At 8:30 AM Pacific, The Stardock BBS was victim of a power surge that has corrupted partitions on the hard drive. Backups were also destroyed along with the hard drive they resided on. Thankfully, the TWGS and Website were unharmed due to it having it's own heavy-duty Surge Protector separate from the other two machines. Restoration of the BBS is anywhere from 2 days to never. Please keep checking back for details.

"Corporation Power" is now officially over. Corps 4/22 have won, hands down. This game needs some reworking done on the settings and edits and will probably rebang again in the near future.Apocalypse has been won by Night Hawk! Congrats! Look for a replacement game soon! I will be editing colonists on Terra for the Lil'Funky game...it can only hold 300k at a time. Whenever Terra is drained, please drop me an e-mail and I will refill it. Whenever games are winding down and/or if they are finished off, please let me know as well. I'm in and out of the games throughout the day to check up on them.

Mana Knight stated it well, "Will someone's house burn down please?" There's been a horrid lack of news as of late and that could be both good and bad. A lot of things are being posted over at the [**EIS Forums**](https://eisonline.classictw.com/) as of late, it's quite the happenin' place right now. We've seen the reappearance of the infamous "Word of the Day" over at [**Tradewars.org**](https://web.archive.org/web/20010000000000*/https://www.tradewars.org/). Prestone was eliminated from [**USO**](https://web.archive.org/web/20010000000000*/https://tradewars.fament.com/guardian/uso2.htm) last night, taking a partial load off of my mind for that game...and the night before saw the majority of "Half-Baked" removed from the game as well. It's been a great game so far. And in an off-topic occurrence, I saw [**Pantera**](https://web.archive.org/web/20010000000000*/https://www.pantera.com/), **[Soulfly](https://web.archive.org/web/20010000000000*/https://www.soulflytribe.com/)**, [**Morbid Angel**](https://web.archive.org/web/20010000000000*/https://www.morbidangel.com/), and [**Nothingface**](https://web.archive.org/web/20010000000000*/https://www.nothingface.net/) in concert last night (four of my favorite bands). Got my left arm trampled and can barely use it right now, but other than that it was a good time.

Look for the nomination process of the 4th Annual TW Awards to begin by early next week at the latest!I know a lot of people have been waiting for this and the time is drawing near! The awards committee needs to do some finalization on the categories and once that is complete I will create the site and set it up for the nomination process. I don't have specifics on how long the nominations will last, but as soon as I do, the dates will be posted!

There's been a very big lack of news lately. Most other sites have resourted to [tell about their latest TV appearance](/post/465), or [who just joined their corporation](/category/TW_Gazette). (Speaking of which, myself and rest of the [worthlessbastard.com staff](https://web.archive.org/web/20010000000000*/https://www.worthlessbastard.com/) will be holding a worthless chat this Sunday at 8:00 Eastern.) But I have a proposal: Somebody do something horrible to their house. Have it burn down, abducted by aliens, have your server melt down in a freak overclocking accident, ANYTHING! I'm personally asking Naz to take on this mission. Besides being the only Canadian I know of with no sense of humor, it would be better for something to happen to him, than say, having The Stardock's servers get blown up.

I recently called this game over due to multiple people e-mailing me and telling me the game was finished and that corporations 4/22 had won. I received an e-mail yesterday from a player who does not concede and feels the game can turn to his favor. The game will continue. I apologize for any inconveniences...the game has also been re-opened to new players.

If any of you are big into music like myself and like the group [**Clutch**](https://web.archive.org/web/20010000000000*/https://www.pro-rock.com/), then you know that they have a new CD out entitled "Pure Rock Fury." On this new CD you will find a multimedia video of a live performance of a previous song of theirs called "Spacegrass," which was recorded on 9/8/2000 at the [**9:30 Club**](https://web.archive.org/web/20010000000000*/https://www.930.com/) in downtown Washington, D.C.I'm actually in attendance during this performance and appear a couple of times in the video, I'm going to throw together my personal web site once again and I will have screenshots of the video on the site. I just thought it was pretty cool that they did that and I could actually see myself on a world-wide musical release. ;) Sorry if you find this post tacky (I know I would if I weren't me, but I'm kinda excited right now, heh).

The time limit imposed on "Red Alert" has been removed, it is now unlimited time. A player had trouble with his time not resetting. In order to prevent this from happening in the future we decided to just remove it altogether."Corporation Power" has been won by corporation(s) 4 & 22! They will be added to the site along with the winners of the first Lil'Funky game (the second Lil'Funky game is currently in progress). Our "Big Bang Friday" two days ago was a hit. We hit 62+ people online at once! As soon as I opened the games they were flooded. If you haven't checked out the games yet, [**do so now**](telnet://thestardock.com/)! Games L, A, R, and D are only two days old now! Still plenty of time to get in there and get rolling!

Eleq and Fuseblown have put together a page on the Home Sector website that contains a list of people who have made contributions to the game of Trade Wars. They include beta testers, sysops, game ops, website owners, and most importantly of all, they also mentioned Team EIS. Because without EIS, Trade Wars would have been dead long ago. I was mentioned both as a beta tester and web site owner, though not as a game op because I op at serveral servers at one time or another. You can also see my name for beta testers if you own a TWGS and click "Help > About" and a list appears of beta testers for the TWGS. I want to thank the Home Sector for putting up the page to recognize many individuals in the TW community that were at least partly responsible for the progress of Trade Wars. See the page right [here.](/post/566)

The Void BBS has been born...here is the information from Space Ghost: >Announcing the NEWEST World Group Server on the Block. Please everyone come checkout void.tw2002.ws It's a World Group System and EVERYONE is invited to come and USE. We Have a FAST connection and a Fast Server!!!! We offer 2 Twgs servers !!!!!! Many Many Games to choose from !!!!!! Starting NEXT Friday at 8pm Eastern We Will have the Weekend Pod Party!!!! Most Kills Wins 1000 Sectors max ports! Busts Clear Nightly Game will end Sunday at 11:59 pm Stock Game No Edits No Dupes.. <br><br>Your Sysops are: Kitty Moon and her Fiance Icehawk, Dagbot, The Ghost aka , And ME!!!! Space Ghost! Check it out!