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Quote: EARTHDATE 2009.06.26
Dev Chat: June 30
Posted by Rekhan
Next Tuesday, June 30, at 11:30 a.m. Pacific time (we’re GMT -7 right now), we’ll be holding a developer’s chat in the official Star Trek Online IRC chat!
This chat’s focus will be on bridge crews, so be ready to submit your questions to the team. The chat is scheduled to last 30 minutes. If you can’t make it due to time constraints, we’ll be posting a transcript of the chat on the forums.
If you’d like to join us, point your IRC program of choice toward #STO on gamesurge.net, or click right here for a Flash client. And if you can’t make it, just reply with your question in this post’s comment thread. We’ll be selecting questions from the thread to put to the developers.
http://www.startrekonline.com/timeline/2388.1
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Zenimax, owners of the former Star Trek gaming publisher Bethesda "We screwed the Star Trek community" Softworks has just aquired possibly one of the best known independant game makers, iD Soft. iD, well known for games like the Quake series, Wolfenstein and Doom will become a sister company alongside Bethesda.
From the front page of iD's main site...
June 24, 2009 (Rockville, MD) – ZeniMax Media Inc., parent company of noted game publisher Bethesda Softworks, today announced it has completed the acquisition of legendary game studio, id Software, creators of world-renowned games such as DOOM, QUAKE, Wolfenstein, and its upcoming title, RAGE. The acquisition by ZeniMax Media joins together two of the finest, most respected videogame developers in the world, combining the first person shooter (FPS) expertise of id Software with acclaimed role playing game (RPG) developer Bethesda Game Studios – creators of the 2008 Game of the Year, Fallout 3, and the 2006 Game of the Year, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Bethesda Softworks will publish the titles of id Software other than upcoming releases previously committed to other publishers.
Founded in 1991, id Software established itself as an industry leader with some of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed video games of all time. id Software created the original first-person shooter, Wolfenstein 3D, and subsequently set new standards in the genre with the blockbuster releases of its DOOM and QUAKE titles. In addition, id Software developed cutting edge, proprietary technology with the id Tech engine which powers many notable FPS titles, and continues to make great advances in game technology under the direction of John Carmack, one of the country’s technology leaders and a member of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) Hall of Fame.
So, the idea going around that Bethesda didnt want to continue with the Star Trek franchise due to monetary issues is false, since they have just spent a fair chunk of cold hard cash buying out iD....
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Good-Bye to Star Trek Games and ChessMesss
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Well this is the weekend of the closure of ChessMess site and about 5 or 6 other sites related to Star Trek gaming that was hosted on IGN/GameSpy.
If any of the webmasters of those site's are wishing to keep their site open and need a place to host the servers that run STG has plenty of space available for larger sites. You will be able to redirect your old domain via the STG's nameservers and i will basically section off a chunk of the drive for your specific site, in other words no www.startrek-gamers.com/address here your own .com domain will point direct to your site, only difference is it will be hosted here on the STG server.
If any of the webmasters of the sites that are closing is interested send off an email to victor1st@gmail.com
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Quote: EARTHDATE 2009.06.17
The Path to 2409: 2389
Posted by Rekhan
Infighting continues among the leaders of the Romulan colony worlds. While basic needs are being met and Starfleet is delivering supplies and replicators to every world that will accept their help, the Romulans lack a stable government and the chain of command of the military is chaotic.
Throughout the course of 2389, five Romulans try to seize the emperor's throne, more than two dozen people declare themselves praetor, and at least a dozen more claim the role of supreme commander of the Romulan fleet. Most of these erstwhile leaders fall prey to quick assassinations. A fortunate few are simply ignored.
Federation analysts agree that the Romulan empire will remain in turmoil until there is a leader who is able to command the allegiance of the majority of the colony worlds. Federation diplomatic teams attempt to organize a conference where representatives from each of the colony worlds can take the first steps to establishing a new government and choosing leaders, but the Romulans cannot even agree on where the meeting should be held and the plan collapses.
