User:Murgh

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.

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.

Initially scouted from the factory floor of GenFun by the august benefactor 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 racing league, as shoddy work was found strewn about, dumbfounded investors left empty-handed, and the supposed creator nowhere to be found.

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 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 Ribilebian burgundies, Ditizaian sherries, and Leestiian tokays, for a fee.

Station constructions

The ill-conceived Globe station.

Irresponsibly toying with implementing alternate shapes to the classic cuboctahedral Coriolis, the Dodecahedron and the Icosahedron, Murgh found funding to go ahead with the construction of an Octahedron B2 prototype at Diso. As the money and enthusiasm dissipated, no further such stations were ever built.

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.

List of OXPs

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

Planetary systems

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

Ships

Murgh Shipyards are based at Teorge

• Transports
• Cobra Clipper SAR
• Murgh's X-Ships OXP
• New Ships
• Old Ships
• M-Pack (rusties)
• Racers

Ships with personality

• Frog Space Rickshaw
• Hatchling BoyRacers
• Hognose Tugships

Activities

• HoOpy Casino - Primitive space gambling in the spirit of the old street con shell game or Cups and balls.

Dockables

• Globe station
• Torus station

Missions

• Military Fiasco - a call to duty by Col. Docherty adds a sticky mission, as well as some nasty navy vessels including the Leviathan...

Ambience

• Murgh's Custom/Replacement Sounds

Lore

• Murgh Shipyards
• Obnoxicorp

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 posts...

• On first finding Elite (2006)
• On a potential Norwegian translation (2006)