Commendation of Service

The Commendation of Service (CoS) is a commendation of the Emperor's Hammer.

Criteria

The Commendation of Service may be awarded to any Emperor's Hammer member who submits an approved plotline to a single player battle. For a plotline to be eligible it must at a minimum include:

• Story Overview: An overarching story for the battle as a whole and each individual mission that details the battle/mission setting and broad plot strokes
• Factions: Description of all major Factions involved, their motivations, and relationships.
• Key Flight Groups: Explanation of the player and important AI groups, including their roles and objectives.
• Mission Objectives: Goals that would be set in the game for primary and secondary completion
• In-flight messages: Notes on messages that could be used in the mission
• Briefing: Notes on any briefing content that would be seen before/after the mission

The plotline must also comply with the standards set forth for a battle in the Tactical Manual. In particular, it must include at least four missions, have appropriate content and be related to the Emperor’s Hammer, and technically possible within the constraints of the available game engines.

Submission Process

• Submission Format: Plotlines should be submitted in a written format (document, PDF, or website) by email to the Tactical Officer.
• Co-authors: Multiple members may be credited and awarded as co-authors for the plotline. In this case, the submission should include a note of each author’s contribution. The submitter will be taken to be the lead author and authorized representative.
• License: By submitting a plotline, the authors are sharing a resource with the Emperor’s Hammer. For a period of six months after submission, the lead author has the right to approve anyone proposing to implement the plotline as a battle. After this time, the plotline is freely available. This is intended to allow members of a unit to collaborate on a plot for a competition and subsequently attempt to create the battle "in-house", but without letting them hold onto it forever. Extensions may be granted at the discretion of the Tactical Office.

If accepted, the plotline will be added to the Approved Battle Scripts of the Emperor’s Hammer Encyclopedia Imperia after the period of exclusively has elapsed, or sooner if so wished by the authors. If the plotline is implemented as a battle, it will be marked as such in the wiki.

Award Authority

Recommendation Authority: Subgroup Commander, or any member of the Tactical Office.

Approval Authority: Tactical Officer, Executive Officer, or Fleet Commander.

Proponent: The Tactical Officer establishes policies/procedures governing the awarding of the CoS.

Order of Precedence

The Commendation of Service has the highest precedence of the Emperor's Hammer commendations, and the ribbon is worn before the Commendation of Excellence.

Historical Background

The Commendation of Service was established in Newsletter 6 to recognize the "creation of a Wing Commander (Fleet Commander) approved Battle plotline". The first recipients of the commendation were General Shawshank and General Andrew for their work on what would become the first Emperor's Hammer custom battles, TIE-TC 1: Capture of Zaarin and TIE-TC 2: Strike at Calamari, respectively.

Ribbon

The Commendation of Service is displayed using the Aurebesh "S" device affixed to the base Commendation ribbon.