STAR FLEET UNIVERSE CAPTAIN’S LOG #18 WE’RE BACK! TABLE OF CONTENTS Just when you thought that Star Fleet, HISTORY Steve Cole, and ADB were gone forever, A Dragon’s Story by Bruce Graw ........................................................... 2 we’re back, and with a vengeance. Romulan Raid by Robert Crapnel .......................................................... 7 Long-time veterans of SFB won’t be A Friend in Need by Allen Gies ............................................................16 surprised. SFB has “appeared to die” several Rank Comparison Chart .....................................................................22 times before, and each time, SFB came back Universe Notes.................................................................................26 better than ever. The long-awaited “deal” is completed, DATABASE and ADB, Inc. has purchased all “rights” held Star Fleet Communications Center: Tournaments ....................................27 by Task Force Games relating to the Star Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc., A Whole New Company..............................30 Fleet Universe (including their Paramount Input Guide......................................................................................32 license) and will in future be both After Action Reports: Recent Products...................................................33 creator/designer and publisher of all Star Command the Future: New Products.....................................................33 Fleet Univese products. TFG still exists; it Decisions of the Star Fleet Universe Board of Proposals ...........................34 just has no further connection to SFB/SFU. To Ask the Question: Why?.................................................................34 While CL#18 was first done two years Ask Kommodore Ketrick.....................................................................35 ago, it has been fully updated for May 1999. Ten Questions; Ten Reasons ..............................................................40 SFB players can look forward to the Humor ............................................................................................41 long-delayed SFB products and many new ones. Come along. It’s going to be a whole UNIVERSE new universe! Star Fleet Warlord .............................................................................42 Enter Screaming, The Paravians come to SFB........................................44 CAPTAIN’S LOG STAFF A Place on the Edge, Vudar carve out a nice in Klingon Space...................46 Publisher ........................Stephen V Cole Tournament Update by Steven P Petrick ...............................................48 Managing Editor ............. Steven P Petrick Revised Tournament Ships ............................................................ 49-51 Star Fleet Staff………Stewart Frazier, John Berg, Tony Zbaraschuk, Chuck Strong, SCENARIOS Ken Burnside, Jon Cleaves, Bruce SL167 Raiding the Nests ....................................................................52 Graw, Jeff Laikind, Cliff Yahnke, Mike SL168 Time Enough ..........................................................................53 Calhoun, Richard Eitzen. SL169 The New Player ......................................................................54 Cover Art ........................Sandy Ramirez SL170 Eye of the Needle ....................................................................55 Art on Pages 2-21...................Dan Carroll SL171 A New Threat .........................................................................56 Art on Pages 22-25 .................Steve Cole SL172 Mystery Attacker .....................................................................57 Printing.............................. Dallas Offset SL173 Hashing Around ......................................................................59 Cover ..........Trafton Printing, Inc., Amarillo TACTICS PUBLISHER’S INFORMATION Andros Rule! ....................................................................................60 Captain’s Log #18 was created and Term Papers ....................................................................................61 Published by Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc., Patrol Victory At Origins 94 by Captain Vince Weibert ..............................71 P.O. Box 8759, Amarillo, TX 79114. 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No materials based on, for use with, or incorporating elements of SFB or the Star Fleet Universe may be published without permission of ADB, Inc. Elements of the Star Fleet Universe are the property of Paramount Pictures Corporation and are used with their permission. CAPTAIN’S LOG #18 Page 1 .