This article introduces a practical exercise to structure ethical discussion around emerging technology (i.e. AR/VR, BCI or avatars). Originally the work of @meshula, we iterated & expanded over the past few years and are happy to share it more broadly now

This is probably my last post here. It was fun while it lasted!

If you never heard of SWG from "back in the day", this thread is probably not for you, but dang, wouldn't I love it if @raphkoster logged in one day to see all the people who desperately love one of the most unique MMOs ever designed.

If you've made it this far, you can certainly tell I'm pretty excited that this dead MMO still exists in a playable state, complete with active player cities and guilds, and fueled with modern community-building through Discord.

In fact, it's 3 games in one. You can run around as your Star Wars inspired character to PvP and PvE to your heart's content. And then there is a whole other game dedicated to crafting items for other players. and third, a whole damn fly-around-in-space game.

So in the end, I'm happily re-living my teenage years playing this game. I really don't think any MMO (sans Ultima Online) has ever spanned a space of gameplay with such depth and complexity. SWG is truly a masterpiece of systems design.

Not only that, but one server in particular extended the original core game with entirely new content ranging from Hoth to Bespin. What?!.

. after a little digging, I discovered that several server communities are based on a *leak* of the SWG source code from 2015. A bunch of people actually took the effort to get a whole ass zip file of ancient server+client code up and running, copyrights be damned.

Soon I realized that the SWGEMU project targeted an earlier version of the game (PreCU), but this other server offered a version (NGE) that I didn't think had any development behind it?.

After all, it is an MMO and SWG is one of those games that needs a healthy population to sustain the hundreds of complex game systems at play. One server in particular stood out and I wanted to give it a try.

13 years later, SWGEMU is in a pretty good state and seems relatively playable as a simulation of the original game. I took a peek at some Reddit communities and found a few ongoing servers that looked promising from a player # count .

I've been playing a lot of the ill-fated 2003-2011 Star Wars Galaxies MMO (SWG). Every year or so I would check up on the SWGEMU project and they seemed to be making good progress re-engineering the game's backend. .

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