The Klingon Empire takes advantage of the confusion with lightning strikes into Romulan space. The empire takes control of the Tranome Sar and Nequencia systems in a matter of days, and is poised to strike deeper into Romulan territory. The Klingons temporarily halt their advance when Starfleet sends a fleet to protect the Romulan/Klingon border, but tensions remain high and there are reports of minor skirmishes between Federation and Klingon starships.
Read on here>>
http://www.startrekonline.com/timeline/2389
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With the recent news of the final closure of ChessMess startrek-games.com blog and site and with the recent news of the "Universe" sites being hacked (although they would also close since they are hosted on IGN) it means vast swathes of the old 3rd era sites for Star Trek gaming is coming to an end.
Raven's "Universe" sites covered Bridge Commander, Starfleet Command and Elite Force and are indirectly tied to the old STGU Portal which collapsed after this site pulled out of it for various reasons. With startrek-games.com and the 3 universe sites gone, it means that more than half of the "old era" sites have simply vanished...leaving one single site left which dates back to those old days...this site.
The collapse of the 2nd era which was at the time of Activision taking over the entire franchise in 2001 seen a lot of sites close, but a lot of sites opened up to replace the closed ones, the fact is ALL of the sites which dated back to the end of the second era have closed, again, apart from this one. Never before has the Star Trek gaming fansites fell like a house of cards, this is the FIRST time i've seen something like this happen in my more than 2 decades in the community.
The 1st era had no sites to talk about since the internet was new, the 2nd era seen the old modding sites appear (like sta-mods) the old networks appear (the predecessor of this site, the clan directories) and ChessMess original site opening up 9 months after the first version of this site opened. The end of the 2nd era seen large network forums close and smaller networks (like ravens "Universe" sites) open up but with the larger sites like here and ChessMess Trek Universe Network remain open...but now...almost EVERYTHING from the old era is being wiped out.
Over the past 5 days since the news has spread out of the closure of ChessMess site and now since the news broke of the Universe network closing i've had literally hundreds of emails from all over the planet, all of them asking one question, is STG closing?
To be honest with you all over the past 6 or 7 months while my health has been on the decline for a number of weeks i was thinking of shutting up shop, or at least drastically scaling back on the size of this site since the cost of running the STG is becoming a major burden. However now with most of the large networks falling like a house of cards around this site can we close? I don't think STG could close, even if I wanted to shut the site down.
If this site closes the last remnant of the old school era's of Trek gaming goes with it, along with Star Trek Gaming FIRST Clan Directory, the mod directory, trek gamings only dedicated video site, the forums...etc etc.
You sure don't realise just how long you've spent inside a franchise until you see other sites around you start to close...and right now boy do i feel old.
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Quote: See what a real-life warp-driven starship might look like:
Think a Star Trek-like warp-drive starship is pure science fiction?
Discovery.com has asked a physicist how a real one would work and what it would look like. You can see it after the jump.
Dr. Richard Obousy shared his concept for a futuristic, yet scientifically accurate, warpship design with the site.
The physics behind the warpship is purely theoretical: "Dark energy" needs to be understood and harnessed, plus vast amounts of energy need to be generated, meaning the warpship is a technology that could only be conceived in the far future.
That said, Obousy's warpship design uses our current knowledge of spacetime and superstring theory to arrive at this futuristic concept.
The physics behind the warp drive is, as you'd expect, complex. But it is hoped that in the future mankind will learn how to harness "dark energy," an energy that is theorized to permeate the entire universe. Cosmologists are particularly interested in dark energy as it is most commonly associated with the observed expansion of the universe.
According to Obousy, the extra dimensions predicted by superstring theory could be shrunk and expanded by a warp drive through manipulation of local dark energy. At the front of the warpship spacetime would be compressed, and it would expand behind.
The shape of the warpship was chosen to optimize the manipulation of surrounding dark energy, creating ......Read the full article below
http://scifiwire.com/2009/06/see-what-a-real-life-warp.php
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Bridge Commander Hacked and probably closed for good.
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It seems that the Bridge Commander Universe site was hacked and all links accoiated with it as well.
It seems like another Star Trek gaming site is gone and I want to say I am sorry to hear this to Raven Night the BCU Administrator.Good Luck on whatever you do Raven.
full link to article Bridge Commander Universe
Good luck to the rest of the staff over there from the staff here.
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