<div class="column"><div class="padd"><div class="descr"><p>In a parallel universe where the space race never ended, space travel was gaining popularity amongst corporations and rich individuals.</p>
<p>In 1988, a brand new deep sleep cell was released, compatible with all popular 16 bit computers. Unfortunately, it used big endian, whereas
the DCPU-16 specifications called for little endian. This led to a severe bug in the included drivers, causing a requested sleep of
<code>0x0000 0000 0000 0001</code> years to last for <code>0x0001 0000 0000 0000</code> years.</p>
<p>It's now the year 281 474 976 712 644 AD, and the first lost people are starting to wake up to a universe on the brink of extinction,
with all remote galaxies forever lost to red shift, star formation long since ended, and massive black holes dominating the galaxy.
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<h4>Game Features</h4>
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<p>The game is still very early in development, but here is a list of things we hope to include:</p>
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<li><a href="doc/hardscifi.txt">Hard science fiction</a>.
</li><li>Lots of engineering.
</li><li>Fully working computer system.
</li><li>Space battles against the AI or other players.
</li><li>Abandoned ships full of loot.
</li><li>Duct tape!
</li><li>Seamlessly landing on planets.
</li><li>Advanced economy system.
</li><li>Random encounters.
</li><li>Mining, trading, and looting.
</li><li>Single and multi player connected via the multiverse.
</li></ul><p></p>
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<h4>The Generator and the Computer</h4>
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<p>Each ship has a generator capable of producing a fixed wattage, and everything you connect to it drains
wattage. A cloaking field, for example, might require almost all the power from the generator, forcing you
to turn off all computers and dim all lights in order to successfully cloak.</p>
<p>The computer in the game is a fully functioning emulated 16 bit CPU that can be used to control your
entire ship, or just to play games on while waiting for a large mining operation to finish.</p>
<p>Full specifications of the CPU will be released shortly, so the more programatically advanced of you can
get a head start.</p></div></div></div>
