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.TH COSMIC.VOYAGE 1 "20 Nov 2018"
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.SH NAME
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cosmic.voyage - humanity's stellar diaspora
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.SH DESRIPTION
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.PP
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.B cosmic.voyage
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is a public access unix system (pubnix) and part of the tilde
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(tildeverse) community of micro-instances offering free shell
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accounts. It exists primarily to author and promote
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a collaborative science-fiction universe. A secondary goal is the
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promotion of command-line skills in *nix systems. The use of plain
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text tools and command line interfaces is both a thematic choice
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and technical practice.
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.SH STORY
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Our users write stories as the people aboard ships, colonies, and
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outposts, using the only remaining free, interconnected network
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that unites the dispersed peoples of the stars.
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.PP
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The
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.B Quantum Entanglement Communicator
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or
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.B QEC
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is the a device that bridges the vast distances of space with near-
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instantaneous communication. Unfortunately, it provides only
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a limited bandwidth to the ancient relay hub in the SOL system. It
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is enough for only simple, plain-text messaging.
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.PP
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The ships in our story have all left Earth behind at different
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times, and in some cases they've left from different realities.
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The QEC bridges all these gaps, uniting ships across time and
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space in the strangest of ways. Records are stored chronologically
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on the relay hub as they are received, but their source
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transmissions are often wildly out of sync.
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.SH GETTING STARTED
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.PP
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New users are greeted with a welcome email upon the creation of
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their account that provides information on creating a ship, the
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structure of files and folders, and instructions for creating logs
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to the QEC. This welcome email can be read using the programs
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.B alpine
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or
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.B mutt.
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.PP
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New users may also find it useful to use the interactive menu
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system by running the
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.B menu
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command.
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.PP
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Finally, users may find up-to-date comprehensive guides on the
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system wiki by running the
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.B wiki
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command.
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.SH NOTES
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This is a full Ubuntu environment and allows users to do far more
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than simply write stories. Feel free to take advantage of the
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tools available here to experiment with other aspects of the
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command line. We have many programming languages / compilers
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installed.
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Users are also allowed to run reoccuring or scheduled tasks using
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cron-jobs. If you do this, please include `/usr/bin/nice -n 19'
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before any tasks you run to minimize the system load over time.
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.SH BUGS
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There are probably many bugs in this system. Please report
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anything you find by mailing
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.B tomasino@cosmic.voyage
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or finding us on irc.tilde.chat in the #cosmic room.
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.SH AUTHOR
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Cosmic Voyage was created by James Tomasino, but the works of
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fiction for each ship are the results of the individual authors on
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this system. Run the
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.B roster
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command to see who is responsible for each ship.
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