I honestly believe that every good PBM game should have a companion newsletter to support and enhance the playing experience, and for Galactic Empires that newsletter has always been the Interstellar Communicator. Published irregularly, but at least several times each year, the Interstellar Communicator provides a means for the game moderator to update players on various goings on, and player to express their views on galactic affairs in general.

While Galactic Empires has been on hiatus, so has the Interstellar Communicator, but for your reading pleasure I have posted several back issues for you to download. These should provide a good sample of some of the fun players can experience between turns. I will be adding more back issues as time permits. It seems some of that old formatting didn't hold up so well in updated programs. The issues that are online now are the issues that were created as PDF documents. With the older issues I need to update some things before saving them as a new PDF.

A point worth remembering, as these are back issues many, I'd even say most, of the addresses (email, snail mail and web) are out of date and no longer valid. I mention this only because I fully expect someone will send me something via one of those addresses and then wonder why I never respond. Now you'll know.

~Mark

For those who encounter trouble finding where to download those issues of the Interstellar Communicator from, just look at the very top of the page. It took me a minute or three to locate the link.