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Look Ehestri is doing posts again… I am back with community announcements. However, as the title might suggest, there will be some changes with Obsidian Day. Unfortunately, with the movements in the Fleet Council and JFC, we cannot logically hold Obsidian Day in July as usual. We want this event to be the best, and…

Hello all, It’s been about a week since some news dropped in the Discord, and I wanted to take a moment now that I am back home to dive a little deeper into it all with you. As you may or may not have see from Sepandiyar, du Lac has made the decision to end…

Hello dear readers, it is I, du Lac, with a bit of a different brain dump today.I was going to write about IFS3 and why there’s been no development for a while and the state of WordPress, but then I made the mistake of putting on The Rest is Politics and Trump 100 Extended during…

Ah, artificial intelligence. Two years ago I wrote a nice little video about AI and how it’ll impact on our writing, it’s fair to say it’s moved on a bit since then so I’m revisiting this topic and making you think again. Long before GPT-3 was tossing out sonnets or answering your weirdest questions, it…

It’s that time of year again! The annual Khitomer Conference is here! On SATURDAY 1st MARCH, we’re back! What is Khitomer? It’s a gathering of the various online Star Trek simming and role-playing communities, including Obsidian Fleet, a space to share and collaborate on our wonderful hobby! Featuring text and voice panels, this year’s agenda…

Thank you to everyone who both nominated and voted for your fellow writers. The competition was extremely tight this year – a testament to the quality of writing and community spirit all over Obsidian Fleet! As they say, there can only be one winner, so here are your 2024 award winners, as voted for by…

Hi everyone It’s a new year, and the observant will have noticed we didn’t publish a year-end FleetComms. Partly because I got busy but also because we were preparing to drop annual fleet awards that were still in the pipeline! See more on this below… It’s another bumper edition this month, with news on newer…

Voting is now open for the below categories. For a full list of Nominees and their supporting commentary, see here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LnOGzUwgcpJcA2h3RFpzeZ8WkSImrPqUCNUT1R5qDbU/edit?usp=sharing Cast your votes here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf7PvICjq3g14cfHCRNWyHf5LU9OCAm6OxGHye24iySbMOlqA/viewform?usp=header VOTING CLOSES ON FRIDAY 7th FEBRUARY AT 11:59PM GMT! A reminder of the categories: GM of the Year Which of our community Game Masters has inspired you the most?…

One of the elements that has been quietly added back to Obsidian Fleet as a part of the Wiki rework has been the addition of classifications to the Obsidian Fleet ship specifications. This allows us to better highlight ships and how they’ll best work together when it comes to writing roleplaying events. This also lets…

Join Us for Game Night on Discord – Tomorrow! Get ready for an evening of fun, laughter, and ‘friendly’ competition! Our Discord Game Night kicks off tomorrow at 8pm GMT. If you were there for Christmas you will know it was fun and we had some friends join from other servers. Whether you’re into putty party,…