The Life Engine / Epochs

Epochs

Live inside history; test possible futures.

Current contractTwenty-three technically validated packages now carry deep authored catalogs and regional starting states; qualified human review remains visibly required.

What this surface promises.

Versioned era packages, regional rules, professions, resources, institutions, transitions, rehearsals, Long Lives, lineages, household years, deep material catalogs, demographics, and audiovisual direction.

You can become

A person shaped by one era, a household across a complete life, or a lineage carrying memory into later generations.

Connected systems

Identity, time, health, relationships, money, property, work, organizations, reputation, evidence, law, politics, research, geography, NPC civilization, information, archives, moderation, and operations remain one platform.

Long-term end state

Additional content packages deepen regions and eras through reviewed configuration rather than fragmenting the simulation into unrelated games.

Current era catalog2,428 authored entries · 63 regional profiles
Deep catalog2,428

Goods, property, transport, illness, care, conflict abstractions, careers, institutions, laws, technologies, disasters, demographics, organizations, art, sound, UI language, and regional opening states.

Regional foundations63

Language registers, naming policy, belief, law, class, family, health, climate, trade, demographics, visual direction, sound direction, and source confidence.

Review-ready packets756

Scholarship, community, localization, accessibility, safety, source, and transition packets are queued for qualified people.

Review contractHuman

Technical authorship is active. Historical, cultural, language, and community approval remains human review required.

Candidate source slots216

Prepared places for real citations across material life, institutions, ordinary life, critical perspective, regional voice, language, care, and audiovisual reference.

Localization queue2,664

Interface phrases are queued across target locales as English source placeholders until qualified translators review them.

Approval status0

No regional or era packet self-certifies historical, cultural, translation, community, or player acceptance.

historical · Aurelia · 420–180 years before present

The River Covenant

A documented preindustrial era of floodplain cities, water law, guild production, household labor, courier knowledge, plural river faiths, and negotiated survival.

validatedrelease status1.0.0package version115deep entriesRiver Covenant Ageepoch context
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future · Aurelia · first 60 years of permanent orbital settlement

The Orbital Commonwealth

A near-future era of closed-loop habitats, allocation politics, orbital labor, fabrication, delayed sovereignty, and settlements that must earn independence without abandoning life support.

validatedrelease status1.0.0package version113deep entriesOrbital Thresholdepoch context
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contemporary · 1995–2035

The Networked Present

A full-structure technical era foundation covering ordinary life, work, care, institutions, movement, material production, conflict, and continuity. Its declared risk context is climate, privacy, labor, and unequal access.

validatedrelease status0.9.0package version108deep entriesThe Networked Presentepoch context
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historical · 1760–1914

The Industrial Century

A full-structure technical era foundation covering ordinary life, work, care, institutions, movement, material production, conflict, and continuity. Its declared risk context is industrial injury, empire, coercion, and displacement.

validatedrelease status0.9.0package version106deep entriesThe Industrial Centuryepoch context
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historical · 800–1450

Connected Crowns

A full-structure technical era foundation covering ordinary life, work, care, institutions, movement, material production, conflict, and continuity. Its declared risk context is status hierarchy, forced labor, war, and exclusion.

validatedrelease status0.9.0package version105deep entriesConnected Crownsepoch context
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historical · 800 BCE–500 CE

Classical Exchange Worlds

A full-structure technical era foundation covering ordinary life, work, care, institutions, movement, material production, conflict, and continuity. Its declared risk context is slavery, conquest, citizenship limits, and subsistence pressure.

validatedrelease status0.9.0package version105deep entriesClassical Exchange Worldsepoch context
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historical · 1450–1760

Sail and Exchange

A full-structure technical era foundation covering ordinary life, work, care, institutions, movement, material production, conflict, and continuity. Its declared risk context is colonial violence, enslavement, extraction, and epidemic disruption.

validatedrelease status0.9.0package version105deep entriesSail and Exchangeepoch context
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historical · 3500–800 BCE

First Cities and River States

A full-structure technical era foundation covering ordinary life, work, care, institutions, movement, material production, conflict, and continuity. Its declared risk context is corvée, hierarchy, scarcity, conflict, and uncertain evidence.

validatedrelease status0.9.0package version103deep entriesFirst Cities and River Statesepoch context
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future · Interplanetary settlement era

Independent Beyond Commonwealths

A full-structure technical era foundation covering ordinary life, work, care, institutions, movement, material production, conflict, and continuity. Its declared risk context is life-support coercion, radiation, isolation, and sovereignty capture.

validatedrelease status0.9.0package version106deep entriesIndependent Beyond Commonwealthsepoch context
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historical · Origin era

