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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>empire</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="EMP.html" title="EMP"/><link rel="next" href="engine.html" title="engine"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">empire</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="EMP.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="engine.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="empire"/><dt xmlns="" id="empire"><b>empire</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Any of a family of military simulations derived from a game written
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by Peter Langston many years ago. A number of multi-player variants of
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varying degrees of sophistication exist, and one single-player version
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implemented for both Unix and VMS; the latter is even available as
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MS-DOS/Windows freeware. All are notoriously addictive. Of various
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commercial derivatives the best known is probably “<span class="quote">Empire
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Deluxe</span>” on PCs and Amigas.</p><p>Modern empire is a real-time wargame played over the internet by up
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to 120 players. Typical games last from 24 hours (blitz) to a couple of
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months (long term). The amount of sleep you can get while playing is a
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function of the rate at which updates occur and the number of co-rulers of
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your country. Empire server software is available for Unix-like machines,
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and clients for Unix and other platforms. A comprehensive history of the
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game is available at <a href="http://www.wolfpackempire.com/infopages/History.html" target="_top">http://www.empire.cx/infopages/History.html</a>.
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The Empire resource site is at <a href="http://www.empire.cx/" target="_top">http://www.empire.cx/</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="EMP.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="engine.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">EMP </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> engine</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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