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This page is about the ordinary OXP author and wiki admin Old Murgh, for the metaphorical humanoid personage, Murgh the Munificent, simply see Murgh

I'm very drawn to this blob of pixels

Wiki

Writings

List of OXPs

Murgh advertising attempts a comeback with an aggressive ad campaign to promote Murgh's frugal, rust-covered ships. Another abandoned project

New OXPs of Old Murgh

Iron Ass OXPs, (2022), black&white, retro low-poly metallic grit series:

Vol.1, The Aegidian Shipset, retextures of Aegidian's core ships.
Vol.2, Inception Cameos, a set of old Elite fringe classics.
Vol.3, The Aegidian Xtras, retextures of Aegidian's OXP ships.
Vol.4, Young Murgh Relics, retextures of some Murgh OXP ships.
Vol.5, Massives, retextures of some Aegidian, ADCK and Murgh OXP outsize ships
Vol.6, WIP

Iron Ass Lave, The old Lave.OXP in Iron Ass clothes.
Iron Ass Missionaries, Dr.Nil's classic Missionaries.OXP, expanded in Iron Ass clothes.
Iron Ass WPB, low TL systems anachronous Iron Ass Witch Point Beacons

PROHIP Xpat Adder (2022), junkyard-job refugee ships, but in progressive high-poly style.

Griff's advert interpretation of the once gloriously ambitious Murgh's Shipyards reduced to a dubious used space vehicle dealership.

Old OXPs of young Murgh

Murgh Shipyards were based at Teorge

Ships

A Woma fuel transport which ought not to be fired upon.

M-Pack or "rusties" (2004) populating the spaceways with the sadly deteriorated ships of destitute pilots, also for sale!
Wolf Mk.2 (2005) –with detachable fangs, a loosely transcribed classic.
NuVipers (2005), increased GalCop might with the GalCop Viper Mark II and the GalCop Viper Cruiser.
Murgh's xShips (2005), introduced the odd models Bandy-Bandy, Taipan, Chuckwalla, Eel Rapier, and the gruesome Rattle Cutter.
Transports (2005), Liners Coral and CoachWhip, and fuel transport Woma.
Old Ships (2006), some painstaking model transcribing from unearthed ancient blueprints.
Racers (2006), prototypes for a racing league that never happened, speed beasts Chicaneer Mk.IV and Mk.IV, and Dragster Mk.I and Mk.II.
Cobra Clipper SAR (2006), a search-and-rescue pimp job.

Ships with idiosyncratic AI

Hatchling BoyRacers (2004) and their obnoxious owners.
Hognose Tugships (2005) towing various ships, with experimental touchy rudeness
Refugee Adder (2005), shoddily modded refugee ships full of desperate people. Maybe not so funny.
Frog Space Rickshaw (2006), a chatty taxi service.

Tight pursuit of a Paddy Restaurant junk at Lave.

Planetary systems

Lave OXP (2006) - inspired addition of the lore from The Dark Wheel - advertising Droidships, restaurants, the moon Basta, incompetent student pilots.
Diso OXP (2006) - the first second planet in Oolite. Also the first second (well-armed Octahedral) orbital station. With extra added nebulae!

Dockables

Globe station (2006)
Torus station (2006)

Activities

hOopy Casino (2006) - Primitive space gambling (scored by the moody stylings of Jonny Cuba) in the spirit of the classic street con "shell game" or "cups and balls".

Carrier class starship, The Leviathan.

Missions

Military Fiasco (2006) - a call to duty by Col. Docherty adds a sticky mission and some nasty navy vessels including carrier class starship, The Leviathan...

Ambience

Murgh's Custom/Replacement Sounds (2004) - Some other SoundFX to consider, a bit more subtle alternatives.
WPB OXP (2005) - An oldskool WitchSpace beacon, improved by Svengali, eventually a 2022 Iron Ass touchup by Old Murgh

Sandbox

Murgh's sandbox

Permission to update his .oxp's

...of course you may feel totally free to update any of the old OXPs or otherwise make use of the old scraps if they can still hold appeal. It would be very cool for me if something from so long ago could even in a small part manage to survive through the ages, along with the simple and brilliant concept of Oolite...

