FEDERATION ARCHIVE

Want to find out what happened in Fed before you started to play? Or remind yourself of something you remember from the dim and distant past? The Federation Archives is the place to look.

The Archives contain material relating to many different versions of Federation, from the present going right back to the creation of the universe itself:

Federation2
Classic Fed on the Web
AOL Fed
GEnie/Aries Fed
Compunet Fed

FEDERATION2

Fed2 Star News Yearbooks

CLASSIC FED ON THE WEB

The Federation Chronicle News Archives:

Federation Chronicle News Yearbooks
Web Fed Award-winning Planets

Classic Fed Interviews:

A regular event held in Fed over the years has been interviews of prominent players. The events initially concentrated on the highest rank, Duke - hence the name, Duchy Review - but later expanded its remit to cover other ranks, changing its name to Meet and Greet. All the transcripts of these interviews are here:

Duchy Review/Meet and Greet

AOL FED

AOL News Yearbooks
Award-winning Planets

GENIE/ARIES FED

Before AOL Fed, there was GEnie Fed, which later became Aries Fed. This version of the game had a weekly news bulletin, just like we do now. Here are the all the news bulletins from those years, just as they were published then - typos and all!

1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996

COMPUNET FED

The very first version of Federation, starting back in 1988, was Compunet Fed. You can read reports of what happened in those early days:

Fed's First Year

The Making of the Idiot's Guide

Here's some images from the early days of Compunet Fed:

A set of maps made by a player

The DataSpace newsletter sent out to Compunet Fed players

And you can read each of the news bulletins, which were written by Diesel giving her view of life as she saw it from Chez Diesel. They were called Line Noise because in the days before error-correcting modems, line noise was something that seriously affected game-players!

The Line Noise news bulletins were not produced on a regular schedule; they appeared whenever there was anything interesting to report. They were semi-official because they often contained advance information about changes and new features.

Actually, they were written by Fi Craig (who you now know as Hazed) who at the time was just a player called Pugwash.

Line Noise Introduction

Line Noise 1988

Line Noise 1989

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