If you're interested in joining the crew of the #JupitersGhost or starting your own #solarFederation setting, get in touch with me or @jandrews

If you're intrigued, but want more information...

Well you can start at https://intergalactic.computer or https://intergalactic.computer/social

but also give me a few minutes to get to a real keyboard and I'll wax poetic about what this project is supposed to be and why it exists and why I think it's more relevant now than ever and what I hope you'll get out of it.

Alright, so what is this #JupitersGhost thing I've been talking about for, god nearly 10 years?

This is a history post. After the history post I'll do a more concise pitch. Feel free to ignore this if you're only interested in the current state of the world, and not how we got here.

I started working on Jupiter's Ghost in 2016 or thereabouts. The earliest doc I can find has a created date of November 2016, but it isn't the original proposal, so sometime before that.

The initial proposal was basically my response to that old tumblr post about humans as space orcs. I wrote a bunch of backstory and then wrote about a couple of characters on a spaceship getting lost in deep space and I shared it with some friends.

Several rounds of riffing later and the Space Orc element had fallen by the wayside, and the focus was instead on collaborative/roleplay centered storytelling in a shared science fiction universe.

Over the following years a bunch of us worked together on this concept, building the universe out into something pretty broad (which I'll discuss in more detail in the next post.)