Old Murgh 2021

BB post 2021

Ancient BB posts...

And a recent one

(Because I chuckle for a long time every time I see it, I need easy access to the link).

Re:NSFW (2022) cbr's obscene streaking bat-robot ship, Oolite's first and only X-rated image.

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-[[File:Trumblebox-blackBG.png||thumb|right|200px|Though not responsible for the organism's appalling rate of reproduction, the young Murgh did craft the obscenely cute gaze of this inauspicious and undesired mascot.]]
+:''This page is about the ordinary OXP author and wiki admin Old Murgh, for the metaphorical humanoid personage, Murgh the Munificent, simply see [[Murgh]]''
-'''Murgh''', an oldtimer of the first wave of the Oolite era who briefly showed traits of intense and profligate industry, before he suddenly vanished into the soupy fog of a distant nebula.
+[[File:Trumble480.png|right|thumb|320px|I'm very drawn to this blob of pixels]]
-Initially scouted from the factory floor of [[GenFun]] by the august benefactor [[User:Aegidian|Aegidian]], who saw beyond the excessive exuberance of the young sycophant and took notice of his sickly cute tweaks to the latest genetic modifications of the [[Trumble]] menace. He was taken from obscurity and given the means to try his hand on material construction in a few diverse fields. A brief but chaotic reign running the [[Murgh Shipyards]] saw the construction of several ships and stations, as well as running a space-taxi service and an advertising firm on the side, with varying success.
-Perhaps fundamentally unsuited to the pressures of such widespread consumer demands, his career came to a sudden halt in the middle of the production of a new announced [[Racers|racing league]], as shoddy work was found strewn about, dumbfounded investors left empty-handed, and the supposed creator nowhere to be found.
-[[File:Diso B2 Station.png|thumb|right|340px|Diso B2 Station - the first "second orbital station" against Diso's nebulous heavens.]]
-Decades since, accounts of a creature going by the name of '''Old Murgh''' indicate this may be the same individual having made a diametric occupational shift. Presently be located somewhere in the [[Sector1/Teveri|Teveri]] system, trading wine and other evil juices and describing himself as a humble wine-wallah, he consults patrons on complementing grubs and exotic foods with [[Sector1/Ribilebi|Ribilebian]] burgundies, [[Sector1/Ditiza|Ditizaian]] sherries, and [[Sector1/Leesti|Leestiian]] tokays, for a fee.
-==Station constructions==
-[[File:Globestation2.png|thumb|left|200px|The ill-conceived Globe station.]]
-Irresponsibly toying with implementing alternate shapes to the classic [[Coriolis Station (Oolite)|cuboctahedral Coriolis]], the [[Dodecahedron Station (Oolite)|Dodecahedron]] and the [[Icosahedron Station (Oolite)|Icosahedron]], Murgh found funding to go ahead with the construction of an Octahedron B2 prototype at [[Sector1/Diso|Diso]]. As the money and enthusiasm dissipated, no further such stations were ever built.
-[[Image:Oolite-torusLS.jpg|thumb|right|340px|The seminal Torus station at Onrira, before refurbishment. Initial designs proved hazardous as the construction was prone to spontaneously burst into a swarm of its constituent cells.]]
-Consumed by egocentricity, Murgh's only response to this failure was to steam forward in a yet grander scale. The [[Globe station]] was promptly constructed, but also this project failed to capture the imagination of the public. Possibly due to the station bearing  little distinguishable difference to a common planetary body, no further stations were ordered. A huge financial blow to Murgh Industries, spiteful tongues have for unknown reasons referred to the Globe station as a "death star".
