---------------------------------------- Space Gopher, Revisited November 19th, 2018 ---------------------------------------- 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? (DIR) [0] Space Gopher 2000 (HTM) [1] tildeverse (TXT) [2] Circumlunar Updates