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StarControl Forums
I was talking to someone earlier today and they reminded me of something I had completely forgotten about. I've talked about SFB here a lot. And those "nefarious activities"... Well, without making this a long post, back when Babylon 5 came out, and we were still somewhat of a dominant force in the world of games, we managed to, let's say... "arrange"... to sort of "take" Babylon 5 because, of course, we had already done Star Trek and doing Babylon 5 now would be really fun, right! Of course it would. So we made a Babylon 5 game kind-of "on the side, as a hobby". And in that Babylon 5 game people made lots of other things, like Battlestar Galactica... and Star Control!!!
Here is a link to the SFB Staff's take on this ships of Star Control through the eyes of "our little hobby" Babylon 5 Wars, after having taken the original player idea and "finishing it right", in our view. I can't believe I had forgotten about this for all this time, you guy's will love this:-)
www.tesarta.com/b5wars/other/starcontrol.zip
Hmm... this is one of those links that won't link, I bet one of you techies would know why. Go to the link below, pick the "Other Universes" tab on the far right, then Star Control is on that alphabetic list.
http://b5warsvault.wikidot.com/
EDIT: You might be interested to know that what you are seeing in the text document, with those lengthy and detailed explanations and justifications for the ship designs. Those were not written for the document, or as a presentation to gamers, although as you can see they did use them that way in the end... edited down a little bit. What all of that actually is, was the presentation the players were required to present to AoG, for AoG to pass to the SFB Staff, to then "finish" their ship designs for them based on their own explanations of what they were trying to achieve with their own designs. So the ships you see associated with those descriptions are the versions we sent back too them, through Admiral Graw.
JMS was a big SFB fan, and hung around the SFB Staff on GEnie before he made B5, when he was a writer for Murder She Wrote. His famous "B5 Bible" is actually just the Star Fleet Universe timeline, and many of us had seen his B5 timeline many years before it became a TV show. This is how we wound up with Babylon 5, JMS personally gave it too us... and actually did quite a bit of "Ghost Writing" for the game. Many of the core story elements found in B5 Wars were actually ghost written by JMS. The alternate Mars histories, for example, are all actually JMS himself. When I was actually on the Staff, which was back during the GEnie/JMS days and the years during B5, my nickname was not "Kavik Kang". Kang is still unpublished character I created for SFB that I took as my handle pretty much the day I retired from the staff. Official staff nicknames are given to you by SVC, and as the Romulan representative on the Joint Chiefs of Fleets SVC had given me the nickname "Marcus" because my real name is Marc (my staff code name was "Self-Destruct", which is a whole different story).
We have never bothered to ask JMS for confirmation of this, but back then I had long black hair... and looked a lot like "Marcus" on B5. Do you remember Marcus's last name... That's right, it's "Cole". Most SFB insiders believe that the Marcus Cole character is inspired by JMS's time among us on GEnie, and is a combination of my Staff nickname and Steve Cole's last name. But we've never had this confirmed.
