FallFest Archives - Independence Fleet

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Awards & Prizes & FallFest, oh my!

Posted on November 7, 2026 | by Charles Star | Leave a Comment

We are very proud to announce the following two Khitomer Peace Awards for 2026 Q3:

Outstanding Character: Jörgen Leed of the USS Firebird
Outstanding Post: “Emergency Survival Protocols Active” (written by Rosa Coy) from the USS Sunfire
- This post also won Best Post (Single Author) for August 2026

Well done to these two outstanding players and the entire crews of the Firebird and Sunfire behind them!

Moving from virtual awards to physical prizes, we’re pleased to announce the following winners from our 25th Anniversary Prize drawing at this year’s webcast:

1st Prize: Michael Stevens of the USS Sunfire (Shuttlecraft)
2nd Prize: Malcom Llwyedd of the USS Firebird (Romulan Warbird)
3rd Prize: Jacob Rosen of the USS Sunfire (Klingon Vor’cha class)

Congratulations and enjoy!

Finally, we recently co-hosted the 2026 Simming Fall Festival with our friends over at 16th Fleet, who incidentally also celebrated their 25th anniversary earlier this year! A very special thank you to our very own Michael Intermeezo, who co-chaired the festival with Nixon from 16th Fleet. They put together an amazing schedule and managed a flawless convention from start to finish–easily one of the best FallFests in years! But the chairs didn’t do it alone as they relied on event hosts for the games and discussions to make the magic happen. Another special thank you to these individual event hosts from IDF:

Rhiana t’Aegis
Alex Shepard
Elias Ford
Akeno Misaki
Shran dh’Klar
Toulaine
Koko Nosa
Ken Gillis

If you were not able to attend, we have the opening and closing ceremony videos here for you to watch:

I believe we’re now all caught up with the news. Let’s keep all the great posting and role playing going!

Join us this Saturday for FallFest ’26

Posted on October 21, 2026 | by Charles Star | Leave a Comment

Join us this Saturday, October 24th at 10:30 am EDT (UTC -4) / 3:30 pm BST (UTC +1) for FallFest 2026! We are co-hosting this edition with 16th Fleet, who incidentally also celebrated their 25th anniversary earlier this year. In addition, this will be the 16th FallFest held. If you remember, we hosted the original back in 2011 and then co-hosted in 2020.

Our very own Michael Intermeezo is co-chairing the event with Nixon from 16th Fleet. Ken Gillis and many others have also put in a lot of planning and prep work!.

All told, we have 7 hours of games, trivia, and discussion about everything simming and online role playing scheduled. Whether you can attend all 7 hours or just for a few minutes, we hope to see you over there as we celebrate our craft.

We’ve Gone Plaid!

Posted on April 17, 2023 | by Charles Star | 3 Comments

If you visited our website yesterday, you probably noticed that it looked like it was straight out of 2002 (or 2001?). And you would be right! Using records from the Internet Archive, we reconstructed our Angelfire site from the days of yore using the current fleet line up, creating a mash up of then and now. The simming world was quite different back then–and so were our web development capabilities! In case you missed it, we’ve archived the 2023 retro site here.

But why now? Fast forward to April 14-16, 2011–it was exactly 12 years ago that IDF hosted the first modern SciWorld Online Convention, which incidentally was 12 years after the original SciWorld in 1999. In early 2011, the Simming League was largely dead and the community had drifted apart over the previous few years: Clubs rarely interacted with each other anymore. SciWorld 2011 changed all of that by serving as the genesis for a new era of cooperation and celebration. In addition to SciWorld, we also now also have FallFest, Khitomer, and Babel. SciWorld renewed interest in the Tournament of Simulations and the Simming Prize as well.

On a related note, a few of you have pointed out that we missed our typical April Fools’ Day joke this year. While we can’t go back in time to fix that, we hope this blast from our past was still fun nonetheless. Until next year…

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October News Updates

Posted on October 11, 2021 | by Charles Star | Leave a Comment

Three quick news items for everyone:

Rear Admiral Bolak has resigned his position as IDF’s Director of Media due to time constraints. His last official day will be October 31st. I would like to personally thank Bolak for all of his hard work and the many contributions he has made to the fleet, especially the My Favorite Trek and Captain’s Chair interviews.
This year’s Simming Fall Festival will happen on November 13th. It will be hosted by our friends over at 5th Fleet. As always, we look forward to supporting 5th Fleet and engaging with the rest of the simming community at FallFest.
As everyone knows, we celebrated our 20th Anniversary earlier this year. What you might not know is that several other fleets also marked significant anniversary milestones in 2021. You can read more about a few of them over on the Ongoing Worlds Blog. Speaking of milestones, yesterday was the 11-year anniversary of the launch of the award-winning USS Sunfire-D.

