ffutures: (marcus 2013)
ffutures ([personal profile] ffutures) wrote2013-04-26 11:38 pm
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Paging Selenak...

Just spotted one of the systems in Oolite (and the older Elite) galaxy seven:

beatle

In case that isn't clear it reads
Data on Beatle
Economy: Poor Industrial
Government: Anarchy
Tech Level: 6
Population: 2.3 Billion (Human colonials)
Gross Productivity: 5888 megacredits
Average Radius: 3740 Km
Beatle is famous for its exotic fish meat but scourged by deadly civil war.

Sounds like an interesting place to visit but you wouldn't want to live there.
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ext_15169: Self-portrait (walrus (by sandra strait))

[identity profile] speakr2customrs.livejournal.com 2013-04-27 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
National Anthem: I Am The Walrus.

[identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com 2013-04-27 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
Goo-goo-ga-joob

[identity profile] selenak.livejournal.com 2013-04-28 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's brilliant! Thank you for screencapturing this.

[identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com 2013-04-28 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
It runs at much higher resolution, but I didn't want to waste a lot of file space.

Oolite (and its ancestor Elite) uses a pseudo-random universe generator that originally ran in 16k, and produces everything from the star maps and system names to the planetary description etc. - they went to a lot of trouble to avoid swear words etc., but they still got a few real words coming out, and this is one of them.
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