves and others in getting costumes built, submitted, and approved. One of the goals of all the detachments in the 501st Legion is to help members build and submit costumes that meet and hopefully exceed the minimum requirements of the Legion’s CRLs. Currently the Master Armorer program has the requirement of helping a minimum of 5 members achieve Expert Infantry status. The member must have spent at least 30min physically helping another member with cutting, gluing, sizing, etc, just because they want to help (no money exchanged). The definition of an armorer is “a maker, supplier, or repairer of weapons or armor”. So while we certainly love the feedback that members provide to others on the forums, and the extra steps some do by having video calls to help walk people through issues with their builds, this program requires hands on work. The new program will have the same physical help requirement, but we are going to move from a “wins” system, (where a win was help an individual for 30 min or more) to a points system, and we aren’t limiting it to only Expert Infantry builds. While we are pushing the Advance to 1500 to try and achieve 1500 Expert Infantry members, we recognize that the goal of the detachment is to get FISD members build, submitted, and approved. So we will be awarding points for Basic builds as well. Currently there are 3 levels of the award, FISD Armorer, FISD Senior Armorer and FISD Master Armorer. The new program will add a 4th level at the beginning called the Apprentice Armorer. The point scale will be as follows. 5 points - Apprentice Armorer 10 points - Armorer 20 points - Senior Armorer 30 points - Master Armorer The Armorer candidate would earn points based on what level the member costume they assisted with achieved. If you help with a basic build, you get 1 point, if you help with a EIB build you get 2 points. So a person to basic you get a point, help them again to get their EIB earning another 2 to a total of 3. The thought again here is that we want to help build as many stormtroopers as possible. If you love building armorer and love helping fellow members get their costumes built, then this is the program you’ve been searching for. We look forward to awarding more members with this award as we know how much we all love Troopers helping Troopers. More information can be found here Armorer Rocker Patches Rocker patches are now available for the Armorer Program, there is currently just the one patch, and members are eligible to receive two of them once they reach Level 2, "Armorer". More information can be found here Want to setup a "Fire Team? the Fire Team program is completely optional, and is intended to help form a common identity and spirit of camaraderie among 501st Legion Stormtroopers in the same geographic area/garrison that troop together. Fire Teams are not officially recognized by the 501st Legion nor the FISD, although they will be able to access a Fire Team sub-forum on the detachment website. You can find more information here. For those interested here is the original discussion on the creation of Fire teams here With Unquestioned Loyalty Mark Ryner TK-4584 "captsafe66" Fire Team Relations So what exactly are and levels? These programs were designed for those who choose to take their armor above and beyond the minimum requirements for basic 501st Legion approval. It gives you the chance to show a level of dedication and pride that takes your armor closer to being as "screen accurate" as possible, without as much extra work as you may realize! You can find more information on the programs here. For those unaware it is possible to achieve extra awards at Expert Infantry for each additional version costume you have approved, additional awards are not issued with another Expert Infantry number (you are only issued 1 Expert Infantry number) but you will see a star above the award on your profile and the thread title will show [APPROVED] 2nd, [APPROVED] 3rd, [APPROVED] 4th and so on. Multiple EIB award recipients and info here NOTE If you are approved with a "2nd Version" of a particular costume that you are already approved with you do not receive an additional award, there is only 1 award issued for each costume version ie: only 1 x Hero, 1 x Stunt, 1 x HWT, 1 x ESB, 1 x TFA and so on. If