Editions and Supplements
Federation and Empire itself was originally published in 1986 by Task Force Games (TFG). The rulebook has been revised five times since then, two of them coinciding with a change in the overall components. All editions come with 'fleet charts' (sheets of off-map holding areas for excess counters) as well as 'capital charts' (to detail the contents of the capital systems of the various empires), and the main map.
TFG's first strategic level game for the Star Fleet Universe was Federation Space, released in 1981. It was derived from the current working draft of what became Federation and Empire, and so can be considered a "brother" to it, even though there are notable differences between the two.
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