Welcome!

Article by Brady

Ahoy and welcome to the first Outpost 10F Blue Report. What is this strange and wonderful thing you may be asking, and why does it seem kinda familiar? All these questions and more will be answered for you right here..

The Blue Report is a reincarnation of the One-Zero Report, a monthly 'newsletter' from ST Sector Command and the OZD that ran for a year and informed the membership on all sorts of aspects of Sector Command. This new 'Blue' incarnation has the same aim: To facilitate communication between Sector Command (the leadership of the community) and the community itself. You'll find several familiar elements in this report, but there is a major difference. This project is a true collaboration between all three genres through the Sector Command support groups - the Wizards, the Senate and the One-Zero Division. All SCs and DSCs will have a hand in the content and direction of this report, with the assistance of one genre editor from each team.

We'll aim to keep you up-to-date with the (non-classified) going ons of the EC and the genre support groups. We'll give you an idea of what we're doing behind the scenes. We'll give you a taste of what we might have up our sleeves for the future. We'll even provide some comic relief for no extra charge.. and much more!

So how did this report develop? As we've already covered, it's a refurbishment of the One-Zero Report run by Kym (CL8) and myself, which itself was a spin-off of the monthly Entertainment report of donkeys years ago. This new report was a product of several discussions between Hobbie (CL7) and myself (that may or may not have involved rocks, photonic canons and 'ray' beams) but was really brought to life because of the collaboration between, and support of the SCs and DSCs. Jaden (CL8) and Hobbie (CL7), HAL (CL7) and Luc (CL7) and Iain (CL8) and myself. We've also been under the watchful and supportive gaze of two thirds of the charmed ones: Vice-Commander Crazy Texan (CL10) and Quadrant Commander Hongjun (CL9). With the basics in place, we brought in the experts. Bria (CL6) of the Senate provided the gaphical and design elements, while Iain (CL8) created an impressive dynamic management system. Finally, representing their genres, Senator AJ (CL7), Wizard Alivan (CL5) and Agent Kayana (CL5) went to work on creating the actual content of the report that you see before you. As you can see this has been a truly collaborative effort, and all the people mentioned here have contributed to what we hope will become an effective and sustained means of communication and information for our community.

Before all the boring jazz is over with, let me give you a rundown on what you might expect to find in any given issue of the Blue Report. Each month the genre editors will give you a rundown on what has been happening in the genres and in their genre teams. You'll also find interviews with Patrons of the Month, Special Recognition of active members of the community, a list of Promotions for the month with comments on some of the promoted members and often some random and miscellaneous goodies like cartoons, competitions, and more interviews!

One final explanation that may be needed is 'Why the Blue Report??' Quite simply, the Blue Report will be an End of the Month publication in conjunction with Awards and Promotion announcements. And what colour is the alert status of the outpost at this time of month? Blue!

So be sure to click in every month so you're aware of what's going on and even how you can get involved in this little corner of cyber-space we call Outpost 10F. Thanks again to all involved and happy reading!

Brady (CL8)
ST Sector Commander
OZD Team Leader


P.S. See! Not one reference to hats. I'm saving that for later. ;)