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Travel Times

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Travel takes : 8 turns between planets into the same system, 12 turns between systems into the same sector, 16 turns between sectors into the same galaxy, 24 turns between your home planet and any planet. Intergalactic travel between the rings is desi...

Phase 1: Initial Code - Rounds Saturn 1 - 3

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After an initial phase of testing Round 1 began on 7th May 2001. AKA Colony Wars as there was in fact no actual combat so all people could do was colonise planets.  Rounds 2 and 3 were more exciting with the introduction of combat and heralded the start of so...

Phase 2: The "New Code" - Rounds Saturn 4-8 + Mars Rounds 1-4

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After the first 3 rounds the developers chose to revamp the UI of the game along with the code behind it. A number of issues had been noted which were addressed due to abuse factors. Out went solely 3 planet systems, out went trade posts due to their misuse a...

Phase 3: The "New New Code" - Rounds Jupiter 1-5 and Pluto 1-3

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Again a new code base and a change in direction from the previous games. Home planets were still protected however you were no longer limited to your original starting galaxy as travel was no longer linear.  Galaxies were changed so that the even numbered ga...

Phase 4: Sabbatical and the Next Stage - Andromeda and Beyond

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Current development started after the end of Jupiter 5 however outside factors over took the creators ability to work on the game. Although some tests were carried out development effectively ceased in 2012. Scroll forward to July 2019 and a chance question a...

Angels of War

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Angels of War were established in 2002 for Saturn Round 4 and lead by Father. Saturn 4 the first round of the "new code" and as such there were some fractured/small alliances looking to find their feet against already organised alliances.  AoW brought togeth...

BlackRider Commandos

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Motto: Listen closely and you will hear us coming   At the very beginning of Dark Galaxy BlackRider Commandos were there.  After approx 1 year, the alliance leader asked me to take over the leadership role as he was unable to continue playing. BRC were the ...

Dalaran Commonwealth

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Dark Empire

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Motto: Mess with the best, die like the rest

Galactic Generation

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Galactic Police

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An alliance started by the original game founders Zedd & Scan, Not much is known about the early days. Later the alliance was resurrected for the 2020 Beta round with the aim of trying to help and shelter new players.

Losers for Real

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The start: Mon Aug 23 18:10:24 2004 •18•46• |@[BRC]Ingus| how about the tag [LOREAL] •18•46• |@[BRC]Ingus| no matter about the name part •18•46• |@[BRC]Ingus| but the alliance message could be •18•46• |@Whilibarj| well, as I said, the name part I don't mind :...

Onix

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Romanian Federation

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Running With Scissors

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Motto: Clip Clip Clip   RWS was created on June 8th 2003. ( give or take a day ) The background; We all started round 5 as Reservoir Dogs ( RD ). RD had the tradition that it wasn't really important who was admiral. A new person was admiral every round. Rou...

Squadron of Light

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Wolfpack

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Separating Real Life and your DG Life from Each Other

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by Lightburner Hello and welcome to this new episode of 'DG and REAL LIFE!' Here I will try to explain the similarities between DG and RL. With my little experience i had in playing Dark Galaxy and being in the community a bit i've seen several persons enter...

The DG Forums

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by Lightburner Aight, i promised to explain the forum personalities in this article, so that's what I'm going to do. Being a regular on the Dark Galaxy forums, I've seen various personalities enter and leave: The happy newbie: The happy newbie often st...

DG Round 1

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by Lord Tino Well as most of you know this is my first round of DG and i think it's worth me taking a few minutes outta my day to write about it. I first came to this game as my brother told me about it and said it was free so what the hell, if i don't lik...