Quote from: MysticalPotato on June 19, 2014, 05:06:25 PM

Folks, a peek at some preliminary pieces of the HYPER MMO under development currently. Needless to say, this is not finalized and changes should be expected.

CONCEPT ART (for illustration only)

UNIVERSALIS COMPENDIUM, Volume 2328
Entry: Virgo SuperCluster
See also: SuperClusters, Messier Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters, The New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars

Chapter 61: General

Diameter : 33 megaparsecs (2062.6 x 10⁵ AU)
Solar Mass : 10¹⁵ M
Cartesian Coordinates : SGX = 0 Mpc, SGY = 0 Mpc, SGZ = 0 Mpc

The Virgo SuperCluster (VSC) is a narrow band of space stretching approximately 120 million light years from one end to another. It is consisted primarily of a thick cluster of galaxies, gaseous continents, stars, planets, planetoids, dark matter, dark energy and space debris. Despite being only one of trillions of superclusters charted, the VSC thus far remains as the only cluster that contains sentient life forms.

Located in the massless void between the Centaurus and Hydra SuperClusters, the VSC is home to approximately 117 trillion humans, Protos, Gaians, Augments and various other carbon, hydrogen and helium-based life forms. Currently, less than 0.00003% of the hundreds of millions of galaxies inside the VSC have been terraformed for life.

[] Chapter 62: Etymology

The VSC is believed to be a term originally used by the pre-civilized. While there have been several documented attempts to rename the VSC, its voluminous use in almost all pre-civilized literature

[] Chapter 65: Major Galaxies/ Star Systems

Milky Way
Andromeda
Norma Cluster
Pleiades Star Clusters
Triangulum Galaxy
WolfLundmarkMelotte
Antlia Dwarf
Leo A
M84

[] Chapter 69: Milky Way

Its G2V star is believed to have gone into supernova (Type II) approximately 10,000 years ago, a peculiar incident since it was a relatively young and an exceptionally stable star. The collapsing core is slowly devolving into a black hole, and has consumed several of the observable outlying planets and solid bodies.

The Milky Way is commonly cited by conspiracy theorists as the location of the original home planet of humanity. However, there exists no credible evidence to supports this theory.

Great start on the encyclopedia for the game and the Virgo Supercluster setting for the game which contains our galaxy (as well as many more).

Thanks for the UI (User Interface) mockup HYPERfan!

I'm thinking of an interface which is quite minimal in nature so that the actual galaxy (and at the start of the game just the player's mainplanet) will be the focus of the UI. Simple circular buttons on the side of the screen will open different control panels. I also think the screens for encyclopedia and everything else should be semi transparent so the payer's rotating planet / empire / galaxy is still visible in the background. I want to make the game as breathtaking as possible

So there's some thoughts about the user interface but I digress, absolutely love your work so far on the encyclopedia.

I will get my friend to post up the work she has done on the alien races so far very soon!! So much exciting stuff happening right now.