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Ask your questions. Mike Curtis is the FEAR (F&E Answer Rapporteur) who works for GOD (Game's Overworked Designer). FEAR works with FEDS (F&E Department Supervisor) Chuck Strong.

Remember, before asking a question, it is the player's responsibility to fully research the question at hand. It is your responsibility to check past rulings for answers to your question. This is easily accomplished by a keyword search or by copying the rulings file into your computer and using "search."

If you have information (not an answer, but information) regarding a question posted here, please post it in the F&E Q&A Discussions.

FEAR may provide only abbreviated replies to questions that have been answered before. FEAR may provide abrupt replies to questions asked time and time again in a different way in an attempt to get an answer the player wants to hear instead of what has been ruled on in the past.

FEAR's answers stand with the Force of Rules unless overturned on appeal. Mike may, privately, ask for help from FERT (F&E Review Team) or Chuck or GOD. The appeal procedure is as follows:

Step 1: Direct appeal to Mike, pointing out any evidence you think he missed. (Hint: You should have mentioned this evidence when you asked.)

Step 2: Second appeal to Mike, who will send your question and evidence, his ruling, and your appeal to Chuck Strong. (Note: Sometimes staffers will send this kind of appeal to Mike even without anyone knowing the answer was challenged.)

Step 3: Chuck reviews the matter and may either confirm Mike's answer, expand or modify it, overrule it, or refer the matter to Steve Cole. Chuck's answer has the Force of Rule until SVC speaks on the issue.

Step 4: SVC may confirm Mike/Chuck's answer, expand or modify it, rewrite the original rule, or issue a different interpretation. If SVC needs help, he has the FERT (F&E Review Team) to confer with.
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By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Wednesday, June 24, 2026 - 01:12 pm: Edit

Question: in the Civil Wars Map Pack, on the first map (Expanded Kzinti Space), there is in hex 150Z a square marker labeled "A" with "WAYPOINT" above it; over in the upper right-hand corner, partially covered by a black impassable zone, is another square marker labeled "B".

I cannot find any reference to these in the Civil Wars Rulebook; are they just artifacts from a previous draft, or are they something else?

By Mike Curtis (Fear) on Wednesday, June 24, 2026 - 01:48 pm: Edit

It is an artifact pulled from the LSM primary document and will be eliminated in the final product. They are part of the off map path for Commercial Convoys for the main game.

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Wednesday, June 24, 2026 - 03:44 pm: Edit

Thank you, Mike.

By Gary Carney (Nerroth) on Wednesday, August 12, 2026 - 11:07 pm: Edit

At this time of typing, there are rules for non-X Federation Express transports under (539.3) in the 2022 revision of the Strategic Operations rulebook.

Over in Star Fleet Battles Module X1, there is a first-generation X-ship iteration of this transport type, under (R1.203).

Have any rules or SIT entries been published for the FXX to date? Or, if not, might it be a potential candidate for a future F&E product - or, perhaps, a future issue of Captain's Log - to consider outlining?

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Tuesday, August 18, 2026 - 08:20 pm: Edit

Did we ever get a FEAR or FEDS ruling on this back in 2025 I don't see it:

By Mike Erickson (Mike_Erickson) on Monday, March 24, 2025 - 10:13 pm: Edit
The TO SIT (and the corresponding SFB MSSB) indicate YIS of most of the light PFTs as prior to PF1:

EmpireUnitYISPF1DeltaMSSB
LyranDWYY175S-Y1783 years before(R11.91)
KzintiDWYY175F-Y1805 years before(R5.108)
KlingonF5YY177F-Y1781 years before(R3.157)
GornBYDY178S-Y1824 years before(R6.95)
HydranDWYY178F-Y1791 years before(R9.117)
RomulanCHY182F-Y1811 years after(R4.13)

*The only one with a YIS after PF1 is the Romulan.

By Mike Erickson (Mike_Erickson) on Monday, March 24, 2025 - 10:33 pm: Edit

Bill Powell posited that "races who are scheduled to build these Light PFTs on the TACOP SIT are allowed to do so, paying the price listed on the SIT, and replacing those attrition units as needed."

Mike agrees saying "Yes, that's how I read it. I'd further read...
"(551.413) Any empire can produce one of these light PFTs per year above the PFT limit; any further light PFT production counts against the PFT limit."
...to mean the limit on pre-PF1 light PFT production to be 1 per year by any means."
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We have come to Y175 in our game and wonder since the YIS date is listed as Y175 in both F&E and corresponding SFB materials does that mean these can be constructed as Bill and Mike suggest and do they represent a precursory (test bed ship) PF or Interceptor transition period for each empire?

Mike and Bill suggest in their posts of the time:
ONE per year from the YIS date and they must pay for initial constructs of attrition units and any attrition replacements.

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