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<i>''Editor-in-Chief</i>''<br />
<i>''Columnist</i>''<br />
<i>''Columnist</i>''<br />
<i>''Guest Columnist</i>''<br />
<b>'''Why do we use certain formatting on the boards?</b>'''<br />
<b>'''How come we can only use white for the colour of our posts, and not a different colour?</b>'''<br />
<b>'''Who is the player behind Jimmy “The Weasel” Fratianno, The Tribble is hilarious!</b>'''<br />
<b>'''How do I become an Academy Instructor?</b> ''' <br />
<i>''Have a question for Abby? Please email our [mailto:fnn.editor@gmail.com Editor-in-Chief!]</i>''
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<b>'''Age, Sex, Location?</b>'''<br />
<b>'''Who was your first character on the site?</b>'''<br />
<b>'''What brought you to FedSpace?</b>'''<br />
<b>'''Tell me a little about the process of developing your character.</b>'''<br />
<b>'''Do you think it is easier or more difficult to play someone based on yourself?</b>'''<br />
<b>'''So far, what is your favorite part about being a member of FedSpace?</b>'''<br />
<b>'''If you were president for a day, what would you change?</b> ''' <br />
<b>'''What do you spend your time outside of FedSpace doing? </b>'''<br />
<b>'''What is your favorite Star Trek series?</b>'''<br />
<b> ''' Do you have a favourite line or phrase from either a show or movie?</b>'''<br />
<b> ''' Do you have a favourite character from the shows and why?</b>'''<br />
<b>'''What piece of Star Trek Technology would you most like to see today?</b>'''<br />
<b> ''' What was it about Star Trek that made you fall in love with the show?</b>'''<br />
<b> ''' What FedSpace person would you most like to meet in real life?</b>'''<br />
<b> ''' What FedSpace character would you most like to meet in real life?</b>'''<br />
<b>'''If you could list one pet-peeve about your fellow players, what would it be?</b>'''<br />
<b>'''Do you feel there is any disconnect between you and other players based on geographical location?</b>'''<br />
<b> ''' What is in your FedSpace future for your character?</b>'''<br />
<b>'''What would you most like to do on the site?</b>'''<br />
<b> ''' If there was one thing you would want everyone to know about you, what would that be?</b>'''<br />
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====Millions Dead, Planet Destroyed====
[[Christie, Rachel|RACHEL CHRISTIE]]<br />
Stardate 20910.01
====Lt [JG] Jackson Kelley====
[[Wrusher, Cestly|CESTLY WRUSHER]]<br />
Stardate 20910.01
====Vulcan====
[[Wrusher, Cestly|CESTLY WRUSHER]]<br />
Stardate 20910.01
===Dear Abby===
[[Taylor, Abigail|LCDR ABIGAIL TAYLOR]]<br />
Stardate 20910.01
Welcome everyone to a new column here on the FNN, Dear Abby. Each month I will be taking your questions regarding FedSpace procedure and protocols, and getting answers from various Academy personnel and FedSpace admins. No question is too small!
The way we write our posts on the boards has been standardized because Federation Space is world wide community: we have people from all over the world. If everyone was left to format their own posts in their own way, it would start to get tricky to understand if [ ] or < > or { } meant a comm message. By using this one style, it makes it easier for everyone to follow and understand each others posts.
This is for legibility sakes. With the board’s current background colouring, the white is the easiest to read. Once upon a time there was a specific colour system in place (PC posts were in blue, admins were in red, COs were green, and GMs were purple), but when the boards were redesigned it was determined that too many colours make things more confusing.
That’s a mystery, I’m afraid.
When the Academy is looking to hire new personnel, the Commandant will make a post in Hailing Frequency. Anyone with the rank of lieutenant junior grade or higher is welcome to apply at that time, with permission of your Commanding Officer.
===20 Questions===
====Midshipman Thomas Brewer====
[[Christie, Rachel|RACHEL CHRISTIE]]<br />
Stardate 20910.02
This month we spoke with John who plays Midshipman Thomas Brewer, Science Officer aboard the USS Ticonderoga, CA-1471.
27, Male • Wheeling, West Virginia, USA.
Layla Futch, half romulan half human security officer.
A google search. I was just looking for a Star Trek game to play with others and I had heard rumors of an mmo. So I googled role playing and star trek and the rest is celebrated Fedspace history :)
I am not a writer so character development is always really tough for me and to be honest if you look at my female characters or male characters no mater how hard I try to play them according to their biographies they end up having a lot of me in them. As far as how I come up with their history I just start writing and things just seem to flow to me about who they are.
HAHA well as I said, no matter how hard I try to avoid it - there's always too much of me in the characters I play. That's why I never play an alien race. So I guess for me it's easier to insert my personality here and there into them.
It would have to be the adventure created by the various story lines that the creative powers that be can come up with. Getting to play through them.
