Tidbit #2:

Allegiance has had MANY MANY MANY fan pages.

Many of us weren’t around for the AZ (most of us weren’t I’d wager).  Here are a few pages we missed:

http://allegiancehq.gameglow.com/ (and check out the screenshots there, wow!)
http://www.planetmerc.com/allegiance/ (and the forum link works . . kind of . .you can read the subjects)
http://www.planetallegiance.com/ (really?  who knew!?)
http://www.allegiancewars.com/ (the first Allegiance Wars?)

Interesting Tidbit #1:

Allegiance, developed by Microsoft Research, was based on Alto Trek, one of the earliest networked computer games, originally developed by Gene Ball and Rick Rashid in the 1970’s.