Monthly Awards: October 2020

Posted on November 21, 2020 | by Rook Mirtoh | Leave a Comment

It’s awards time again! Congratulations to all of our October winners below:

Best Post

Lt. Cmdr. Shylow Vitari
Chief Intelligence Officer
USS Liberty

For “Like a Glove”
With strangely compelling imagery, this is a nicely written post describing things and spaces on a starship I’ve never seen before. Well done!

Funniest Post

Cmdr. Samantha Howard
Chief Medical Officer
USS Washington

For “The War”
A blood curdling scream and an undignified string of something. This one has funny written all over it.

Genesis

Captain Shran dh’Klar
Commanding Officer
USS Washington

For “Appearances are Deceiving”
A nice way to get the ship and crew into action.

MVP

Lt. Cmdr. Ech’am G’ginloss
Chief Engineering Officer
USS Chuck Norris

Leading his ship in total posts, G’ginloss continued to keep things interesting with some excellent ones about trying to keep the USS Chuck Norris together while in the heat of battle. Great writing, a nice amount of joint posts, and star for the crew.

Most Posts

Lt. Bonnie “Bon-Bon” Durnell
Computer Systems Specialist
USS Liberty

For writing 13 posts.

Most Improved

Lt. T’Strella Drake
Chief Diplomatic Officer
USS Liberty

T’Strella increased her post count from 3 to 8, played a major role in the current storyline, and threw an interesting curve ball to boot. All in all, a massive leap in overall participation.

Rookie of the Month

Lt. J’goss Yass G’odoss
Chief Flight Control Officer
USS Chuck Norris

G’odoss took the initiative to create new plot lines, joint posts, and multiple interesting takes in addition to tying for the sim lead in totals posts. His performance continues to increase.

Recruitment

Savar cha’Salik hei-Surak Talek-sen-deen
Executive Officer
USS Liberty

The Commander recruited to the sim one new player, who has already begun making solid contributions to the game.

In other news, our fleet XO Admiral Ken Gillis was awarded the Ongoing Worlds Community Honor for his efforts with FallFest. Congratulations, Admiral, and thank you to everyone who had a role in putting on an outstanding FallFest.

This is why we sim! Keep it coming!

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Today may be Friday the 13th, but tomorrow is FallFest; Sorry, we can’t do anything about the 2020 part

Posted on November 13, 2020 | by Charles Star | Leave a Comment

That’s right–join us tomorrow at 11:00 am Eastern for the FallFest X opening ceremonies. Our fleet XO Ken Gillis and friends AlexM & Amethyst from Pegasus Fleet have put together an absolutely fantastic schedule of events with an outstanding panel of hosts. It’ll be 8+ hours of simming and role playing fun!

Everything will happen in chat rooms in the FallFest Discord Server–be sure to sign up early so you don’t miss anything. And, of course, don’t forget about my Star Trek Trivia and Star Trek/Role Playing Family Feud games. These are must attends!

FallFest is a unique event, open to all simmers and online role players, regardless of rank or club affiliation. It’s where we all come together as a community to share ideas, energy, and fun! Independence Fleet and the Simming League held the first FallFest back in 2011. Originally intended to be a mini-SciWorld more friendly to European time zones, it has since grown into much, much more. OngoingWorlds has been the caretaker since 2012, although TNU Project will be taking the lead for organizing in 2021 and beyond.

See you tomorrow at FallFest 2020!

Join Us for FallFest X!

Posted on October 25, 2020 | by Charles Star | 2 Comments

If you haven’t already heard, we will be hosting FallFest this year with our friends from over at Pegasus Fleet. Please join us in three weeks on November 14th in this discord server for a full day of engaging discussions, interactive trivia games, and live chat role plays. All simmers and online role players are welcome regardless of rank or club affiliation.

AlexM of Pegasus Fleet and our very own Ken Gillis are serving as the co-chairs to put on the event. Here’s where to go:

So first, we hope to see you there. Second, invite all your friends to attend too. And third, email me at star [dot] idf [at] gmail [dot] com if you would like to host a one-hour event during the festival.

The first FallFest was held back in 2011, and Independence Fleet was the original host. Let’s help keep the tradition going with all of our partners in the greater role playing community!