Empire 6 Roadmap

We are ready to go! With the launch of the website, we will let folks sign up for our first Social event and begin this crazy journey to outer space.

After years of threatening to create a space LARP, this event will be the first actual get together to talk about it in a formal setting. It’s our hope that we will get folks excited about the game, answer questions about the world, and give a little teaser about the plotline.

Essex, the web application that will run Empire 6, will be officially launched in early alpha. This will include parts of the Station Library including the OOG rulebook, Licenses and Species. Folks will be able to register for the website and begin seeing how the in-game app will take shape!

Occupant Registration! (Character Creation). Players will be able to register their characters on the website and then sign up for our first Assembly (event) happening in October, 2024.

We have ambitious goals for the design and build of the Empire alpha season set. Please join us to work together on assembling walls and getting things ready for the big day!

Prep for the first Assembly. Scanner app, Treating Afflictions, flesh out Station Library, create Customs process, and create the game administration overview application (called ‘Station’) that logs all activity and lets staff manage the game.

Our first alpha test event!! This will be the first time we do a full ‘dress rehearsal’ of the game, complete with a set, app usage, and seeing how the rules play out. Please join us for a spectacular event where we try to blow your socks off with the visuals and the ambition of the game.

With a giant leap forward, we will be launching the following features on Essex:

• Rentals! Book shuttles, ag-sec plots, podium time, and more using the Essex app during the game.
• Occupant Banking System - Deposit your hard earned chips and materials into the safety of the Empire Bank. View your inventory within Essex and stop having to carry around heavy bags of loot.
• Many smaller updates/changes

We will be hosting a second social event in 2025! While we hoped to have a second Assembly in February, the team thought it would be better to ensure that we had the right amount of time to work on sets, costumes, plotlines, and training so that our second Assembly can be as good as possible. Join us to learn about our goals for the game, changes we’ve been making, and learn more about rules that players had quite a few questions on after our first Assembly.

We will launch our security protocols to ensure that illegal activity is flagged and the opportunity to back out of making poor choices is presented to users before they’ve made a mistake. We will also be introducing “Points of Interest”, spots around the ship and greater world where Occupants can scan and be confronted with choices to make, actions they can take, or both.

We will be testing our rules in an out-of-game, informal setting! More details to come.

We will be testing our rules in an out-of-game, informal setting! More details to come.

We will be testing our rules in an out-of-game, informal setting! More details to come.

More Details to Come - This is not an 'event' in the traditional sense, though it will be full costuming and setup.