Need Players! From: dpierce@erinet.com (Daniel Pierce) Date: Mon, 08 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000 From Unit 16: Announcing Interstellar Traders! Interstellar Traders is a free to play open-ended computer moderated play-by-email science fiction space opera game for any number of players. Players own and operate a merchantman starship, trading between planets, star bases and starports across the galaxy. Your goal is to survive the other cut-throat merchants, vast alien empires and changing economic prices, getting filthy rich in the process. There is no end to the game, you set your own objectives and agenda. There is no beginning, one can join at any time. Interstellar Traders has been open since March 1, with turns being run twice per week on Tuesday and Friday at midnight. To learn more about Interstellar Traders, e-mail for the rules at dpierce@erinet.com. What is Interstellar Traders? I.T. is a game of individual merchant traders who each own one starship in a galaxy of empires. As you travel from system to system you will trade raw materials at star bases, earning credits which will allow you to purchase more equipment and weapons for you starship. Some empires will be friendly, others will shoot you on sight. You start at a Star League Star Port with up-to-date lists showing where you can trade at other locations. Besides other merchants you will interact with the large empires of Galactic Empires. The importance of being a trader: You are the only people who can safely travel into just about any location. Although no one empire is your ally, you start with no enemies either. Also, no one empire has the ability to build all the possible things in the game. You can act as arms dealer for empires who would rather not advertise that they may buy weapons from the Star League. Remember, you are like Harcourt Fenton Mudd, any Ferrengi merchant, Sir Francis Drake, Sindbad the sailor and Han Solo. **************************** Announcing Galactic Empires! We are up and running Galactic Empires, which is a $1.00 per turn pay electronic play-by-e-mail science fiction space opera game of exploration, colonization, diplomacy, and war. It has any number of players, all in the same game. If you want to become the terror of the galaxy, sign up now! What is Galactic Empires? Galactic Empires is a game of interstellar empire building amoung many other empires and other types of players. There is no end to the game, you set your own objectives and agenda. You start with a planet, a few ships, and a short list of other star systems. The rest is up to you. Unique to this game is the concept of "parents". A parent is the large computer or human run empire which you can declare yourself to be a part of. All the other players who have the same parent are really part of the same empire. If you, and a few of your friends are in the game and you declare the Federation to be your parent, then collectively, you and your friends ARE the Federation. Where you colonize, the parent will send people too. Where your planets, bases, colonies are, the parent will send ships to patrol. Where you have bases, the parent will send cargo ships to transport resources. Where you attack, the parent's largest battleships _may_ be automatically sent to attack too. Even the smallest, weakest players can be part of a vast empire, helping to set policy and long term goals, with the same technology level and abilities of the parent. A short list of the main actors of the galaxy: Formost and oldest of the empires is the Star League. They inhabit enormous star ports and build most of the starships that you will see. They have a star port in most sectors of the galaxy where you usually can get the highest profits on basic resources and get repairs done on your ships. All of the Star League star ports are 'open' locations where no one is permitted to fire upon another. Next in size is the Federation. They are the main muscle in the galaxy, owning hundreds of planets and starships. They try to set the law where ever they can. As they have spent most of their history blowing things up, they can build Planet Busters and Genesis Devices. Friends, but not to close, of the Federation is the Antares Confederacy. Their empire is a loose confederation of smaller, independent empires. They can build Cloaking Devices and Solar Stabilisers. Next are the Dreenoi, a very alien empire. Dreenoi are bugs. Very large bugs with nuclear weapons. They breed like bugs. They don't like non-hive, non-insectoid races and view most humanoids as food. Their goal is to inhabit every system. Your home may be next on their list of targets for tonight. In the dark between the stars you can almost hear them munching. Somewhere in between are the Cyborgs. Half human, half machine, with a hive mentality that sometimes seems aimless and contradictary. They will ally with you one day and blow you away the next. Last and worst of all are the Mechs. No one knows what evil empire's twisted genius created these metal monsters from hell. We can only hope he was the first to die. The Mechs goal is to stamp out all organic life in the universe. They have immense hyper jumping space stations which can overpower any opposition and vaporize entire planets. Rumors talk in wispers of another empire, the Boskone. No one knows of this empire, where they are from, or even if they are humanoid. All the evil of the galaxy is laid at their door step and they are said to be involved in all the crime going on in the more civilized sectors. The Federation claims that Boskone is running drugs into their class 10 planets with no regard for the law. Some merchants, suspected of smuggling drugs, have been blown up by the Federation. Drugs have been coming into Federation and Antares space from somewhere and no one is talking. Players are need to take the lead running the Klingon, Vulcan, Romulan, Ferrengi, Gorn, and all other Startrek positions. In other parts of the galaxy: The Earth Alliance, Mimbari, Centauri, Narn, and Shadow positions need players. In region 10 the Imperial Empire needs you, along with the Republic and many independants. To sign up for the game, get a copy of the rules, or if you have any other questions, email to dpierce@erinet.com (Daniel Pierce). ----- ---------------------------------------------------- : \ | / : Programming Services, Unit 16 : :-- * --: dpierce@erinet.com - Daniel Pierce : : / | \ : Pacunium-non-fumo! - Money doesn't stink : ---------------------------------------------------- � Up