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The Welcome page (http://www.rebelsquadrons.org/welcome/) will need a complete update. On top a new member will be reminded to be logged in and to primarly concentrate on the BP. Each activity should show current info when clicked on.<br />
 
The Welcome page (http://www.rebelsquadrons.org/welcome/) will need a complete update. On top a new member will be reminded to be logged in and to primarly concentrate on the BP. Each activity should show current info when clicked on.<br />
 
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==Fictional Background==
 
==Fictional Background==

Revision as of 00:34, 25 July 2007

The Rebel Squadrons' Academy (RSA)

The RSA is currently at draft stage. The project is led by the RS TO COL Luren "DaLe" Ketan.

Basic Idea

  • The RSA will be the first place-to-be for new RS members to get familiar with the RS and have the basic knowledge necessary to participate in the RS activities they are interested in.
  • The RSA will provide post-graduate training to improve the skills of RS members.

Structure

The RSA will be separated into training departements which will be supervised by the RSA CS. The RSA CS will be led by the RSTO. Training departements will host post-graduate and eventual graduate courses for their field of activity. A TD will be supervised by the TD CO/CS. The TD instructors will be in charge of leading and evaluating 'students' in the course/s the instructor will be teaching.

Field of Activity

The basic element in the RSA will be courses. The FoA of these courses could be split up into:

  • RS general basic training
  • Game specific training - basic/advanced
  • RS general advanced training
  • RS specific advanced training

Roster

RSA Roster


Courses

RSA Courses will be held within a Training Departement and led by the given instructor. Post-graduate courses should be set up into 'course series', where it is not possible to take a higher level course without completing the lower level course in that given matter. Other requirements for taking a student into a course might be applied as well. Course series may include 1 - 5 levels. If more levels would be needed for a certain course series, it shall be discussed if it wouldn't be possible to split it up into two course series(/skills). A higher level course in a course series should take the student more time and be more challenging than the lower level course.
Especially in MP game issues, course series won't be expected to 'produce' Top Aces. In fictional terms, the RSA is here to provide the necessary knowledge to new officers, so they will be able to do their job properly. But combat experience itself and top ace status will have to be earned through real battles. The course series (for game issues) should aim to provide general knowledge of the in-game issues and to get a student's playing skills to at least an average level. Top Ace courses/course series might be implemented later on as well, but for the time being focus should be to set up the TDs and their appropriate basic courses.


Each course shall have:

  • a stated set of goals that the course teaches
  • a 'learning part' to prepare the student for the final test and/or accumulative goal of the course
  • a final test
  • an instructor that grades the tests and can help with any questions


A proposal for a new course should include:

  • a stated set of goals that the course teaches
  • a description of the learning part and the final test/goal (which would be both set up/implemented after the course gets approved)
  • an instructor willing to work out the course and work as instructor for it after the course gets implemented


Based on the level of the courses, a split up would look like this:

  • Under-graduate courses

BP and courses to process new RS members into the game fleets they signed up for. It is up to each fleet's CO if s/he wants to have CDTs processed in the RSA before they join that fleet. Futhermore, a fleet CO will be able to have the main word on basic graduation requirements (even if that undergrade course is RSA hosted) as the fleet CO can detemine what skills a new member needs to have to be able to join the CO's unit.
The RSA will currently host under-grade courses to process new members into the PBF, RID and CD.

  • Graduate courses

Courses that serve as 'general' entry courses for certain TDs, before futher advanced courses can be taken. These courses should be as much open to the RS public as possible.

  • Post-graduate courses


RSA Awards

RSA shall include an award in an unified form of a pin, ribbon or similiar that will be awarded upon completition of a certain course. The completition award for a certain course may be two-graded (w/o and with honors), but doesn't have to. The basic idea behind those RSA course awards, is that there will be certain levels of a 'skill'. Lets take XvT as an example. Upond graduation a new pilot would receive the 1st RSA course award - something like a XvT level 0 pin/ribbon/... . After this a student could go on and take SP XvT course. After completing it the student could go on and apply for the level 2 SP XvT course and/or level 1 MP XvT course.
Ideally, if possible, a 'skills section' in a RS member's profile will contain a summary of achieved course completition awards. Only the highest award for each taken course series should be shown. So eg. in case of XvT, only the highest achieved level of SP/MP courses would be shown. An unified graphical solution needs to be made up for this: having an award have more stars/lights the higher the level of the course series has been. Probably some silver/gold background changes to indicate the w/o or with honors status.

Other RSA awards, like medals for TD staff and instructors will be used as well, but for the time being the award system for the students needs to be set up.

Training Departements (TDs)

The name "Training Departement" will be used to indicate that we are talking about the wings of the Academy. It is not expected to have eg. a Flight Training Departement. Instead it will be expected that the future TD COs provide a suggestion on the name of their TD. Please note that the name shouldn't have any form of "academy" in it.


