BattleTech is a wargaming and science fiction franchise launched by FASA Corporation in 1984, acquired by WizKids in 2000, and owned since 2003 by Topps.

In 1984, FASA, a noted sci-fi tabletop game maker, created a gaming system for The Last Starfighter.

* Star Trek III: Struggle for the Throne, 1984, FASA: a struggle inside the Klingon empire for the emperor's throne.

FASA Corporation published the first BattleTech game set in 1984, and throughout the ' 80s and ' 90s released a wide range of supplemental books and materials for the series.

FASA Corporation was an American publisher of role-playing games, wargames and board games between 1980 and 2001.

Circus Imperium was the fifth of the Renegade Legion board games published by FASA, but unlike the others in the series, this tongue-in-cheek game of chariot racing was played strictly for laughs.

At this time, FASA was scheduled to publish two products which conflicted with this view: a supplement detailing the " Star Fleet Marines " and other ground combat forces in the Star Trek universe, and a strategic-level board game, Operation: Armaggedon, which would include in its scenarios one where the Federation pre-emptively attacked the Klingon and Romulan empires.

Earthdawn is a fantasy role-playing game, originally produced by FASA in 1993.

In late 1999, FASA granted Living Room Games a licensing agreement to produce new material for the game.

Each book has over 500 pages, and summarizes much of what FASA published — not only the game mechanics, but also the setting, narrations, and stories.

In 2012, RedBrick announced their retirement as a game publisher and the transfer of the Earthdawn license back to FASA Corporation ( and subsequently to FASA Games, Inc .).

Editor Scott Haring noted ( referring to the FASA edition ) that " Earthdawn had an original, inventive magic system ( no mean trick given the hundreds of fantasy RPGs that came before ), and a game world that gave you the classic " monsters and dungeons " sort of RPG experience, but made sense doing it.

FASA first appeared as a Traveller licensee, producing supplements for that Game Designers ' Workshop role-playing game, especially the work of the Keith Brothers.

In addition FASA used elements from The Animated Series in its sourcebooks and modules for its Star Trek role-playing game.

A fourth game, titled Shadowrun: Assassin, was planned to be released in 1998 by FASA Interactive for the PC, but was cancelled.

The Doctor Who role-playing game published by FASA claimed that they were all descended from the genetic stock of General Sontar ( or Sontaris ), who used newly developed bioengineering techniques to clone millions of duplicates of himself and annihilated the non-clone population.

Some people believe that the Monk was actually an earlier incarnation of the Master, as mentioned by the 1980s Doctor Who role-playing game published by FASA.

In the Doctor Who role-playing game from FASA, it was suggested that player characters be agents of the CIA.

He became a professional artist and writer, working in the game industry with his brother Andrew, particularly for Games Designers Workshop and FASA for before becoming a full-time author.

MechCommander is the second real-time tactics ( RTT ) video game based on FASA's BattleTech / MechWarrior franchise ( though often being called a real-time strategy game ), developed by FASA Interactive and distributed by MicroProse.

** MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries, a computer game released by Cyberlore Studios and FASA Studio in 2002

Originally published by FASA Corporation, the game is now produced by Catalyst Game Labs under license from WizKids.

In 1980 Weisman founded role playing game publisher FASA Corporation ( short for the Freedonia Aeronautics & Space Administration, named after the fictional country in the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup ) with partner L. Ross Babcock.

is a cyberpunk interactive fiction role-playing video game ( RPG ) for the Sega Mega-CD adapted from the pen and paper RPG Shadowrun by FASA.

Living Room Games published Earthdawn ( Second Edition ), RedBrick LLC published Earthdawn ( Third Edition ), but the license has now based back to FASA Corporation and FASA Games, Inc. is the current license holder for new material.

While FASA Corporation still manages the FASA IP and brands, FASA Games, Inc. has announced its intention to develop new games under the FASA banner.

He has also worked freelance for many of the major players in the games industry including TSR, FASA, Hero Games, West End Games, and Iron Crown Enterprises.

