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Ruby On 23rd October 1982, Star Fleet first aired on ITV in the UK. On the Enterprise, nothing 'just happens'.

Dynu Service Outage

Dynu: the site's dynamic DNS provider, has suffered a major attack and a lot of their services are down since yesterday.

That normally wouldn't have been a problem for the site right away, but the fibre network needed to obtain a new IP late last night and, with many of Dynu's services being down, there is no way to update the DNS records for xbomber.com.

The site's server is up and our network is working, but until Dynu is back up, the site will have to be accessed over xbomber.co.uk, which will forward you to the server's current IP address.

Small Update
I noticed that since 10:17 today that the Dynu client is managing to retrieve and update the IP record on Dynu's server.
However, when you ping xbomber.com, it is still resolving to the old IP address, so there seems to be progress, but still a disconnection between the server that communicates with the client and the actual DNS servers.

Back to Action
As of about 12:00, I was able to get into the Dynu control panel and force and update on the DNS records. xbomber.com is working again.

2026.10.22

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HTML 5

As part of gradual improvements to the site, it has had a little re-write and now consists of badly-written HTML 5, rather than badly-written HTML 4.01 transitional.

The validation process turned up a few issues in the media system that are now fixed.

I created a status page for Crystal and the SFXB forum at UptimeRobot to keep track of the uptime and performance of both the servers.

2026.10.11

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Star Fleet - Terror on Moonbase

I have a new story from Suzy Jones to share with you:
Star Fleet - Terror on Moonbase

These stories are always good and can be found on the Fan Stories page.

2026.10.11

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Fan DVD Release - Screenshots - Disc 6

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Now for the last batch of the screenshots,
The 7^th disc has some very nice extras, but the series concludes with disc 6.

2026.10.06

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Fan DVD Release - Screenshots - Disc 5

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With another week comes another batch,

There's great consistency with this DVD release:
Picture and sound quality are great as always, along with some really nice extras.

In other news, SFXB Forum has been patched to 3.3.19, which contains quite a lot of vulnerability fixes.

2026.10.02

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Star Fleet Synthwave Tribute Song

I meant to share this long ago but things kept distracting me.
It was Dan H who put me onto this:
X-Bomber (Star Fleet / Bomber X) 🚀🌌 Synthwave Tribute Song - YouTube

It's an AI song about Star Fleet, that is actually very nice and catchy.

One thing I like about it is the chorus:

We are the heroes of the Star Fleet crew
Flying so high, breaking on through

I found myself humming it the other day and I feel like this song is just as easily about all the people - nomatter how they're doing it - that're keeping Star Fleet and the memory of a really cracking little TV show alive - even 40+ years down the line.

2026.09.30

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Fan DVD Release - Screenshots - Disc 4

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2026.09.24

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Fan DVD Release - Screenshots - Disc 3

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Four episodes per week is a nice pace for watching Star Fleet.

We didn't turn out quitters at the academy. It's gonna be OK.

2026.09.19

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v0.84n - Objectives

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In Progress
 - Level 16: Fortress train 52%
	Engine lights working
	Logic mostly complete
	Engine and carriage sprites progressing ...

Done
 - X-Fighter multiplayer
	Shield bubble logic improved
 - Fixed bug affecting supporting player ship destruction
 - Player 2 (Sylph) control assignment glitch fixed
 - Sylph missile reloading fixed - now not possible via X-Impulse power-up
 - X-Bomber Prototype pulse neck laser improved
	(now looks as though it comes from underneath the ship)
 - Mouse selection glitch fixed on main menu mission selector
 - High score upload fixed on server end
 - L16 - Solar energy nets release debris when taking damage.

To-do
 - Improve assault tractor logic ...
 - L16 - Grey heavy bombers with hoverfans and Minelayers
 - Megacarriers 
	Implement green variant
	Re-instate neutralaser weapon
	Match deployed fighters to carrier
 - L16 Boss - Death-X Transforming Type
	Progress animations and weapons
 - Various escape pod types with rotation
 - Dai-X underwater backpack

2026.09.17

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Shane Perry - New Images

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Dan H passed me along some nice AI images from Shane Perry.
Shane is an amazing illustrator and it would be great to see some new drawings from him.

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Here is a collection of my friend; Shane Perry's illustrations, diagrams and CGI images relating to his Star Fleet continuation; 
	The Revenge of Makara

Shane also produced the cover images for the fan stories shown here:
	Star Fleet > Fan Stories

Displayed with kind permission

2026.09.16

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