Jerry Pournelle praised the Orion games' realism: "Classical principles of fleet warfare work, and strategy and tactics are more important than luck".
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After Starfleet Orion had been completed the authors, Jon Freeman and Jim Connelly, decided that the original placed too many demands on the players.