Chronicle I: First Cities

A full-structure technical era foundation covering ordinary life, work, care, institutions, movement, material production, conflict, and continuity. Its declared risk context is hierarchy, scarcity, coercion, and incomplete evidence.

validatedrelease status0.9.0package version103deep entriesChronicle I: First Citiesepoch context
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historical · Exchange era

Chronicle II: Connected Worlds

A full-structure technical era foundation covering ordinary life, work, care, institutions, movement, material production, conflict, and continuity. Its declared risk context is conquest, exclusion, forced movement, and uneven rights.

validatedrelease status0.9.0package version105deep entriesChronicle II: Connected Worldsepoch context
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future · Interplanetary era

Chronicle III: Beyond Commonwealth

A full-structure technical era foundation covering ordinary life, work, care, institutions, movement, material production, conflict, and continuity. Its declared risk context is life-support coercion, radiation, isolation, and institutional capture.

validatedrelease status0.9.0package version106deep entriesChronicle III: Beyond Commonwealthepoch context
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historical · 12,000–3500 BCE

Neolithic Settlements

A full-structure technical era foundation covering ordinary life, work, care, institutions, movement, material production, conflict, and continuity. Its declared risk context is scarcity, climate pressure, uncertain evidence, and coercive hierarchy.

validatedrelease status0.9.0package version101deep entriesNeolithic Settlementsepoch context
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historical · 250–800 CE

Late Antiquity and Migrations

A full-structure technical era foundation covering ordinary life, work, care, institutions, movement, material production, conflict, and continuity. Its declared risk context is war, displacement, enslavement, epidemic pressure, and uneven evidence.

validatedrelease status0.9.0package version105deep entriesLate Antiquity and Migrationsepoch context
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historical · 1760–1870

The Age of Revolutions

A full-structure technical era foundation covering ordinary life, work, care, institutions, movement, material production, conflict, and continuity. Its declared risk context is war, enslavement, colonialism, exclusion, and political repression.

validatedrelease status0.9.0package version106deep entriesThe Age of Revolutionsepoch context
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historical · 1914–1949

World Wars and Interwar

A full-structure technical era foundation covering ordinary life, work, care, institutions, movement, material production, conflict, and continuity. Its declared risk context is mass violence, genocide, displacement, authoritarianism, and civilian harm.

validatedrelease status0.9.0package version106deep entriesWorld Wars and Interwarepoch context
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historical · 1945–1995

Postwar and Cold War

A full-structure technical era foundation covering ordinary life, work, care, institutions, movement, material production, conflict, and continuity. Its declared risk context is proxy war, dictatorship, surveillance, inequality, and decolonization conflict.

validatedrelease status0.9.0package version106deep entriesPostwar and Cold Warepoch context
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future · Declared speculative recovery era

Reconstruction Commonwealths

A full-structure technical era foundation covering ordinary life, work, care, institutions, movement, material production, conflict, and continuity. Its declared risk context is scarcity, predation, displacement, infrastructure failure, and institutional capture.

validatedrelease status0.9.0package version106deep entriesReconstruction Commonwealthsepoch context
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future · Declared far-future era

Posthuman Commonwealths

A full-structure technical era foundation covering ordinary life, work, care, institutions, movement, material production, conflict, and continuity. Its declared risk context is identity coercion, memory ownership, machine capture, strategic scarcity, and extreme inequality.

validatedrelease status0.9.0package version106deep entriesPosthuman Commonwealthsepoch context
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alternate · Declared divergence timeline

Documented Divergence

A full-structure technical era foundation covering ordinary life, work, care, institutions, movement, material production, conflict, and continuity. Its declared risk context is extremist revisionism, erased victims, causal incoherence, and dehumanization.

validatedrelease status0.9.0package version100deep entriesDocumented Divergenceepoch context
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fantasy · Declared fantasy ruleset

Mythic Realms

A full-structure technical era foundation covering ordinary life, work, care, institutions, movement, material production, conflict, and continuity. Its declared risk context is coercive magic, species essentialism, divine authority, curses, and unequal access.

validatedrelease status0.9.0package version106deep entriesMythic Realmsepoch context
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fantasy · Declared supernatural ruleset

Hidden Supernatural World

A full-structure technical era foundation covering ordinary life, work, care, institutions, movement, material production, conflict, and continuity. Its declared risk context is secrecy abuse, coercion, predation, discrimination, and institutional capture.

validatedrelease status0.9.0package version106deep entriesHidden Supernatural Worldepoch context
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alternate · Declared frontier ruleset

Frontier and Settlement

A full-structure technical era foundation covering ordinary life, work, care, institutions, movement, material production, conflict, and continuity. Its declared risk context is dispossession, indigenous erasure, extraction, isolation, conflict, and environmental damage.

validatedrelease status0.9.0package version100deep entriesFrontier and Settlementepoch context
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