More TDs might be implemented later, but the currently TDs expected to be present once the RSA roster gets set up or ASAP after are(names are worknames):

Beginner's Path TD

The place for new RS members to be. Please see below for more info. In charge of the BP TD will be at least one person of the Academy CS.

Flight Sims TD

This TD is expected to maintain courses for the training of RS pilots. Those flight sim courses will have either the form of evaluating custom training missions runs from students, online tests and/or MP training face-to-face with the instructor.
This TD is hosting the XW/TF training squadron to process new pilots to the PBF.

MP Games TD

This TD will be expected to be split up into the appropriate game genres, once this TD sets up a graduate course handling MP issues similiar to all platforms.
This TD is hosting the under-grade training squadrons for EaW, RC, BF 1+2.

Mission Building TD

The place where future ITOD mission builders will be trained. This TD will be expected to provide the game TDs and their instructors with training missions according to their specifications. Ideally this TD would create these RSA needed missions in cooperation with students.
This TD will have to work with the Fictional TD to ensure created missions are as much as possible in context with the fictional RS background.
Current materials for flight sim mission building: http://pbf.rebelsquadrons.org/academy/mba/

Officer Training School (OTS)

  • Graduate course

A course which could be considered as advanced BP, teaching and testing the knowledge on Bylaws, Ops Manual, Executive Offices, ... A point awarding system (like in BP) could be used for this course.

  • Post-graduate courses

Courses to train current and prepare future RS officers with focus on most common command spots in the RS.

Integrated Technologies TD

This TD will be expected to be able to provide RS officers with the skills necessary to at least maintain a website. Futher courses would include website creation/coding, graphics, ...
As an instructor needs to be skilled in his/her field for this TD it is currently not expected that this TD will host many courses. With a given number of instructors and courses in this TD, a split-up into two TDs might be considered.

Fictional TD

This TD will be expected to both introduce RS members to the current fictional RS background and to work out and provide the RSA with a fictional background.

  • Graduate course

A course which would help new members to get an idea of what is going on RS fictionally. Another graduate courses (or probably incl. in the 1st course) would involve supervising and helping new members to write a bio within the fictional RS background.

  • Post-graduate courses

These courses would involve improving the students writing abilities and give him/her a better understanding of the fictional RS background, so that student will be able to write 'offical' narratives. Ideally the writing of the RSA needed narratives would be provided by coop between instructor/s and student/s.
First courses should involve RS fiction. Courses later on for overall SW fiction might be considered as well.


Beginner's Path (BP)

The Beginner's Path serves as first to-do thing in the RS for new members. It gives an idea of the features a RS member can use on RS.org and makes it possible for a new member to earn their 1st promotion quickly.
Once a new member joins the RS s/he will be placed into the BP TD, contacted and supervised by one of the Primary Instructors.

Primary Instructors

Primary instructors will be helping new RS members to achieve the 2LT promotion through the BP. Primary instructors should be dedicated and informed RS members with knowledge of (or will to learn) what is going on in the various RS units, and with ability to respond to emails within 24 hours. Due to the nature of this position, it will be expected that a Primary Instructor marks himself/herself LOA if s/he is going to be offline for more than 48 hours. Futhermore a Primary Instructor will be expected to be as much as possible on IRC and/or Xfire, responding to new members questions and to get a basic idea of that new member.

A new member joins

How the new member process will look like:
1. New member joins
2. New member receives automated email to verify email address
3. New member receives second automated email with link to Welcome page
4. Primary Instructor contacts new member, welcoming him/her and providing an individualized summary (name and email of certain instructor + event. link) of the under-grade courses the new member signed up for (the sumarry will apply only to RSA hosted under-grade courses)

The Welcome page (http://www.rebelsquadrons.org/welcome/) will need a complete update. On top a new member will be reminded to be logged in and to primarly concentrate on the BP. Each activity should show current info when clicked on.

Fictional Background

The RSA is located on the planet of Tarsonis in the Greeop system. The location should provide a variety of plot lines/background to introduce new members' characters fictionally into the RS.
The Fictional TD will be expected to work out the fictional RSA and its surroundings.


For Reference: Existing Proposals

Proposals to be used in the RSA with slight variations:

The Historical Academy

The RS Academy was a fleet that existed from 1997 to May, 2003. The Academy, not surprisingly, served as the entry point into the RS for many years. All new members entered the Academy as Cadets, were trained in an Undergraduate Wing, and then graduated into the Fleet of their choice as full-fledged members. The Academy was also home to several Graduate instruction wings, which provided more specialized training in such disciplines as custom mission creation.

Former COs include Castor Efrata-Landis (founder), Jake Blues, and Matt "Stallion" Williams (who led it twice, and was the last CO, voting to disband it).

For proposals of 2006 to revive the Academy, see Academy proposal.

Historical Academy's website: http://to.rebelsquadrons.org/academy/

Historical Academy's fictional background