What is Starshield?
Starshield was a project created by
Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis. The goal of the project was to
create a world-wide gaming and entertainment industry centered
around the universe of Starshield. With the hope that one day
there might be enough money to launch a privately owned colony to
Mars.
Sadly however, the project was cancelled due to lack of support.
Tracy himself has abandoned us to our own endeavours. But still
we remain, as a testament to what was, and may yet still be.
Starshield is an RPG game, and a really cool one at that. We hope
that you are someone who's looking to invest some free time, and
play a game. We guarantee you fun, and hold you to no obligation
to remain if you try, and decide you don't enjoy Starshield.
Starshield is divided into three main sections. You have amateur
authors submitting short stories and novels that play in the
Starshield Universe for others to read. You have the RPG game
which functions like any other RPG. And then you have the
Empire-Playing-Game. The EPG is exactly like an RPG except that
instead of characters, you have empires that fight wars and form
alliances, and it works on a Play-by-eMail system.
(Introduction taken from the Starshield homepage, written by Robert Koch)