I would eliminate the 2 rated PC system. I feel one rated PC is all anyone should be allowed to author.
Working mostly lol, and spending time with my wife. We both also enjoy Lord of the Rings:Online and playing with our dog. We spend a lot of time at Walmart lol. We also love being outside walking or fishing or just going for a drive.
I don't have a favorite. I love them all. :) I know a lot of Trek fans like one or two and don't really care for the others but I look at them all as simply Star Trek and great in their own ways.
There are so many great moments lol but the most memorable moment or line in Trek for me is Kirk's death in Generations... "...oh my."
I'd have to say Quark. I like the Ferengi :)
Anti-gravity generators. It would make a lot of other things possible.
The first episode of Star Trek I ever watched was the first episode of TNG. My grandmother really built it up as something I should watch. She had always been a big fan of the original series. I think her encouragement and just my general fascination as a child with outer space caused Trek to stick to me like glue lol.
I'd say the President. I'd just like to thank him for his creativity and imagination in coming up with the framework for the site. He's given us all a great chance that otherwise we might not have had to be some small part of Star Trek.
Commander May, too bad in game he's dead. He was a great guy :)
I know life keeps everyone from posting in one way or another but I hate having to wait a week for a post. I say that though knowing I have been guilty of forcing people to wait a week or more on my posts so i can't come down too hard on anyone, but it would make life on the site a lot more fun I think if everyone posted two to three times a week consistently.
Um, no I don't think so. I'd love to live closer to a cluster of players but I don't feel disconnected. That's the wonderful nature of the internet. It's real time communication.
Years from now possibly the command of a ship on the site, but as I said, years from now.
One day, many years from now, command a ship on the site. But we're talking a decade from now or more if the site is still around. Which I hope it will be :)
That im just here to have fun. I don't have any real aspirations - i just want to play the game and see where it takes me.
===Movers and Shakers===
==== Promotions ====
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==== Medals ====
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==== Role-Player of the Month ====
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==== Academy Graduates ====
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| style="width:100px;" | [[Image:Sci-mid.jpg]] || [[Tilar ]] || [[USS Dauntless, BC-1553]]
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| style="width:100px;" | [[Image:Tac-mid.jpg]] || [[DeWitt, Kyle|Kyle DeWitt]] || [[Space Station Sierra 18, SS-18]]
====Top SciFi Reads====
[[Christie, Rachel|RACHEL CHRISTIE]]<br />
Stardate 20910.01
====All Around Champs====
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====Finding Water on the Moon====
[[Christie, Rachel|RACHEL CHRISTIE]]<br />
Stardate 20910.01
When NASA’s Lunar Prospector detected concentrated hydrogen signatures on the Moon in 1999, astronomers and scientists raised their eyebrows. Could this be evidence at last that there is water up there? They’re about to find out.
Back in June of this year, the Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) were launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with the mission to confirm the presence or absence of water in a permanently shadowed crater on the Moon. On October 9th9, 2009, the LCROSS impact module will complete a projected impact on the surface of the Moon, followed by the LCROSS shepherding spacecraft that will fly through the debris plume collecting data, before itself impacting the crater and creating a second debris plume.
During the impact, the debris plus will rise above the crater’s rim and be exposed to sunlight. Scientists hope that any water-ice in the debris will then break down into their basic components, revealing to them if there is indeed water on the Moon.
And if you’re lucky, you could see the debris plumes as well. The plumes are expected to be visible on Earth with the use of telescopes 10 to 12 inches and larger. The impacts will occur four minutes apart, starting at 4:30 am PDT on Friday, October 9th9, so keep your eyes to the sky!
[http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/index.html Read more.]
====Turn the Volume Down!====
[[Christie, Rachel|RACHEL CHRISTIE]]<br />
Stardate 20910.01<br />
====Sigma 7====
[[Christie, Rachel|RACHEL CHRISTIE]]<br />
Stardate 20910.01
Sigma 7 was the spacecraft used during one of NASA’s early manned space missions. The mission was apart of Project Mercury, to conduct an engineering test on the Mercury spacecraft. The name Sigma 7 reflects this focus of this mission, as the mathematical symbol for summation was used in the logo, as it was deemed appropriate for an engineering survey mission, in addition to the number 7 to reflect the seven Mercury astronauts.
The Sigma 7 was launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch pad LC-14 on October 3rd3, 1962. The trip lasted nine hours, and the one-man crew consisting of Astronaut Wally Schirra made six orbits of the Earth. The mission was a success, as the only malfunction reported was trouble with the space suit’s temperature controls, and Schirra landed the Sigma 7 into the Pacific Ocean at 9:30 in the evening, the same day it was launched.
While this was the longest American orbital flight at the time, the US was still behind the Soviet Union who had set already set a four-day record. This mission did however help to pave the way for the Mercury-Atlas 9, which would spend more than 24 hours in space.
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