Welcome to the Star Fleet Universe!
The Star Fleet Universe has been thriving and growing for over 30 years. Produced under license from Franz Joseph Designs and a contract with Paramount Pictures Corporation, Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc. has constructed an internally logical and consistent universe from elements within Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Animated Series. Welcome to our universe!
ADB, Inc. entered into a joint venture contract with Mongoose Publishing, freeing the way to jointly produce A Call to Arms: Star Fleet, Starline 2500 miniatures, and Traveller: Prime Directive. The grand thing is that our contract never dies. As long as players buy the products, we will produce them. You'll have a wide range of ships and empires to explore. Yes, we have the Federation, Klingons, and Romulans. We also have the Tholians, Gorns, and Kzintis (not Larry Niven's Kzin, but our own Kzintis). We also have the Hydrans with their fighters and hellbores, the Lyrans with their expanding sphere generators, the Vudar with their ion storm generators, and the Inter-Stellar Concordium who keep the peace with an attitude and plasmatic pulsar devices. Then there are the mysterious Andromedan invaders whose ships do things no other empire ever accomplished. And that's just touching on the Alpha Octant of the galaxy!
Part of having a contract that doesn't expire is that it comes with some restrictions. We have to ask our players to abide within those restrictions because we cannot be accused of using players to "sneak around" the contract terms.
Housekeeping
We always use Star Fleet and never "Starfleet." The latter term belongs to Paramount and we don't want anyone getting confused about the two different properties.
We don't get to use the Enterprise or the crew members that appear in Paramount's television shows. However, you will meet famous (and infamous) characters such as Phil Kosnett, Deth O'Kay, Ardak Kumerian, and Olivette Roche. Around your gaming table you are free to name your characters whatever you wish -- neither Steve nor Matthew will beam in and snatch your game out of your hands! However, if you want to write about your Captain on our boards, he'll have to appear under an alias so as not to be confused with Paramount's intellectual property.
We cannot stat up ships or characters or species from the later series and movies that are Paramount's intellectual property. We can't let our players do it for us, even if they try to blur they are doing so. So we cannot have the alien Sporks in their cube-shaped ships. However, we are always happy to see people write up their gaming experiences, just please don't mention things outside our our contact when you do it.
Our Kzintis are uniquely ours. Tiger-like warriors, no male Kzinti would suggest his mate was not intelligent -- unless he just was looking for a fight or liked sleeping on the back porch! You will no doubt notice that our Kzintis are never shortened to Kzin. (For us, the plural of Gorn is Gorns, too.)
No one likes a thief and people who steal other people's intellectual property are thieves. We are not the IP police, but if we find out there is a site that has material that violates our IP, we will take direct action. If it violates Paramount's IP, then we are obligated to report that to Paramount. What they do with the information is their business. We cannot allow people to do things that break our license on our official boards. We also cannot allow people to suggest
places to go where they can break our license or find others who have done so. That falls under finding out that a site has material that violates our IP. Think of it this way: Would you discuss where and how to buy a term paper while you were standing in front of your professor?
We don't like people to steal our property; we'd be hypocrites to allow that to happen on our boards even with somebody else's property. We cannot aid and abet statting up properties that belong to someone else. One, it is illegal. Two, if you like the property that much, then you'd probably like to see it properly produced. It hurts Mongoose's chances to work a legal deal if there's a bunch of stolen stuff on their site.
On the other hand, there are a lot of worlds out there and nothing says you cannot create your own species and their ships. Maybe they are just stepping into space; perhaps they were tossed here via a space rift. Who knows -- if you can create a balanced empire (or empires), maybe you'll find your creation published! That is how the Borak came to be.
Cast of Characters
Matthew Sprange you know as your host and president of Mongoose Publishing.
Steve Cole (aka Stephen V. Cole, PE, sometimes called SVC as there are entirely too many Steves at ADB, Inc.) is the designer of games such as Star Fleet Battles, Federation & Empire, and Federation Commander. He is also president of Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc.
Tony L. Thomas (scoutdad) is the Q&A guy for ACTASF on ADB's Discus-based BBS system and on the Federation Commander Forums.
Jean Sexton (Jean) does some marketing and public relations for ADB, proofreads and edits nearly everything they print, and edits the RPG line. She works at a RL job as well and manages to squeeze in a bit of sleep now and then. (You might not believe it if you watch when she posts, but there are at least rumors that she snoozes sometimes.) She may not know an answer to a question, but she will ruthlessly bug SVC until he gives her an answer that she can repost here.
So there you have it -- a well-developed universe with a rich background and history. We hope you enjoy it and visit often.
