This article is for the real-life year 2018. It corresponds to the in-character year YE 40.

Star Army started the year 2018 with 12,912 wiki pages, 12,458 media files, 19,127 forum discussions, 316,281 forum posts, and 1,576 forum members.

• January 1: YE 40 begins
• January 12: After a member was banned, his significant other withdrew her participation from the site, creating a domino effect of some players leaving¹⁾.
• January 14: 9 years since StarArmy got on Twitter in 2009.
• January 20th at 8pm-10pm EST (5pm-7pm PM Pacific): Star Army Community Meeting²⁾
• January 30: 2 years since Star Army implemented full TLS encryption (HTTPS)
• Roleplay Reviews month

• February 8: 2 Star Army plots announced as winners in the Tournament of Simulations³⁾.
  • Outstanding Original Scifi: YSS Hana
  • Excellent Original Scifi: YSS Kaiyō II
• February 9: 10th OOC Anniversary of The Freespacer Genocide in 2008
• February 11: The Asteria faction collapsed as its creators moved it to another website and demanded it to be removed from SARP.
  • Over 500 pages were removed from the wiki
• February 14: 4th annual Love Day (SARP's version of Valentine's Day)
  • Characters were randomly matched for “Date night” JPs
• February 17: 2 years since 4 Star Army plots were awarded in the 2014 Simulation Cup in 2016
• February 19th at 8:30pm-9:30pm EST (5:30pm-6:30pm PM Pacific): Star Army Community Meeting⁴⁾

• March 2: 5th anniversary of winning Ongoing Worlds' Award for Best Roleplaying Club in 2013
• March 4: International Game Master Day
• March 17: 9th OOC Anniversary of the United Outer Colonies breaking from the Yamatai Star Empire in 2008
• International Relations Conference of YE 40
• March 28: Star Army moves from Xenforo 1.5 to Xenforo 2.0 for its forum software

• April 22: Star Army's Tumblr turns 9.
• Roleplay Reviews month

• May 6: Support for emoji added to the Star Army forum⁵⁾
• May 26: StarArmy.com domain's 14th anniversary of being registered by Wes (May 26, 2003)

• June 2-4: Wes and Nashoba at ConCarolinas in Charlotte, NC

• August 14: 5 years with our current webhost, Dreamhost. We moved to them on this day in 2013.
• August 24: 13th OOC Anniversary of Nepleslian Independence in 2005
• August 29: 4 year anniversary since Star Army was awarded the Simming Prize in 2014
• Roleplay Reviews month

• Dragon Con in Atlanta, GA

• October 17: 2 years since the setting expanded to the Kagami Galaxy in 2016
• October 29: 4 years since Star Army started using Cloudflare in 2014
• Thread Necromancy Event

• November 6: 5 years since the forum switched from phpBB3 to XenForo in 2013

• Lewis Pasco Day (Nepleslian holiday)
• Year-End Traditions (International)