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Space Gopher, Revisited | |
November 19th, 2018 | |
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A while back I mused [0] about how some quantum mechanics mixed | |
with interstellar travel could create a scenario for text-based | |
communications to thrive, at least in fiction. Tonight the idea | |
came back to me again. | |
I've been hanging out with the tilde [1] crowd a lot lately, and | |
it's so inspiring. I want to give back and make more of these | |
micro-instance outposts that offer one thing really well. So many | |
people have been phlogging about it recently, especially | |
solderpunk [2]. How can I legitimately contribute, though? I don't | |
think I have the time or energy for a full tilde admin role. Plus, | |
there's already a bunch of these general purpose communities. What | |
would be unique about mine? | |
So, then I began thinking about what motivates me and what I love. | |
Storytelling is #1, especially role-playing games. Merge all that | |
together and it gives me such a great idea: | |
Humanity has expanded to the stars, but it wasn't in a single | |
great migration as many thought. Small communities and | |
individual families have drifted impossible distances away, | |
connected only through the thin tethers of a Quantum Entaglement | |
Communicator (QEC) which bridges their tiny bandwidth back to | |
this ancient relay hub. These are pen-pal letters, reports, | |
updates, cries for help, and calls into the darkness. What is | |
delivered to the system is unfiltered. Some of it is | |
intelligible. For some, common language has drifted too far for | |
clear translation. | |
The year is unimportant and irrelevant due to relativistic | |
travel. The only agreed upon date is the "now" of the QEC. | |
Launching sometime soon: A gopher-focused tilde community that | |
exists 100% in-game, sharing stories across the universe on the | |
only remaining free, interconnected network that unites the | |
dispersed peoples of the stars. | |
Would you participate? | |
[0] Space Gopher 2000 | |
[1] tildeverse | |
[2] Circumlunar Updates |