1st of July 2011 was the first day of operation for the ToS Normandie, i still remember how euphoric i have been when i finally held her deed in my hands, when i took all upgrade modules with me in the first hour of this day on my flight from calypso to next island spacestation where she was located and when i finally put the energy source in her and awakened her to life.
So much has happened since then as we traveled through space every single night doing space exploration, space hunts and space pvp learning everything there is to be known about space and spacecrafts, getting to know new people nearly every day, growing the most experienced and skilled spacecrew and developing 'Mandie' into the strongest and most upgraded mothership in space.
Many friendships grew during this time beyond the crew and passengers as we worked together to make sure every single passenger since then always traveled safe and secure on the Normandie and no passenger ever lost his loot.
We even grew a highly successful radiostation during this time - Normandie Radio starting out onboard of the Normandie has made itself a name, being listened to on many planets by lots of gamers.
Today on the 1st of july 2012 Mandie celebrates her first birthday with 860 performed warpflights and over 400 different avatars who have relied on our service to travel secure through space !
At this point i want to say thank you, thank you to our customers for trusting in our service, thank you to the crew for your dedication and reliability in securing our passenger flights (there is so many names to mention, but i prefer not to name everyone due to security reasons, but 3 names i want to mention here: Yoshii, Dusk and Remah you have truly repaired Mandie with your heartblood), thank you to our grand commanding officers exspecially second lieutenant Tengu and first lieutenant Slay - endless times you have taken over and kept Mandie safe when the ships captain or myself were busy dealing on other matters. Thank you to our reliable gunners in securing all our flights always ready to shoot. Congratulation gunner Hype, you have truly earned your piloting rights on the Normandie and i know you will care for her safety as pilot even more then as gunner. My special thank you at this place goes to Jaywalker, you have been a dedicated repaircrew member but were you have really excelled was in keeping up our boarding team during all this time always going down on the planets and making sure our new passengers get the informations they need. Thank you to Electro for following Jay in her footsteps, together you make an amazing team.
One person has been there at my side keeping Mandie her crew and her passengers secure and on schedule during this whole year more then any other always ready to jump in when i was busy dealing on customer matters or when i was on vacation and just doing the summons - Alaina you are one awesome captain and we are blessed for having Mandie under your command
Going into the second year of operation there is a change to one of our scheduled flights:
The sunday cyrene flight will be canceled and replaced with the following flightlane valid from today onwards.
Sunday 20.30ma summoning from Calypso - 20.40ma departure to Rocktropia
Sunday 21.30ma summoning from Rocktropia - 21.40ma departure to Calypso
As we celebrate one year of sucessful operation the Normandie will be running her scheduled flights from today till 8th of july (sunday to sunday) free of charge and all existing subscriptions will be prelonged by 10days for free !!!
Please also read up about the event that will run during this free flight week -
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?229370-Free-Warp-flights!-Happy-Birthday-Mandie!&p=2964506&posted=1#post2964506