Contact

There are several ways to contact SWTA/SWS staff members, or join the community, ordered in quickness in response time:

IRC @ irc.gnug.org #swta
Forums
Email (see staff profiles below)

Staff

SWTA has been in development for nearly a decade now, basically ever since TA was released. Over the years the team has changed significantly. This is the current SWTA/SWS team.

Gnome

SWTA Since: Early/mid 2005
Skills: Can do just about anything, from modelling to scripting to webpage editing.
IRL: Gnome is a grade-A lazy .. person. He spends most of his time on IRC mocking Warlord Zsinj for being four days younger than him.
email: gnomre@gmail

Warlord Zsinj

SWTA Since: About mid-2000.
Skills: Unit Suggestions, Promotion of Unit Suggestions, Game Balance, 3D Modelling, Skinning.
IRL: Zsinj lives in Australia and spends most of his free time coming up with plans for global domination. We are not kidding. He is a fantastically-gifted 3D modeller who has contributed many models to SWTA; unfortunately, most of them are too detailed for us to use! Gloriously, that situation has changed with the release of Spring :)

Vassago

SWS Since: June 2006
Skills: Skinning, some modelling
IRL: Vassago has worked on several commercial titles throughout his 8-year career based in the western US. His first skin required long-time #swta idler KeZx to become the permanent drool mopper of the channel.

zwzsg

SWTA Since: Mid-2005
Skills: Scripting and other strange engine abuses
IRL: zwzsg is our French scripter, the man behind our most complex scripts for Pack 6. He's the go-to man when there's a bug that can't be solved or a box that can't be thought outside of.

SecurE

SWTA Since: Long ago
Skills: Game balance, bugfinding (he WILL find your bugs), mapping, busywork.
IRL: Secure's our Finnish representative. He mainly just playtests the mod, be it for balance or bugs. Secure is also often tasked with menial, repetitive tasks which Gnome is too lazy to do himself. He can also make good maps for Spring, however, it takes a lot of coaxing!

Since the mod is so old, it's natural to assume some team members have moved on to greater things. While they still poke around and say hello from time to time, they don't do much actual work anymore. These are the guys who made the mod in the first place, and are easily the most important members the team has ever had.

HANSOLO

SWTA Since: Very nearly the beginning. Has been involved in one way or another since 1997 when TA was released. He's the longest serving active member of SWTA.
Skills: Unit R&D, 3D Modelling, Animation, AI and general all-round TA knowledge.
IRL: HANSOLO is a games designer at a publisher in the UK. When he's not forcing co-workers to do SWTA work, HAN is often found in the shower or ironing his socks.
email: HANSOLO@PA

Element 115

SWTA Since: The 'SWTA' and 'TheForce' merger back in 1999. He went from running the map and mission site 'T-Total' on TA Universe to joining SWTA as a mission guy. E115 ended up running SWTA single-handedly for a few months when all the members went AWOL.
Skills: Game Balance, Mapping, Missions and AI.
IRL: E115 is currently at University in the UK. When he's at home, he is often found in the local drinking holes. Rumour has it that on occasion HANSOLO even ventures out as well.
email: E115@PA

Influenza

SWTA Since: Back in 2000, when E115 re-built the SWTA team. He has hung around since then, despite HANSOLO's best efforts to remove him through IRC ban/kicks.
Skills: Game Balance, Unit R&D, 3D Modelling, Animation.
IRL: Influenza is the token American on the SWTA team. He currently attends 'college' in the US. He often has dreams about coming over to the UK to see E115 and HANSOLO, and be taken out to an English pub.
email: Influenza@PA

Kamikaze

SWTA Since: Spring 2002. We received a message over IRC that a mysterious "Kamikaze" character was interested in doing some models for us. We were highly impressed by his work and asked him to join us full-time when former team member Locust99 left the squad.
Skills: 3D Modelling, Unit R&D.
IRL: In addition to being one of the few people on the Internet who can spell "Kamikaze" right, Kami lives in Holland, where he attends high school while working part-time at the local grocery store. If you've ever had bad a bad encounter with a grocery store worker, chances are it was our own Kamikaze!
email: w.roulaux@chello.nl

SOI Sentinel

SWTA Since: Long ago
Skills: Scripting
IRL: SOI is a mad engineer who enjoys building rockets and robots in his spare time, between plots for bombing Australia. He was the team's master scripter before real life caught up with him.

The following individuals are not part of the core team but deserve special recognition. All are long-time fans who have contributed much time and effort to developing and expanding the SWTA experience.

The_StarWarz_Dude

SWTA Since: Prior to any SWTA pack, when the only thing we had to show for ourselves was a handful of unbalanced units for OTA.
Skills: Game Balance, 3D Modelling, Encouragement
IRL: TSWD is a constant face on our IRC channel; his days are jam-packed between school, sleeping, and chatting. He regularly contributes models and corpses to the project whenever we don't feel like doing any work, and then prompty harasses us to the point where we suddenly feel like working again. If not for him, we'd probably never release anything...

Fes2001

SWTA Since: He just pestered us on the forums since 2001, often saying things like "Hoth is mine"...
Skills: Game Balance, Mapping.
IRL: Fes0r is our youngest member; he's not even allowed to cross the road on his own yet ;-P.

Wettis

SWTA Since: Wettis started off on the forums in 2001, but quickly emerged as someone with great ideas.
Skills: Game Balance.
IRL: Wettis is the biggest SWTA fan in all of Sweden. He's also an exceptional SWTA player who thoroughly enjoys harassing Influenza about various balancing issues, many of which have cost him humiliating defeats to 'Flu. He enjoys speaking in Swedish, as no other SWTA member can understand a word he's saying.

DragonMaster45

SWTA Since: Early 2001.
Skills: Unit Suggestions, Game Balance.
IRL: Dragon attends high school in the US. He also runs the promising Star Wars Total Annihilation: War In Space (TAWIS) mod, which features Star Wars starships battling using the TA engine.

Kirk

SWTA Since: Early 2002.
Skills: Unit R&D.
IRL: Kirk is a student often involved in TA things, doing all kinds of stuff. He's contributed many a work-around to the SWTA team in his short time visiting the IRC channel. He often notices during examinations that he hasn't time for TA; but hey, who cares about homework?

Disclaimer

SWTA and all it's content is a work of fan fiction. Star Wars, and all associated content (whether trademarked, copyrighted or otherwise protected by federal, state or other intellectual property law) are property of LucasFilm Ltd. We produce SWTA for our own use, and for the enjoyment of our fans. We make no profit, and do not feel that it is detrimental to the Star Wars name, brand or license as a whole. Questions should be directed to HANSOLO.