A long time ago, in the early dawn of my internet life, I was looking for lists of weapons and I encountered a website on an Australian domain which featured a tactical tabletop wargame called "Starfall 2317" (I think). I looked over the rules and absolutely loved them, and even based a fair bit of my BattleHawk system (a modern-warfare engine) on the core mechanics -- personnel are tracked as individuals and have attributes called Speciality, Combat, etc. Other notable features of the game were genetically-engineered beings called SABLEs or SABELs (I can't remember which) which included such things as crocodiles with mean streaks and hunting dogs with super-sensitive noses... all within the demesne of a squad-based sci-fi tactical wargame. After battles, players could either "gengineer" or train their soldiers for use in the next battle. Battles would be played out by dropping troops using dropships, and there were motorcycles and plenty of other goodies to keep you busy.

However, one time in 2001, that site disappeared. I had earmarked the page to be available as offline content in Internet Explorer, but foolishly didn't do a full backup of the site to my hard drive... so when the site went down my offline copy went down when IE updated it, and I lost it.

I didn't look too hard for it at the time, but recently I really wanted to check it out again. Because archive.org has no full text search, I can't search there, so I'm doing my best to hunt it down using the only tool at my disposal... Google. Doing a search for "Starfall gengineer" gives no hits. Right now I'm digging through the some 400,000 hits for "Starfall", hoping I'll manage to find any sort of archived version or some sort of reference to the game (is it even possible to have a publicly-indexed web page which has had absolutely no one visit?), but I don't find it likely.

Where are you, Starfall? What happened to you?