The Star Fleet Universe has been thriving and growing for over 30 years. Produced under license from Franz Joseph Designs and a contract with Paramount Pictures Corporation, Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc. has constructed an internally logical and consistent universe from elements within Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Animated Series. Welcome to our universe!
ADB, Inc. entered into a joint venture contract with Mongoose Publishing, freeing the way to jointly produce A Call to Arms: Star Fleet, Starline 2500 miniatures, and Traveller: Prime Directive. The grand thing is that our contract never dies. As long as players buy the products, we will produce them. You'll have a wide range of ships and empires to explore. Yes, we have the Federation, Klingons, and Romulans. We also have the Tholians, Gorns, and Kzintis (not Larry Niven's Kzin, but our own Kzintis). We also have the Hydrans with their fighters and hellbores, the Lyrans with their expanding sphere generators, the Vudar with their ion storm generators, and the Inter-Stellar Concordium who keep the peace with an attitude and plasmatic pulsar devices. Then there are the mysterious Andromedan invaders whose ships do things no other empire ever accomplished. And that's just touching on the Alpha Octant of the galaxy!
Part of having a contract that doesn't expire is that it comes with some restrictions. We have to ask our players to abide within those restrictions because we cannot be accused of using players to "sneak around" the contract terms.
Housekeeping
We always use Star Fleet and never "Starfleet." The latter term belongs to Paramount and we don't want anyone getting confused about the two different properties.
We don't get to use the Enterprise or the crew members that appear in Paramount's television shows. However, you will meet famous (and infamous) characters such as Phil Kosnett, Deth O'Kay, Ardak Kumerian, and Olivette Roche. Around your gaming table you are free to name your characters whatever you wish -- neither Steve nor Matthew will beam in and snatch your game out of your hands! However, if you want to write about your Captain on our boards, he'll have to appear under an alias so as not to be confused with Paramount's intellectual property.
We cannot stat up ships or characters or species from the later series and movies that are Paramount's intellectual property. We can't let our players do it for us, even if they try to blur they are doing so. So we cannot have the alien Sporks in their cube-shaped ships. However, we are always happy to see people write up their gaming experiences, just please don't mention things outside our our contact when you do it.
Our Kzintis are uniquely ours. Tiger-like warriors, no male Kzinti would suggest his mate was not intelligent -- unless he just was looking for a fight or liked sleeping on the back porch! You will no doubt notice that our Kzintis are never shortened to Kzin. (For us, the plural of Gorn is Gorns, too.)
No one likes a thief and people who steal other people's intellectual property are thieves. We are not the IP police, but if we find out there is a site that has material that violates our IP, we will take direct action. If it violates Paramount's IP, then we are obligated to report that to Paramount. What they do with the information is their business. We cannot allow people to do things that break our license on our official boards. We also cannot allow people to suggest
places to go where they can break our license or find others who have done so. That falls under finding out that a site has material that violates our IP. Think of it this way: Would you discuss where and how to buy a term paper while you were standing in front of your professor?
We don't like people to steal our property; we'd be hypocrites to allow that to happen on our boards even with somebody else's property. We cannot aid and abet statting up properties that belong to someone else. One, it is illegal. Two, if you like the property that much, then you'd probably like to see it properly produced. It hurts Mongoose's chances to work a legal deal if there's a bunch of stolen stuff on their site.
On the other hand, there are a lot of worlds out there and nothing says you cannot create your own species and their ships. Maybe they are just stepping into space; perhaps they were tossed here via a space rift. Who knows -- if you can create a balanced empire (or empires), maybe you'll find your creation published! That is how the Borak came to be.
Cast of Characters
Matthew Sprange you know as your host and president of Mongoose Publishing.
Steve Cole (aka Stephen V. Cole, PE, sometimes called SVC as there are entirely too many Steves at ADB, Inc.) is the designer of games such as Star Fleet Battles, Federation & Empire, and Federation Commander. He is also president of Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc.
Tony L. Thomas (scoutdad) is the Q&A guy for ACTASF on ADB's Discus-based BBS system and on the Federation Commander Forums.
Jean Sexton (Jean) does some marketing and public relations for ADB, proofreads and edits nearly everything they print, and edits the RPG line. She works at a RL job as well and manages to squeeze in a bit of sleep now and then. (You might not believe it if you watch when she posts, but there are at least rumors that she snoozes sometimes.) She may not know an answer to a question, but she will ruthlessly bug SVC until he gives her an answer that she can repost here.
So there you have it -- a well-developed universe with a rich background and history. We hope you enjoy it and visit often.