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STARFIRE is a 4X board game (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate) of space warfare in the 23rd century, created by Stephen V. Cole in 1976.

There are 5 editions of the Starfire Game. All STARFIRE editions since the second consist of what are really two games: a tactical combat game and a strategic empire building game.

Tactical Starfire is a game of sublight space combat on the small-fleet scale. Speed of play is often touted as an advantage of the system; it does have a major advantage in fleet handling over Star Fleet Battles, but there are many other games around of similar handling time to Starfire.

Tactical Starfire is based on the original version of Starfire, and on its sequel Starfire II (renamed Strikefighter for the 2nd edition). The 2nd edition product line continued with New Empires, the first strategic-level game in the series, and The Gorm-Khanate War.

Strategic Starfire is a game of building a space empire. Players must decide what to invest their income in (colonization, R&D, trade, military, exploration, etc.) to determine both the nature of their empires and their ability to survive and conquer.

The game is currently published by the Starfire Design Studio (SDS) - but was formerly published by Task Force Games.

There is a lot of fiction available - some professionally written by David Weber (the author of the third edition), as well as numerous sites that contain fan fiction written by players.

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