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<blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9295795" data-attributes="member: 7044704"><p>That does not conform to either my memories (including Nexus, which I was subscriber to throughout its run) or the <a href="https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/FASA" target="_blank">Memory Alpha page on FASA.</a> Not that Memory Alpha is flawless, of course - they claim the company stepped away from tabletop products in 1990, which would come as quite a surprise to fans of Battletech, Vor, Crimson Skies, etc. AFAIK the license was simply terminated over the concerns about the RPG being too combat focused (something that reared its head repeatedly from the very start, not helped by some of the supplements) and Paramount becoming more invested in the IP and maintaining tighter creative control over it in general. The latter factor spawned the legal troubles with Steve Cole/TFG/ADB/SFB as well, which were complicated by the whole Franz Joseph Designs involvement.</p><p></p><p>Do you have a link to this FASA court case? The search engines are clotted with Axanar stuff, making it hard to dig back into the distant past of '88-90.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wofano Wotanto, post: 9295795, member: 7044704"] That does not conform to either my memories (including Nexus, which I was subscriber to throughout its run) or the [URL='https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/FASA']Memory Alpha page on FASA.[/URL] Not that Memory Alpha is flawless, of course - they claim the company stepped away from tabletop products in 1990, which would come as quite a surprise to fans of Battletech, Vor, Crimson Skies, etc. AFAIK the license was simply terminated over the concerns about the RPG being too combat focused (something that reared its head repeatedly from the very start, not helped by some of the supplements) and Paramount becoming more invested in the IP and maintaining tighter creative control over it in general. The latter factor spawned the legal troubles with Steve Cole/TFG/ADB/SFB as well, which were complicated by the whole Franz Joseph Designs involvement. Do you have a link to this FASA court case? The search engines are clotted with Axanar stuff, making it hard to dig back into the distant past of '88-90. [/QUOTE]
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