The game has given birth to the greater Star Fleet Universe and a number of related games: Federation Space and Federation & Empire, allowing players to fight a strategic war across the known space Prime Directive, the RPG which started out with its own system, but was later adapted for use with GURPS, d20 System and d20 Modern systems Starfleet Battle Force, a card based game directly based and homaged to the classic card game Naval Wars Federation Commander, referred to by all as SFB Light, a simpler system stressing speed and ease of play over detail.
Cole, who also authored the 1st edition of Starfire), the boxed Designer's Edition, the loose-leaf Commander's Edition, and finally the loose-leaf Captain's Edition (nicknamed the Doomsday Edition since its editors figured it wouldn't be published 'til then). The game has gone through 4 editions: The micro-game pouch edition (written by Stephen V. Playable empires in Star Fleet Battles include familiar ones from the aforementioned series and new ones invented by the game's designers: The Federation, Klingons, Romulans, Gorn, Kzinti, Orion Pirates, and Tholians belong to the first group, and from the second group we have the Lyrans, Hydrans, Andromedans, WYN and ISC.
Due in part to licensing issues and in part to the desired flavor of the game, Star Fleet Battles is based solely on Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Animated Series, the Franz Joseph Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual (which is where the official SFB licence is tied to) and some other blueprints available in the late 70s the movies and later series are not considered Star Fleet Battles-canonical and the two 'verses have diverged considerably note X Ships originally drew their inspiration from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, right down to a photon torpedo launcher in the nose of the Klingon X battlecruiser but these were quickly altered when Paramount claimed copyright infringement.
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