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   Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 11:38:46 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

   I've talked a little bit about #JupitersGhost the last few days, but the last time I spent a large amount of time talking about it was ~1 year ago, and I have about twice as many followers now as I did then, which means it's time to talk about Jupiter's Ghost some more.

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     Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 11:38:45 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     #JG is a podcast set in the collaborative, crowd sourced, creative commons licensed universe of the Solar Federation.

     You can listen to it at https://intergalactic.computer

     Intergalactic.computer is a social network (currently powered by Buddypress, unfortunately) that we use to organize the Jupiter's Ghost podcast.

     But The Solar Federation and Intergalactic Computer can be a lot more than that.

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     Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 11:38:45 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     Alright! First things first, What is Jupiter's Ghost?

     Jupiter's Ghost is a space ship operated by the space corps on the outskirts of a crumbling intergalactic utopia.

     The space corps is an organization that exists on the edges of the Solar Federation, picking up the pieces that the federation drops. They do mutual aid. They run supplies and rescue people after natural disasters, they explore and document what they find, occasionally they do mutual defense.

     Think Starfleet, without the monopoly of violence.

     The Solar Federation is a fractured utopia. Even if it was ever a wonderful place, it isn't anymore. Everyone has enough to eat, but a lot of people are still just barely getting by for one reason or another.

     I recorded a log entry about this: https://intergalactic.computer/social/podcast/personal-log-james-andrews/

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     Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 11:39:15 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     I've written a lot about what Jupiter's Ghost and the Solar Federation are supposed to be.

     I don't have to do that again.

     https://intergalactic.computer/social/about-jupiters-ghost-and-the-solar-federation/

     I'll excerpt some quotes in the next post.

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     Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 11:39:54 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     "Intergalactic Social is a collaborative fiction site detailing the lives and daily operations of people living in the Solar Federation and the United Worlds. At the moment, it is the central hub of the Solar Federation Universe, and the forum through which all major contributions to the story are organized.

     Intergalactic Social is an in-character social network and forum in which the various inhabitants of the Solar Federation Universe can interact. All content is available CC-BY-SA."

     alcinnz repeated this.
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     Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 11:39:54 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     From the How To Contribute section: https://intergalactic.computer/social/how-to-contribute/

     The podcasts specifically follow this structure:

     - The setting runner posts (part or all of) an official mission log, detailing the Big Event that makes up the A plot of a given episode.

     - The crew/inhabitants of that setting have a set amount of time to write/record their personal logs.
     - - They can collaborate with one another or work solo.
     - - They can use the social network to post updates that other people can reference within their updates, if they’d like.
     - - These personal logs can be part of the A plot, or can make up B and C plots.

     - The setting runner collects all of the personal logs, makes any additions they want to the official mission logs, and cuts together an episode.
     - - Not every personal log will be included in the finished episode (this is due to time considerations) but most or all of them will be included in the personal log feed for that setting, and the personal log feed for the universe overall.

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     Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 11:50:28 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     And from the "settings" page:

     https://intergalactic.computer/social/ships-and-settings/

     Ships, planets, space stations, and other settlements make up the settings by which the solar federation universe is organized (by analogy with some popular science fiction TV shows, Enterprise, Deep Space 9, and Voyager shared a universe but each told their own stories with only occasional overlap. Settings in The solar federation will often be organized the same way. This mostly matters for the podcast(s), which we’ll talk about bellow.)

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     Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 11:50:29 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     Also from How to contribute:

     That last bit might not make sense if you aren’t familiar with the structure of our podcasts.

     There are several:

     - One ‘official’ podcast per setting, which is the episode described above

     - One ‘unfiltered’ podcast per setting, which is every personal log, including the full versions of logs that were cut short for the episode and logs that weren’t included in the episode

     - One podcast feed which is all the official episodes across the whole universe

     - One podcast feed that is every log from every setting across the whole universe. (This isn’t very large right now, but it is my hope that eventually there is so much in the full feed that it’s basically impossible for one person to listen to all of it.)

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     Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 11:50:48 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     As an aside: the cartoon we did ( https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/hx7PGjW5YqTG8c6q4nrD7R ) is basically what I would consider the minimum viable cartoon.

     I'd really love to do a better one. I did it myself, I'm not good at that kind of thing. I'd love to hire someone to do a better job!

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     Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 11:50:48 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     So why? Why am I putting energy in to this?

     Well, honestly, it's about Star Trek New Voyages/Phase II/Star Trek Continues/Starship Farragut/ etc.

     It's about fanfiction.

     Which means I need to talk about Fanfiction.

     We'll start with Starship Farragut (the animated series):

     https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=ieNz06w9tN8

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     Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 11:50:49 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     I picked a CC-BY-SA license for the same reason I frequently pick copyleft licenses when I'm working on software.

     I could have gone with CC-BY or a public domain dedication, but if I release something CC-BY and you (or Disney!) decide to remix it, you can! And you can sell it! And you own the copyright on it! and it is effectively locked up. The commons shrinks.

     If I release something CC-BY-SA and you (or Disney) decide to remix it, you can! And you can sell it! And you own the copyright on it! But you have to release your remix, your derivative work, your transformation or creative re-use under identical/ compatible terms. The commons grows.

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     Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 11:50:49 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     For those same reasons, I didn't go with an "ND" license. What we are doing is one giant derivative work. ND is actively harmful to that.

     And I didn't go with an "NC" or "Non-commercial" license because I am absolutely going to run ads in the zine, and sell sponsorships on the podcast, and run the cartoon made from the podcast on New Ellijay Television ( https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/hx7PGjW5YqTG8c6q4nrD7R ) , along side occasional advertisements.

     I am exploiting this thing commercially, so that I can fund continuing to make it, so that I can pay the people who are involved in making it, etc.

     If you can come up with a way to make money on Jupiter's Ghost, Do it! Grow the audience.

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     Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 11:50:50 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     Also from the How to Contribute page is this bit about the license:

     In order for this kind of a collaboration to work, we all have to agree on the terms through which the things we produce are distributed. This means that we need to pick a license. Intergalactic Social and Jupiter’s Ghost are available under a Creative Commons – BY-SA license.

     When you upload content to the site, you are agreeing to make it available under the same license. This means that people can remix your content, as long as they attribute it back to you, and as long as they use the same (or a compatible) license for their work.

     This also means that people outside of Intergalactic Social can use your content, and those people may or may not choose to follow Rule #1 above. That’s the nature of open content and collaborative fiction, and I want to make sure you’re aware of it before you contribute.

     [Rule #1 says: Do not tell stories involving other users without their consent.

     This is really simple. You have autonomy over your character, and they have autonomy over their character. If you need someone in your story, feel free to reach out to them, or just create an NPC. ]

     and here is where I'll stop pasting in bits from things I wrote several years ago and start saying some new stuff.

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     Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 11:51:17 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     And the live action series: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=-ZpVMDJrT20

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 12:43:51 JST silverwizard

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     @ajroach42 I've tried to dive into the corpus a few times, but mostly bounced due to the 40+ hour backlog of podcast backlog.

     I should build a Jupiter's Ghost RPG as a way of tricking my brain into priorities

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 23:11:18 JST silverwizard

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     @ajroach42 oh, I mean, I have a 40+ backlog of items I want to listen to.
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     Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 23:11:19 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     @silverwizard I'd love that.

     There are posted transcripts for the two main episodes if that'd be easier, and a mediocre cartoon.

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     Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 02:52:44 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     @silverwizard I understood. I was offering the transcripts as an alternative.

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