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.

FASA later produced the successful BattleTech and Shadowrun franchises.

With funding from FASA and from a Japanese investor, Jordan founded Environmental Simulations Project — later renamed Virtual Worlds Entertainment — in 1990, the company that produced the BattleTech Centers.

FASA later developed that system into a more complex standalone game, the Starship Tactical Combat Simulator, similar to a tabletop wargame.

FASA was later sued by Playmates Toys and Harmony Gold USA for using designs from Macross ( for example, Valkyrie fighters renamed Stinger, Wasp and Phoenix Hawk ).

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.

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

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.

Starting in 1993, FASA released over 20 gaming supplements describing this universe ; however, it closed down production of Earthdawn in January 1999.

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

Living Room Games last published in 2005, and they no longer have a license with FASA to publish Earthdawn material.

In 2003, a second license was granted to RedBrick LLC, who developed their own edition based on the FASA products, while releasing the original FASA books in PDF form.

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.

FASA Games, Inc. have since released the Earthdawn Revised Edition Player's Guide, a rerelease of the Third Edition in a smaller format book.

FASA have noted, however, that there is no need for current owners of the Third Edition to buy into the Revised Edition.

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

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

Originally the name FASA was an acronym for " Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration ", a joking allusion to the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup.

FASA Corporation was founded by Jordan Weisman and L. Ross Babcock III in 1980 with a starting capital of $ 350.

When Microsoft acquired the FASA Interactive subsidiary, Babcock went with that company.

FASA unexpectedly ceased active operations on April 30, 2001, but still exists as a corporation holding intellectual property rights, which it licenses to other publishers.

He considered the intellectual property of FASA to be of high value but did not wish to continue working as he had been for the last decade or more.

The Earthdawn license was sold to WizKids, and then back to FASA.

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

It was developed by FASA Interactive, owned by Microsoft Corporation, which also produced the title.

In addition, FASA published Shannedam County, a sourcebook which profiled dozen of planets and star systems where adventures and battles could be set.

FASA had previously written supplements for GDW's Traveller, an association which influenced the early structure of the Star Trek game, particularly in character generation.

* The Unofficial FASA Star Trek Universe E-group Groups Page — This forum is for fans and game players of the FASA Star Trek Starship Tactical Combat Game to discuss but not be limited to, the rules, ships, and the games in which they are used.

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.

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.

Shadowrun was developed and published by FASA Corporation from 1989 until early 2001, when FASA closed its doors and the property was transferred to WizKids ( a company founded by people from FASA ).

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

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.

It was published by FASA in 1999, but was discontinued following FASA's cessation of activities in 2001.

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

After consulting their UK distributor, Chart Hobby Distributors, FASA licensed the manufacture of its BattleTech figurines to Miniature Figurines ( also known as Minifigs ).

If he wondered whether the attackers would allow him to pull away unmolested, he had his answer a moment later.

When I informed her that I didn't, she said she would borrow her brother's and bring it to me later that evening.

In the spring, it must have been, he began working on the play that he called The House, which later would be Mannerhouse.

it was demonstrated, many critics would later point out, in the length of his novels.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

A more complete list would also include Bradbury's `` The Pedestrian '' ( 1951 ), Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery ( 1955 ), David Karp's One ( 1953 ), Wilson Tucker's The Long Loud Silence ( 1952 ), Jack Vance's To Live Forever ( 1956 ), Gore Vidal's Messiah ( 1954 ), and Bernard Wolfe's Limbo ( 1952 ), as well as the three perhaps most outstanding dystopias, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants ( 1953 ), Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano ( 1952 ), and John Wyndham's Re-Birth ( 1953 ), works which we will later examine in detail.

Only '' a New York hick would expect to find the literary life in Greenwich Village, at any point, later than Walt Whitman's day.

Even though he would later be resurrected, he was at this moment dead indeed, the expression on his face reflecting what he had gone through on the cross.

Watson had nodded absently and muttered that he would check the lists himself later.

Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.

We would attend a film and, later on, I stated, we might go to the Mayflower Coffee Shop or Child's or Toffenetti's for waffles.

Indeed, we should say, on the contrary, that the accident of our later discovery made no difference whatever to the badness of the animal's pain, that it would have been every whit as bad whether a chance passer-by happened later to discover the body and feel repugnance or not.

Unfortunately she returned later, just as I had taken advantage of the friendlier atmosphere in the room by stating that perhaps an unexpected result of the Cultural Exchange Program would be the re-emergence of Abstract Art in Russia, with Social Realism regaining dominance in the U.S..

She had quarreled with Lucien, she had resisted his demands for money -- and if she died, by the provisions of her marriage contract, Lucien would inherit legally not only the immediate sum of gold under the floorboards in the office, but later, when the war was over, her father's entire estate.

`` If there was collusion between an outside murderer and a member of the household it would be an elementary precaution to check on the door later.

He did not bother with his radio -- there would be time for that later -- but as he scrambled out on the pavement he saw the filling station and the public telephone booth and knew instantly how he had been summoned.

Both figures would go higher in later years.

This might be done to arouse those who have been squeezed out by the trims to exert pressure on the Legislature, so it would be more receptive to a tax proposal later in the year.

It was about that time, a board member said later, that Dr. Thomas G. Pullen, Jr., State superintendent of schools, told Dr. Jenkins and a number of other education officials that he would not talk to them with a recording machine sitting in front of him.

The roar of Palmer's gallery as he sank a thrilling putt would roll out across the parklike landscape of Augusta, only to be answered moments later by the roar of Player's gallery for a similar triumph.

he would look right through you while you were talking to him, and if you said, `` For Christ's sake, Donald, you've got Prussian blue all over your shirt '', he would smile, and nod, and an hour later the paint would be all over his pants as well.

A half hour later he got her up to go out for breakfast so the Ferraros, hearing them hurrying down the stairs, would think they were going to a late mass.