He has toured, recorded, and composed with Robert Fripp and The League of Crafty Guitarists, and contributed and / or directed audio for such games as Monolith's No One Lives Forever, Microsoft's Combat Flight Sim series, the MechAssault series on Xbox, the FASA Studio adaptation of Shadowrun on the Xbox360 and Windows Vista platforms, Valve's Left4Dead and most recently on Portal 2.

Smith & Tinker has licensed the electronic entertainment rights to Crimson Skies, Shadowrun, MechWarrior and other FASA properties that had belonged to Microsoft.

The rise of the Internet, in particular, has given voice again to fans of the FASA version of the Klingons and Klingonaase, enthusiasm for the komerex zha and Klingon nomenclature ( epetai, sutai ) — a Klingon worldview and Klingon honorifics respectively, both created by John M. Ford — and references to " human-fusion " and " Imperial " Klingons.

This article is an overview of technology found in the fictional universe of BattleTech, a wargaming and science fiction franchise created by FASA and owned by WizKids.

FASA eventually became embroiled in a lawsuit with Harmony Gold regarding the use of these images, and later removed all images not created in house from their Sourcebooks.

Crimson Skies was originally developed by Zipper Interactive under the FASA Interactive brand in late 2000 and used under license by FASA ; FASA Interactive had been purchased by Microsoft, so rights to Crimson Skies stayed with Microsoft.

The license is now held ( again ) by FASA Corporation through FASA Games, Inc., who have released the Revised Edition, a reformatting / rerelease of the now out-of-print Third Edition.

At Gen Con 2012, FASA Games, Inc. was revealed, which includes FASA Corporation co-founder Ross Babcock on the Board of Directors.

They borrowed freely from each other-the game includes background from the 1980 book Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology, while the 1987 book Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise includes elements from the FASA background-and fans believed that if Paramount's name was on something, it must be valid Star Trek.

In many non-canon sources like The Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual and Worlds of the Federation, as well as the FASA and Last Unicorn Games Star Trek role-playing games, the five founding worlds of the United Federation of Planets were Earth, Vulcan, Tellar, Andoria, and Alpha Centauri.

During this period, it saw the launch of Legend of the Burning Sands, Doomtown, Dune, the Star Trek Collectible Dice Game, and it completed several more projects that were in transition during its acquisition, including re-launching the Rage Collectible Card Game under license from White Wolf, Inc. and redesigned and art-directed by Luke Peterschmidt, as well as overseeing the Commander's Edition of the BattleTech Collectible Card Game licensed from FASA Corporation and developed and art directed by Wizards of the Coast.

Committees include Asian Pacific American Student Coalition ( APASC ), Black Student Union ( BSU ), Election Board, Environmental Task Force ( ETF ), Filipino American Student Association ( FASA ), Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender & Allies ( GLBTA ), Housing Commission, International Students ' Council ( ISC ), Ku Ah Mah, KZUU Radio, Middle Eastern Students Association ( MESA ), Movimiento Estudianti Chicano de Aztian ( MEChA ), Student Legal Services ( SLS ), Veteran ’ s Affairs and Washington Student Lobby ( WSL ).

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FASA ( Chicago ), 2000.

They included, but were not limited to: the Bader class scout, Baker class destroyer, Chandley class frigate, the Enterprise class cruiser ( the refitted Constitution-class introduced in Star Trek: The Motion Picture ), Derf class survey ship, Larson class destroyer, Loknar class frigate, Nelson class scout, Northampton class frigate, the so-called Reliant class cruiser ( the FASA name for the movie-era Miranda class cruiser ), the Mission class transport, Royal Sovereign class battlecruiser, M ' benga class hospital ship and the Sagan class science ship ( an upgrade of the canon Oberth class starship ).

The national nonprofit organizations that represents the interests of ASCs and their patients is Ambulatory Surgery Center Association ( ASC Association ), which was formed in 2008 when the Federated Ambulatory Surgery Association ( FASA ) and the American Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers ( AAASC ) merged.