-Deep in a funk following repeated failure, Murgh happened upon a rare stroke of genius with the construction of the [[Torus station]]. Drawing inspiration from ancient cinema of unknown origin, this station was impressive to behold, but its true brilliance was found in the inexpensive nature of construction. Small modular pods were fabricated separately and programmed to auto-join, making the assembly phase the cheapest and safest station construction in the business. The triumph was short-lived however, as the tori proved equally easy to disassemble, causing mass casualties, obviously negating the previously set safety records. Upon foreclosure of Murgh Industries, other companies amended these issues, and the design may occasionally be seen in planetary systems.
-[[file:droidship_s1.png|thumb|right|320px|Ad droidships was the preferred medium of Murgh's advertising firm.]]
-[[File:OOAdsplash.jpg|left|thumb|520px|The so-called advert hall of fame, showcasing campaigns that all went unrecognised at awards ceremonies.]]
-==Advertising==
-Already proven inclined to opt for profit while untroubled by conscience, the lure of the advertising racked proved irresistible to the young Murgh. Before the construction of a sizeable a fleet of advertising droidships was even finished, the newly formed promotion agency Murgh PR had landed contracts from a wide array of fields, ranging from the arms industry to the most questionable of all health sectors, the fungal cure alternative medicine.
-Public announcement campaigns on behalf of the [[GalCop (Police)|GalCop police authority]] were initially cause for optimism, and after wooing Hatchling CEO Ludo Van Der Budenmayer, Murgh PR secured the campaign to launch the highly anticipated luxury speed ship [[BoyRacer]], which in resulted in euphoria, though prematurely. The joy quickly transformed to dread with the subsequent scandal in the wake of numerous tragic accidents as BoyRacers were revealed to come equipped with subpar automated steering. The unusually gruesome nature of these accidents made the affair a PR nightmare, leaving even PR firms such as Murgh's with no favourable solutions. The lineup of wealthy plaintiff ensured the demise of Hatchling, and Murgh PR was nearly caught in the wave of bankruptcies that ensued.
-Though pulling in some revenue for a limited time, the Murgh ad firm was tainted. At advertisement awards ceremonies, the firm garnered precisely zero awards, and in an industry so dependent on laurels and the steady flow of fumes up one's rear by one's peers and rivals, the days of this venture, too, was numbered.
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+==Wiki==
+===Writings===
+*[[Aegidian devlog]]
+*[[RELOP and PROHIP]]
+*[[Low-poly aesthetics]]
 == List of OXPs ==
+[[File:Heirloom-splash.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Murgh advertising attempts a comeback with an aggressive ad campaign to promote Murgh's frugal, rust-covered ships. Another abandoned project]]
+===New OXPs of Old Murgh===
+*[[Iron Ass OXP]]s, (2022), black&white, retro low-poly metallic grit series:
+:*[[Iron_Ass_OXP#Volume_1|Vol.1]], ''The Aegidian Shipset'', retextures of Aegidian's core ships.
+:*[[Iron_Ass_OXP#Volume_2|Vol.2]], ''Inception Cameos'', a set of old Elite fringe classics.
+:*[[Iron_Ass_OXP#Volume_3|Vol.3]], ''The Aegidian Xtras'', retextures of Aegidian's OXP ships.
+:*[[Iron_Ass_OXP#Volume_4|Vol.4]], ''Young Murgh Relics'', retextures of some Murgh OXP ships.
+:*[[Iron_Ass_OXP#Volume_5|Vol.5]], ''Massives'', retextures of some Aegidian, ADCK and Murgh OXP outsize ships
+:*[[Iron_Ass_OXP#Volume_6|Vol.6]], WIP
+:*[[Lave OXP|Iron Ass Lave]], The old Lave.OXP in Iron Ass clothes.
+:*[[Missionaries OXP|Iron Ass Missionaries]], Dr.Nil's classic Missionaries.OXP, expanded in Iron Ass clothes.
+:*[[WPB OXP|Iron Ass WPB]], low TL systems anachronous Iron Ass Witch Point Beacons
