It's a wiki with the tagline, "It's a fictional world purely imagined by its community", and it isn't Conservapædia! Galaxiki is a galaxy-building exercise that lets you create star systems and populate them with stories and details. One bummer is that they charge you for the right to create new stars — that doesn't seem like a smart idea, since you'd think they'd want more contributions, at least early in the game — but you can edit somewhat freely, and there are swarms of randomly generated star systems to play with.
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"Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
At least until my biggest solar system blows up after only a hundred thousand years on the main stage because I made the main star too damn big. Oh, well, I was looking to generate a ton of trans-three-hundred elements....
Sure.But did you make sure to put a gas giant or two there also to make decent Mirkheim-type resources?
Traveller-tastic!
I was thinking more along the lines of Star Hero.
Sounds like a good resource to go along with Orion's Arm. Thanks for the heads up.
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Actually, given that the idea seems to be to encourage cooperative development of star systems, it makes sense to discourage everyone from making their own private star system.
Usually when I follow a link and discover that it's dead, it's because it was hosted on a Microsoftish web servers, but my tools tell me it's actually Linux - Debian, even, which is the Richard Dawkins of operating systems (ideologically pure, somewhat grumpy, maybe a little strident, but indisputably respectable). So I'm forced to conclude that you, PZ, are such a beacon of wossname in a world of thingummy, that a mere mention from you of a website is enough to Slashdot the site to its knees. Go you!