Editing Newsletter/July 2006 (section)

==Growing Game, Growing Story==
by [[herbalsheila]]
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<small>Contributed by [[User:KevinSchram|Kevin Schram]]</small>

July 21, 2006 [[Star Trek: Freedom]] has now passed 80 members. J.R., who plays human character Ensign [[Derrick La Qua]] aboard the new about-to-be-commissioned ship [[USS Champlain]] is the 80th member of the world wide ongoing play-by-email website. 

[[user:sysop|Anthony]], the site's longest continuous running player, the Fleet First Officer, and the super administrator for the [[Star Trek: Freedom]] site, is very happy to see the site grow. "[[Star Trek: Freedom]] is proud to announce the launch of our 7th ship, the [[USS Champlain]], under the command of [[User:JPB]], aka Captain [[Edward Wolfe]]."

"I'm very proud of the [[USS Champlain]] as its both fully intergrated and a slight departure from things. We're going to be involved in the civil war, but I expect to be spending more time on exploring the Beta Quadrant at this point," saids [[User:JPB]], aka [[Edward Wolfe]] CO of the new vessel.

Nymes, the 60th member to graduate from the Academy, was excited to participate with his new character [[Lewis Nymes]], a joined Trill, and was looking forward to participating in the storyline aboard the good ship USS Dennison. [[herbalsheila]], the 75th graduate of the website Star Trek Academy playing Ensign [[Maraht the Horta]], was the first to play a totally non-humanoid character and was assigned to the USS Mystique. Another player, [[dragonman-clone]], is working to develop the first lizard-like [[Gorn]] to graduate from the site's Academy as a character. More veteren players will remember experienced player Wes Harden, and his lovable bear-like character, [http://www.startrekfreedom.com/fleet/nimitz/bios.php?bios=223 Zzt].

Though many of the players are from all over the USA, often the players hail from the United Kingdom, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand, France, India and Canada. "It is truly an international effort put together by a wide variety of creative and amazingly imaginative people, who all secretly yearn for many of the better ideals of the Star Trek universe to come into being here in our world today," said [[herbalsheila]].