Well, as you may have noticed, I did figure out a title for it after all. 
Anyway, this is our official thread for discussion, whining, and all that other wonderful out of context banter.
So, for some quick updates. First, a player list:
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Captain Skyblade
Rebellion President -
Kaptain Karl
Rebellion Admiral -
SilverDragon
Confed President -
RMA
Confed Admiral -
Espona
Cydonia President -
Macavenger
Diphidia II Minister of Defense -
Luke
Astex Defense Corps Head -
General Rak
Zaxted Prime Minister -
Vice Admiral Ipvicus
Darven Administrator -
Shade
Yemuro Administrator -
UE Admiral
Jadzia President -
BariSaxGuy5
Deneb III President -
Captain Carnotaur
Propus Independent Commander
Latest and hopefully last version of the rules/guidelines/definitions:
1. Use Common Sense at all times. Keep things realistic, and consider non-military consequences.
2. No new tech will be allowed. Particle Beams and Tractor Beams are researched by their respective governments; no Cloaking Devices.
3. In most cases, story takes precedence over any numbers in the guidelines, as long as it follows Rule 1.
4. Flagships may be upgraded in accordance with Rule 1. Also, a ship or two not part of a regular fleet intended for special operations of some sort may be upgraded, also under Rule 1, probably at the cost of an economic unit. Be reasonable here.
5. Each system has an economic rating indicated by the green dots on the map. Governments will get an amount of cash equal to the total of their systems units added together at the beginning of every odd page (i.e. 1,3,5 etc.).
6. Each system also has an industrial rating indicated by gray dots on the map. These are used primarily for building ships. As an approximate rule of thumb, heavy capital ships (Kestrel, Confed Cruiser, Rebel Cruiser) count approximately three points, other capital ships (Corvettes, Rebel Destroyers, Confed Frigates, large freighters) count roughly two, and fighters and other small ships count about 1/4 to 1, depending on what seems reasonable (i.e. Defenders probably about 1/4, Rapiers around 1). Ship parts replenish once used at an undefined rate, but about every page seems a reasonable rule of thumb.
7. Ships may be built at any time outside of combat, as long as the fleet is stopped at a planet with at least some shipbuilding industry (industrial points). The fleet cant do anything else in that post. Purchased ships cost an amount of money (economic points) equal to the industrial points used to get them.
8. Fleets move along the standard EV jump links as marked on the map. Generally, ship with least fuel would be a good guideline as to how far to go with each post, but you can go as far as seems reasonable if necessary.
9. Defense fleets should be sized somewhere around the total economic and industrial points of their system multiplied by three, with that many points worth of ships in the fleet.
10. Points are allotted to construct starting fleets based on the number of total economic or industrial points times ten, whichever is less. Points are given to the government to divide however they choose, not to individual players.
11. Fleet sizes should be kept fairly low; 25-30 ships per fleet is a good rule of thumb. Fleets can be added, split, merged, or dissolved whenever a government wants, but try to keep them around this size most of the time except for specific major offensives.
12. Please, please, please post your fleet statistics and position at the end of each post! It makes it much easier to keep track of whats going on. Thank you.
13. Please dont attack any governments before at least one of their players has posted a move of some sort, something more substantial than background info.
Now, just so were all clear, starting stuff. Listed below are all the currently active governments and how many points they should have to form their initial fleets:
Rebellion: 340
Confederation: 350
Pirates: 90
Cydonia: 20
Diphidia: 10
Zaxted: 40
Yemuro: 30
Darven: 20
Jadzia: 30
Deneb: 10
For potential new players, a list of open positions:
Lethean President
Confed Admiral
Rebel Admiral
Pirate Commander
President of any other independent world not taken thus far.
On a final note about my first post: The message at the end is actually for Captain Skyblade, though context considerations dictated it be addressed to an NPC instead. So, let me know on that the same way, will you Skyblade?
And for anyone who cant figure it out, Morgan Anderson is my character. Youll notice the similarity of initials. 
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- Macavenger | e-mail: (url="http://"mailto:e-gamerguy1@attbi.com")mailto:e-gamerguy1@attbi.com(/url)e-gamerguy1@attbi.com
