Introduction:
First-time viewers, welcome to the archived records of the Advanced
Starship Design Bureau Project. The mandate of Star Trek: A Call to
Duty's Advanced Starship Design Bureau was to create the most accurate
and comprehensive technical specifications for starships currently used
in the online RPGs such as A Call to Duty, though many fans have used
and modified our specs both with and without our permission in there own
organizations.
The history of the project is well
documented in the archived "History" section, available through the
"Information" link from the left-hand side menu. We've enjoyed praise
from countless individuals and fans, as well as Star Trek author David
Schmidt who wrote Starfleet Dynamics & Starfleet Prototype, as well as
the U.S.S. Enterprise-A Deck Plans. We certainly like to think the
project has formed a little niche within the Star Trek community, and
the remaining team members are still at work on the next version of
technical specifications, boldly going where no one has gone before.
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Enter the ASDB Project
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Has the project stopped?
Due to ongoing issues with game management in regards to a number of
policy changes both related and unrelated to the ASDB Project, many of the core members of
the ASDB Team have withdrawn from Star Trek: A Call to Duty in August of
2004, including Project Manager Steve Mallory. It is hardly my place to
pass judgment on an organization that I have been working with and
enjoying since 1998, but changes in management and a new trend of
decisions have alienated myself and others to the point that the game
does not offer the attributes that we have grown to love in later years,
particularly in regards to the new family-friendly policies that have
effectively stripped the organization of more mature story telling
without consultation with any staff or players operating in those areas.
Though other factors influenced the
decision to leave, the ASDB Team itself continues to operate outside the
scope of ACTD free of affiliation with any RPG organization. ACTD may
claim that the materials created by the ASDB are owned by said
organization, though the truth is that ownership technically still remains in
the hands of those who created the original documents as legal ownership
was never in anyway signed to ACTD or released in any fashion. That
said, almost every originally-written page on this website has the
author's name, and nobody should claim any sort of ownership except
those directly involved in writing it.
Because the fate of the ASDB's website
at ACTD is still unknown and currently not under the operation of any of
the team's members, this website has archived this project for
historical and portfolio purposes. Please consider all email addresses,
links, and contact information VOID in relation to this project, as
these have not in anyway been modified so as to preserve the site
perfectly on its final day of operation.
To reiterate, the original ASDB
Team no longer has creative control over the
http://techspecs.acalltoduty.com website, and any modifications
(improvements, renaming, updates, etc) are not of our doing or
supported.
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