====== cosmic.voyage ======

[[https://cosmic.voyage/|cosmic.voyage]]: a tildeverse pubnix built around one shared project, a collaborative science-fiction universe. Members write stories as the crews of ships, colonies, and outposts. The fiction explains the system's plain-text shape: in the story, the Quantum Entanglement Communicator (QEC) is the only link between the scattered peoples of the stars, and it carries only simple messages.

<code bash>
ssh you@cosmic.voyage
</code>

===== Publishing Is the Story =====

  * ''ship'': claims a ship, colony, or outpost and creates ''~/ships/<name>/''. Only you can write your ship's story
  * ''~/ships/<name>/*.txt'': each text file is one message to the relay, wrapped at 80 columns; the relay does not rewrap
  * ''log'': links a finished message into the QEC, publishing it on the web, gopher, and gemini at once. Messages stay editable in place; there is no need to run ''log'' again after edits
  * ''~/ships/<name>/'' doubles as a web space: files dropped there are served at ''cosmic.voyage/<name>/''. (''~/public_html'' exists but ''~user'' dirs are not actually served)

===== Tools =====

  * ''man cosmic.voyage'': the introduction manual
  * ''menu'': interactive menu covering ships, messages, and system features
  * ''roster'': every ship and the author behind it
  * ''latest'': recent transmissions on the relay
  * ''wiki'', ''faq'': system documentation, opened in lynx
  * ''chat'', ''bbj'', ''botany'': the usual tildeverse toys; ''#cosmic'' on tilde.chat is the social room
  * ''alpine'', ''mutt'': mail clients; cosmic mail only reaches other users and pubnixes

===== Etiquette =====

Reacting to what you overhear on the relay is free. Making another author's characters act or changing their storyline needs their permission first: find the author on ''roster'' and mail them or ask in ''#cosmic''.

===== See Also =====

  * [[tilde:start|tilde.town]]
  * [[tilde:tildeverse|The Tildeverse]]
  * [[tilde:history|Pubnix History]]
  * [[tilde:join|Joining a Tilde]]
  * [[tilde:commands|Commands]]
  * [[tilde:glossary|Glossary]]
  * [[start|Return to wiki home]]