+*[[Refugee Adder|PROHIP Xpat Adder]] (2022), junkyard-job refugee ships, but in progressive high-poly style.
 [[File:Murghadvert.png|thumb|right|256px|[[User:Griff|Griff]]'s advert interpretation of the once gloriously ambitious Murgh's Shipyards reduced to a dubious used space vehicle dealership.]]
+===Old OXPs of young Murgh===
-=== Ships ===
-[[File:Oolite-woma.png|thumb|right|256px|A Woma fuel transport which ought not to be fired upon.]]
 ''Murgh Shipyards were based at [[Sector1/Teorge|Teorge]]''
-*[[Old Ships]] and [[Wolf Mk.2 (Oolite)|Wolf Mk.2]] (with detachable fangs), some painstaking model transcribing from unearthed ancient blueprints.
+==== Ships ====
-*[[Second-hand ships|M-Pack or "rusties"]] populating the spaceways with the sadly deteriorated ships of destitute pilots, also for sale!
+[[File:Oolite-woma.png|thumb|right|256px|A [[Woma]] fuel transport which ought not to be fired upon.]]
-*[[Transports]], Liners [[Coral]] and [[CoachWhip]], and fuel transport [[Woma]].
-*[[NuVipers]], increased [[GalCop (Police)|GalCop]] might with the [[GalCop Viper Mark II]] and the [[GalCop Viper Cruiser]].
+*[[Second-hand ships|M-Pack or "rusties"]] (2004) populating the spaceways with the sadly deteriorated ships of destitute pilots, also for sale!
-*Murgh's xShips, introduced the odd models [[Bandy-Bandy]], [[Taipan]], and the gruesome [[Rattle Cutter]].
+*[[Wolf Mk.2 (Oolite)|Wolf Mk.2]] (2005) –with detachable fangs, a loosely transcribed classic.
-*[[Cobra Clipper SAR]], a search-and-rescue pimp job.
+*[[NuVipers]] (2005), increased [[GalCop (Police)|GalCop]] might with the [[GalCop Viper Mark II]] and the [[GalCop Viper Cruiser]].
-*[[Racers]], the shamefully unfinished prototypes for the FormulaOo racing models. An entire [[User:Murgh/Racing league|league]] left stood expunged.
+*Murgh's xShips (2005), introduced the odd models [[Bandy-Bandy]], [[Taipan]], [[Chuckwalla]], [[Eel Rapier]], and the gruesome [[Rattle Cutter]].
-[[File:Hbr3N.png|thumb|right|256px|a Hatchling BoyRacer and its likely unpleasant owner.]]
+*[[Transports]] (2005), Liners [[Coral]] and [[CoachWhip]], and fuel transport [[Woma]].
+*[[Old Ships OXP|Old Ships]] (2006), some painstaking model transcribing from unearthed ancient blueprints.
+*Racers (2006), prototypes for a [[Racers|racing]] [[User:Murgh/Racing league|league]] that never happened, speed beasts [[Chicaneer Mk II|Chicaneer Mk.IV]] and [[Chicaneer Mk IV|Mk.IV]], and [[Dragster Mk I|Dragster Mk.I]] and [[Dragster Mk II|Mk.II]].
+*[[Cobra Clipper SAR]] (2006), a search-and-rescue pimp job.
 ===== Ships with idiosyncratic AI =====
-*[[Hatchling Racing|Hatchling BoyRacers]] and their obnoxious owners.
+*[[BoyRacer|Hatchling BoyRacers]] (2004) and their obnoxious owners.
-*[[Frog Space Rickshaw]], a chatty taxi service.
+*[[Hognose Tugship]]s (2005) towing various ships, with experimental touchy rudeness
-*[[Hognose|Hognose Tugships]] towing various ships, with experimental touchy rudeness
+*[[Refugee Adder]] (2005), shoddily modded refugee ships full of desperate people. Maybe not so funny.
+*[[Frog Space Rickshaw]] (2006), a chatty taxi service.
+[[File:Paddystalk.jpg|thumb|right|256px|Tight pursuit of a Paddy Restaurant junk at Lave.]]
-=== Planetary systems ===
+==== Planetary systems ====
-*[[Diso OXP]] - the first second planet in Oolite. Also the first second orbital station. With extra added nebulae!
+*[[Lave OXP]] (2006) - inspired addition of the lore from ''[[The Dark Wheel]]'' - advertising Droidships, restaurants, the moon Basta, incompetent student pilots.
-*[[Lave OXP]] - inspired addition of the lore from ''[[The Dark Wheel]]'' - advertising Droidships, restaurants, the moon Basta, incompetent student pilots.
+*[[Diso OXP]] (2006) - the first second planet in Oolite. Also the first second (well-armed Octahedral) orbital station. With extra added nebulae!
-=== Dockables ===
