You're looking at it folks! EleqTrizi'T send me an e‑mail a few days ago with an offer that could not be refused. He has asked me to take over as Sysop and WebMaster of The Home Sector/StarDock BBS and I have accepted. EleqTrizi'T has a lot of things going on for himself right now and I'm here to give him a hand. I look forward to doing the best job that I can in upholding the professional quality that this server and web site has always shown to its players and visitors. This is a real exciting time for both EleqTrizi'T and I and we are proud to present this merger to you! As you can see we have already merged the web sites and we look forward to bringing new features to you in the future.

If you haven't already heard (word seems to be spreading fast), I am the new sysop and webmaster at the [**StarDock BBS/The Home Sector**](/). More on this will be coming in tomorrow's (Sunday's) update!

That's right! The dynamic duo running the USO this year will be interviewed by Soul tonight on WEJL Radio! The time for their interview will be 8pm Central, but tune in at 7:30pm Central for half an hour of "Soul's Opinion."

Here is the message from [**Big D**](mailto:dearlrholt@juno.com) in the eGroups: "The Silver Wings website had gotten a face lift with new links and updated information. It also has new zoc scripts available for download on the "File Downloads" page, including my newest colonizer, ptorp script, and a universal transfer script (products, colonists, & fighters from planet to planet in the same sector) Check them out free of charge and PLEASE report any bugs back to me. *Big D"* Check it out by [**clicking here**](https://web.archive.org/web/20010000000000*/https://www.silverwingstwgs.com/).

Big D has posted in the various TW forums that the one-and-only *Gypsy* will be interviewed TONIGHT on [**WEJL Radio**](/files/Audio/WEJL%20-%20Gypsy.mp3). He will be representing Epic Interactive Strategy and the time will be 7:00pm Central. Check it out!

Want to take a moment and thank Bad Girl, Guardian, and Space Ghost for naming ships/planets after me in both the [**HHT**](/files/Site%20Caps/BooInc/news.html) and the upcoming [**USO**](https://web.archive.org/web/20010000000000*/https://tradewars.fament.com/guardian/uso%2701.htm). These three are great people in real life and I look forward to hanging out with them in the future. ;)sign up *for the USO '01 if you haven't already!*

I don't know about the rest of you, but I greatly enjoyed the Space Ghost interview last night on [**WEJL**](/files/Audio/WEJL%20-%20Soul%20ft%20Space%20Ghost.mp3). Tom's a cool guy who doesn't hold back his thoughts. :) SG has mentioned doing a weekly radio show (possibly Fridays) of his own. I greatly look forward to it!

For those of you that don't already know, *The Founder* has struct a deal with [**Emtec**](https://web.archive.org/web/20010000000000*/https://www.emtec.com/) to offer Trade Wars players ZOC registration for $40 instead of the normal $70! This is your chance to register ZOC (*ahem* legally) at a cheaper price and get rid of those damn naggy countdowns! Version 4 of ZOC will be out shortly and once it comes out registration will cost $45 when ordered through *The Founder*, so get it while it's cheaper! I have already registered ZOC myself through *The Founder* and he's a very trustworthy person. ;) Don't miss out! The Founder does not pocket *ANY* cash from this deal. He is able to place the order directly in Germany which also helps get the cheaper price. :)

The team of "Half Baked" has entered the USO! This team consists of Outkast (CEO), Xide, Madill, Turk, Cowboy, and Graz}{oppa. The game starts next one week from TODAY! [**Register NOW**](https://web.archive.org/web/20010000000000*/https://tradewars.fament.com/guardian/uso%2701.htm) if you already haven't!

I'd like to welcome you to our website, and hope you find everything you're looking for. If not, please feel free to drop me a e-mail letting me know what you'd like to see added or changed. It's only with the input from visitors like yourself that I can truly improve the site, and though I've got a basic schedule of what I'll add and when I'll add it, if I get a request for something, that request will take top priority. What is here now represents about three to five percent of what the website will offer once its finished and moved to its permanant domain. In the meantime, its thanks to Andrew Wyatt, sysop of Intergate BBS, that you can read this page without one of those ugly pop-up ads that Tripod likes to push their way into your html. For the millionth time, thanks Mr. Wyatt for offering to be our interim web hosting service. As for me, I started playing Trade Wars six years ago under my given name: Lisa Wilson. Later, I met and befriended a fellow player on a local BBS who went by the handle of Icehawk. It wasn't long after that that I started getting my first real education in the ways of the Twarrior, and became known as Ice Mistress. Nowadays I play as Kitty Moon on most servers, though on rare occasions, you might find Ice Mistress in a game. But the name has definitely stuck with me in some ways. Take for example the above graphics. Very frosty if I do say so myself. As for Icehawk, well, he's still alive and kicking, and plays in a couple games, and will be putting a lot of work into this site as well. Kitty's Playground is a prelude of something better yet to come. This is its third incarnation, actually. The first was hosted off a local BBS as a source of TeleMate scripts, helpers, guides, etc. for the local players and as far as I know never received many hits from outside the BBS, even though it was available through the BBSes web service. That particular BBS shut down unexpectedly a little over a year ago, and I lost a majority of the work Icehawk and I had put into it. Plans were made to start from scratch, but before we could really get anything started I enlisted in the Army. Nine months later now, we're putting the pieces of the original Playground back together again. Only this time we're hoping to attract the attention of Twarriors from all over, from every level of play. Like before, our goal is to become the definitive Trade Wars portal. Nothing less than that will suffice. To that end, we're working on several interesting projects. POP3 mail accounts will be available after our move to our permanent domain and server. Icehawk is kindly donating a 1,000 client license of MS Exchange Server that he's been sitting on for over a year now after a business customer reneged on a software purchase. Hopefully, a thousand POP3 accounts will hold out for a while. Look for the POP3 service within the next four months, when we'll also be moving to the new domain. A real-time e-mail accessible forum is also on our to-do list, though when this will get started, let alone completed, is up in the air right now.. There's so many things we'd like to do with Kitty's Playground that we couldn't even list them all, nor would we if we could, to avoid that "you said you were going to do that," trap that so many people seem to fall into when things don't work out the way they intended them to, either by design or through no error of their own. Stick around, throw your two cents in, or more if you really have some great ideas, and enjoy what we have to offer now as well as what we plan and hope to offer in the future. Sincerely, Lisa Wilson, aka Kitty Moon