ROADSTER DOGE Boarding opens at launch

ROADSTER DOGE PRESENTS — THE FARLIGHT VOYAGE

FARLIGHT

Forever outbound. She never stops, never turns back — and she is flying right now.

Distance from Earth 0 km
Velocity 12.7 km/s
Next destination The Moon arrives in —
LEG 1 — EN ROUTE 0%

SHAKEDOWN CRUISE — maiden voyage begins at token launch. Day 0 resets at launch.

SEASON 1 — THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND BEYOND

The flight plan

The route is published, and the route is kept. Farlight flies on schedule — arrivals do not wait for markets, moods, or anyone's permission. Later seasons cross the Milky Way, then the long dark, and the final season sails for the Edge itself: the horizon of the observable universe, receding as it is chased, where the oldest light in existence still burns.

TWO PILOTS. EVERY SEAT AFTER THEIRS IS YOURS.

The crew

The two Farlight pilots in the cockpit, suited with visors down, facing a nebula
The bridge of the Farlight. Visors down — out there, the light is older than everything.

Two pilots fly her — suited, visors down, names not yet spoken on the log. They take the front seats so the rest of us don't have to. Everything behind them is crew seating, and crew seating is claimed, not bought: when boarding opens, you claim a seat, your name goes on the ship's manifest, and it stays there for the whole voyage.

Holding the token makes you crew — once it launches. Crew sit highlighted on the manifest, vote at the route forks when the ship must choose a heading, and pin their transmissions to the flight feed. The pilots fly the ship. The crew decides what the voyage means.

Manifest — preview

  • SEAT 001PILOT ONECAPTAIN — CREW
  • SEAT 002PILOT TWONAVIGATOR — CREW
  • SEAT 003OPENBOARDING OPENS AT LAUNCH
  • SEAT 004OPENBOARDING OPENS AT LAUNCH
  • SEAT 005OPENBOARDING OPENS AT LAUNCH

Pilot callsigns will be chosen with the crew. Low seat numbers are early forever.

FELLOW TRAVELER

Starman is out there too

Farlight is fiction. This is not. In February 2018 a cherry-red Tesla Roadster was launched into solar orbit with a suited mannequin at the wheel. It coasts still — no engine, no destination — and NASA tracks it precisely. Our dashboard flies formation with the real thing.

Distance from Earth — —
Distance from Mars — —
Speed around the Sun — —
Radio light-time from Earth — one way, at light speed

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MESSAGES TO THE SHIP

Transmissions

One line, sent outbound. The ship reads everything; she just can't write back — the lag to the Far Shore is measured in lifetimes.