+==== Dockables ====
-*[[Globe station]]
+*[[Globe station]] (2006)
-*[[Torus station]]
+*[[Torus station]] (2006)
-=== Activities ===
+==== Activities ====
-*[[HoOpy Casino]] - Primitive space gambling in the spirit of the classic street con [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_game "shell game"] or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cups_and_balls "cups and balls"].
+*[[hOopy Casino]] (2006) - Primitive space gambling (scored by the moody stylings of [[Jonny Cuba]]) in the spirit of the classic street con [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_game "shell game"] or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cups_and_balls "cups and balls"].
 [[File:Leviathan6.png|thumb|right|256px|Carrier class starship, [[Leviathan|The Leviathan]].]]
-=== Missions ===
+==== Missions ====
-*[[Military Fiasco]] - a call to duty by Col. Docherty adds a sticky mission and some nasty navy vessels including carrier class starship, [[Leviathan|The Leviathan]]...
+*[[Military Fiasco]] (2006) - a call to duty by Col. Docherty adds a sticky mission and some nasty navy vessels including carrier class starship, [[Leviathan|The Leviathan]]...
-=== Ambience ===
+==== Ambience ====
-*[[Oosounds2 OXP|Murgh's Custom/Replacement Sounds]]
+*[[Oosounds2 OXP|Murgh's Custom/Replacement Sounds]] (2004) - Some other SoundFX to consider, a bit more subtle alternatives.
+*[[WPB OXP]] (2005) - An oldskool WitchSpace beacon, improved by [[User:Svengali|Svengali]], eventually a 2022 Iron Ass touchup by Old Murgh
 ==Sandbox==
 *[[User:Murgh/Sandbox|Murgh's sandbox]]
-== Lore ==
+== Permission to update his .oxp's ==
-*[[Murgh Shipyards]]
+{{QuoteText|Text=...of course you may feel totally free to update any of the old OXPs or otherwise make use of the old scraps if they can still hold appeal. It would be very cool for me if something from so long ago could even in a small part manage to survive through the ages, along with the simple and brilliant concept of Oolite...<p> Old Murgh 2021|Source=[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=280574#p280574 BB post 2021]}}
-*[[Obnoxicorp]]
-== Permission to update his .oxp's ==
+[[File:YoungMurghIcon.png|left|90px]]
-{{QuoteText|Text=...of course you may feel totally free to update any of the old OXPs or otherwise make use of the old scraps if they can still hold appeal. It would be very cool for me if something from so long ago could even in a small part manage to survive through the ages, along with the simple and brilliant concept of Oolite...<p> Old Murgh 2021|Source=[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=280574#p280574 BB post 2021]}}
+== Ancient BB posts... ==
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=369 On lobbying for the banishment of the Oolite "smart bomb" (thus birthing the cascade mine)] (2004)
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=7849#p7849 On pitching the OoTrumble look] (2005)
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=21175#p21175 On first finding Elite] (2006)
+<!--*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1780&p=18097#p18097 On some work on a Norwegian translation of Oolite] (2006)-->
+=====And a recent one=====
+:''(Because I chuckle for a long time every time I see it, I need easy access to the link)''.
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=283536#p283536 Re:NSFW] (2022) cbr's obscene streaking bat-robot ship, Oolite's first and only X-rated image.
-== BB posts... ==
+[[Category:OXP authors]]
-*[http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=7849#p7849 On pitching the OoTrumble look] (2005)
-*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=21175#p21175 On first finding Elite] (2006)
-*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1780&p=18097#p18097 On a potential Norwegian translation] (2006)