- galaxy
- a host machine or VM — a laptop, the box under the desk, a rented server. Several ships can fly in one
- ship
- one running stack — everything one `./basilisk up` brings into being. Every full raising is a NEW ship, under a name never worn before; the old one is buried in the log of ships
- hull / Basilisk-class
- the stack design itself; every ship of this line is a Basilisk-class ship, differing by complement rather than by class
- the yard
- the Basilisk repository — where hulls are laid down
- room
- a container, known by its type: ready room, bridge, engine room, sick bay, transporter room, radio shack. The room's type slug is its compose service key and its in-network address
- keeper / crew member
- the resident who keeps a room. Container names carry the keeper's minted name — read the current roll off the muster, never from memory
- posting
- the job a resident stands: Captain, First Officer, Ship's Engineer, Transporter Chief, Comm, Doctor
- minted name
- a keeper's personal name, coined fresh at every raising and never reused
- species / module-sku
- which line a room comes from — readymax, gendl, cyclops, eyes-only, given as repo:tag. The sku names the room, not its resident
- fitted room
- a room module built and sold by the works — a Cyclops transporter room, an Eyes Only radio shack. It arrives pre-staffed, and its resident carries no compiler: built to run one system rather than to develop new ones
- manned
- a resident carrying a compiler — an Engineer can design a ship from inside one
- vatgrounds
- the ground a yard grows hulls on: your own machine, with docker fitted — a laptop, the box under the desk, a rented server
- cockpit
- minted by a ship at will, via the /galaxy-world endpoint. A cockpit can separate from the hull to become its own shuttle and explore the solar system or the galaxy — fly a sample at galaxyworld.space
- the articles
- basilisk.sexp — the file naming what a given ship carries: her rooms, their species, their postings and their hailing frequencies
- stack pouch
- a small repository of deviations and additions, installed beside the yard — how a ship takes on more than the base complement
- incantation
- a command you type. The yard keeps replicator recipes rather than build scripts, so a hull is spoken into growth: `./basilisk up` is one incantation
- grow
- how a hull comes into being. A Basilisk is a ridged BIO-hull, grown by biological technique rather than assembled from parts — the yard keeps a replicator recipe, not a parts list. Ashore that is pulling the images the articles name and creating the containers from them. A ship is grown before she is crewed
- muster
- fill a grown hull with crew and set her aloft — start the rooms. `./basilisk up` grows and then musters, and prints the roll as "Crew muster:"
- raising
- one full `./basilisk up`: a new ship, a new name, a fresh complement of minted keepers
- the log of ships
- where a retired ship's name goes at the next raising — kept so no name is ever worn twice
- watch change
- a container restart: the ship holds station, the room's keeper is relieved under a fresh minted name
- yard period
- the host itself went down or was rebuilt
- the slipway
- the raise lock: one raising at a time, per yard
- command
- authority over where the ship goes. The CAPTAIN commands, and exercises it by writing the standing orders — the routing rules in cyclops.sexp
- the helm
- the levers and knobs a ship presents to whoever takes them. No posting aboard stands the helm today — the seat is being fitted out as the player's own controls at galaxyworld.space. Authority and execution are different things, and the two words are not interchangeable
- heading
- a port offset — how several ships fly in one galaxy without colliding
- subspace
- the MCP channel every room answers on, carried by Cyborg Whisperer — whose running instance aboard is the Protocol Officer, receiving each arriving cyborg and dispatching it to the crew member it came to see
- cyborg
- a connecting AI agent — Claude, Cursor, Gemini, Codex, or any other MCP-capable client
- the bridge viewscreen
- the Eyes Only board — the display itself, as distinct from Comm, the posting that runs it
- freeze-dried
- a dumped Lisp image: state saved to disk, able to be brought back later