you have a second/additional version costume approved you will see "2nd Version" and [APPROVED] added to the thread title, no additional profile stars (more info on profile awards here) For those of you who have a particular issue (or issues) before or after submitting for Expert Infantry / Centurion level approval, in order to get you an answer faster you can now privately contact the entire Deployment Officer team at one time! Questions about fitting, repairs, CRL standards/requirements or anything pertaining to reaching Levels 2 and 3 are not only welcomed, but encouraged. Keep in mind that no question is too small, and that your queries will only be seen by the D.O. Staff. We are here to help in any way we can, so please feel free to send us a message by clicking on this link: @Deployment Officer Team and we will get back to you A.S.A.P.! More info here This area lists all those who have gone above and beyond basic approval toward screen accuracy and obtained EIB or Centurion or both. FOR December - January the 1st Imperial Stormtrooper Detachment would like to congratulate the following. Expert Infantry Badge Award: Torben "Tall_Trooper" TK19525 EIB 1085 Eric "0megaRed" TK30874 EIB 1086 Colin "Fac3bon3z" TK99595 EIB 1087 GREAT job on your approval, now on to Level 3! Request your free EIB certificate here. You can find a list of multiple award recipients here. Multiple EIB award info here Expert Infantry Honor Gallery here --------------------------------------------------------------- Centurion Badge Award: No recipients this period Request your free Centurion certificate here. You can find a list of multiple award recipients here. If you see any of these Troopers around your Garrison or Squad, be sure to congratulate them! We are coming up to that time of the year again, nominations will get underway towards the end of January and voting for Legion, Detachment and Garrison positions begins in February (dates further up in this newsletter) In case I'm not part of the next term team I just wanted to say it has been a pleasure overseeing the newsletter, be safe, keep trooping and best wishes to all for this coming year With Unquestioned Loyalty Glen "Q" Rhodes TK-85421 "gmrhodes13" PRO, Newsletter Detachment Leader (DL): Chris Pearson (themaninthesuitcase) TK-10911 Detachment Executive Officer (DXO): Andrew Franke (Sly11) TK-11469 Chief Deployment Officer (DCA): Mario Reyes (TKSpartan) TK-48117 Deployment Officer (DCA): José Mª Sánchez (Chemi) TK-30173 Deployment Officer (DCA): Gerald J Gyorffy (Doggydoc) TK-96004 Provost Marshall (DCoG): Steven Sheades (starsaber25) TK-10466 Provost Marshall (DCoG): Caleb Mask (MaskedVengeance) TK-73692 Provost Marshall (DCoG): Arthur Wong (giskard8) TK-39093 FISD Diplomat (DPRO): Tony Jobe (ukswrath) TK-10116 FISD Diplomat (DPRO): Tim Waychoff (Dark PMF) TK-51878 FISD Diplomat (DPRO): Christoph (Danny) Lauber (Ripper_L) TK-55550 Fire Team Relations(DCoG): Mark Ryner (captsafe66) TK-4584 Merchandise and Brand Officer (DMBO): James Silvius (jsilvius) TK-12953 Trading Card Specialist (DPRO): Eric Ho (Hoda) TK-77520 Newsletter Publisher (DPRO): Glen Rhodes (gmrhodes13) TK-85421 Content Editor Support (DPRO): Adam Wolf (Revlimiter) TK-89400 Content Editor Support (DPRO): Jeff Salt (Wingnut65) TK-50297 Special Unit Director-Valkyries (DPRO): Vicky Mandlmaier (Vicky_Velocipanda) TK-50893 Attaché Ambassador (DPRO): Jonatan Östling (Nairy) TK-23592 Social Media Relations (DPRO): Luca Hahn (Morgi) TK-66744 Personnel Officer (DPER): AC (NoVATie) TK-5597 Systems Administrator (DWM): Mathias Rodstedt (Locitus) TK-2959 Systems Administrator (DWM): Eric Brager (Darth Aloha) TK-9674 Systems Administrator/Detachment Founder (DF): Paul Hoeffer (Daetrin) TK-8020 Imperial Propaganda Machine (IPM): Brian Long (Tilheyra) TK-47933 Facebook: www.facebook.com/whitearmor - - - Facebook Group: 1st Imperial Stormtrooper Detachment (FISD) Official Twitter: www.twitter.com/FISD501st or @FISD501st - - - Instagram: www.instagram.com/fisd501st Discord: https://discord.gg/FmQZ2qW8gx - - - Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/fisd501st.bsky.social On behalf of the 1st Imperial Stormtrooper Detachment Command Staff and the Imperial Propaganda Department 10 Quote
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