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STARFIRE is an original game of starship combat and interstellar empire building. Originally written by Steve Cole in 1976, the game system was expanded in the 1980's and 1990's and based on the books by David Weber. In 2000 GALACTIC STARFIRE was released, which has evolved into the current ULTRA STARFIRE edition.
STARFIRE's unique combat system allows players to build their own fleets of starships and annihilate those fleets in only a few hours play time. Fans of 4X (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) games will enjoy that STARFIRE has a campaign system that allows you to build an alien empire, control every facet of its development, and attempt to conquer a galaxy full of players and/or non-players alike.
Take a look at our Introduction to STARFIRE for a more detailed look at the STARFIRE game system, check out the Downloads Page for free files, or head over to our Ordering Page if you want to see what products are currently available.
Thirteen months ago we re-launched the STARFIRE website with the goal of rebuilding the community and bringing back support to all versions of STARFIRE. Today we have broken the 4000 post barrier in our community, and we have 185 players who have signed up for the forums.
Over here in the forums I have posted an update and a thank you to YOU, the players and supporters of STARFIRE, and a little bit about where we've been and where we'd like to go. I want to give a big "THANK YOU!" to all of the STARFIRE players and to Marvin Lamb for giving me the opportunity to work on my favorite hobby. I also want to thank Larry and Fred, the other two members of the SDS, for all of the work we've done together. Without you guys this website would be less than it is, and it would have been a far lonelier road to travel.
I look forward to another year that will be more successful than the last! We have a big universe to conquer!
Just an update, Xveers has graciously allowed me to work with his spreadsheet to create a custom version for the TSU campaign behind the storyline. The goal is to create a spreadsheet that can be used with the custom system generation and optional ULTRA rules that are being used.
A result of this is a custom spreadsheet will be available for download from the story section of the site in both linking and non-linking versions. It will likely change all the time as campaign requirements need change, and as Xveers makes new updates. And I am very close to having an initial version for release. I will also explain more about the unique changes for the TSU campaign in the TSU fiction section in the forum. So keep an eye out for the update.
Over the last few days we've made some updates to various parts of the website. Mostly content alterations, as well as corrections of typos and such, we'll probably keep making changes as the TSU story evolves.
Dwargon has submitted a conversion of the updated ULTRA spreadsheets in Open Office format. You can find it in the downloads section under 'ULTRA', or directly from here. Dwargon asks that any bugs be submitted to him via private message in the forums, and he will try to fix and update the sheets as time permits.
PracticalM was kind enough to build a help file for the ULTRA-updated version of Marvin's Spreadsheets we put on the downloads a few days ago. You can either grab the help file from the link in the spreadsheet download's description, or from this link here.