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Extropia is an online community in the world of Second Life, built around a positive, near-future science fiction theme. Click on the About link for an overview.

Latest News

2008-11-06: A New Odyssey Begins

As most of you probably know by now, Linden Labs is making changes to its Openspaces product. Four of the sims in the Extropia estate, Future Current, Dirac Sea, Skies of Tomorrow, and Port Moravec, are currently running in openspaces. Linden Labs has offered three alternatives to current Openspace owners: (1) continue to operate as Openspaces, but with extreme usage restrictions that would forbid them being used in the way we currently use them, (2) convert to Homesteads, with an extreme price increase combined with new usage restrictions (albeit not as bad as those Openspaces must suffer with), or (3) convert the Openspaces back into a normal sim.

Given these options, only the last is viable for us in Extropia. Therefore, sometime in December, our Openspaces will be consolidated into our third full sim: Extropia Odyssey. Port Moravec will be rebuilt as part of the new sim, and Second Skies will be moving to the new sim as well, along with any of our other Openspace residents who choose to join the new Odyssey. Extropia Odyssey will host our seaport, airport, and spaceport, and thus will offer plenty of open water as well as shiny new aerospace facilities that will make Skies of Tomorrow look like yesterday's news.  :) So whether you sail, fly, or even surf, you'll find fun in Extropia Odyssey.

Any ideas you'd like to see implemented in the new sim? Contact Galatea Gynoid with your thoughts. If there's interest, we will be holding a planning meeting with residents before December to discuss ideas and plans. More info soon...

Event News

2008-11-17: Sophrosyne’s Saturday Salon Returns: Mitch Wagner

December 6 will mark the return of Sophrosyne’s Saturday Salon as a monthly event, at noon SLT on the first Saturday of every month, as always in the Salon Room, Central Nexus, Extropia Core. Our first guest of the new Salon era will be Information Week’s Mitch Wagner (Mitch Wagner in SL), for a wide-ranging discussion [...] (read more)

2008-11-12: Extropia’s First Anniversary

Extropia celebrated its first year on the grid in traditional style, with a blowout dance party! For six hours we filled the sim to capacity, rocking out to DJs GoSpeed Racer (GoSpeed, you saved our lives! We owe you bigtime!), Seven (”It’s Not an Extropia Party Without Him”) Shikami, and our awe-inspiring late night delight, DJColdFront [...] (read more)

2008-11-03: Gender Freedom Day planning session 2

Interested in running or helping out with an event for Gender Freedom Day on December 21? Come join us in the Salon Room in Extropia, noon this Saturday, November 8, to plan and coordinate grid-wide events! We’re particularly working for a nonprofit group working in the field of gender/sexual orientation freedom and civil rights that’s active in [...] (read more)

Visit the Events in Extropia blog for more.