Federation Commander

[ApocalypseMeow]

Dear developers,

are there any news on new releases for Prime Directive? Can you tell us, if and what books are worked on? I'm most interested in Feline Empires and Tholians, though I want them all!

Best wishes

[Steve Cole]

We got too many irons in the fire a year ago and decided to finish them before starting anything else new. We've made a ton of progress on that (despite real world issues) and have finished and shipped Fighter Ops 2016, uploaded Minor Empires for PDF sales, put For the Glory of the Empire on kindle, and done several issues of communique with new ships. I am almost finished with ACTASF-DX and in another month will have CL51 out, then see how much work I have to do to finish FedAdmiral. Which sounds like "not working on RPGs" but I'm the board game guy not the RPG Gal and Jean will be working on RPGs as she moves beyond her current projects.

We want to be working on Mongoose Traveller, but we had to wait for the new rules to come out, and then wait more for them to stabilize. This is part of the current PDF system. (In the old days we tested until it was done and still found problems, so we added a new "public review of the pdf" phase. When Mongoose finishes this phase for Traveller we will jump on it.)

I want to do Tholians, Orion Pirates, Gorns and other lizards, and Feline Empires, but Jean wants to convert the existing books into other systems (FATE/Fudge, D6, and MonTrav). So we'lll do it all, but not in one day.
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[ApocalypseMeow]

Dear Steve,

first of all thank you very much for your quick and detailed reply! I really rejoiced at this. Such an immediate and friendly contact with game developers is not to be taken for granted.

[Steve Cole]

We have four books in development. (These are anthologies, not novels.)

One will be the Romulan invasion DAY OF THE EAGLE.

One will be the Klingon invasion DAY ONE

One will be random stories from the file.

One will be Federation stuff.

Lyrans? Hmm... not sure we have done enough Lyran stuff to make an anthology.
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The Guy Who Designed Fed Commander

[ApocalypseMeow]

[Itharus]

The obvious answer is to do more Lyran stuff

[ApocalypseMeow]

Dear developers,

may I politely ask if there are any sourcebooks planned for release this year or maybe next year? I am especially looking forward for further faction sourcebooks like Feline Empires, Orion Pirates, Tholians or ISC.

Additionally, do you know when War and Peace for Starmada may be published?

Thank you in advance and best wishes for you and your loved ones!

[Steve Cole]

I don't think there will be time this year for a new faction book. I have more than TEN books in my que (3xF&E, Marines, 3xFed Commander, CL55, helping Steve P with SFBX2, helping Daniel with Starmada RoW, Helping Tony with 3xACTA), Al has four (traveller), and Steve has six (all SFB stuff). I really want to do the Gorn one and will try to put it on my list after the above, but that only gets you the background; system designers will have to do traveller, d20, and GURPs.
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[ApocalypseMeow]

Thank you for your quick answer, Steve!

I will wait as long as it takes.

[Voidhawk]

Hey peeps, it's been a while since we heard news about PD Traveller. Last word was you were looking to get it out during '22 if I recall correctly. Any news on this front? Any information would be appreciated ('cause ruinning some PD Traveller is on my short-list of campaigns to do, so just scouting out a possible timeline).

[Steve Cole]

Al is working on it. I see progress reports monthly.
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