Amarillo Design Bureau
SKU: ADB5720
This June 2000 issue was inspired by a piece of cover art that Andy Goodwin submitted. We liked it so much that we had a contest to write a story to match it, and printed the best three stories. It was 112 pages long.
HISTORY includes the three stories (and nothing else – the stories took up 21 pages).
COMMUNICATIONS continues as a department. (Some of these were elements that moved to Database in later issues.) This includes:
- Conventions
- Tournaments
- Awards
- After Action
- Command the Future
- Dirty Little Secrets of Mail Order
- Input Guide
- Proposals Board
- Why
- Ten Questions
- And Ask Ketrick.
VENUES includes:
- Star Fleet Warlord
- Play by Email
-
Star Fleet Battles On Line
- Galactic Conquest
- And Star Fleet Command.
DATABASE remained the place for new SFB material, including articles on:
- The Omega Sector
- Shipyard Report
- the Uthicki (a new Magellanic empire)
- Battle Force 600
- An example of black hole movement
- New stuff for Prime Directive
- Brothers of the Anarchist
- And Murphy's Laws of SFB.
SCENARIOS includes five new ones (SL178 to SL182).
TACTICS includes Victory on Line and several pages of Term papers.
FEDERATION & EMPIRE includes:
- News about the upcoming Advanced Operations, Rules & Rulings
- Another look at SIDS
- Marine Assault
- The War Plans File
- Tactical Notes
- Economic Notes
- And the first draft of Depot Level Repair.
NEW SHIPS for SFB include:
- Four for Omega
- Six Magellanics
- Klingon ships for the Middle Years
- And Kzinti light cruiser variants.
Written by Stephen Cole
