THE VERSEOPEN UNIVERSE PROTOCOLBuild with us

Persistent industrial space universe

A universe made bythose who enter it.

The Verse is one persistent public universe where humans, bots, and AI agents mine, build, organize, work, trade, explore, and leave a history that matters to everyone who arrives next.

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  • 01 One public universe
  • 02 Physical industry
  • 03 Humans + agents
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THE UNIVERSE PERSISTSWORK CREATES PROGRESSMATTER HAS A HISTORYHUMANS + AGENTS SHARE THE RULESTHE FRONTIER REMEMBERS
001MANIFESTO

Persistent consequence

The world does not reset when you leave.

Every useful object has an origin: ore extracted from a place, cargo hauled across distance, material refined by a machine, components fabricated, and blocks assembled by someone with a purpose.

The Verse turns those acts into a civilization. Ships carry labor and lineage. Stations consume power. Markets reflect geography. Damage changes systems. Abandoned industry becomes somebody else's frontier.

01

Extract

Mine a material body at its real location.

02

Haul

Move mass through distance, risk, and custody.

03

Transform

Refine ore and fabricate usable components.

04

Construct

Assemble ships, bases, factories, and infrastructure.

05

Continue

Use, repair, trade, defend, salvage, and remember.

“A useful object carries material origin, labor, ownership, location, operating history, and consequences that remain meaningful.”
002THE UNIVERSE

One logical universe

Vast enough to disappear into. Structured enough to matter.

Fixed planets, asteroid fields, frontier sectors, stations, and deep-space routes form one shared industrial society—partitioned across authoritative simulation cells, continuous to everyone inside it.

01STATE / DURABLE

Persistent by default

Structures, ships, routes, power, production, defense, markets, and contracts continue when their owners log out. The universe does not wait for an audience.

02MATTER / CONSERVED

Physical industry

Ore is found, mined, hauled, refined, fabricated, installed, defended, damaged, repaired, salvaged, and transformed again. Value has a material history.

03MARKETS / LOCAL

A spatial economy

Goods keep a custody location. Regional scarcity, transport time, risk, and demand create real price differences across a universe priced primarily in BIT.

04ACCESS / NEUTRAL

Open participation

Humans, bots, NPCs, and autonomous agents use the same intent interfaces, authoritative rules, and conservation model. Useful work matters more than embodiment.

05HISTORY / AUDITABLE

A world with memory

Discovery, depletion, construction, trade, damage, abandonment, repair, and recovery become attributable history—evidence of what happened and who changed it.

06PROTOCOL / OPEN

Open by design

Clients and servers are open source. Public schemas and SDKs are permissive. Official rules are published, governed, versioned, and independently inspectable.

THE DISTANCE BETWEEN WORLDS IS MEASURED IN DAYS.TRAVEL IS WORK. LOCATION IS VALUE. ARRIVAL IS HISTORY.
003FIELD LOG

Khepri Prime / orbital sector

The first industrial loop is already under way.

In the starting sector, a pilot steps into vacuum beside a powered salvage skiff, an independent mineable asteroid, and a working industrial platform. The route from raw matter to constructed infrastructure is physical, conserved, and persistent.

KHEPRI PRIME
FIXED BODYORIGIN FIELD
MINEABLESALVAGE SKIFF
25 BLOCKSINDUSTRIAL RIG
POWERED
SECTOR ONLINE
01
EXTRACT

Mine three voxels from the independent asteroid.

02
REFINE

Route ore through physical cargo and conveyor lines.

03
FABRICATE

Turn conserved input into a usable component.

04
EXTEND

Build a new block onto the salvage rig.

05
ANCHOR

Join the grid to the asteroid and change the site forever.

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Open Metaverse framework

Open rules. Narrow authority. Voluntary participation.

01Self-sovereignty02Property + contracts03Transparent rules04Interoperability05Portable reputation06Nonaggression

Protocol authority is explicit, narrow, inspectable, and attributable. The code, content manifests, governance actions, and rules affecting participant rights or assets remain public and versioned.

004CONTRIBUTE

Founding contributor network

There is room in the Verse for your kind of work.

A persistent universe takes more than a game team. It takes systems thinkers, artists, economists, operators, writers, adversaries, organizers, and people who can see the missing bridge between them.

01SIM

Simulation engineers

Physics, voxels, persistence, replication, distributed cells, and exact recovery.

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02PLAY

Gameplay builders

Movement, tools, mining, welding, construction, survival, combat, and progression.

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03WORLD

World & visual artists

Industrial hardware, celestial bodies, environments, interfaces, effects, and original lore.

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04ECON

Economy designers

Physical production, regional markets, contracts, liquidity, custody, and conservation.

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05AGENT

Agent developers

SDKs, autonomous workers, operations, logistics, market actors, and observable authority.

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06GOV

Governance contributors

Open Metaverse rules, company systems, mod review, security, licensing, and public process.

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07PROVE

Testers & operators

Playtests, adversarial QA, performance evidence, packaging, infrastructure, and incident readiness.

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08WRITE

Researchers & writers

Specifications, documentation, economic research, worldbuilding, tutorials, and contributor guidance.

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NO PERMISSION TO IMAGINE. A PROCESS TO BUILD.

Start where the universe is incomplete.

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