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<h1 class="content">About</h1>

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	Project::OSiRiON is a free space trading and combat simulation under
	development. Its goal is to create an immersive universe with open
	gameplay inspired by classic titles such as Privateer and Freelancer. 
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	The basic components are already in place: players can start 
	a single-player game, or join a network server. They can purchase a ship, 
	explore the universe and earn some cash trading cargo. Combat features
	are under development.
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	The game aims to be fully customizable: common and easy to edit file 
	formats make it trivial to change most of the game settings and world definitions.
	Most of the world customization can be done server-side, without the need
	for clients to install additional world definitions.
	Packages of the latest development build are available for windows and linux.
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<h2 class="content">General information</h2>
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	<li class="content"><a href="#internet">Internet</a>
	<li class="content"><a href="#development">Development</a>
	<li class="content"><a href="#team">Team</a>
	<li class="content"><a href="#contributers">Contributors</a>
	<li class="content"><a href="#credits">Credits</a>
	<li class="content"><a href="attributions.html">Attributions</a>
	<li class="content"><a href="#copyright">Copyright</a>	
	<li class="content"><a href="#acknowledgements">Acknowledgements</a>
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<h2 class="content">Installation</h2>
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	<li class="content"><a href="installation_release.html">Installing the latest release</a>
	<li class="content"><a href="installation_source.html">Building from source code</a>
	<li class="content"><a href="installation_develop.html">Building the development version</a>
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<h2 class="content">Manual</h2>
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	<li class="content"><a href="storyline.html">Storyline</a>
	<li class="content"><a href="guide.html">Player Guide</a> <span class="superscript">needs updating</span>
	<li class="content"><a href="manual.html">User Manual</a> <span class="superscript">needs updating</span>
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<h2 class="content">Editing</h2>
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	<li class="content"><a href="world.html">Editing the world</a> <span class="superscript">needs updating</span>
	<li class="content"><a href="models.html">Creating models</a> <span class="superscript">needs updating</span>
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<h2 class="content" id="internet">Internet</h2>

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	The website for Project::OSiRiON can be found at
	<a href="http://osirion.org">http://osirion.org</a>
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	The community forums can be found at
	<a href="http://osirion.org/forum">http://osirion.org/forum</a>
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	Documentation can be found on the wiki at
	<a href="http://osirion.org/wiki">http://osirion.org/wiki</a>
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	The official IRC channel is  <a href="irc://chat.freenode.net/%23osirion">#osirion</a> on the 
	<a href="http://freenode.net/">FreeNode</a> IRC network.
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	The engine is written from scratch in C++ and uses common libraries
	like SDL, OpenGL and OpenAL. Physics simulation is provided by the
	Bullet physics library. The engine is a work in progress and evolves
	with the game as required. 
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	The latest version of the source code and the game can be downloaded
	from the Subversion repositories:
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	<li class="content"><a href="svn://osirion.org/osirion/">svn://osirion.org/osirion</a>
	<li class="content"><a href="svn://osirion.org/osirion-data/">svn://osirion.org/osirion-data</a>
	<li class="content"><a href="svn://osirion.org/osirion-data-src/">svn://osirion.org/osirion-data-src</a> <span class="superscript">optional</span>
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The repositories can also be viewed online:
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	<li class="content"><a href="http://osirion.org/viewvc/index.cgi/osirion/">osirion</a>
	<li class="content"><a href="http://osirion.org/viewvc/index.cgi/osirion-data/">osirion-data</a>
	<li class="content"><a href="http://osirion.org/viewvc/index.cgi/osirion-data-src/">osirion-data-src</a>
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	The project development roadmap and an overview of open issues can be found on the 
	<a href="http://osirion.org/tracker/">tracker</a>.
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	The core team, these people work on the game and decide about its future:
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		<td class="quarterwidth">Stijn 'Ingar' Buys</td>
		<td>Programming, modeling, graphics, sound</td>
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		<td class="quarterwidth">Michael 'Thorn' Rodenhurst</td>
		<td>Modeling, graphics, web server</td>
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		<td class="quarterwidth">Evan 'Mega' Goers</td>
		<td>Modeling, graphics</td>
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	These people created new content for the game:
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		<td>Modeling</td>
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		<td class="quarterwidth">Antti 'Karvajalka' Lahti</td>
		<td>Modeling, graphics</td>
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<h2 class="content" id="credits">Credits</h2>

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	People who made their existing work available:
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	<li class="content"><a href="http://www.kurotorobert.com/">Robert Kuroto</a>
	<li class="content"><a href="http://trak.mercenariesguild.net/">Georges 'TRaK' Grondin</a>
	<li class="content"><a href="http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/show_creator_details.php?creator_id=5">Jeremy 'Jestr' Gardner</a>
	<li class="content"><a href="http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/show_creator_details.php?creator_id=153">Chance Ragen</a>
	<li class="content"><a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/">NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory</a>
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	The source code is distributed under the terms and conditions of the 
	<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GNU General Public License</a>.
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	The game data is distributed under the terms and conditions of the
	<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License</a>.
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	See the list of <a href="attributions.html">attributions</a> for more information.
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	Copyright &copy; 2007-2012, Project::OSiRiON
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<h2 class="content" id="acknowledgements">Acknowledgements</h2>

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	This project could not have been possible without the work of others:
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	<li class="content">Id Software
	<li class="content">the GtkRadiant project contributers
	<li class="content">The Quake2World community
	<li class="content">The Satgnu crew
	<li class="content">maci, for the webspace on satgnu
	<li class="content">DVSoftware for bandwidth, diskpace and CPU power
	<li class="content">NASA for their collection of freely available images
	<li class="content">Robert Kuroto for allowing me to use his texture pack
	<li class="content">Chance Ragen and Jeremy 'Jestr' Gardner for allowing me to use their planet textures
	<li class="content">Your_Face for allowing me to use his Tremulous map 'Trident'
	<li class="content">Georges 'TRaK' Grondin for allowing me to use his texture packs
	<li class="content">Thanks to bobke and blaze-x
	<li class="content">A special thanks to all =KCT= members
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	Thanks to:
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	<li class="content">Josky=KCT=
	<li class="content">[mDc]Minisori
	<li class="content">Gareth
	<li class="content">StalKermit
	<li class="content">DVSoftware
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	QUAKE and ID are registered trademarks of Id Software, Inc.<br>
	LEGO is a registered trademark of the LEGO Group.
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	Project::OSiRiON is an independent, not-for-profit project 
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