It is the Standard Year 3285, 1010 years since man developed interplanetary space navigation, 447 years since neutron flux warp technology was perfected by the ship builders of Zygor, and 35 years since the creation of the neutral zone in the center of the galaxy by Zygor's Galactic Command.
Galactic Empire is a space exploration and conquest module for Worldgroup BBS systems written in C. ge-next is a modernization effort by ManicPop.org based on Galactic Empire, copyright (c) 2025 Elwynor Technologies.
Galactic Empire was written by Mike Murdock. A SourceForge project was set up in 2002 for the source release and moved to GitHub in 2016.
The code was ported by Bil Simser to Borland 5.01, Visual C++ 6, and the free Borland compiler after the Major BBS version was released by Mike.
Elwynor Technologies continues the official Galactic Empire project at github.com/elwynor/elwge and elwynor.com.
ge-next began in 2024 by Anthony Schmidt / ManicPop.org.
ge-next is free software released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 with the additional terms in LICENSE. Contribution terms are provided in CONTRIBUTING.txt.